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caemis
I’m going to throw my 2p in the hat.
I’ll be honest and say I’ve not ridden the Moonshiner, but it’s whole reason to be is that it’s a super comfortable, super compliant, super capable go anywhere, over anything’rig’ and if you fix it all those things are lost or at the least diluted. Now I have ridden a regular 45 x700c adventure bike fixed and it was fun. Felt good and went most places I pointed it, but at no time did I think that with bigger tyres or slacker geo I would have made it up that slope or down that trail. I think that to have that happen I’d would have been running such a small gear I would have hated riding it 95% of the time.
Maybe aim for 27.5x2.1 and see how that feels?