Winter bike / Snow bike thread

I'm going by the fact that Surly actually suggested it in their brochure when they first introduced the Pugsley...so they must have tried it and found that it worked.

My solution would be to use a single speed cassette hub running a modified 6 speed cassette.
The effective dishing shouldn't really be any different then to a fat wheel with an offset rim.

I reckon you could use whichever hub you wanted, providing you can find a way of adding a liitle bracing angle to the NDS. I like the my cross spoking suggestion. Admittedly because of its novelty value. But it would make a strong wheel. Othe

Theres a clever link for calculating all sorts of wheel data, including bracing angle. Even has a lot of fatbike components.
http://www.kstoerz.com/freespoke/rim/290

Velocity blunt rim (guess a 6mm drilling offset), laced 36 3x, to a XT rear hub.

Not much NDS bracing angle (1.5deg).

swapping to a center drilled 29er rim.

This gives a bracing angle of 2.7deg, which I could live with. Cross spoking the first 6mm offset drilled rim, would give nearly 4deg. Which would be betterer.

(That little line across the centre line, denotes the centre of the hub. I have set it to 17.5mm offset)