'Instigatgrease' is born - Salsa Carbon Beargrease / Surly Instigator - Dirt Wizard tyre combo

After two days of near continuous rain and an overnight delivery by Interlink from Westbrook Cycles time to spend some time in the man cave! Yes i finally bit the bullet and bought a pair of Surly Dirt Wizard 26+" x 2.75" 120tpi tyres. I removed my 45NRTH Dillinger tyres from my new Hope Fatsno/Rabbit Hole wheels and fitted the new tyres. Plenty of lube and 35psi bedded the beads on the rim a treat then i dropped the tyre pressure down to 15psi. I was shocked at just how narrow they were compaired to all my other Fat Bike tyres and overall circumference is also alot less = dropping the bb / pedal height clearance. Frame / fork clearnace is just unreal, i will never suffer from mud clogging. Below are some photos of the comparisons on different combinations i have.

Brown box landed

New Surly tyres

883g for the 120tpi folding version

Check out the roll width difference

45NRTH Dillenger Ultra light version 1292g

Rabbit hole + Dillinger 92mm
Marge Lite + Husker Du 88mm
Marge Lite + Floater 96mm
Rolling Darryl + Nate 98mm
Rabbit hole + Dirt Wizard 71mm
Measurement = max tread width  

Check out the height difference !

And the width difference

Boat loads of mud clearance

and down at the chainstay bridge as well

inc the gap between the tyre & chainstay

Massive clearance all around the forks

Going to have to play with the tyre pressure, 15 on the rear is too soft & 15 on the front is too hard
Going to do a few rides on them see how they go then take them off and put away for the winter / dirty months