[Closed] Fat bike

Deft worth the divorce to get one 😀

[quote=trevron73 ]I really ,and i think ?I really want a Fat Bike? The question is do i want one more than my wife ? I think not? Damn you Surly and your moon lander?
A good time to be buying. With lots of new models hitting the stores there should be a few folk upgrading and a little glut of second hand stuff available for a while.
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Make sure you get superstar hubs for sea water protection.

Please don't take this as a trolling question, but does that video [i]really[/i] inspire you to own a fat bike? Other than the excellent wheelie, it was a bit underwhelming. "Look, with a fat bike you can ride slowly over things". Great, I can do that already thanks 😆

Stilltortise - It does turn me on as i live by the beach next to some rather large sand dunes and riding them and the beach would be awesome fun. The missus says she will set it on fire then leave me ?? I will miss her a bit ? 😉

Perhaps the on one rolling chassis for £499 would be better for her to swallow if you've got bits lying about that is.

Great video ! 🙂

hmmm - what are they like on shingle?

Pretty good. You need to be a bit careful steering on well rounded "marbles" as you can easily wash out the front end. However, the tyres will roll over almost any surface without digging as much as a "normal" MTB tyre.

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Buy a fatbike for the wife as well!

and like all good bikes, they are ace for just playing about on

I really want a Fat Bike? The question is do i want one more than my wife ?

I don't know.
How much does your wife want a fatbike? 🙂

if you go dogging at cannock you can try a fat bike most nights and sometimes her mate as well. 😀

Rode one of these down the Mega Qualifier. Was brilliant.

[url= http://www.sandmanbikes.be/sandman-hoggar-ti/ ]http://www.sandmanbikes.be/sandman-hoggar-ti/[/url]

and like all good bikes, they are ace for just playing about on

I got one last week - wish I had done it earlier. My wife said I had a stupid grin on my face all weekend.

I had a little sex wee when I saw that Salsa for the first time.

I went to One-Ones new showroom near Barnsley the other day, two reasons, one to take a look at their One-One Fatty and the other because of their Dirty Disco Cross bike.

The Fatty was a lovely looking and very funky build, neat, really neat to the eye. Looked like it would handle most things and it wasn't too heavy neither.. I have my eye on a Fatty myself and if I wasn't so bloody picky I'd have bought the One-One Fatty there and then, but I've just put a deposit on a Fatty..

The Dirty Disco was exceptional and I bought that there and then.

So can someone tell me what the point of them is?
They look bloody daft to me.

Me at last years Isle of Man's End2 End race

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They're not that sluggish once they get up to speed

What bars are those John?

Jones loop bars

So can someone tell me what the point of them is?
They look bloody daft to me.

They are a bicycle for riding ( hope that Helps ❓ )

Fun
Can go to lots of places other bikes struggle
more fun
makes you smile
good fun

Yes but what's the point of those stoopidly big tyres.

Is it a look at me thing?

So can someone tell me what the point of them is?
They look bloody daft to me.

they are mainly ridden by chubby attention whores who don't have the legs and speed to ride a fast bike so they bimble around a beach trying to be rad and gnar and pretending that they are rumble wheeled warriors of Genghis khan.

Sometime they will even ride them slowly around a trail centre, get in everyone's way and then boast of how they smoked the orange 5 brigade man, whilst stroking each others fury man bits ( beards!)

Sounds fair enough.

So it is a look at me thing then.

They just look heavy and i Knardly see the point in them.

SST so you have forgotten in the last three months

[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/its-big-its-black-and-its-fat ]Singlespeedstu`s thread[/url]

I'd say so Stu, i mean anyone that rides one has got to be nobber. do you think it's the bike equivalent of a penis compensation car...you know...small gentlemans sausage...get a fat frontage?

🙄 @ trout. 😉
You could be right tazz.
Mrsstu has a fatfronted cycle and a penis so small you can't see it.

If that film is too slow stilltortoise here is another 😉
Come along for a ride on some local trails, all you need to do is try and keep up

I don`t ride trail centres much on my Pugsley as get sick of getting stuck behind snails crawling along on All Mountain rigs ... 😆
Too many with all the gear and no idea!

For what its worth mentioning, fatbikes have been cool to ride on regular trails with nice comfort and amazing grip, not to mention minimum impact on soft peat based trails like the Cheviots last summer during real wet conditions, how ever if you have a ride on a 29+ 3" Knard wheel set on regular trails you won`t want to waste your time on a 4 or 5" fatbike with the uncontrolable rebound at high speeds, and the weird steering of a 4 or 5" fat bike, the Krampus 50mm 29er rim and 3" Knard tyre set up is way quicker and more positive a ride. UK riders are hell bent on riding the bigger fatbikes on trails but owning all 3 sizes the 3" is deft best on regular trails, though We need 29x3" Nates for the winter here in the UK!, Knards are useless in mud!.
Gears are going on my SS KramPug soon so will head down to GT and Inners and shoot some film 🙂

We need 29x3" Nates for the winter here in the UK!, Knards are useless in mud!.

OMG yes!!! or 29 x bud would also be ace

Are Surly not supposed to be producing a 29+ mud tyre soon?

Believe so! 🙂

Should go well on my jones this winter. 😀

Am I wrong in thinking that something like this [url= http://www.carverbikes.com/frames/trans-fat ]Carver Trans-fat[/url]
assuming the geometry is good and it steers well would be awesome.

Having been too late to get any of the 2013 bikes I took delivery last week of a 2014 Surly Ops, the army green one. I haven't smiled so much on a bike in ages.

gaz552 - Member
Am I wrong in thinking that something like this Carver Trans-fat
assuming the geometry is good and it steers well would be awesome.

I suspect you'd get the worst of both worlds, but Carver usually know what they are doing.

As a technical exercise it looks interesting.

Wonder if my GF will notice the change from the road bike..
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