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Is it about time we had a fat bike feature in the magazine?
There's a magazine?
There have actually been several Fatbike features in the magazine over the years.
What for? To say that nobody wants one anymore?
Haters gonna hate, there are a few of us you know!
I love mine, but I don't really need confirmation about how awesome it is.
Those who know, know, innit.
Had one for 6 years, enjoyed it, but it very much occupied the N+1 spot in my garage. Moving on to the next niche now.
Love mine - it's my main bike as it suits the local trails perfectly.
I love mine. I keep threatening to sell it as it takes up the space of a small airship in the garage.....then I go for a ride on it and its safe for another 6 months!
Hoping to do a bit of this in Mauritania, Feb 24..... This is a nice little series about a trip in that empty quarter behind the Nationwide in Swindon....
Recently sold mine. I refuse to own a bike that I can't safely ride in mud.
Plus tyres are where the cool kids are at these days.
Not sure about mud but on the South downs in winter we get what's called green chalk which is basically a biological weapon applied to the surface of the trail making it slippier than a slippy thing. My fatbike on looooow PSI is the only thing I trust not to kill me on this stuff.
FWIW I use JJs all year.
Everything is a compromise. JJs are the perfect compromise imho.
Run them always.
Minion 4.8 front, jj 4.8 rear works OK with every mud I've ever tried? Might be terrible at some stuff I've not though. The 4.8 JJ is basically a different tyre to the 4.0 though in how it finds grip. I mean, it's no Shorty.
Been riding my fatty since 2015....still the best bike, convinced two of my mates to get one....now my group of 6 is 50% fat.....actually 100% lardy..ha ha ha
Fat bikes
Is it 2017 again?
Plus tyres are where the cool kids are at these days.
2019
tried one 18 month ago, awesome.
bought one, used for 8 month, was awesome
got ill, sold it as i couldnt ride it
now better so looking for another one.
just so much fun, far more fun than any bike i have owned.
More money and a bigger shed, and I'd get one.
Its the bike that I always keep in my merrygoround of bikes.
JJ 4"'s, I just use a different bike if its slick.
My Henderson makes me feel like a 10 year old when I ride it - surprisingly quick and nimble, but it's more because you end up not worrying about "the quickest line" etc, and just ride anywhere that looks like a laugh.
Al Mighty on the front, for ridiculous grip in the woods, but a JJ on the back, as an Al Mighty won't fit in the frame. Gives it a tail-happy vibe when it's slippy; WOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!
Al mighty is an awesome tyre - like chalk and cheese in comparison to a JJ. I've always gone for Nate's as a go to tyre but now Ive permanently set up the fatty with a rigid fork the al mighty is on the front.
There's definitely a consistency of mud that's just lethal though, there was one ride on mine where I had three big crashes, all of them of the type where everything is fine one moment, and the next split second you're ten feet away in a ditch/tree/undergrowth and your bikes nowhere to be seen. As if your tire PSI is lower than required to press the tread into the dirt you're just left with the grip of a slick tyre on slippery mud.
It was great fun but I ended up selling it as it wasn't quite good enough at anything and what I really wanted was an all rounder. A fine line between "fun", "making trails challenging" and "overly punishing". I'd have another if a frameset came up locally, but I'm not sure what in the shed I'd sell to make space for it. A fatty with a e-bike conversion could be an absolute hoot, but I suspect would last 5-minutes locked up in the town center.
I agree with Mr Spoon
I think I would have been better off on a road bike. This is before a downhill of similar muddiness.
I gave up on fat bikes in winter after this.
Edna front ,hodag back.
Had a manner of different rigs, the fat bike is the one that I keep going back to.
...and here's me trying hard not to keep looking at fat bikes on marketplace...
B'stards!
I might have to buy one! And then convert it to drop bars... obvs! The hipster in me just can't not 😀