[Closed] Lets see your Fat bikes

Fat bikes. They'll never catch on

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lol love it

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Yeh, RocketDog, welcome to the family (at long last)

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Same as mine Rocketdog...great bike for the price. Wow JohnClimber that looks sweet. Whats the handlebars look very different

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Same as mine Rocketdog...great bike for the price. Wow JohnClimber that looks sweet. Whats the handlebars look very different

Jones Loop Bars

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I suppose we should be thankful the 'tache has gone.

That day in Loch Morar ... one of the reasons I have mine ..

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Back to white SPD's today for muddy fun.

rocketdog, what size tubes are you running?

Thanks Johnclimber they look good....Some great fat bikes. Wonder of I could get another lol

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mOrk.... what size tubes are you using?

sorry just interested to see what people use with floater tyres.

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Now with a 50 mm stem and Easton havoc risers

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Fat bikes are rubbish.....

Heres mine..

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This was the original build 3 months ago - now very dirty and with a dropper

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bgrunes is that a beach in East sussex with a holiday camp
i used to live there until last year great dunes

Pimpmyride - stock 26x4 in the back that the charge came with, and a 26x2.7 DH tube in the front, which I carry for puncture repairs

Blows up easily with either

My 9:zero:7

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Thanks mOrk, do you not find that the front wheel comes out the bead at all? Having issues getting mine to spin without jumping

I'm still loving mine, although what was supposed to be a budget rolling chassis and spares bin build has somewhat gone massively over budget!

It has been great fun to ride on dry dusty trails, but I'm hoping it will be even more fun with a bit of slop?!

Made a bit of a mess drilling out the front rim, hopefully the rear will be much better. Tomorrow I will attempt to inflate my tubeless conversion, gorilla tape and split tube, fingers crossed!

They're a bit scary in the glop - spent 6 hours thrashing around the mud in the Surrey Hills yesterday and scared the life out of myself - the slides are lurid to say the least

Bloody good fun though - but I fear it might end up in a big pile of blood, mud and tears 🙁

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Gee - did you have to tie it to that tree to stop it floating away 😀

Here's my John Deere Fatty:
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Some Enduro action at this years Ard Rock:
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How about some DH?
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And here's my Moonlander in Switzerland (warning, poor quality and no soundtrack but you get the idea):

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One one "Flatty" in the last pic... Need to remember it's not a 6" travel full sus as I'm sending it down the rocks!

Trout, what wheelset you using on the front for the Bluto's? I ordered the blutos only to realise they're 150mm axle so sent them back.

Nice on one flatty there Sam!

Tazzy - is that a black Fatty? Looks rad.

Just can't get stoked for the white version

Samcuk87 . How do you get on with the on one fatty ? I'm thinking of crossing over to the fat side and as a first fatty I think I'll go for that one . Thanks

Samcuk its a hope Fatsno 150mm hub and the on one fatty rim and spokes
IMHO the Bluto`s make a good bike great on the terrain mine gets used on
but would not be happy on the beach with em on a regular basis

Agreed with Trout on the blutos making a good bike great. I've kept my rigid fork for beaches and that sort of thing.

It's alaos true that that Beargrease is faster than my normal bikes on the Surrey Hills. Set my fastest times on a lot of trails on that a couple of weeks ago, and it's not like I wasn't trying on the skinny bikes.

GB

Crapjumper I love it. My other bikes an On one codeine, rode full sus for a while but this climbs great and decents great. Nice slack head angle with wide bars, feels great. Did an 18 mile loop round the peaks on Sunday and was in the front pack all the way round. Think the tyre pressures where a little low for the rocky descents. It's great without the Blutos IMO, just get loose and let th fat tyres do their work on the descents!

[url= ]Onza Unit[/url]looks good for an intro to fatbike. Think they're hoping to sell for £749.99

@samcuk87 - I'm still surprised just how well the on-one does climb

I went a rather step slippy slope wet rock leaves etc this weekend and got a "fair play on going up that " by a dog walker who must have been watching me...

Mines 1x10 with a hope extender.

2500ft of climbing at the weekend, cleared some climbs I never had before. I'm 2x10 but with no front mech, just flick it down to the 26r granny for the big technical climbs then back on the wide narrow for the descents!

my mukluk
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great fun, like a big bouncy bmx 🙂

Tazzy, are they exotic forks on the Surly?

Matt black powdercoat on the on-one to match the carbon forks. With a trikstuff excentriker to run propper ss. Also has prototype goldtec fat hubs on it. They are white bros snowpack forks on the necro pug.

The black on one looks about a gazillion times better than the gash white and orange one or I have seem a gloss black with a matte fork which looked poo as well, imho

Black on ones are nothing new!

Mines been like this for nearly a year 😉

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Was there well before you matey 😉 as I belive young mr rocket dog pointed out when you first had yours done

I built my with used parts except for a new Alfine hub. I really like it, lowest low gear is still a bit high though. I'm keen to try some bike packing on it too.

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That On-One looks seriously stealthy Taz.
It looks bloody ace.

[Goes off to check next BTW window dates...]

@taz & Bedmaker ... How do you find the Bud on a Marge Lite?

Is it much bigger than a Nate on the same rim? Can you still run a lowish pressure without too much squirm?

Glen Tilt at the weekend

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Is that a Shand I see a page back? Wow - a one off?

tazzymtb - Member
Was there well before you matey as I belive young mr rocket dog pointed out when you first had yours done

Sometimes I forget quite how awesome I am 8)

Bud on a marge lite is fine. Much bigger than a nate and gives a lovely profile for cornering. Running 7.5psi and no horrid squirm or tramline

takisawa you're welcome to borrow the fat for a hoon around the chase.

samkuk87,

are you running tubeless? I was just getting into the 'get loose and pinball' style of descending in the peaks, lasted 30 seconds and blew the back tyre off the rim. That was running lightweight tubes, so they are a definite no no for anything rough, especially far from home.

My Puffin. Some On-One carbon forks off of Ebay arrived yesterday so will be fitted soon.

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wwaswas is that a mudhugger you have managed to fit on the back? How effective is it please?

wwaswas - is that just a 29er specific mudhugger on the back of the Puffin?

Is it a good solution?

Cheers

Andy, yes, it's been really good. It's a 29er one heated with a hot air gun to splay the stay mounts out a bit and shape them to fit.

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Coverage is really good (better than a Crud Catcher on a standard bike, ime.

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Not been through really sticky clay on it yet but clearance seems ok.

Looks ace 😀

Edit: Have one fitted to my 29er Turner Sultan and it works really well. Think I might try this on my Mukluk. I bought a PDW rear, but it looks way too flimsy to last i'm afraid 🙁

Thats so so weird.....

Ive just been looking on the mudhugger site to see if they had anything...

Hate mudguards but the natural element for a fatbike seems to be in the wosrt possible conditions.

The fatter tyre seems to throw a phat lot more up more up too 🙂

Bagstard. I tried tubeless, blew up fine, seemed to seal well. Came to it the next morning and they'd gone totally flat. Not tried it again since. I used the foam down the middle of the rim to pack it out then gorilla tape over the top method. Also, anyone who's running on one fatty wheels have a problem with the tyre sliding down making it look buckled when you drop the pressure below 15psi? Tried the floaters and the vee mission and it still does it.

wwaswas did you get the carbon forks off 118sea118? If so that was me!

[i]If so that was me! [/i]

it was and they arrived yesterday thanks 🙂

*toddles off to leave some feedback*

I've got a prototype front fatbike guard from mudhugger to try this weekend, will report back

I got this from Mucky Nutz. It's great!

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I find a standard crud catcher up front on my 4.6" tyres works fine - the crud catcher just covers the width of the tyre perfectly

I noticed an almost complete stop of all facial spatter after fitting it 🙂

I saw one of those mahoosive dbf (?) ones fitted to a Fat Boy and it was just far too big (for me to ever fit to my bike)

I have two - the O O Fatty is now setup for winter riding - the Fatback is put away till next year

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I have come to the conclusion that the majority of fatbike owners have the colour coordination skills of a clown with a colour vision disorder. Just because riding a fat bike makes you feel like you're 6 doesn't mean you need to make it look like an 80's abortion of clashing filth. All that's missing is some spokey dokeys, a playing card in spokes and one of those yellow loud halers that used to make police siren noises and machinegun sounds. 😯

I reckon these folks are just making a personal statement to themselves, about themselves. It's not for other folk to judge them based on appearances. A bit like tattoos really....

[i]A bit like tattoos really.... [/i]

*applauds* 🙂

Here you go Tazzy - keep calm and keep posting 🙂

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*applauds* but just like tattoos, you must expect every bugger to have an opinion and happily tell you to your face 😀

and there is no personal statement to be made with an awful looking bike, its like having a car and then strapping as much extra tat to it from halfords as possible and then putting fake exhausts and a powered by fairy dust sticker on it

I need a powered by beard-druff sticker

I think people like me with Fat bikes just enjoy a bit of fun and not about looks or making a statement just enjoy being able to get over most things and the having fun....Still every one has there own opinion.

[i]having a car and then strapping as much extra tat to it from halfords as possible[/i]

Carlos Fandango fat wheels and tyres anyone?

Here's my 2013 Mukluk.

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