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.
Please don’t take this as a trolling question, but does that video really 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 ? 😉
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.
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.
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!)
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?
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 29×3″ 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 🙂
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.