Ok, i will guess i’m going to be mocked but what is all this Fat bike stuff about, obviously the tyre thing stands out but what is the whole Fat bike thing?.

that is the whole thing 🙄

Yes, but why?. What does it achieve, not being funny just interested as it seems popular.

you honestly can’t see what having wider tyres you can run at v. low pressures achieves?

Best start a “tyre” thread 😉

they’re built for expeditions on snow and sand

Never should of asked really, what was i thinking on here.

Born out of riding on soft sand and snow I think, possibly more capable on other terrain too

They’re also great on loose rocky trails, brilliant on gravel, and nimble on other loose surfaces where you usually feel like you’re dragging sandbags.

Only snag is they are heavy, but generally you don’t notice it until you have to do something like lift it over a fence.

It makes me laugh – “hey why is that tyre so big?”

Bigger is better innit 😉

All the above +better than anything else on wet roots.

And when you turn up at a roadie cafe on one…. 😈

And you cant use the bike parking thingy`s 😮

friday beachride 018 by coastkid71, on Flickr

You get jaw ache riding them from grinning so much too

They’re just fantastic fun to ride on any kind of terrain.

Not the fastest bikes in the world be very grin enducing.

The only drawback is having to constantly answer question about them whenever your out on it.

they’re built for expeditions on snow and sand

weird, i’ve only ever seen them on GT red 😉

Very good fun indeed, lots of scope running different pressures.
Can be very fast rolling too.. something to do with the physics of fat tyres footprint.
Lots of cushioning and extra suspension. Excellent for rigid. Big tyres, big smiles.

chronos – you don’t need a fatbike to experiment with tyre pressures.
that cushioning and “extra undamped suspension” is one of the huge downsides for me TBH.
they are surprisingly fast rolling for the size/weight but they are bloody awful to accelerate.

they’re built for expeditions on snow and sand

[quote]weird, i’ve only ever seen them on GT red[/quote]
You’ve obviously been on the wrong expeditions Legend – unless you count GT as untamed wilderness of course 8)

You’ve obviously been on the wrong expeditions Legend – unless you count GT as untamed wilderness of course

you mean that GT isn’t the wilderness!?!?!?!?!

😉

It’s all relative I suppose!

never seen the buzzards nest car park so empty 😯