I’ve been umming and ahhing about one of these since the original aluminium Beargrease came out last year… Now I’ve bitten the bullet and gone for one.
It’s at 28lbs as it is, the tyres are going to be tubelessed once I’ve figured out exactly what’s involved and so that should drop another chunk of weight.
The sheer scale of the frame is hilarious – the downtube is the width of a crud catcher. It looks fantastic!
The standard spec is good, but I’ve tweaked with USE carbon bars and seatpost, 1×10 with a RaceFace narrow/wide ring and some bargaintastic Deore discs from Merlin. These must be the bargain of the decade – they are the same as XT (without the adjustment dial that I don’t use anyway) but only £80 the pair.
The basic bike is £2800, I already had most of the other bits as spares. The super posh XX1 build is 27lbs with pedals, but is £4200. Mine is only 1lb heavier and most of that is in the super-light tyres, chainset and cassette on the XX1. But a £400 cassette on a winter bike??!! No thanks.
There are some pics floating around of one of these where someone fitted the blue wheels from the 2013 aluminium Beargrease, that looked pretty cool.
It also takes 29×3″ wheels as on a Krampus so it’s 2 bikes for the price of one really.
Looks lovely, gee – much purtier than my Mukluk. In particular I’ve always thought he head tube to fork area out of proportion – fatter forks would help.
How brittle is plastic below 0?? 😉
I once asked someone who has done a few Iditarod type races on a fatbike and they were advised not to use plastic bottle cages on the bike – for that reason!
Anyone tried to make the Dillinger tyres tubeless? I’ve just taped the rims but the tyres seem very, very loose – didn’t bother trying a gas canister as it was so loose. Guitar Ted’s blog seems to say it’s possible but it looks like I need a load more tape!!
I’ve not tooblessed a Dillinger but the Hu Du’s work no problem on taped up Rolling D’s.(two layers of Gorilla Tape)
Use a tube to get it seated then break the bead on one side and remove the tube.
Fit your valve then lay the wheel down flat with the unseated side facing down and coverd in soap suds.
Now try inflating it.
Works a treat for me on Hu Du’s, Nates, Buds, Knards and Larrys.
Hmm… Must be some more weight hiding in there somewhere… The tyres are 120tpi Dillingers with what felt like very thin tubes. The scales may well be a little pessimistic – I reckon maybe alb over judging by what they think my other bikes weigh…
looks nice. I’m strangely tempted by a ‘lightweight’ fat bike.
I think that Chris is right though. You should definitely race the next brass monkeys on it.
Mind you, that would leave the real possibility of me getting dropped by a man on a fat bike…
If you decide to keep tubes for the moment Schwalbe do a 26 free ride tube at 180 grams. I use these one my 4 inch one one tyres with no problems ( at 10 psi )
Cheap easy weight saving when the one one tubes are over 600 each and the specialized tubes are 400 ish.