[Closed] Fatbikes

Me 2. I'm a bit meh on a lot of stuff but a fat bike is really a want. It's a good thing that shand don't have one...

They look like mtbs did when they first arrived. You had something that you really wanted to bounce off of things with rather than just go fast

[quote=leffeboy ]Me 2. I'm a bit meh on a lot of stuff but a fat bike is really a want. It's a good thing that shand don't have one..Intentional irony?

I went fat in August........Best Buy of the decade!!

If you want to feel the heat ...you gotta have meat!!!...FATBIKES!! 😛

They are great fun, depends what you want from it, I've got one, think it's great but sometimes you just need a fix of extra speed. They are very confidence inspiring and got me riding things I didn't think I could, and now I tackle said things on a normal 29er, so they have brought my riding on. Great when it snows, great for a blast with mates, but not as an xc race bike.

I must have one ....seems to be a few up round formby at the moment

Leffe have young seen stands new fatty 😉

I'm reasonably sure that Leffeboy is taking the p but it's worth showing it again. 😀
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Had one for over 3yrs now.
Love it.
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Teeto looking good

Wanted to hate fat biking but I,m struggling
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They still look like the drunken love child of Kate Moss & a tractor.

Front suspension or rigid ? Do you need springy forks with those big mutha tyres

no

anyway, you know you wanna
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I was very happy with my OO Fatty with carbon fork and 7-8 psi up front until I took delivery of my new Fatty Trail with Blutos as fitted as standard. The difference is quite dramatic in my opinion and makes you realise just how much of a battering you are taking even with squishy tyres. I appreciate the weight difference will be off-putting to some but as I'm no racing snake I would rather have the comfort.

Oh alright then

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Only 3 proper rides in but loving it so far. I'm bluto-curious but enjoying it rigid for now, that's the job I got it for. Impressively capable even without bounce though.

No way would you take away my Bluto`s they move critical bounce to a higher speed and save my old wrists

Yes I do need Bluto`s
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You appear to have a midget lodged in your cassette.

Another gratuitous photo of mine:

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It takes me all the way back to the 80s and my first MTB experiences - it might not be the fastest but it's the most fun getting there. That said, couple of top-10 race finishes this summer against MTBs, so not slow when you wind it up. Huge amounts of grip mean I can climbs that have defeated me and allow me to ride ridiculous lines that I wouldn't attempt normally. I'm off to Rovaniemi this winter and keeping dreaming up ridiculous routes and adventures..most of the nay-sayers have never ridden one.

I can appreciate that blutos will make flat landings more controlled from my short full rigid fat riding.......but my fatty is for winter mud plugging/snow/sand/Boulder fields messing...keeping it cheap as possible and just smiling whilst riding over ridiculous stuff that on the gardtail would loosen my fillings....or have me laying on the floor 😆

If you can't handle full fat™, you could always go semi-skimmed.

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Lots of fun too, just a bit different..

Ha! got one of those too:

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Could be right brigante 🙂 it does look good tho. How do the two compare nick

I lasted a month between demoing one, thinking 'yeah it's fun, but I'd never buy one' to buying one.

I'd always thought they were silly but posties Road to Damascus type transformation has me intrigued lol

Pre breakfast trip, in the distance, Switzerland

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Out on the beaches of East Lothian
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Hugely different bikes Mick, think of the Fat bike, as the bastard love child of a BMX & a space hopper.. It's just a complete grin enduring ride, you can't help but smile while out on it.
The Krampus? That too is a hooligan of a bike, but, well, a bit more refined?
To be fair I've only really used it in Bikepacking mode, so not just blagged out in the woos etc on it in the same way..
It's fast, and rooks bloody well.
To be fair, they both do..
Oh, and both are Medium, so you're welcome to try either Mick.

Can't believe this tread hasn't been naysayered yet. My travers fat bike frame arrives tomoz.

With both 29+/3" tyres and fatbike tyres you can get crazy lean-angles without worrying about loss of grip because of the rounded tyre-section. 29+ does roll quicker so more suited to mixed conditions, but if it's really soft, sandy, rooty and rocky I'd prefer the extra grip of the fatty. Whilst the 29+ is still technically a 'trail' bike with the fatbike you can genuinely ride where there isn't a trail.

Just getting the eye bleach ready for when John Climber post pics up of his abominations..

Fugly doesn't even come close. 😐

I won't get one til I can afford full sus one.

Dovebiker. The one with the orange wheels looks familiar. Were you at the tower on Leith on Saturday?

Went fat 18 months ago and never looked back....until i went fat singlespeed - the most fun ever!!

A proper BMX for grown ups with adult sized bodies

Absolute hoot and is used on 90% of my rides nowadays

Bring on the snow 🙂

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I have succumbed...

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(I didn't fall off...)

Gave it a damn good rinse when I got home.

I find with ground controls, there's a scary/hilarious (delete depending on speed and if you are expecting it) lean angle where you are between lines of tread, giving no grip whatsoever. Can be ace (off road, pretending you are a rally driver, at the very limit of control) or terrifying (on road, turning right across on coming traffic).

When I was still riding, I was noticeably faster on mine, so they're not necessarily slow. Point was confirmed by my mate who now has it - he has broken all sorts of strava records without really trying.

Lee Fancourt has a Guiness World Record of the greatest distance travelled offroad in both 24 and 48 hrs, on a fatbike.

Cheers nick looks like a may have to pay you a visit in a few months 😉

Go on then...what's the 'full fat bike du jour' nowadays..?

It used to teh the O-O fatty, given it's pricepoint.
What should a lowly skinny bike rider be looking at?

DrP

What should a lowly skinny bike rider be looking at?

I went to the cycle show at the NEC and saw plenty of fat bikes and thought, mmmm, nice. I can see the potential versatility (like running 29er, becoming a bikepacking machine) lots of fun and grip, and they look great. I do worry about them being a bit slow and a bit heavy, and the one fatbike i have ridden (a Voodoo Wazoo) had comical self-steer. Is that something you just have to get used to?

I'm becoming more and more tempted...

Front suspension or rigid ? Do you need springy forks with those big mutha tyres

they're not necessarily slow

+1, mines rigid, but I'm 90% tempted to sell it and buy a Fatty Trail. The tyres take the edge off things, but it's still a rigid bike, braking bumps, coming up short on jumps, landings to flat etc still hurt.

Go on then...what's the 'full fat bike du jour' nowadays..?

It used to teh the O-O fatty, given it's pricepoint.
What should a lowly skinny bike rider be looking at?

DrP

Probably still an O-O. Either the Fatty or the Trail. There's others that are close in value but the slightly more progressive* geometry is an absolute hoot. And the only thing that's wrong with the O-O is the original wheels which were a PITA to tubeless, but that's not insurmountable with a couple of rolls of electrical tape and the Trail comes with different (presumably better) rims.

*hate the term, but you know what I mean

I do worry about them being a bit slow and a bit heavy, and the one fatbike i have ridden (a Voodoo Wazoo) had comical self-steer. Is that something you just have to get used to?

It is a bit slow and heavy, embrace that, carry more speed into corners, use that added control and come out cackling manically. TBH I don't notice the Fatty being heavy, but I do notice my other bikes feeling light afterwards, which gets scary when you find yourself going faster and completely out of control without the big wheels!

The self steer seems a combination of tyres and pressures. The better the tyre and the higher the pressure the less self steer. Having said that my Fatty did it initially, but now I can ride it no-handed, so maybe it's 6 of one to 1/2 dozen the other and I've learnt to compensate for it.

The OO fatty is a great bike at a price, but that may mean havier componemts, even the tubes are almost a kilo.... its how it gets down to a price point. A fair chunk of weight is in the wheels, tubes and tyres. Folk have bought these and upgraded and shed a lot of weight but may have done better getting a low milage more expensive model, s/h.to start with.

Getting a frame only and doing a build can be a challenge as Fatbike stuff is different, hubs, bb's for example. A full build gets around this.

Loads of bikes now from major manufactureres some being better value than others.... some available in the UK, some not. Just a matter of checking it all out.

Silverback Scoop / Double Scoop seem great value
Salsa
Spesh
ICAN Chinese carbon from ebay

To name a few...

Silverback Scoop / Double Scoop seem great value

Thanks TINAS, all useful stuff to hear. The fatty trail does look good and i'm sure the geometry makes it fun (I have a Parkwood already), be nice if they did a fatty trail rolling chassis bundle...