OO also did a few deals - Pink Fatty with some of the 20% codes that
got a good bike out for a tad over £600.
Was proabably wat DBW saw.
But it had pink tyres. PINK tyres. Pink. Tyres. Pink tyres!
Pink edition with option to change it to black for no extra cost iirc
I'm an on one h8er but even I have to admit the coloured fatbike tyres are glorious.
"But it had pink tyres. PINK tyres. Pink. Tyres. Pink tyres!"
Could have been worse .
Could have been a dubber scrubber
No bubble bursting here. Happy to keep riding my purple Pugsley....I have lots of other bikes but often a Fat bike just hits the spot...
No bubble bursting up here. Good few guys in the local Moray Mountain Bike club ride them. Guys in local bike shop ride them & I joined the club with a £500 Wazoo from halfords, loving it. Spend £100 in the PX sale to get better tyres, shorter stem & carbon bars to improve my ride position (dodgy back) Thsts it, nothing else will change until it breaks.
Is cheap, its cheerful, great on the local trails & beach & it'll save my full suss getting knackered over winter.
surly's bubble might have burst, as the sticker says
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I sold my oo then my carbon beargrease and have gone 29+. I am starting to miss them both though.
Despite buying it as a winter bike, I was out on my Surly yesterday.
Although if the bubble has burst, does it mean owners get to go back to being niche? 😆 😉
Some might want to grab a niche Cannondale Slate before they become common. 😉
People on here buy £300 bikes? Heard it all now.
Damn straight I do!
(Don't know how to do the quote thing)
Me too
I picked up a halfords one that was shiny as new with carbon bars and seat post up graded saddle for £300 on eBay.
Had some deor shifters and slx rear mec partnered with a 9 speed cassette and chain in the shed.
For that price I'm no longer fat curious.
I think the bubble has become affordable!
Some of us have no choice but to ride one.
It snows where I live. A lot.
I purchased mine as an alternative to sitting on the trainer for an hour or two in the winter mornings.
It got me really fit.
It made me laugh every time I rode it in the dark and the snow.
Now I can't wait to ride it on the summer trails too.
My advice is test a carbon one with carbon everything attached to it...and ride the hell out of it.
I absolutely love mine from a little Canadian company called Kermode Carbon Fatbikes.
I ride my Wednesday most days and it is fun. Not fast, but really chuffing fun. Dusty summer bridle ways mean drifting and clouds of dust and never get bored of reactions of dog apple farmers.
I bought mine about 2 months back and haven't ridden anything else since.
So not for me, no.
Surely Ebikes will rule I am amazed how many I have seen.
Good spec on the commode website..
I absolutely love mine from a little Canadian company called Kermode Carbon Fatbikes
Very nice. If they start making them in colour that could be very tempting 🙂
Whats not to love?? I <3 mine and can see me getting shot of it anytime soon! 😀
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If anyone does want to try a cheap one, I've got a Calibre Dune which can go back to stock for not much cash. Or a bit more if you want the very nice build I have on it!
I bought mine on a whim. Really enjoyed riding it last winter and the start of spring. Yeah all my mates were faster on their FS but they were faster before 😉 I morphed into the chubby thing and bought a 2nd hand Trek Stache (from Denis99 back on this thread) and for the riding I do preferred it meaning the Fatty doesn't get ridden,
Obviously because I'm such a niche chaser, I've bought a FS chubby now!
So as a 'gateway drug' to chubby tyres, it was brilliant. And for not much cash it was fab. And it made loads of people - including me - laugh. What's not to like?
Thinking the exact same thing
What size & how much Alex?
Core - YHM. Sorry to derail the thread!
Also emailed you earlier Alex
Surely Ebikes will rule I am amazed how many I have seen
If you're limited to 15mph you'd be mad not to get a fat ebike. People will realise that soon enough...
I'd love an e-fatbike tbh. If nothing else, it'd drive some people completely apoplectic.
If you're limited to 15mph you'd be mad not to get a fat ebike. People will realise that soon enough...
Whys that then ? Minimising weight and drag means battery lasts longer
I'd love an e-fatbike tbh. If nothing else, it'd drive some people completely apoplectic.
Saw one on the train a few months ago, didn't realise it was e-doped until I saw the lad ride off. Next time I saw him on the train, the conductor and I were taking the mick out of him 😆
http://wing-ebikes.co.uk/?page_id=5160
Wazoo e-bike, I would be tempted if I had that sort of cash, but just 12 months g'tee on that 1700W system would worry me (think you can limit it to 15mph if you want to comply with road, but otherwise 30+ mph is possible)
Never been a bubble to start with In my eyes ! I started a thread on this very subject and still makes me angry that so many people were conned ...
The bike industry must still be laughing/rubbing hands in glee 🙁
Yes I've tried them.. Yes I know folks that had them(quickly realised) they were had and sold/gave away 😳
Saw one on the train a few months ago, didn't realise it was e-doped until I saw the lad ride off. Next time I saw him on the train, the conductor and I were taking the mick out of him
Well done you.
*slow claps*
@tomhoward - it was very good natured and to his face, we aren't southerners.
I don't really agree that fat bikes were/are a fad although if you define bubbles in terms on unprecedented sales and all of your competition jumping to sell similar product, then yes there probably was a bubble.
It's really more that fat bikes have had an evolutionary experience and tentatively gone mainstream. Many people may have been persuaded they need one when it was inappropriate, but that's what happens if you depend on sales staff, magazines and social media for your decisions. 🙂
Fat bikes really aren't limited to transportation/ packing and the old sand and snow tropes any more. This makes many people within the fat sphere angry for some reason. Long and slack with dropper posts and suspension is absolute lunacy on a fatbike if you look at where they came from, but it makes a lot of sense if you plan to hammer one as an AM bike, and correctly chosen and specified, they can be excellent for such use.
If anything, the market is stalling because the only fork options are the Lauf which has its devotees and the Bluto which is a bit unrefined by modern standards and isn't really a big mountain fork. The ' plus' trend won't help either, but genuinely there are a lot of people who will find a well specified 29erer with 275plus wheels and tyres a better and easier to get bike for their use - this might be different if more suspension options were available...
That wazoo above. Does adding electric really cost £1000?
My brother and his wife recently rented e fats in the Alps and loved them.
Could they buy a wazoo each and convert them themselves? He is a sparks so that should help.
Many people may have been persuaded they need one when it was inappropriate, but that's what happens if you depend on sales staff, magazines and social media for your decisions.
Strange, when most MTB media is overwhelmingly negative towards fatbikes, writing them off as slow, heavy and a 'fun' addition to a fleet but not a 'real' MTB.
It's almost as if some are actually selling on merit, rather than marketing....
"but it makes a lot of sense if you plan to hammer one as an AM bike, and correctly chosen and specified, they can be excellent for such use."
That wazoo above. Does adding electric really cost £1000?
if you want any decent kind of battery - yes. - if not more. A bafang bbshd 1000w and a battery will be an easy 1500 quid.
a bbs02 can be done for around a grand
fitting one of the cheap hubs makes the bike handle like a pig and depending on the hub - draggy as hell.
I have a Felt Lebowske e fat bike.
Makes a lot of sense.
Agree about the fork options.
Bike came with a Bluto, rode it a few times, but didn't think much of it on a 20kg bike. It's a rehashed Reba in essence, might be ok on a normal fat bike though.
Also go a Lauf Carbonara, which I like, but it is not a charging around regardless fork, great for cross country riding at a more relaxed pace though.
There is another option.
The Wren fork. A proper fat bike fork available in different length configurations, user serviceable, not as refined as the current state of the art fork manufacturers though.
Takes some time to bed in and understand how to set it up.
A very good option on a e fat bike, it has 36mm stanchions, upside down, dual air chamber.
The best option at the moment.
Personally I think fat bikes are too fat - In so much as - why do you need a fat wheel on the back?
For UK riding anyhow. If you are riding on Sand or Snow then fair enough. But if you just want to tear about through the winter slop then a Fat front wheel is enough.
The float given by the massive front tyre means you can do away with the delicate front forks....which is a benefit for a low maintenance winter bike..and at the same time the loss of mass from the suspension forks offsets the weight of the fat front wheel.
But in terms of float there is no benefit to a fat wheel on the back, all you add is extra drag...if you are going over bumpy ground even with the big front tyre your speed will be limited by the punishment your arms can take - your back wheel will follow along just fine since your knees are excellent shock absorbers. Same principal as a hardtail.
In terms of grip on those fast off camber loamy downhills we all love - where do you need it most - on the front.
In terms of peddling traction - I find I get more from a narrower tyre on the back to cut through the worst of the slop while the big front wheel glides over the top. In really marshy ground I put all my weight over the back wheel and spin away in an easy gear - and we chug along like a paddle steamer.
It honestly is the most versatile setup Iv ever had...its my most used bike. It might look weird but who cares
That's an interesting idea. Are you saying I should chuck a rigid fat fork and wheel on the front of my normal bike and have a play? No frame or drivetrain changes need. Might look fugly, but I'm tempted.
Similar to the Jones Spaceframe really.
I had a Jones, but couldn't get on with the totally rigid fork.
More to do with me than the Jones in truth.
Really good bike, I wanted to like it, but simply couldn't gel with it.
Fat front end and 29er rear wheel.
In really marshy ground I put all my weight over the back wheel and spin away in an easy gear - and we chug along like a paddle steamer.
Aagh! This is bad practice, it cuts up a very fragile surface and just leads to it becoming a quagmire.
why do you need a fat wheel on the back?
Tons of grip without the drag
If you can provide the legs it despatches technical climbs. roots rubble steps no skills required just ride up
The grip works with braking as well. No need to drag just short stabby braking that would overwhelm thin tyres esp in loose conditions
That's an interesting idea. Are you saying I should chuck a rigid fat fork and wheel on the front of my normal bike and have a play? No frame or drivetrain changes need. Might look fugly, but I'm tempted.
that's exactly what I did to my Inbred - cost hardly anything with second hand on-one parts. its amazing. Some people use 29er frames to match the wheel sizes up but mine is a 26er. I like the small wheel on the back - makes it slacker and more hooligan for me 🙂
I also run an Alfine hub gear for extra winter-proof-ness.
