I thought it looked great in a hideous kind of way but then I saw the bars... Having tried similar, I find the hand position horrible on anything remotely technical but YMMV.
Other than that though, I'd love a go on it with some proper bars. It's certainly a head turner.
This should be your van of choice .
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yes please! 🙂
I've always loved Marmite; I like your bike a lot too 😀
Can we correlate those that like the bike and those that like marmite or even visa versa?
I like marmite (though just a tiny bit of it). I don't like the bike (I would if it wasn't for the bars though). I guess I'm partly on the fence 😉
tazzymtb - Member
Travers make lovely frames, yet you somehow manage to turn them into the most gopping eyesores in christendom. you have wantonly ruined a thing of beauty in your quest for look at meeeeeeeeee,
You have obviously met John then 😀
Mr Overshoot, yes I've bumped into the strange little chappy at various events 😀
but honestly I own a bloody jones spaceframe and black sheep, both with more tubes and bendy bits then the norm would suggest are visually pleasing, so I know about gopping freakoid bikes, but mrclimber seems to work on the principle of just keep throwing more wrongness at something until it looks like the car that homer simpson designed.
still its a bike and all bikes are fun so lets celebrate that 😀
The only fatbike I like is the Salsa Bucksaw.
reckon that the beargrease looks good
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I bet this is freakin awesome to ride.
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Probably but if we're talking aesthetics, the fork look much too spindly in comparison to the wheel.
Ok so it's got BB7's and the wrong bars for "aggressive riding" (have you seen some of the things Jeff Jones rides?) but it's perfectly at home for my type of riding near me on the beaches and in the sand dunes.
Taken this morning just for you
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Your back could do with a mow.
Nice beach, wirral area?
Your back could do with a mow.
Your bike is a bit too small for you, too...
Where's your helmet?
have you seen some of the things Jeff Jones rides?
He may well be a riding god and cope with them but as I said, I found them horrible.
Anyway, nice pics. If you could just photoshop out the bars now... 😉
I quite like the look of it, mind you, I have Jones bars on a rigid bike so I'm a half way down that slippery slope.
I rode a fat bike and I quite liked it apart from the bouncy undamped 'boinging' from the front wheel, at no point did I think, I'd like a leaf spring in there somewhere to really sort the roots from the drops. 😆
I salute your dedication to the cause. 8)
What is it and what is it used for? Is it a bicycle? Surely they must be better bikes for doing skids on the beach (nice skid BTW)? Why is a flat beach more interesting than a flat road? Why are your cables so long? Why is everyone avoiding you on the beach?
So much I don't understand 😀
100!
I've said it once, and I'll say it again.
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tazzymtb - Member
Nice beach, wirral area?
Crosby beach
That really is horrible. I'm sure those forks are back to front too.
tazzymtb - MemberMr Overshoot, yes I've bumped into the strange little chappy at various events
Ahh here is the strange little chappy
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The irony with John is when I first rode with him 10 years ago he was Mr Mainstream riding a Specialized Stumpjumper FSR & wearing Ronhill Bikesters
you have wantonly ruined a thing of beauty in your quest for look at meeeeeeeeee, man alive, what's wrong witb blutos, they work
Beauty is more about how it feels underneath you! IMO of course..
No moving parts, no stanchions to scratch, they fit my frame and blutos don't, just enough travel so HA doesn't change much (something I love about a rigid bike) , dead light.
And Jones bars rock.
First ride review compared to my 29er Lauf Trail racers.
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The trail racers make my Travers Rudy 29er more comfortable over longer rides than the rigid carbon forked Niner Air 9 that it replaced, it's a bit heavier and feels as quick as it's using the same wheels and drive train.
The Trail racer is a "regular" for riders over 65kg
The Fat Carbonara is a "light" for riders under 85kg
On todays ride of 43 miles I found the Carbonara a little bit stiffer that the Trail Racers but I guess they have to be stiffer as the wheel is 2 to 3 times heavier than 29er wheels.
High pressure tyres rolled well on canal paths and tarmac, once at the beach the tyre pressures were dropped to about 10psi and again the fork absorbed all of the small vibrations and modest bumps as well as any other forks I've ridden*
* Granted that's not many (about 5 over the years) as I like my rigid bikes.
I'd say buy them if......
Don't use them for downhilling.
Don't do long techy trails without a bit of a gap between sections.
Want to eliminate the trail buzz that you get from riding rigid forks.
You want to lighten up your 29er hardtail race bike.
If you can afford them.
Literally just trying to fit a set to my Cannondale Single speed. New wheels bought, new bars, stem on its way and hopefully the right headset turning up tomorrow. Can't wait to try them out!
However, all my bikes will look a bit 'strange' now. I have no 'normal' bikes. Made worse that the SS also has an oval chain ring
Went out with a few Fat mates tonight and had a go on a Fatty running on Blutos for the first time
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we had a bike swap a couple of times and over small bumps up to house brick sized bumps I preferred the Lauf forks which smoothed out the bumps that came quick and often better than the Blutos.
But if there ever was a drop off I'd prefer to be on the Blutos.
But the Lauf isn't designed to be ridden drop off's too often