[Closed] Would you buy a (new) fatbike for ~£1k?

I should be on commission!

Took it for a bomb around glentress today. Great success! Loving it tbh. Good fun on most of the red, surprisingly good at some of the harder stuff (made the Wormhole feel easy), and slow as a dog on the enduro trails. But, coming down the fort descent it was still lovely, it just reminds me of mountain biking in the 90s before gnar was invented. (except the wee gnar bits, they were just comical, I love slow crawling things on this. Physically impossible to get it down my normal line on the fort descent, it's too wide!) Did pinchflat, and broke my lovely evolution+ pump while fixing it, which was annoying...

Ooh! I never said, it's actually glow in the dark! How much more could this bike give? OK, sort of pathetically weak glow in the dark but still.

I'd rather fry and eat my own rectum than buy a bike from On One, but that does look good value.

The great thing about fat bikes is the amount of control they give you on super steep and rocky descents while with the right gearing, they will outperform any other bike. Once you get over the notion of the wheels being heavier, just sit and spin and marvel about what you are able to get up. I had my Ice Cream Truck up Ben MacDui a few days ago and it was a revelation in the boulderfield. 😀

Sanny

I would have had a Mongoose Argus if the shop chain could have been bothered to reply to me as to which of their shops had a large in stock...... 😆

I am definitely much quicker on my fattie - the all-important scientific test of riding with my mate proved it, for once he almost couldn't keep up. Further proven as I have had to give it to him for a while as I am off the bike and he has broken a number of his strava times on it. People only think they're slow.

Northwind - Member
it just reminds me of mountain biking in the 90s before gnar was invented.

This is the very reason why I'm interested.

I like that 🙂 Wish I had the funds to buy one 🙁 I really want a fat bike in my life.

Just a quick bit of feedback update from me for the Calibre Dune fatbike.
Went for its first ride yesterday from Snettisham beach round to Holme and back (with detours into dunes, races to the sea line at low tide and rock crawling) a round trip of just over 18 miles.
I haven't had such fun on a bike since my last uplift day....absolute hoot!
The bike: stable, comfortable in stock guise (yes even the seat has a proper relief cutout), no uncomfortable vibrations through handlebars etc. Ran the tyres at 8psi perhaps could have gone even lower.
Drivetrain is adequate....certainly rustproof and functional although obviously missed some of the smaller jumps in gearing from 2x10. Chainring is soft....bent one tooth a little in fast time but bent it back with ease!
Only negative for me were the brakes.... They would be adequate for no trials type riding or the need to actually stop my weight so I've fitted a cheap spare set of Clarkes Hydraulics. The bars and stem whilst not branded are plenty stiff enough and wide enough, the tyres grip like shit to a blanket and it's really true, they're not sluggish.....its bizarre rolling over deep shingle at speed with minimal effort let alone racing through soft wet sand and silt at sprint speed to see who reaches the sea first.
The rock pool boulders at Hunstanton cliffs were a real highlight....with momentum kept up the bike climbed up and over stuff that I thought I would have been on my arse if I had tried to walk over....cleaned it with no dabs.
As for groyne drop offs it was super easy to lift the front wheel too.
If you really are on a fatbike lust with minimal budget, you've got to give one a go!

better deal than a second hand OOF do you think? They tend to come out in the £500-£700 range.

This is getting depressing now 😥

Suggsey - Member
If you really are on a fatbike lust with minimal budget, you've got to give one a go!

Why did you have to say that 😉

Yes much better deal in that the wheelset is lighter, the frame and forks are lighter than the steel OOs. Lifting my mates Specialised Fatboy out the van and mine side by side, there was very little weight difference in it (although the Fatboy has 4.6 wide rubber) as for speed, acceleration, rolling resistance etc nothing in it at all....only my mate was reluctant to throw his carbon forks at stuff I was crash bashing into and over 😆
Sorry 5thEkephant....I must admit I've ordered a 410mm Tomson post just for an extra inch in leg extension but think that the shorter cranks than I'm used to made it feel a little odd turning the cranks over.
All I can suggest is go in, try one see if with a 410 seatpost it fits you or get hold of a second hand OO with carbon forks and upgraded wheels for the same money...... 😆

And if your still struggling....apply for a zero % credit card and buy one from GoOutdoors on the card 😆

How tall are you Suggsey?

6' 01" tall, 33" inside leg, long torso think honey monster 😆

It felt like I was riding my Cove Stiffee fitted with full suss....that's 17.5" frame, the Orange is an 18" frame, same with my old OO456 so I'm used to smaller frame/stretch and like the ability to crash with style without getting tangled in bike or my nuts crushed on the TT. 😆

All I can suggest is go in, try one see if with a 410 seatpost it fits you or get hold of a second hand OO with carbon forks and upgraded wheels for the same money......

Yeah 6' 4" you would be too cramped, even a layback seatpost and longer stem wouldn't work as it would upset the handling so much.
Keep searching, hope you manage to sort yourself a fatty without selling a body part. 😉

Thanks for the size info. Looks like it could be made to fit.

Gutted I let the extra 10% off code go now as I've not got a store near so would order online.

Unless someone knows of another?

After following this thread since it started, I'm off to go outdoors on Sunday...

There is one off them ending soon on ebay and an OO-Fatty with carbon fork too, a bargain to be had over the new price.

Webcode AUTUMN350 for £35 off.

Took my new calibre dune out for a first ride in the mud and rain yesterday. Got 10% off as 'display model.' I'm 5'5 and have a good stand over height. Reach is longer than I'm used to but might get a shorter stem. First ride on a fat bike - faster than I expected and shot over/through muddy sections ( think a few inches of wet clay with layers of wet leaves on top) which I normal struggle through or avoid. Interesting on the turns - it's going to take some getting used to, found it hard to weight the tyre expanse enough to really dig in and grip (leaves and mud make for a nice soft landing though)

Thanks for the thread - really helpful. I thought a one-size-fits-all bike would be too big but it's not.

Still grinning 🙂

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Yesterday's ride

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Innerleithen enduro and dh trails. The JJs gave up the ghost completely in the mud but still great fun and I don't think I'll ever get tired of the moment someone on a dh bike looks behind them and sees what's been chasing them... Belly's gonna get ya... It won't fit on the uplift trailer though 🙁

Needs more tyre.

Wait till you see the look on a roadies face when you pass them. Doesn't happen very often, but when it does 😈

Ground Control's on my Tusker, should be enuf! Nate's seem to be standard go to for winter.

Northwind...
All that mud at Innerleithen and I don't see a drop of mud on that yellow frame...
Maybe that's just the glow in the dark paint doing its magic and hiding it?

It actually does seem to shed mud well (and helicopter tape 🙁 ). Looked more like this at the bottom

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Just had an email confirmation that there's a large Dune in the design stages and planned to arrive early 2016- it'll still not be massive, fit up to 6'3 apparently though still subject to change. As long as it remains yellow as ****, it's all good.

I've just ridden one round the tent section at my nearest store. It's mad in a good way. Feels much lighter than I thought it would tbh.even at 5'9" I needed a longer post for an extra inch saddle height. I mentioned a display model discount but guy wasn't having it lol. Very impressed but I just don't know if I'd honestly use it mmm....

In case anyone's still looking, 80SPEND gets you 15% off. Or take this:
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/coupon-1?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12_11_15-15off-wsy80%20%281%29&utm_content=&spMailingID=12939080&spUserID=MjI0MTY1MTcyNDE4S0&spJobID=660817467&spReportId=NjYwODE3NDY3S0
To the shop

My bud arrived today. It's another entry in "fatbike things that make me laugh just looking at them".

Northwind - so refreshing to see a Fat being used and enjoyed!
That extra discount on top is flippin brilliant eh?

I've just had confirmation that Raw Tuskers will be back in stock March 2016 - so I either face a winter without my new obsession.. or I find something else.
wondering about buying another one in march and swapping the frame out when it arrives..

@ NW did you see the measurements I posted up on the 'other' fat bike thread?

I did. Closer to my crap measurements than I'd expected 😆 But cheers, I'm a numbers nerd so it's a good addition.

Cool.

I'm borrowing the Pug this weekend. Could get interesting!

Plus I've got 3 family members looking at the Dune longingly now!

Oops.... Just ordered a dune 😉

OK, I don't know how much tyre clearance you need around a Lou or Bud... Just tried my (used) Bud on the rear, it has about 5-6mm clearance all round at 9psi. At 30psi (bead seating) it has no clearance at all and jams against the top mudguard boss! Stretchy tyres. Oh and it will foul the granny ring if you stick with one, with 1x it's got maybe 6mm clearance to the chain. (you can, I'm sure, offset the BB a few mm to the right to win back space. I forgot to check but I'm still fairly convinced it has 170-spaced cranks.

So all pretty tight but would depend how much mud these tyres lift, I've no idea.

So would you still recommend the bike given the clearances or is it worth canceling order and getting either a voodoo when in stock or a used fatty??

[quote=firestarter ]So would you still recommend the bike given the clearances or is it worth canceling order and getting either a voodoo when in stock or a used fatty??
Will you get a Bud in either of those?

Those are stupendously big tyres, with stock or with any other 4 inch tyre it's got tons of clearance so definitely not a turnoff in general.

I'll do some messy rides with the bud and see how much mud it picks up and see how it looks. (there is [i]tons[/i] of room in the fork) If they hoover up mud like some tyres do, it's going to be pretty chafey. If they clear fast I reckon it's fine. There's more clearance than with my 26 inch thinbike.

I am btw just assuming that both tyres are the same size, maybe Lou has less tread height, I have no clue. OTOH, I don't know if I even want that much tyre on the back. I certainly don't want to spend £70 on a tyre for a while!

I gather you can fit a Lou into a Fatty but it's pretty tight. Don't know about the Voodoo. (I saw a comment that the Voodoo's not due back in stock til February now btw)

Actually I was thinking a bud was 4.0 buts it's 4.8 isn't it?

Aye.

Ah good that's fine then at 500 quid it's hard to say no. Despite my hankering for a marin pine mountain 1 650B+

I already have a fatbike and I'm building a B+ bike at the moment but a Dune at less than £500 looks like an absolute steal. I really, really, really can't justify it 🙂

That's what I thought tbh but I kept thinking it's only 750 for the marin and I'd have the extra cash by the time it's available.

I'm still wondering if for long days in the hills and bike packing even just the local loop a 650b+ may be more suitable than a full fat as I'll not use it on sand or snow tbh

Oh and it will be my only mtb