thv3 - MemberNW- As the STW Dorc, how you getting on with the bud?
Only done a couple of quick rides with it... There's a vagueness about the handling that I don't really like though I haven't put my finger on what it is yet. Might just need more pressure playing. On dry stuff they don't have the immediacy and, I dunno, transparency of the JJs, I'm less sure of what the bike's doing. Though, that doesn't mean they're not working well, they're weirdly grippy as **** yet not that confidence inspiring, so far.
The grip in mud is just ridiculously better than the JJs though that's really to be expected. They do still float and go loosey on big wet mud patches though, which I guess is just inevitable with such a wide tyre.
More riding needed tbh. It's a bigger change from a normal tyre so could all be just getting my head round it. Obviously can't compare with other tyres!
I hope this doesn't come as a shock to anyone but the wheel bearings are GASH. Noticed a little play tonight, the brake side outer bearing was already nipping up. No dirt in it, it must just be soft as shite so no point adding grease or anything.
Nice simple hub to service though, you do need a 12mm allen key (or bodge alternative- 12mm nut frinstance and a spanner) but everything else is hammers. Very similiar to a Specialized Stout, from memory, 3 pawl freehub deal.
Cheers NW, that's really useful. Reckon I'll try a Nate.
This is probably fat bike sacrilege, but maybe a 4.8 is too fat for normal riding?
It's my quiet day for work and its raining a bit bit but sod it, I'm getting on the train and heading to Swinley with the Fatty. I can't stop riding it. Rides that were getting mundane on the Trigger are so much fun now I've gone fat. The best thing is the way everyone smiles when they see it.
It is just amazing fun.
My new Carbon Jekyll is looking a bit grumpy and unloved in the corner.
Dude, don't take anything away from my 2 rides! Not enough time on tyre for anything useful.
Was leaning towards the Nate anyway, like the look of the tread pattern for Scottish mud, of which there's always plenty!
Coastkid has been riding fatbikes for aaaages and long ago came to the conclusion that 5" was wider than optimum for almost all conditions.
Besides, look at the tread pattern of a Nate in snow or mud and it just makes you want to smile.
3.8 inches is wider than optimum for most conditions tbh. Optimum for most of us isn't the goal 😉
Coastkid is a legend. I remember his posts and videos alerting me to fat bikes way too long ago for me to only be acting now!
Got a call that my Pug is ready but I'm stuck in meetings till late so only can collect it tomorrow - feel my pain!!
I think most people's first meeting with fatbikes seems to be seeing them on the internet and going "woah, that's mad" and then lots of crap about only being for sand or snow or whatever. Mine was having coastkid turn up at a pentlands ride years back on I think his purple pugsley (I only remember the tyres and his awesome delft bashring) and just getting on with it 😆 First impressions count I guess.
Well the fat bike forum admin let me in. And if they let me in, they'll let anyone in!
I liberally applied electrical tape to the obvious candidates for cable rub before the first ride. I've now bought a sheet of 3m for 6 quid off eBay which be a fun way to spend an evening with a hairdryer to make it a somewhat more permanent barrier. Not doing the down-tube tho, can't be arsed to move all the cables.
There were about 3 people at the FoD when I unloaded mine off the trailer. One was the 'sand&snow' type, the others had a quick go and came back laughing. No one just walked by 😉
Oh reverbs are £160 on CRC at the moment. RH drop, 125mm, Just sayin!
Went and got some proper rides in yesterday.
Had to stop on a couple of descents as I was laughing too hard.
I'm loving this.
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Have you tried anymore tyres on the dune northwind? The jims were a bit slippy in heavy mud but I'm not sure about clearances
A bit more of a mud/all rounder seems to verify needed but jims will be great in summer. Front looks to have heaps of clearance but back not so much
Might just have to stick to floaters for financial reasons tho tbh
Got a call that my Pug is ready but I'm stuck in meetings till late so only can collect it tomorrow - feel my pain!!
If it makes you feel any better, you can feel [i]my[/i] pain: I've bought a rolling chassis, I've got a small pile of new bits in boxes to finish it waiting at home and I can't get at either of them for a MONTH! 😡
I'm feeling guilty now! Finished at 9.15pm last night so I'd have free time today 8)
I've just stopped for a bite to eat and a bit of STW. 20 miles covered so far and so many smiles. I love it!
What rolling chassis do you have to buold up?
Just had a lunch break go on a Dune, seriously impressive for less than £500. 150mm thru axle, 190mm rear & JJ's and a lot lighter than my fatty with carbon forks!
Mine was having coastkid turn up at a pentlands ride years back on I think his purple pugsley (I only remember the tyres and his awesome delft bashring) and just getting on with it 😆
Still have that delft bashring Northwind 😀
same frameset, was Thunderbird Grey, currantly black, needs to go flake metal Saltire blue with the orange graphics 🙂
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even one of the consultants had a go and said he'd buy one!
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i had a quick ride and although it's too small for me it felt great, sorted head angle, no self steer, bluto ready frame and hub, what's not to like?!
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1st time out in the snow on the Dune, was brilliant fun but not really sure just how hard I could push it. JJ's were ideal, although obviously didn't grip on the ice.
Think its going to be worth the asking price for snow rides alone, I'd always go out on my other bikes, but eventually the novelty always wore off. Don't think its going to happen on this 🙂
Just come back from Basingstoke branch to get a jacket and thought I would have a snoop. They didn't have any flouro ones on display, just a black one for £440 ! Wife went WTF. I thought about getting it off the stand although the shop is so tight with things, I could image the trail of destruction I could have left behind me on a spin round.
Had first ride out back on a non fat bike today........and I'm sort of sad to say that I really missed riding the dune.....my back was feeling hammered after an hour on the Cove Stiffee........although Strava says my speed was fast on a lot of sections on FTD/Monkey......
Oreet Chris, I got meself one of them Fatty trail jobbies today pal, its getting he maiden voyage in the morning 🙂 its the Fattest ive ever been, 😆
NormalMan, it's a Puffin. Could have done with it for yesterday's race!
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Course was well prepped though, and my points for 10th wouldn't have counted with tyres over 2", so it's all good!
How's the Pug?
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I need that. Chainring bigger than the wheels, it's the way forward.
Took the Dune out for the forfar funduro yesterday... Funny race- no practice then 2 laps of a pretty short route with a lot of toasting yourself by a bonfire inbetween. Sadly they didn't get any of the snow.
Lots of fairly flat trail centre hardpack which was just ridiculously hard work trying to keep the speed up, some squishy slippy offpiste, couple of short techier rockier sections... The night stages were a bit hair raising, I've not ridden at night for a while, turned out there's tons of stuff that's hard to see that upsets a fatbike a bit, hollows in the ground and that where it really gets the tyres bouncing if you hit them unexpectedly... But comically good at the nadgery offpiste where people were struggling to find lines, Bud don't need lines 😆 Good times. And I think I sold a marshall a Dune.
Oops, falkirk not forfar!
Mine's out at night, tonight, too - back to the FoD after jnr goes back to his mum's
I went out today with a mate ...me on my fatty and my mate on his 26 er canyon...about an hour into the ride we decided to swap bikes for a laugh......eeewww ....riding his 26er......it felt like a kids bike...but my mate loved the fatty.
So after 5 mins I had enough and grabbed my fatty back, much to his annoyance ...lol
I was blitzing him over headley around all the boggy trails......the fatty is king!!
And better still we rode up zig zag road ( boxhill) and I over took 3 people and one was a roadie...his face!!...all I can say is.......boo ya!!...fatbikes rule!!...ha ha ha
@ nedrapier - I'm loving the Pug. Will be out on it again tomorrow. It's always a bit hard to praise a bike early on as it just sounds like 'new bike love' however I do really like it. (Actually I love it!)
@ NW you should be on commission!!
My Fatty bit me yesterday when one of those fast moving trees darted out in front of me. But it is rapidly establishing it as my prime bike. My commute in a straight line is only 4.4 miles. I can easily do an off-road 6 mile route so that is ideal, and for the Ridgway around Didcot Mr Fatty is Mr Darcy.
Best move ever Tony! I expect a bit of a write up once you've stopped grinning like a kid!
Chris, its the maddest thing Ever pal!!! I absolutely love it! it is gonna take some getting used to tho, I haven't rode a hardtail never mind a Fatty hardtail for almost 15yrs, my technique is lets say (a little off) Lmao 😆
😆 have you mastered the undamped tyre rebound in drop offs yet? I was in our town early doors this morning and first three bikes I saw were fat bikes! All ridden by men of our age 😆
if im honest Chris, I haven't mastered a thing ... Yet 😆
i'll be doing lots of practice over the next few weeks tho so I can try n show off at the GFBD, Lol
is this Fatty thing an 'Our Age' thing then????
Could be.......it's a great excuse for me being slower on the climbs......if only for the fact that I'm actually faster on it 😆
its mad innit, they seem like they should be slow and draggy but they deffo get a move on, I did a 35 miler with over 3000ft of climbing on mine earlier and it was just as easy as riding me Nuke.
Missed you last night, I thought you'd had enough dragging it round the day stages. I'm blaming you for churning it all up between my day and night efforts.
I was anchored to the bonfire from the second I got back til my wave left 😆
(you beat me by 53 and 54 seconds btw. But I reckon I get 30 seconds off per wheel)
We saw the fire but figured we might not hear our wave being called from over there, especially after the farmer complained about the noise of the tannoy. I get a 30 sec bonus for remembering what my bike looks like so the original time still stands. And you a youngster.
Hi All,
I just wanted to say thank you for the posts on the Dune, I'm really glad that you've all got the point of the Dune. It was designed to be an affordable 2nd (or 3rd) bike and an entry into Fat Bikes, and if you like it then you can upgrade. So as some of you have seen, its Bluto compatible for no real extra cost other than the forks themselves, hydraulic disc brakes are cheap as chips these days and drive-chain can be changed 1x10 easily. It’s also true that a larger version will be in stores early next year – to be honest we were nervous on the Fat Bike so wanted to limit our risk, but the larger size was developed and even raced at Mountain Mayhem this year.
Cheers,
Mike (Calibre Bikes)
o/ Thanks for the bike!
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Not so much braaaap as buuurrrp but still
Yeah cheers Mike I love it fantastic value. The cx in store looked a proper bargain too even had wtb nano on 😉
Sounds like you should be happy with that one, Mike!
If it wasn't for the fact that the frame is too small for me I'd have bought one already.
Roll on the larger version.
calibrebikes - Member
It’s also true that a larger version will be in stores early next year
Hurry up & take my money will you!! 😆
