Let's see your Fat bikes….

bazza17 – Member
Can these bikes go on Thule 591 roof carriers of are they too FAT..?

Work fine, you just need to use bungees on the wheels as the normal straps aren’t big enough:

My Nate’s just arrived. They’re HUUUUUGGGGEEE!!!! 😀

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Surly Nate[/url] by GavinBelton[/url], on Flickr

Cheers CTBM!

Coastkid, loved the Cheviot video. Made me very homesick indeed. I think one of these bikes would make year round Cheviot rides far more practical. Not that I have ever ridden one I just imagine the times I have had the front front wheel sinking in bogs.

Swavis – Is your work just an extension of the bike shed? 🙂

Fattys are easy to transport on the roof, I use an old rear wheel for mounting onto any rack. Simples.

motorman – Member
Swavis – Is your work just an extension of the bike shed?

What makes you say that? 😉

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On One Scandal[/url] by GavinBelton[/url], on Flickr

Luckily I have an understanding boss.

uphillcursing – Member
Coastkid, loved the Cheviot video. Made me very homesick indeed. I think one of these bikes would make year round Cheviot rides far more practical. Not that I have ever ridden one I just imagine the times I have had the front front wheel sinking in bogs.

As first few seconds here shows sometimes even a fat bike won`t help you on the Cheviots

I had my first proper outing on my 9:ZERO:7 this morning and found that it was as easy to pedal around my local hills as any of the other bikes I’ve owned from a Scott Scale to the 6″ travel bikes I’ve had in the past.

I agree with coastkid, weight doesn’t play as big a part as people sometimes think, geometry plays a bigger part. Sorry for possibly stating the obvious.

I found myself pushing hard on the pedals at first, thinking it would be a slog to get going but was surprised when the bike just lifted off. The loose climbs I rode were taken in its stride and the downhills seemed fine although I decided to take it easy as the bike is quite different to navigate from previous bikes. Obviously turning those large wheels requires a different technique which I’ll get to grips with with experience.

I’m not certain of the weight but at a guess, maybe 35lbs-ish?

Here’s some pics:

Nice 🙂

9zero7 need a UK distributer!

Mate Si texted me today to say he has got a domain name secure for a UK Fatbike website!. It will be up and running hopefully next week.
Been chatting with him a few days about this. Seeing as things are going to get real popular soon what with the new found interest in the xc riding side of things and Surly Krampus 29= 3″ coming soon it would be good to get it all under one roof as some folk do not use Facebook and Singletrack forum or MTBR fatbike forum. Often posts dissapear off the front quickly on many sites.

So, a hub for UK fatbike owners with threads for all our types of riding.

A forum only viewable by accepted folk so it does not run into a mass of pages.
We can use it to organise the Gatherings, bivvi weekends, day rides etc…
Also be sticky (fixed) threads for all our UK riding;
xc, beach,snow (prey again!), racing, builds threads, a What part threads for new builds etc, fat curious folk, Ride report thread, swap/sell thread etc…
Be what we make it…. -:)
let you know when its up and running…

This thread has started to get me thinking Fat….one more question (forgive me if it has been covered before).
What about sticky mud sticking to tyres, mud clearance and the uber weight of a 3″tyre pastered in mud….

are you saying my nice new 29er was a waste of money? I’ve been out-niched?

bugger

The extra weight gives you stronger legs. 😉

That’ll be an interesting one. Prior to the Husker Du and Nate the tyres didn’t have a great depth of tread so tended to “float over” rather than “drag through” mud. That’s not to say that some specific consistencies of mud aren’t so sticky that they’d even adhere to teflon-coated tyres 🙂

Mud clearance on the mainstream models isn’t so bad, although certain combinations of tyre/rim and gearing can result in the chain cleaning the driveside of the tyre.

The Krampus (29er fattie) looks to be severely compromised regarding mud clearance (i.e. there is none). I guess the designers didn’t consider it a requirement 🙄

Druid, Surly have addressed the issue and the production Krampus has a lot more clearance than the samples you might have seen.

I put my Nate on my Jones today (mud everywhere 🙁 ) – I actually thought it looked quite small compared to a Big Fat Larry 😀 !! – I managed to loose the front wheel on some slick chalk today – so there are some situations where a Nate will loose it!

Anyway, they sound ace. I’d love to try one. Anyone have one in the South West / near Dartmoor? I’m thinking they’d make mince meet of grassy/slightly boggy moortops and loose rocky descents…

Oh good. I reckon that a sorted Krampus could be a “beast” for lots of UK riding 🙂

I agree. Was surprised how nimble it was.

I’m working on 907 at the minute – couldn’t afford to do it before, but…

julioflo
Anyone have one in the South West / near Dartmoor? I’m thinking they’d make mince meet of grassy/slightly boggy moortops and loose rocky descents…

I’ve not seen one down here, but I have seen fatbike tracks on the Southern moor in the past (up near Redlake) … might have been a migrant tho’. 😉

My Swift has 30mm rims and 2.4’s on it, which give me just a hint of what full fat-biking could be like, and … (dodgy I know, but) extending the way he rides, I’d expect boggy moors and loose rocky [rotting granite] descents would be fine. 🙂

I’ve definitely got one on my shopping list – just got to decide which one!

Stanfree, your right about The Yak. He seems to offend nearly everyone he comes in contact with. If he wasn’t such an unbelievably awesome rider I don’t think anyone would tolerate him at all.

Some more films for the “fat for xc” curious 🙂

Sadly not mine, but I fell in love with this at the NEC…

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Currently running a 2.4 EVO Racing Ralph on the back of it & loving the way it feels at a lower pressure.

“it” being a Niner by the way.

Mate Si texted me today to say he has got a domain name secure for a UK Fatbike website!. It will be up and running hopefully next week.

Sounds good, I’ll keep my eyes peeled for it!

I’ve not seen one down here, but I have seen fatbike tracks on the Southern moor in the past (up near Redlake) … might have been a migrant tho’

I thought I’d seen fatbike spoor in the woods outside Bovey last year, turned out that it was a young disabled kid on an oversized tricycle..

Woot! 9:ZERO:7 frames are on the way 🙂

That new frame looks fantastic!!!

Nooooo. £?

Tim – gonna get some hangers and stuff too?

I’ve received my frame and forks and I’ve got got my front wheel built and trued. Just need my toobs and new cables to show up then get the rear wheel parts ordered next week and I should be good to go! 😀

I’ll be getting frames, hangers, forks and probably hubs. No idea of prices yet until stuff lands and I can do the sums. I’ll chuck ’em on the website once I have prices.

That’s like mine.
Pros: low top tube means load of ball clearance for the short-arses.
Cons: low top tube means frame bags are restricted in capacity 🙂

Liking this thread…….must resist 😈

Can you put a Rohloff hub in one of these frames?…….hope its a no then I can stop looking at buying one.

If it’s an offset (135mm) frame, then yes you can. Pugsleys have horizontal dropouts. 9:ZERO:7s are available with slidey dropouts.

http://9zero7bikes.com/9zero7-sliding-rear-dropout/

I had an Alfine in my 9:ZERO:7 with a Phil Woods Philcentric EBB.

Can you put a Rohloff hub in one of these frames?…….hope its a no then I can stop looking at buying one.

Yes – the Pugsley I put a pic up of was a Rohloff one I built…

Oh no. Been reading all about the Krampus. It makes the decision about “which 29er” much easier. Forget it, get a Krampus instead. End of. Saving has officially started.

Some frames have 135 dropouts and require an offset wheel, but they’re easy enough to build. If the frame has 170mm dropouts, then you can’t fit a Rohloff or Alfine without an adapter of some sort. I’ve only ever seen Salsa 170-135 adapters, no idea if they work well or not.

IIRC the problem with those adapters is that you still use a skewer suitable for a 170mm rear end. That means you can use your favourite standard MTB rear hub, but you’d need to somehow get a replacement Rohloff/Alfine axle. That’s a fundamental part of those hubs and so this is very unlikely.

They would work with a Rohloff (theoretically), but not Alfine.
I’d go 135 offset and it’ll all just work 🙂

I really could do with trying one out, before I make room for one.