Can you not make it Steve?, be great to see you :-)

Aye heading down with Jason on the Friday :-)
Dogs welcome too :wink:
Even haterz too :D

Its magnetic, so its real :-)

I’d think twice about putting it up here

Were ok, everyone else around here plays golf :mrgreen:

There had always been a narrow vague footpath along here above the coast but it was a struggle to even walk it with out ducking under low branches, wading through brambles and walking over a crumbled wall.
About 7 years a go i started to “tweak” the trail cutting back low branches, shrubbery, and moving the trail in a couple of places around and over roots and through the WW2 Anti invasion tank blocks.
I even using the crumbling wall as a feature – which revealed a crucifix carved on a sone, wonder who and when did that?… quiet a lot of churchy stuff around here with St Baldred and Whitekirk nearby – the seat of Scotlands oldest church…
Anyway here is what we call the Secret trail, secret because the start/finish is often missed by visitors to Tyninghame coast who walk straight down onto the beach…

It is at 4mins 20 secs on the film.

2 Geocach sites at either end has transformed it to a well walked path now and it is better for it but still techy in places and your doing well to ride it without footing. Being sand based it is rideable year round and ace at night too :-)

Don`t need a fatty bike to ride it, i was heading to the dunes after :wink:

And in the opposite direction
:-)

I do not premote my fatbikes as great xc bikes, they are good with their grip on roots and loose rocks, and their go anywheare ability but my fat rim 29er is better for regular road/ trail riding and climbing with its weight/roll esp now with these Gato tyres fitted running at 20 psi…
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Harvest cycle, North Berwick 023[/url] by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

Sadly the fatty scene has become marketed now like the rest of the MTB scene and at the end of the day a 3.7″ tyre drags more than any 2.35″ tyre set up 26″ or 29″ due to its contact area on tarmac and dry trails…

Horses for courses and take them to the right areas and they are ace :-)
For me thats the beach…

The pugsley is a great example of a frame set made well from day one…
despite all the latest new “must have” fatbikes it still does whats written on the box and rides closest to a regular MTB – if you could call a ridged 29er that, I have the Karate Monkey and both bikes fit like a a glove :-)

Now a Reynolds 831 inline fat bike frame (170mm Hope rear hub :wink: ) capable of a 80mm rim with 3.7″ tyre and a 135mm hub front fork ala Moonlander with clearance for the 4,7″ BFL tyre would be nice… :-)

Er… Genesis is it true your building a fatty bike? :-)

29 miles on the fatty bike tonight, trails to the coast and back, sandblasted on beach then through the sandy pine woods after sunset.. Our Wood Troll is still there :-)

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Midweek cycle 023[/url] by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

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Midweek cycle 034[/url] by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

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Midweek cycle 047[/url] by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

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The Glenmorangie never froze though at -18C, not cheap anti freeze even when on offer at Tesco… :wink:

Zombies?

EIN ZWEI DIE! :evil:

4 pairs of Superstar Nano pedals on bikes and a pair has done nearly 2 years riding on the beach with a few submersions in salf water and still fine so can vouch for them being well sealed :-)

Saturday to the beach with a good friend for good banter, scenery and coffee and cake :-)
Saturday half day ride…

Easy 3 hours on a Sunday morning… :-)

Easy on a Sunday Morning…

Back to the snow question,
Only if its the right type, lucky enough to have mine during the two coldest winters since Mammoths were wandering about…
I had a great time riding what really should not be possible, dry snow i could ride until the BB grounded as pedals punched through the snow – but it was still hard work and i was roasting even at -18C :D

Wet snow at milder times it was useless and my regular bikes were better,

Amazing grip on ice for non studded due to the contact area :-)

On the ungritted snowploughed roads it rolled faster than on tarmac, must have been less friction, i did 50 mile loops from home up into the hills on car free roads and it was amazing…

I am no snow riding expert and you need Shaggy and co who have ridden abroad to comment on what these bikes can do in the countries where they were desgined, i wouldnt hold out for another ice age UK winter to get one, may be a while… :-)

My bike iced up at -18C while i stopped at a friends house up in local hills for a warming brew, he said i was a nutter for being up there in those conditions… :mrgreen:
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Some snow films i did…

Never forget this!, coldest commute ever done, It was -10C when i left home but time i got to work it was baltic and it was -18C at work by 8am 8O
Winter commute at -18C [/url]

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Commuting home on ice
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I meant to do it last winter on winter weeks hols using the fatty bike (wetness problem solved) and bothys with a B&B in Lauder the last night (cold/wetness/no midge being winter option) but never got around to it.
Maybe this winter…

Did it all in 1992 getting train to Stranraer from Edinburgh on a hard as hell Cannondale with 1.9 tyres and it was miserable :lol:
soft trails, midges,poured with rain between the Midge sortes, overloaded bike with camping gear… it took 6 hard days… i was knackered, stinking, and unwashed… amazing weeks cycling :mrgreen:

Proper mountainbiking! :D

These films are in East Lothain, 30 mins drive east of Edinburgh :-)

The blocks were indeed part of the “Coastal Crust” Anti Invasion defence network constructed in 1940 when Ze Germans wanted to come here on their summer holiday and stay… for good :mrgreen:

Anti tank blocks, minefields, Machine Gun Pill Boxes, and very nasty things called “Flame Fourgase” traps were all along the coastline.
Anti glider poles were across flat sand beaches, constructed in their thousands on the east coast of the UK…

A 2nd strenghening of defences were added in 1942, German POWs were used as well as the REME and Irish navies :-)

POW under armed gaurd on the Gullane road…
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Some blocks have dates on them…
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There is loads of WW2 stuff to see around here, inc remains of Airfields and a couple of ROC Cold War Bunkers :wink:

Loads of live fire ranges where 20mm spent Hispano shells can be found with the metal detector. luckily all fired

I have this Nazi spoon that my dad found out by those blocks at Aberlady 8O
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2nd film is below the Nature Reserve Loop :-)

Here is some of your suggested loop :-)

Heres an SD Tachyon camera film riding along dune tops, a bit long but around 5mins 15 secs riding real soft stuff in places…

And HD film…

Roadtrip! :D

That should be the best film to go see since Klunkerz :-)

FFF :mrgreen:

stevenmenmuir – Member
Nobody has mentioned the real reason Coastkid has a Pug, cider storage. He gets about six pints in each tyre, hence the reason he had to get the Moonbuggy, to get up to 15 pints total. You have to be pretty skillful to keep it in a straight line after all that as well, that’s why he likes the beach so much.

Damn, been rumbled… :mrgreen:

Good fun on the soft stuff and dunes :-)

Yep me too, they are very slimming :D

Aye… on ANY BIKES :D

And still friends with GW on facebook :o

:lol:

I also ride downhill, xc, a bit road, commute and too the pub, thats pretty varied :D

Rik – Member
So, Fatty Bikes…
Are for people who can’t ride proper bikes fast…….

Yet so often i am waiting on regular bikes to catch up when on my “weighs a ton” pugsley… :lol:

Come out with some of us for a ride sometime in East Lothian if you think there slow :wink:

I love how people judge things they have never done or experienced :roll: :lol:

Used to get this on a trail after thinning out left a few big logs which someone kept dragging onto the trail.
Do not have to be going that fast to get caught out by a log dragged across a trail. Contacted the council after an over the bars moment and nothing was done so took the chainsaw in the BOB trailer and cut them up, got some fire wood and problem sorted :mrgreen:

A mate said “what if someone came along when you were sawing?”
Would you argue with an angry person yielding a chainsaw? :D

Buy a fat bike… cruise to work during the week, do not worry about tramline ruts, potholes, taxies, people, roadies etc.. just roll right over them all with a big grin :mrgreen:

Then head east on the train with bike at the weekend and cruise the coastline in East Lothian… :-)

Not many fat lovers on here, plenty septics – i mean sceptics and haterz and doubters :mrgreen:
and also loads that dont ride much but pass judgement – let them be the mould on the bread… do what YOU want and ride what you want. :wink:
If i lived up town in Edinburgh i would deft ride my pugsley every day as some of the roads are not smooth at all in at the side, never mind the tramlines…

Oh here are some links; :-)

USA (world wide imput) MTBR Fatbike Forum[/url]

UK Facebook page; UK Fatbikes [/url]

proof they are fun… http://coastkid.blogspot.co.uk/%5B/url%5D

Its Martin Campoy, from Spain :-)

Nice guy and he is crazy too! :D

Briefly ridden a Ti Sandman with same spec and is a lovely bike :-) “Sports Fat” :mrgreen:

Sounds like a plan Paul…
Will be in touch… :-)

All filmed on a Go pro, R4 setting as usual. Chest cam and using a tripod wih a flat adheasive mount on top for ride by shots :-)

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At 74 KG your quite lightweight compared to most 40+ years of age owners of drunken (er i mean athletic )fattie owners :-)

The rim width is what makes all tyres fat in air volume and gives them the low presure they then need to ride right.
When on a rim wider than normal they do not ride like a normal MTB but in diferent ways do a different job – which is grip and also a bit act as suspension through the low tyre pressure…

Fatbikes are not better than regular MTB`s with wideish rims and max available wide MTB tyres and possible tyre clearance,
When it comes to forward movement through the right suitable conditions
until you ride them side by side in the conditions they suit – which is soft/slippy/rooty/slimey rocks etc where then the huge footprint gives enough grip to maintain forward traction then the bigger and heavier rims and tyres of a fatbike will make sense :-)

My home Town of North Berwick has 6 cafes, all with cake like this :mrgreen:

Aye it is, usually has rocket fuel in it too :-)

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Only 41… :wink:
STX front mechs on 2 old Cannondales, still sweet, Atlas mech on another old banger,
Even older than shimano – full Suntour groupset on a 1985 Muddy Fox Courier! :-)

Alfine aye – but struggle to a get a decent low 1st gear with that bigger than regular 29er diameter, though do-able :-)

The thing that is not clear yet is if there is a clear chainline for a granny ring, maybe with a MWOD type chainset but probably would give a very poor chainline.
Scotland with no Granny ring is a big no no… :(

The rims will go down a treat for many different progects and ideas as lot lighter than Trials rims :-)

There is a FB page already for the bike :-)

Surly Krampus 29″+