Ride on your own for a bit,
You can ride then for yourself at your own pace and mood, gives you time to think about stuff and what you want out life,

If you want to stop to soak up a view, take a pic or just to have a breather then you can when you want,

Use your bike for A-B transport and throw in some off road, be it a detour on route to work, or to the shops after work,

Meeting some friends for a pint? take the bike and have some fun cycling there and home :-)

Cycling is an escape from the mundane things in life, and you will always feel better if you keep exercising by cycling than doing no exercise :-)

Surly KramPug 29+ :-)

S.U.W Portpatrick to Moffat, June 14 113 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

The Pugsley fatbike has been a lot of fun over the years, this wheel set raises the BB an inch, but only raises the BB a half inch with regular 29er tyres
1 bike-3 tyre size choices :wink:

Still riding the first generation fatbikes- 4″ Pugsleys and 5″ Moonlander,
If i was to start again it would be another steel frame, inline 170 rear, Bluto fork compatable for away from the coast, and fit 80mm rims with BFLs for the beach, and lastly fit the 29+ wheels. That would cover all my FAT wishlist :-)
Meanwhile i will keep bashing along on the oldies :D
Been out enjoying my old Pug on the local dry and dusty trails this now,

It is not better on these types of easy trails than my 29er with front suss fork, it is just a differant ride, but always fun and a giggle to ride :-)
as is my cx bike, and my fixie commuter, their all fun bikes :-)

Surly Cross-Check fixie, built for £140 :)
Only cause i was given my big bro`s 4 year old Pearson Touche fixie complete bike which was too small a 52cm frame, so i sold the frameset on eBay for £100 and scored the Surly frameset under a year old for £240,

27th May; midweek Cycle- 35 miler 031 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

24th May 074 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

24th May 063 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

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After the big vote in Scotland i guess we can cross over the border and go ride where we feel free? :D err do that anyway :lol:

He has done a 40 mile day on the Cheviots alongside his mum on a horse!, 35 with myself cycling!, hyper energy! :mrgreen:

Got a few i commute on,

A fixed Surly Cross-Check. Will get full mudguards for the winter

24th May 073 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

A Monster cross Woodchipper semi drop bar Karate Monkey 29er

11,5,14; A cycle to the shops 011 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

Also a 2013 Genesis CDF bargin £699 in Jan bike Co-op sales :-)

9th Jan; Genesis Cdf 13 046 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

Done a few skip progects over the years. Most recent this 1974 Dawes, not a Galaxy as first thought but a Shadow, still rides well with panniers loaded with shopping!,
My Daily commuter and a keeper. Needed new wheels/tyres, BB, bar tape and cables, Plasticoat paint job and £5 stickers off ebay but still built for £100 using up stuff lying around in the man cave :-)

5,4,13 001 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

1974 Dawes saved from scrap yard; commuter restored! 063 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

Tyre makes and pressures are more noticable than differant makes of fatbikes. I ride a 3,4 and 5″ fatbike and they all ride as differant as my 4″, 5″ and 6″ full suss bikes i once owned did.. :-)

They are not replacement MTBs as some owners say, but for alternative riding where a regular tyre shod MTB struggles to be rideable and fun, they come into their own :-)

29+ away from soft sand is the clear winner and a no brainer for non beach riders interested in low pressure low impact fatbikes for trails, I would choose the 29+ for trails anyday, they roll like hell and have loads of grip…
15th Jan; 2014 Bike line up 006 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

That filleting looks a lot healthier than the rust filleting of my old sea dog Pugsley :-)

Like too but around Duns this weekend for the Jim Clark Memorial Rally,
Maybe another time Peter :)

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FWIW, just like any other style of bike, not all fatbikes are the same. So, don’t expect a demo on one model to tell you all there is to know about fatbikes.

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kinda true, any of them will tell you though wether you like/want a 4″ tyre, heavier bike which in the right places is fun to ride or not :-)
Buy the cider and i can tke you out, 5″, reg 4″, and best for everywhere away from soft sand 29+ :-)

CRCKGGHSF5H for anyone else 10 days to use :-)

Great for showing off, useless for anything else, learn when your a teenager riding BMX then never stop :-)

Not as wet and miserable as some make out. Ridden most of the route in places over the years. Doing it in 2 weeks time, bike packing with the Hennessy Hammock. Will post up a link to the blog post of the entire ride.
29+ Surly KramPug (kind of a bastard Surly ECR) will be the ideal bike for the wet bits and rough gravel sections and grassy byways :wink:

Doing a wheelie down Quality Steet on the fatbike in North Berwick a few summers ago, showing off in front of loads of day visitors,

Finger slipped off the rear brake-down the road on my arse, ripped the arse out my new singletrack shorts too! and a skinned right elbow :oops:

Thankfully no camera filming or any mates to witness it! :mrgreen:

STW has woken up! :lol:

Been out for weeks! :-)

Pumpkin Pugsley! 002 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

Give up?

How would i get to work?

or to the shops or more important the pub?…

Have never ever trained, raced, Strava-stats etc… or used any type of motovation thing to cycle… no interest or motovtion needed…

Did the trail centre stuff and downhill etc…and just got tired of the same bland Forest Comission scenery, esp when the countrysides seen by country roads and trails is far more interesting, each to there own though…

Ride the bikes that suit where you live and not what magazines are being payed to tell you to ride and you will have a lot more fun :wink:

I fell ill 3 years ago, balance gone and all over the place for about 2 weeks, and was told i would likely develop MS, and maybe not walk etc, nevermind work and do stuff like cycling. Things never materialised from that MRI scan result over the following months and i thought all along **** that! i`m not stopping doing what i love doing!

You have one life, so go make the most of it!, there are many people who cannot…

Cycling for myself is A-B transport 90% of the time (I do drive but seldom), so just do hours and hours of cycling, i do not count it in distance-no interest really in that, but enjoy hours time involved with bicycles be it cycling or tinkering or stopped chatting to folk you meet out in the countryside who show interest in what your cycling and are also out enjoying what you are on foot :)

See you soon Dave if your back on dry land!,

rOcKeTdOg; i still love all my other bikes too!,
Ditto the attention seekers! i find it funny the quotes “i do not use any of my other bikes now i have gone fat” of some fatbike owners!,
They are fun but not better than a MTB for regular riding,
I prefer to ride my fatbikes where there is no one around and where i cannot go with a regular mtb or cx bike :-)

I’ve owned a couple a KM’s and a couple of Jones.
As great as the KM is for not a lot of money it’s not even a shadow on a jones*.

Well you would say that if you have spent a small fortune on one :D
I do not see anyone doing/riding anything on a Jones that you can ride on a Monkey, there is a limit to a rigid bike frame thats all i`m saying :-)

Borrowed a friends steel spaceframe SS with fat front for a week, Was impressed by the front end with Loop bars and spaceframe fork for tracking and holding a line in rutted singletrack ( I knew that already about the fork as i own a steel Truss fork that has been on fatbikes), But not that excited by the 29er rear, just did not match the front/ The bike would be better both 29er each end, or even better would be a Jones 29+
I thought the frame did nothing that special compared to my Karate Monkey frame at a quarter the price. infact i think the whippy Monkey is better, sorry to upset but i just do :oops: :-)

It still honked along for a Rigid bike on the local singletrack!

On One Fatty on Bike to Work scheme is half price of the basic Pugsley/Mukluk offerings, but they aint twice as good, though the Floater tyres are pretty useless on dry sand i found.
You really don`t want a carbon bike for beachriding, wait till you bin it on greasy rocks- least the shredded bits will float :lol:

Alloy will also corrode just as much as steel if untreated to salt water exposure, just look at stuff lying about on the coast to see that!,

Buy a cheap secondhand Pugsley then get a 29+ Rabbit hole wheel set, the Surly 29+ rims and tyres aint cheap but the rims have proved to be bombproof, get 2 bikes in one :wink:

Doh!! she says were going to Sherwood forest now! FFS :lol:
Thought The New Forest sounded a bit too far down south!,

So any cider around Sherwood? :mrgreen:

The older Shimano hubs were and are still good, i have them on commuter bikes and no idea when last serviced!. I guess as their made of decent materials and having replaceable cones is a neat feature- the ideal hubs to ride around the world esp in third world countries where you just need some grease for a quick relube service…

New Shimano XT and LX hubs are rubbish cheap crap IMO, compard to a Hope pro 2 which will see you across those 3rd world countries on your RTW ride without a service!,

Shimano rear hubs last 5 minutes on fatbikes on the coast with salt water exposure along with the Alfine 8spd IGH, probably the hardest enviroment as no hub was designed for salt water exposure,

Hope pro 2 i have used for 6 years now and 10,000 miles and just a yearly strip down and sevice and every 2 years a £25 bearing replacement. :-)

More coastal cycling, no high fives, nothing owned, or anyone said dude all day… we were just cycling 5+ hours :-)

12th April; Sat cycle 009 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

12th April; Sat cycle 016 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

12th April; Sat cycle 014 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

12th April; Sat cycle 027 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

12th April; Sat cycle 029 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

12th April; Sat cycle 030 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

12th April; Sat cycle 043 by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

Ain`t there woods near Wooler with man made trails?
Cannot remember the name…

Quite a few green lanes around the area, nothing hard but ideal if your cycling with family,
Also the North Sea Cycle route is from Bamburgh to Berwick which is often grass and easy but worth doing for the coastal scenery with an option to stop out on Holy island at low tide for some Mead :-)

Gave up on the binty nagging girlfriends who moaned about my bikes etc.. :lol:

Take the easy route and meet a Dutch girl :wink:
Born on a bike, my other half rides endurance horses and seems to have no fear on bikes, to the point i had to remind her to use brakes!,
Also Dutch as students were expert at cycling home drunk which comes in usefull when they move to the UK and get involved with the riff raff brigrade here, cough…

Did me proud last weekend while out drinking with the guys from Surly who came to Forth Fat, as Trevor said- shes a keeper! :D

Got long legs too… 8O

Tyres too skinny by at least 3″

And how long is that stem? :D :-)

Like this one Sanny? :-)

Salsa Bucksaw

Awaits the postman :-)

I need an 8spd Alfine Pug again, ace for long grass green lanes in summer…
And a SS pug for simplicity…
And a Steampunk ratrod pub pug for giggles…

:D

ace news Peter :-)

Picking one of these up end of the year… aye very addictive :wink:

Pumpkin theme :D

Needs the tyres too!

:-)

Forth Fat 14 Blog post

Waiting on pics uploading Peter :-) will post some up once done.
Was a great weekend and thanks to all that made it,
We were lucky with a gap gap in the weather-the rain returned today.
Loved getting the first UK ride on the ICT on Friday affy after Tyler built the bike up. Real nice handling, a Krampus on mega steroids :lol:
Was some wild nights in the boozers too! :mrgreen:

I got the same front end… here with 5″ fat, total stupidity :mrgreen:

Waiting on the 29+ rear diamond to make an appearance to put this onto, total stupidity indeed :D

:D

On a slightly off topic i met last week a woman farmer near Appin called Libby when my girlfriend did some equine dentistry on her horses. Anyways this lady happens to have ridden on horses with saddle bags dam near every drove road and historic highland crossing during the 70s and 80s!,
A wealth of imformation on routes we drunk coffee in a room of wall to wall maps and wall pictures of old routes she wih friends rode across.
Libby does not have a computer and as you can imagine i said to her that her journeys have to be documented online for future referance.

The afternoon after the other half had done here Dentistry work we cycled a Coffin road Libby showed me on her map that passed through her land down to Loch Etive not showen on the modern map i had with me, that was an ace ride-if a bit soggy in the down pour!
People like this when you meet them you are often in awe at their knowlage and should ask more about old routes,

Anyways if any of you guys want to chat with Libby about old Highland routes i could get a contact number :-)

Buy a fatbike and ride coastal stuff!, mud and gloop free-just a spray with a hose after wards. sandy trails and beaches are low maintenance offroad cycling despite the salt air and water with a bike prepped with copper grease and silicone spray, cable BB7 brakes and dry lube on a nickle chain :-)

I rode this in 1992 i think on a Honda XR 600r Enduro bike at 3am on a Sunday morning mid summer!. I have the pics somewhere to prove it but never scanned them to put online for fear of imprisonment :D

We realised that being no highland trains running at these hours meant open access for motorised 2 wheels :D

On another weekend up north we did a lot of the Mallaig line too,
Harry Potter we beat you to it :wink:

Most of my bikes are specced with the cheapest to buy steel Shimano HG50 9 spd cassettes, and Truvativ steel chain rings, a 3×9 set of these will cost under £30. Add a decent nickle Sram PC991 for £16 from CRC and your under £50 (tank full of petrol for a small car)
Your cassette/ chainrings will last easily 2 years or to 3 of these nickle coated chains if you use a dry lube – Squirt lube is what i use as it collects no crap and your nickle chain will not rust after washing. You often get sent some extra Squirt Lube if you order a few bottles.

GT85 will indeed also work fine with this set up and smells nice too :-)