Are you fat? Do you like it? What would you do different next time?

[Beaver]

I agree, go fat, I'm glad I did.

I poached the ski hill last night, it was a fucking blast.

[sb]

Go fat, the versatility it adds is a bonus. You have pretty much the same outer diameter (sometimes larger) as the 29er but with the added rollover capacity of the wider footprint. Think of an old Willys Jeep with a 5.5" wide wheel and a 7" tire compared to a 8/10.5 more modern wheel/tire setup. You don't have to be as precise with your line choice and you have the added traction for off camber and cornering plus you run a lower pressure so the tire conforms to the surface irregularities better adding to rider confidence. You also have beach and winter options that are tough to impossible with a 2.5" or narrower tire. With most current fattys you can get a second set of wheels so you can run 29 x ~2.4 if you want a lighter trail option.

Yup, I keep a double set of wheels/tires for my Pugs. Winter and the summer sets with appropriate tire selections. Oh the phun you will have.

[assman]

Pretty much decided on this...subject to 2nd guessing and the next new shiny thing the pops up

http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/...s-x9-bluto.htm

[rip]

I snapped a motobecane bullit frame after one year. One the chainstay up near the cranks but they have a 6 yr warranty so I got it replaced. I swapped out basically everything, tires, pedals handlebar and stem. Really like wide oversized 35mm handlebars and a shorter stem to get some leverage on that monster tire

[sb]

Thats good to hear they took care of ya.

You will want to replace those stock tires with something better, Assman.

[strawjack]

Pretty much decided on this...subject to 2nd guessing and the next new shiny thing the pops up

http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/...s-x9-bluto.htm

Seems like a no brainer. Nice

[sb]

Went to the Dr and he said I waz fat and I said FKNAdood.

[rip]

a quick edit from some riding in Moab a few weeks ago. Anyone on here fatbike around moab? looking for someone either with some knowledge of more washes like this that would be fun to ride or wants to tag along on more exploratory missions.

moab fatbiking

[FatKidFromFL]

Thread: Are you fat? Do you like it? What would you do different next time?

Yes. No. Not eat so many Little Debbie snacks.

[lotsarocks]

We love ours. Set the whole family up with them. Awesome work out in the snow. Tons of fun on dry single track. Later this year we will try them out at the beach.

[sb]

doing sum grooming I sea

[lotsarocks]

doing sum grooming I sea

Mega workout. Next season I think I'll make a sled with some old skis and a cinderblock. Glad we got that quick storm, at least we were able to get a feel for the fatties on snow.

[TahoeBC]

This happened today

[gravitylover]

^ oh my...

[rip]

Rad.. I think I'm gonna take mine up on the ski hill tomorrow.

I ask the collective.... Is it lame to fat bike moguls?

[sb]

Hmmm, never tried Fat bike in moguls. Make sure you go to chair 6 and test this out.

[gravitylover]

And film it because I want to see you rip it and leave people standing there slack jawed at the awesomeness.

[Rokjoxx]

Hi, my name is Rokjox, and I am fat.

After several years of not quite holding the line, I have to tell you here that I am backsliding.

I am ashamed, but I will not quit riding. And y'all gonna be jealose on how I can milk a runout, I got MOMENTUM Momma. And it's kinda funny, I may lack a little stamina, but if'n I DO get up in the pegs, my cranks try hard to get out of the way, I got chain breaking torque for a little while. Whatch my rooster!

Next time, I learn about raising the stem on my bars, the lean built into a store bought cockpit is huge and will kill an old fat guy. No lies, I was getting used to flipping the entire system every other trail ride. Honestly, I was logging my airtime for use against a jumplog. I put the longest highest/tallest post headset my bikeshop had on their wall, and suddenly I am/was grounded again. Fatboys weight is reliably behind and above the center/gravity! AND He don't SUCK as bad! Set up fat people, you can't breathe with a factory headset! (...or fart. Thats not funny if youre fat.)

Fat is good, fat is fuel for biking under the right circumstances. Full tank. Old and fat is worse, but whose counting? Neither numbers never seem to go down. And if they do, you probibly have cancer or tuberculosis, Ben Button.

My wife kinda like me fat, takes some of the pressure off'n her, and keeps me from doing all I might do, were I not. I get less temptations, my standards are too high.

But understand, theres fat like me, but I ain't AMERICAN fat. I am not a high achiever. I saw a guy on a gator the other day, he sat in the back seat and sat his belly on the front. Throttle FULL AHEAAD Capt'n, picnic at the TOP!

I would have started carrying beer instead of water sooner, beer is more concentrated, biking is fueled by carbo-hydrates and what is that? Alcohol has a cooling effect as well, some carry high octane, but they have to carry extra water or similar, YMMV.

And I would have bought a bigger pack. First off, you are likely a few miles from someplace if you crash and burn, and you should be carrying basic 10 kind of supplys. You know, a tube or a roll of duct-tape, a first aid kit, water in some form, call for help phone or radio if you are alone. Bike wrench kit, pump, emergency overnight set of woolies tightly pressed into a bag. And room for a few addins -- coat/shell, wallet, pistol or two a few beers in cans or bottles, a small bino, headlamp or lite or both (they're small, how can you exist without a potential cave light?) hat fishing pole, you know, yor KIT.

Nobody but me and mine seem to have a kit anymore. Try walking out from some freak bashup with that bike wrapped around one leg; Natures own punji stick poking out of the other, 26 inches of road rash scattered about and after sunset without a moon; you are gonna want your kit... and a beer. Maybe a fire.

Past a certain age, thin is either bulimia, extreme poverty or meth.

Stay Phat my friends. Think of the alternative. You can be thin in the grave. Its teriffically slimming by most reports.

[ticketchecker]

[gravitylover]

That thing looks like fun. Too bad I don't work at a Trek shop anymore.

[ticketchecker]

Not sure what to make of 27.5 fat, will be glad to try one tho

[gravitylover]

I've seen a bunch of 27.5+ bikes the last two weeks and they look like they would be easy to ride hard. 27.5 fat should add the versatility that fatties are so good at and with the option of having a + wheelset make it a one bike quiver.

[rip]

Road trip took me through Nevada a couple weeks ago and came across this dune area off hwy 95. such a fun day and trip in general.. fatbiking dunes wasnt the expressed purpose but I managed to ride at Sand Mtn in Nevada, Big Dune(seen here) also in Nevada and at Coral Pink Dunes in southern UT. I'll write up more on these later.

[crashtestdummy]

Road trip took me through Nevada a couple weeks ago and came across this dune area off hwy 95. such a fun day and trip in general.. fatbiking dunes wasnt the expressed purpose but I managed to ride at Sand Mtn in Nevada, Big Dune(seen here) also in Nevada and at Coral Pink Dunes in southern UT. I'll write up more on these later.

Nice. I love riding in dunes. I've ridden Coral Pink a couple of times and also Sand Mountain, south of Hurricane, Utah. I found that wind blown, packed sand is great, but anything that has been rototilled by motorized use is almost unriddable, unless wet.

[rip]

It feels similar to skiing which is why I like it so much. Even from reading the wind and the sand. I agree anything tracked by anything pretty much sucks ass but steep soft wind deposit sand.. that shit is so fun! I was the only person at big dune and the wind was ripping so hard my tracks would be gone by the time I went up for another lap. Out of all the dune spots I have ridden that was the most fun by far. Sand mtn off hwy 50 was bigger and similar with coarser sand but gets a bit more ohv traffic.

Its interesting as well how the sand itself can ride so differently. At Coral pink the sand was so soft and fine I was running my tires about as low as possible. Even in Nevada I had them so low I was a little tentative to really open it up and rip down since I had them so soft. I have Nates on my bike now but I think something with a bigger volume would be better for sand so I could get the bigger footprint with a bit more air in the tire.the maxxis colossus looks like a good bet. Also curious to try a smoothy tire on the front.

Definitely can't wait to go back and ride them again. That may become an annual trip. Fat bike in Nevada out to ski the eastern Sierra and back each spring