Fat Bikes / Fatbikes

Fair enough... I can see how 3 or 4 times a year (maybe 3 times in the snow and once when the mud is ridiculous) it might be an absolute blast... but (thank god!) I really don't need to get myself one. I have a reasonably wide variety of bikes and adding another to the list is probably a bit much.

Funnily enough when I posted last night I had just been playing around with one of my bikes... 9 speed charge blender, wide range at the rear, small chainring, front sus, and 2.4 wide holy rollers on it. That bike is probably not a million miles from a fat bike in many ways (slow, not very nimble, relatively good at low speed and on snow and mud and down steps)... perhaps I should understand the appeal when I have a 26"er MTB that is not a million miles from a fat bike. On the other hand I am seriously considering flogging the blender in part because it is just too heavy to be fun (partly the frame, partly the build)... which suggest my gut feel 'a fat bike is not for me' might be right.

I quite enjoy my near fat cruiser cargo bike too. 3" hookworms on 47mm wide rims. It just rolls.

Fatbikes are all about getting epic traction, and float on soft stuff. Mine should go down hill well too. Its my only offroader with sus, or gears. Thats why I went with a more 'hardtail' style geometry. With lightweight tyres in the summer at higher PSI. It wont be that sluggish a t all.

I rode my 29er the other day, which is set up to be stiff and light, and if was a real blast. I enjoy both.

When the snow comes back I'll be going on 2 hour rides at slow speeds, just getting out and about. It'll lovely.