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Anyone Ride Fat Bikes?

Feb. 2, 2013, noon
Heathen
Posts: 4084
Joined: Jan. 4, 2007

I have seen a lot of Fat Bikes ripping around my local trails and the web this winter. How many NSMBer's have Fat Bikes of have ridden one?
They seem like a fun bike to play in the snow with.
Come spring I am going to look for a cheap one for winter 2013.

NSMB Fatbike

is going big on a bike the only way to get you stoked on the sport? what happened to riding with your bros, travelling, and riding unique places, to get people stoked on riding?

fines are useless. there needs to be more punches to the throat.

Feb. 2, 2013, 12:32 p.m.
enduramil
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Joined: Aug. 14, 2005

http://www.on-one.co.uk/news/products/q/date/2013/01/31/fattycarbonio

www.thisiswhy.co.uk

www.teamnfi.blogspot.com/

Feb. 2, 2013, 12:45 p.m.
GladePlayboy
Posts: 2121
Joined: Nov. 6, 2005

Yep,

Here's mine..

Feb. 2, 2013, 1:17 p.m.
LostBoyScout
Posts: 946
Joined: Dec. 1, 2002

I've had a thing for fatbikes for years but don't own one because my practical side has always won out. Rode a Moonlander in Squamish, borrowed bike. Yet to get to ride one on snow or sand, though. Photo of me on it taken by Morgan on the Full Nelson opening party:

Feb. 2, 2013, 1:18 p.m.
Lorien
Posts: 424
Joined: Feb. 18, 2010

there's this guy, Mitchell Scott, who totally loves fat bikes. He just wrote a great article describing how much he loves them.
I haven't ever ridden one, but they look pretty rad to me.

Feb. 2, 2013, 1:53 p.m.
Heathen
Posts: 4084
Joined: Jan. 4, 2007

Yep,

Here's mine..

Where do you ride your Fat Bike?

is going big on a bike the only way to get you stoked on the sport? what happened to riding with your bros, travelling, and riding unique places, to get people stoked on riding?

fines are useless. there needs to be more punches to the throat.

Feb. 2, 2013, 1:56 p.m.
Heathen
Posts: 4084
Joined: Jan. 4, 2007

there's this guy, Mitchell Scott, who totally loves fat bikes. He just wrote a great article describing how much he loves them.
I haven't ever ridden one, but they look pretty rad to me.

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Top quality Pike bike publishing.

is going big on a bike the only way to get you stoked on the sport? what happened to riding with your bros, travelling, and riding unique places, to get people stoked on riding?

fines are useless. there needs to be more punches to the throat.

Feb. 2, 2013, 2:03 p.m.
GladePlayboy
Posts: 2121
Joined: Nov. 6, 2005

Where do you ride your Fat Bike?

Nelson/Castlegar area… same area that Mitchell Scott lives ironically. They are a lot of fun, but you can't ride them in the winter on singletrack like some people might believe. I ride mine primarily on logging roads and ATV/snowmobile trails that have been packed down a bit… once they get solid and you have a solid base you can ride these things in up to 6" of powder over top.

Feb. 2, 2013, 6:40 p.m.
CraigH
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Joined: Nov. 19, 2002

BikeCo in Pemberton has been posting pics and video of riding them up in Pemberton on their FB page.

Feb. 2, 2013, 7:49 p.m.
Feral
Posts: 3518
Joined: May 27, 2008

The boys at DCC in Cumberland love them. Haven't tried one yet but to me it looks like just another way to get out and have fun on two wheels.

Being cheap is OK. Being a clueless sanctimonious condescending douchebag is just Vlad's MO.

Feb. 2, 2013, 7:58 p.m.
pedalhound
pedalhound
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Joined: Nov. 19, 2002

They look like a TON of fun, I would love to ride one. I know at least one guy who rides his all year around here and he frikkin loves it.

Feb. 2, 2013, 8:03 p.m.
CraigH
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Joined: Nov. 19, 2002

andrew_r_mcintosh posted a video of him riding in Kelowna in the spring:

http://bb.nsmb.com/showthread.php?t=147589

Feb. 7, 2013, 11:38 a.m.
CraigH
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Joined: Nov. 19, 2002

patrolskid's ride report on one of the Pemberton BikeCo's demo bikes:
http://bb.nsmb.com/showpost.php?p=2724800[HTML_REMOVED]postcount=16

Feb. 7, 2013, 12:06 p.m.
DaveM
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Joined: Dec. 16, 2003

Brad from Taboo Cycles in Kamloops has been riding one all winter, I think they even had a fatbike race at Sunpeaks. Check his page out https://www.facebook.com/pages/Taboo-Cycles/245071101508?ref=ts[HTML_REMOVED]fref=ts

Feb. 7, 2013, 12:17 p.m.
Buster-Bluth
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Joined: Oct. 28, 2008

I would love to ride one of those along the beach from here to Mejico.
:idea:

Wrong. Always.

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