Posted by: AndrewMajor
If I was going to guess I’d say most product managers don’t actually ride fat bikes and the ones that do are the in places where you can get away with anything for geo (see my repeated nudging of Trek for a modern Stache).
Where this is (attempting at) murdering Plus tires would can’t ride 2.5” rubber the same places as 5” rubber so fat bikes sort of persist.
I’d make an exception for the Blizzard line from Rocky though. That would be my starting point for a stock fatty.
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Where did you end up with your rig? Who did you get to build it? Pictures?!
Your post is such a tease!
In my experience there is so much traction volatility when fatbiking on snow and ice your speed needs to be capped. This does let a 69* HA work in some cases. As for 450mm reaches on XLs, I don’t know what to say…I suppose it’s a good way to move some 100mm stems.
I laughed when the Scott Big Jon started showing up as a 2021 model year in some shops. I’m pretty sure it was identical to the 2017 (latest model on the Scott website) except with an NX Eagle drivetrain. I hope the tires didn’t dry out in storage!
Good point about the Blizzard. Rocky is often “liberal” with their geometry tables, but it does look like they made something decent there.
My bike’s a Waltworks…I guess I don’t retain credit for posting about it on Disqus, do I?
