The trails here have mechanized single track grooming now. Pretty cool device. I really need to get out.
Fat bike babble
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much, if not most, new england single track doesn't lend itself to this kind of treatment thankfully, so many fat riders hit rail trails or snowmobile / xc ski trails. new user group conflicts hurray!
Sq-earl had a framed before his mukluk. Decent bike for the $...heavy, but functioned well and it's 2nd owner is enjoying it as well!
That is where I plan on riding mine the most. I only ride the local club trails in my town and the surronding ones. They don't have the sled traffic of the major snowmobiling hot spots around the state. I also consider myself a guest on their trails and stop and get out their way. You can hear them coming quite from far away.
What is the hardest part about fatbiking?
Realizing that your roller blading brother is now your parents favorite.
Realizing that your roller blading brother is now your parents favorite.
yeah, we have it pretty good here. There's two main riding areas. One's a city-owned park, and the fat bikers flock to it like fat kids on cake. they'll go and snowshoe it to pack it down.
The other area is a Federal park that juts down into the city, and has hundreds of miles of xc ski trails, much of it groomed, and dozens of miles of snowshoe trails. They're "pilot-testing" letting fatbikes ride on certain snowshoe trails. Last year was a pretty small figure 8 loop that probably took about an hour to an hour and a half to complete. This year they've added another couple of loops at the North end of the park. Hopefully, within a few years they will open all snowshoe trails to fat bikers... that would be amazing. There's also all the unofficial trails that locals ski/snowshoe/ride/dog walk, so all in all, there's at least a half dozen trails/areas that we can ride. It's pretty good, and it's no surprise it's taking off here.
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Yes.
Under real news, thinking about putting a Bluto on the Moonlander, will require re-lacing wheel with a wider hub.
SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE
Yes-ish. This is "as rad as it gets on a fat bike". I find it painful to watch despite Aaron Chase and my neck of the woods bike park. He would slay that on a real bike. 3+ slow-mo repetitions of each move aren't helping either.
Bluto has a tapered steerer tube, so I need other options...
Or it's new bike time...
Or it's new bike time...
Fucking tapered steerers. 
RST Renegade?
Have you considered Ruxx?
Have you considered Ruxx?
Do they make a SuperBoostDeluxx Ruxx?
Or fabricate a replacement head tube...
Drill it out.
Naw, drive a tapered mandrel into it.
1" steered with a few turns of Teflon tape. Use the good pink stuff, don't half-ass it.
I'm probably going to give up on the idea because it has rapidly become complicated, unpredictable, and expensive.
The Moonlander does well for what I use it for, notably including both general riding and pulling the Bob trailer for trail maintenance work and other things, and I'm not at the point at which I'm ready to buy a new bike.
The Moonlander does well for what I use it for, notably including both general riding and pulling the Bob trailer for trail maintenance work and other things, and I'm not at the point at which I'm ready to buy a new bike.
@johnbryanpeters - angle grinder.
also, that aaron chase vid had better have been a joke. he was on dirt 90% of the time and there's not a single stretch of trail most people would have thought twice about riding on their normal bikes.
fat bikes are all well and good if you want to go on an xc ride and live where there's consistent snow coverage. otherwise...WHY?
also, that aaron chase vid had better have been a joke. he was on dirt 90% of the time and there's not a single stretch of trail most people would have thought twice about riding on their normal bikes.
fat bikes are all well and good if you want to go on an xc ride and live where there's consistent snow coverage. otherwise...WHY?
Lots of fat haters here, and I agree that 90% of fatbike riders are pretty stupid, but having ridden with @w00dy in the snow on his very fancy bucksaw, the most eye-opening thing about fatbikes was that a good one allows you to ride like there's no snow on the ground. Yeah, most riders will ride them in the summer time like a J/A, but to be able to take turns on frozen hardpack snow without slowing down and without risk of slipping out in the corners was absolutely awesome. I just don't know that you can get that on regular tires. Most people don't need 5" buds and lous to get decent winter traction, but a more modest fatbike tire on a nice hardtail would keep you shredding all winter, not just riding along.
Not in eastern Mass tho. Studs >> fat here.
@w00dy's in eastern Mass... try it before you judge it.
this was at russel mill. studs don't do much on rocks, fat rubber helps though!
Does suspension do fuck-all on a fat bike?
The options seem so primitive and the riding so tame.
Serious question.
The short answer's yes, @w00dy could speak to it better than I can.