This!
If your big wheels are so superior and faster, why do you have to modify (sanitize) all trails so that you can ride on them fast?
Dirt roadies!Is this the definitive death knell for 26" wheels?
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If your big wheels are so superior and faster, why do you have to modify (sanitize) all trails so that you can ride on them fast?
Dirt roadies!
My '07 Heckler is, of course, rolling on 26" wheels. When pigboy and I went to Sisters and Bend, OR last August we rented bikes which happened to be on 29" wheels, Specialized, I think, with their abominable thunky brain suspension. For the life of me I could not discern any difference. They had pedals. They moved from point A to point B. We had fun.
When the Heckler frame finally breaks, I guess I'll have to transition, probably to 27.5, and no crabon, TYVM.
When the Heckler frame finally breaks, I guess I'll have to transition, probably to 27.5, and no crabon, TYVM.
I see that around here too, but for a different reason.
While dirt roadies are creating lots of B lines, the blown out corners are being caused by people riding at speeds the trails weren't designed for.
New singletrack is remaining narrow but the stuff built 10+ years ago just can't support higher speeds and winds up getting blown out in the corners.
I asked myself a similar question all winter as the fatbike craze is seemingly swallowing the Pacific Northwest. Owners gush about how ". . . they'll go through anything!"This!
If your big wheels are so superior and faster, why do you have to modify (sanitize) all trails so that you can ride on them fast?
Yet, Nirvana for a winter fatbike rider around here is snow that has been buffed out for them with a trail groomer. Huh?
As all the major companies abandon their tooling for 26" parts, we can get it at a cut rate price
Wheel size specific trails? Give me a break. Seattle seems like it would be hipster HQ, doesnt count.
Not what I was saying. Now that noobs can go out and buy big wheeled plough bikes with meter wide bars, trails are being built to suit those bikes and the people who don't know how to ride them.
I asked myself a similar question all winter as the fatbike craze is seemingly swallowing the Pacific Northwest. Owners gush about how ". . . they'll go through anything!"
Yet, Nirvana for a winter fatbike rider around here is snow that has been buffed out for them with a trail groomer. Huh?
Even more comical, (to me, anyway) regarding the "they will go anywhere" comments they love to throw around - is the constant bitching about post-holing (hikers) and <gasp> skinny (normal mtb) tire tracks f-ing up "their" trails.
Fatties here are becoming quite obnoxious and aggressive. What pisses them off most is when you run circles around them on a skinny bike. Or when I kick their ass on my Walmart fat beach cruiser.Even more comical, (to me, anyway) regarding the "they will go anywhere" comments they love to throw around - is the constant bitching about post-holing (hikers) and <gasp> skinny (normal mtb) tire tracks f-ing up "their" trails.
I'm guessing that you haven't spent significant time on a fatbike. In deep snow, one is pretty dependent on snowshoers/hikers/skiers/grooming to provide a packed surface. The go through anything kicks in in some sand and mud conditions that a 2.3" tire can't go in or goes with inordinate difficulty and damage to trail tread. They'll also wallow over some boulder piles and logs that I can't manage on my Heckler, and on my own trails I have one very tight left hand ascending switchback that almost always causes me to stall on the Heckler, but the Moonlander galumphs around it without a pause. I have no idea why it's better on that turn, it just is.I asked myself a similar question all winter as the fatbike craze is seemingly swallowing the Pacific Northwest. Owners gush about how ". . . they'll go through anything!"
Yet, Nirvana for a winter fatbike rider around here is snow that has been buffed out for them with a trail groomer. Huh?
I dunno about second hand bike prices in the rest of the world, but when I looked at my bikes a year ago and realised that it was 27.5 for the future of downhill I decided they were worth f-all and would be worth half f-all in another year and decided to hold out for some gen2 27.5 bikes to come out.
Who really believes that they have nailed the geometry on these bikes as many manufacturers have rushed a 27.5 bike to market? I'm prepared to wager that half of them will get an upgrade in 2016.
Who really believes that they have nailed the geometry on these bikes as many manufacturers have rushed a 27.5 bike to market? I'm prepared to wager that half of them will get an upgrade in 2016.
Fuck you.
pfffft...29er woulda just rolled over that junk without a second thought.
I rented a pivot Mach 6 to ride on vacation and put electric tape over the 27.5 on the tires I was so embarrassed
for reals... isn't this thread like 6 mos old? is the forum software screwing up and just telling me all these posts are New?
pfffft...29er woulda just rolled over that junk without a second thought.
easier to just fill it all in smooth.
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Zamboni...
I haven't spent any time on a fatbike. I was merely pointing out that the owners of them are quick to brag at length about how invincible the things are; yet b**** if the snow is too deep...or too uneven...or too soggy.
Normal tires manual better.
Now it's science.
Now it's science.