Are fatties taking over

[greencat]

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I suspect the cheaper ones will be used as the cheap beach cruiser bikes of around a decade(?) or so ago i.e. pedalling around for a hour or on a nice sunny day, then back on the car rack and home to be stored for most of the year. They'll be just fine for that.

They might even be helpful to drive some semblance of standards in this area. At the moment, the top end ones look too artisan for me. I don't want to be wedded to one company if something breaks/wears out.

I probably don't want to pay more than £500 for first one either so anything that builds the market can only be good.

 

[elPedro666]

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What we need are retro fat bikes.

Leave that with me...

 

[xerxes]

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What we need are retro fat bikes.

How about fat retro bikers.

 

[dyna-ti]

Local cheapo raleigh shop has them too.

Is nowhere sacred :shock:

 

[velomaniac]

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An early Surly Pugsley with canti brakes would be pretty close to 'retro'. They look and ride retro just with very fat baloon tyres. Only thing inovative with a fat bike is tyres and rims otherwise they are just old school rigid mtb's. Many owners are now retro fitting thumbshifters for gawds sake :facepalm:

 

[sancho]

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Many owners are now retro fitting thumbshifters for gawds sake :facepalm:

Thumbies, Sram 9.0 "composite" brakes, an Ultimate titanium post, and a med. cage M750 rear derailleur on mine (it had 8 speed Suntour thumbies, which worked great, but I didn't like the cassette options).

 

[Raging_Bulls]

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Thumbies, Sram 9.0 "composite" brakes, an Ultimate titanium post, and a med. cage M750 rear derailleur on mine (it had 8 speed Suntour thumbies, which worked great, but I didn't like the cassette options).

grr

I have a set of thumbies like those on order for months now (my LBS has a direct line with the Belgian Microshift distributor, but that doesn't seem to help much). Those damn fat bikes are using all of them. :evil: