MacFatro - Fatbike news and builds thread

[velomaniac]

Kaiser, dear me, they say I'm a retro grouch and your advocating past history tech for a fatbike. Pugsleys are fine bikes but are not hugely inovative. Bring on Hydroformed alloy and carbon I say plus full sus fatbikes !!!
907 rocks by the way Keith

 

[The Ken]

The Borealis Carbon is pretty nice, so is the Carver Ti Beasty

 

[zigzag]

I'm probably waiting for the Chinese manufacturers to start knocking out $400 fat frames.

 

[keithyr]

lots of great info lads, cheers.

main decision is whether i sell/split the zaskar to help fund the fat as i prob wont ride it much,

 

[kaiser]

Not a retro grouch V, but I'm not sure what the 907 offers over the Pug in real terms? A bit of weight*? As for carbon I reckon its brilliant if its what your after, I'd say a carbon fat bike is quite a specific requirement all the same and probably out of Keith's budget. No at the moment I don't see much out there better than the Pug, especially the new ltd ed Special ops(or maybe the Genesis). After that I'd be looking at the Carver O Beast then something like that custom 44 bikes number.



* I appreciate me being so flippant with any kind of weight saving flies in the face of what I've been doing myself with bikes for a long time but really its not top of the agenda when I'm thinking about a fat bike.

 

[kaiser]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231133681883? ... 1423.l2649

 

[kaiser]

I'm probably waiting for the Chinese manufacturers to start knocking out $400 fat frames.

I've seen posts suggesting $800 for F+F. $120 for rims.

 

[The Ken]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Surly-Pugsley ... 1c3b5aa0c2

another 20 incher

I was only really mentioning things I'd see recently with the borealis, not aiming them at Keith - I also like this build of the Blue Mukluk....
http://forums.mtbr.com/fat-bikes/new-sa ... 98620.html

 

[velomaniac]

American firm of Framed is offering in the US home market a full aluminium framed fat bike called the Minnesota for sub $900. Looks pretty decent so next time your over ther on work, see if you could get one of those back in your luggage allowance ZZ
http://www.framedbikes.com/v2/minnesota2-wht-org.html

 

[The Ken]

way too expensive Velo http://www.amazon.com/Mongoose-Beast-Me ... s=fat+bike