Motobecane 2016 NightTrain Bullet

Robson

Robson

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Anyone have this bike? What do you think? And please, do not tell me how bad Motobecane is:)
 
My buddy purchased the fantom 29er... i think, and it was a solid bike . He has no complaints
 
Fat bike curious are we.

Pretty sure you were in haters club not to long ago :)

Moto fat anything is heavy. By the time you swap everything you end up with a $2,000+ where you can get from shop. Resale is always better with a shop bike if that means anything.

Yes I recently bought a cheap b+ for my kid which is really one of there 170mm fatbikes yet I had all the matchy parts and built better cheaper wheels. That bike out of the box was close to 35# I got it closer to 28# but changed 90% of everything.
 
I have tried fat bike last weekend at Jorba fest and I'm not impressed at all...I don't think it's for me.
 
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As my fatty beer stem cap says
 
Robson said:
I have tried fat bike last weekend at Jorba fest and I'm not impressed at all...I don't think it's for me.
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It takes some time, it took months of snow riding until I made the switch full time. But your first impression is understandable.
 
Johnny Utah said:
It takes some time, it took months of snow riding until I made the switch full time. But your first impression is understandable.
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That's what my fat bikes friends told me but if I'm not impressed initially then I'm very sceptical.
 
Ok I will bite what did you demo?

I say because I rode a few and some were god awful.

4" or 5"

Rigid or bluto?
 
Flaubert said:
Non impressed ? Holy hell youre the first
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I took the Farley out for a demo at Jungle and wasn't too impressed either, so am I the second? I really think it was mostly due to the tires having tubes and running too high of a pressure though. I mean it wasn't all bad... the bike just plowed over boulders with almost no effort like if you just typed a cheat code into a video game. I think that if they were set up tubeless with much lower pressure, it wouldn't have been pinging me around as it was and I would have loved it.
 
Demo-ing a fatbike is hit or miss at best. Half a psi can have a huge impact on the "personality" of the bike. And don't get me started on tires. o_O That being said, even in perfect conditions it may not be right for you, and that's cool too. :cool:
 
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I took the Farley out for a demo at Jungle and wasn't too impressed either, so am I the second? I really think it was mostly due to the tires having tubes and running too high of a pressure though. I mean it wasn't all bad... the bike just plowed over boulders with almost no effort like if you just typed a cheat code into a video game. I think that if they were set up tubeless with much lower pressure, it wouldn't have been pinging me around as it was and I would have loved it.
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i guess that's why i loved the fatbike so much. it was already set up tubeless, it is a new class of cheating... i know... not fair...

edit- just to clarify, the bike is just a tool, its the user who makes it really work well...
 
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