Fat Bike PORN.

Steve Vai

Steve Vai

Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Hello fellow fatties. I'm gonna start a thread to post fatty porn. Post your pimp.

Here's the new Paul fat rear hub. As you'd expect from Paul, it is a top notch piece.

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9:ZERO:7 with a lefty conversion.

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While not fat bike specific, finding a WIDE, lightweight carbon flat bar is pretty hard to do. Now Thomson has one!! I had this bar on ItemWatch for some insane amount of time, well worth the wait. I dropped nearly 200 grams off my bike :D

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-Jim.
 
How wide are those bars? Love Paul components quality. Is suspension really worth it on a fatty, as a rigid rider now I don't see a benefit here except extra weight.
 
730mm wide. Beast mode.

Some guys like a suspension fork. Some guys don't. I prefer the feel of the rigid as it balances out the wide tire and allows the bike to turn faster. And of course it shaves like 4 pounds off the bike. Which helps.

-Jim.
 
gtluke said:
what the poop, my 2.3 tire rubs on my lefty if I really rail on it.
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There's a company that makes custom clamps to space the fork out far enough to clear a fat tire. Even with that you need to dish the wheel pretty far to the non-drive side to have any wiggle room. I thought it was sketchy close at first but then I measured the stock Cannondales we have on the floor and it's the same spacing.

-Jim.
 
Ah, I thought it was a carbon lefty cause mine has that same paint scheme. You can't change the clamps on the carbon ones, or the new aluminum ones i think.
 
Well, not officially.

We have a bunch of the old Leftys sitting at the shop waiting for clamps. One of them I'm going to take apart and shorten the travel to make it not as suspensiony. Also a plus on the old ones, you can lower the clamps enough to get the fork to sit at a normal height. Or, like in the OG days, you can run your stem in between the clamps.

-Jim.
 
Shakedown on the Beargrease today.. Yeah , I am hooked.

Although I need to ride a krampus.
 

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Sick son!! Now you gotta get that thing out in the rocks so you can see what it'll really do :D

-Jim.
 
jdog said:
Shakedown on the Beargrease today.. Yeah , I am hooked.

Although I need to ride a krampus.
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Hey was that you at 6M this morning? I thought you looked familiar after we passed. Made my debut (partial) ride on the blue section. Had a great time - nice features - but didn't know what some of them were. For example, I thought those series of 4 wood platforms were jumps so I figured I better go around. WHen I flew over the handle bars and landed on my back, I realized there is no go around! I'll get the hang of it - the spearfish rides great. Tho I whacked into a tree and after that there was a clicking sound coming from the front wheel. I thought I knocked it out of alignment but when I got home and washed off all the mud, saw that it was just a plastic tie on the brake lines that was out of position and hitting the tire. Great work you've done there!
 
That was me. Glad to see you out.

You will figure it out, just take our time and learn a bit more each day out.

Your best bet this time of year is to search out the hours with frozen dirt.

It can go from fast and fun to muck city in 1/2 an hour.
 
jdog said:
Shakedown on the Beargrease today.. Yeah , I am hooked.

Although I need to ride a krampus.
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Love to hear what you have to say about the Krampus. I'm fascinated by the goofy thing for some reason. Although one of the Cycle Craft guys said a real fatbike is more versatile...:hmmm:
 
Well, just to be clear, a Krampus is a bigger 29er, not a fat bike, there's a difference. A Krampus will not ride in sand or snow like a fat bike.

-Jim.
 
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I like that fork!! PS-You need some 45NRTH tires, you'll shave like 2 pounds off that thing :D

-Jim.
 
jimvreeland said:
I like that fork!! PS-You need some 45NRTH tires, you'll shave like 2 pounds off that thing :D

-Jim.
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I almost put Hüsker Düs on there but really wanted to give the Nates a try. So far they are super grippy but as you pointed out 453grams lighter per tire is quite a bit. With those and some lighter pedals, I would be around 25.5lbs or so.
 
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