Anyone into fat bikes?

[Ah Pook]

Seen a few Surlys but not into them.

Is Fat-Bike an off shoot of Independent Fabrication? The name sounds familiar.

Anyone ever heard of Catamount bikes? I have #400 that was in the '97 BIKE magazine. Still the best balanced bike I have ever been on.

[Guylee]

They're popular in the beach towns because they're easy to ride in sand. I never thought of trying it in snow!

[nogaroheli]

In a former life I used to weld custom steel (and Titanium) bike frames. I built a fat bike fork and all back in 2008 or so. I liked it as an adventure bike and snow riding was always fun. I just sold it recently...maybe I'll have to make a new one someday soon.

Norseman

That's gorgeous! Well done! I'd love to hear about the other frames you built.

[Musashi]

They are fun to ride but squirrelly as hell with those balloon tires. Very popular in Minnesota for some reason as a buddy has one that I have ridden. Get yourself a gravel bike

[The Norseman]

Ah Pook,

You're thinking of Fat City Cycles. Yo Eddy! Was one of their best frames/bikes. They then morphed into IF if I'm not mistaken.

On the subject of fat bikes, a friend of mine is organizing a fat bike festival of sorts in Silverton sometime in January. If anyone is interested I can post info under a separate topic when he irons out the plans.

nogaroheli, here's one I did with a Spectrum Powderworks (outta COS) paint job....

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I've ridden them a bit and really like them. They inspire that bashing/ roll over stuff like a tank riding style in me like switching from a rigid to a suspension fork then to a full suspension did (at least on dry dirt). Conservation of momentum does seem to be more critical with fat bikes.

My friend hand builds amazing steel tubed, hand brazed frames and specializes in fat bikes- thinairframeworks.com. If I didn't have this gun addiction I'd have one of his already.

This is really great work! I'm quite impressed.

In a former life I used to weld custom steel (and Titanium) bike frames. I built a fat bike fork and all back in 2008 or so. I liked it as an adventure bike and snow riding was always fun. I just sold it recently...maybe I'll have to make a new one someday soon.

Norseman

Wow. Yet again.

They're popular in the beach towns because they're easy to ride in sand. I never thought of trying it in snow!

I worry about too much grit in the BB. I don't know why, it isn't that expensive to replace.

That's gorgeous! Well done! I'd love to hear about the other frames you built.

x2.

[Ah Pook]

Ah Pook,

You're thinking of Fat City Cycles. Yo Eddy! Was one of their best frames/bikes. They then morphed into IF if I'm not mistaken.

On the subject of fat bikes, a friend of mine is organizing a fat bike festival of sorts in Silverton sometime in January. If anyone is interested I can post info under a separate topic when he irons out the plans.

nogaroheli, here's one I did with a Spectrum Powderworks (outta COS) paint job....

Yep, I was thinking of Fat City Cycles. I thought the morph. went the other way.

Nice ride(s).

[The Norseman]

"Yep, I was thinking of Fat City Cycles. I thought the morph. went the other way.

Nice ride(s)."

I have a couple of friends here in Durango that used to work for Merlin and Fat City way back in the day....interesting bike history if you're into that kind of stuff..

Here's my fat bike before powdercoat on a desert canyon adventure in the Dolores River Canyon

[nogaroheli]

nogaroheli, here's one I did with a Spectrum Powderworks (outta COS) paint job....

Again, that's amazing and beautiful. Well done! I built (more assembled) a 575 for my wife and Spectrum did the custom powder coat on it. They do great work. You can tell they had a great canvas on that one of yours.

I have a couple of friends here in Durango that used to work for Merlin and Fat City way back in the day....interesting bike history if you're into that kind of stuff..

Super interested! As a kid I always lusted over those high end bikes (Merlin, Yeti, Fat City) I could only read about while growing up. My friend and I were just planning a build for a Durango built FTW frame he bought.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Here's my fat bike before powdercoat on a desert canyon adventure in the Dolores River Canyon

I dig it.