• I see your bike packing gone mainstream and raise you!

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:13 pm**

Fat Bikes are now mainstream?

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 768168.htm

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2014 9:46 pm**

Not only cheaper than its competition but also superior as it says it's suitable for riding in swamps!

My Mukluk won't do that.

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2014 9:53 pm**

Yupp, it's getting close...

http://www.silverbacklab.com/bikes/mountain/
probably in the range of 700 £ for the cheaper version.

http://www.canyon.com/mountainbikes/series/dude-cf.html
Carbon fat.

Then there's the Dynamic Pure fat and this:
http://www.xxl.se/cykel/cyklar/fatbikes ... 90_1_style

etc.

Rockshox made the fatbike specific Bluto, Schwalbe the Jumbo Jim in four offerings and so on and so forth. Mainstream? Can imagine in Alaska and Minnesota in winter - yes. As it looks most new fat bike related offerings a leaned towards trail biking, not snow ploughing and bush whacking expeditions across the subarctic. Folks behind fat bike stuff seem to try to get everybody involved, not just the nutters, that can't settle biking in deep winter. So yes, the direction surely is mainstream. But I don't think it's there yet, at least not in Switzerland. Then again, different voices from Vegas (interbike)- apparently it was full of fat.

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:17 pm**

gairym wrote:Not only cheaper than its competition but also superior as it says it's suitable for riding in swamps!

My Mukluk won't do that.

so I must correct this

Alpinum wrote:As it looks most new fat bike related offerings a leaned towards trail biking, not snow ploughing and bush whacking expeditions across the subarctic.

to snow ploughing, bush whacking and swamp biking.

Finnish swamps or Florida swamps?

My Witjira won't do that either.

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:02 pm**

The Silverback Double Scoop is £749 & the Bluto & 1x11 Single Scoop is £1300

How Salsa/Surly will get on flogging similar bikes for twice the price I don't know. I like Salsa but not that much......

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:11 pm**

Errr... Weight fully assembled...

22kg

48.5lbs

(The first link)

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:27 pm**

Thats how it does swamps... Sink to the bottom the pedal until you pop out at the other side.

Posted: **Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:39 pm**

When 27.5+/650B+ comes around, expect a paradigm shift in mountain biking.

Posted: **Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:25 am**

ScotRoutes wrote:When 27.5+/650B+ comes around, expect a paradigm shift in mountain biking.

Funny how practically everyone laughed at us as we rode DH bikes with 3" Gazzaloddis on 45 mm wide Sun rims. That was more than 10 years ago...

Here we all ride 2.35 - 2.5" tires, no matter what bike. What may be a paradigm shift for the industry and their children, will only be a remedy for many who long for those more voluminous tires being a bit lighter.

So for something rather natural - to have different tyre widths, the industry gave it a new name: 26+, 27.5+ and 29+.
Then the industry will see that bikes have gotten heavier, so they "invent" 27.5- and 29-. (26" will be extinct very soon).
Aha...

Posted: **Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:00 am**

Next they'll be calling cx "700+"

Posted: **Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:09 am**

I'm very interested in the concept of 'rigid suspension' as fitted to the Argos bike.

Posted: **Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:16 am**

So is it possible to buy a Silverback in the UK?

Posted: **Thu Oct 30, 2014 11:55 am**

If there's one bike that non-cyclists look at and think 'ooh, fun.. ' that you could open a hire centre business in many places based on, it's the fat bike. It just says comfort and fun. It may have started niche but I always thought it had huge mainstream appeal, electric+fat isn't the daft idea many may first think it is.

Posted: **Thu Oct 30, 2014 1:00 pm**

s8tannorm wrote:So is it possible to buy a Silverback in the UK?

perhaps here:
http://www.ride-your-bike.com/fahrrad-b ... in-li.html

I wonder what happens if you ride the swamps with an e-bike.

Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2014 12:46 pm**

Alpinum wrote:I wonder what happens if you ride the swamps with an e-bike.

You get out of them quicker?

Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:07 pm**

Joshvegas wrote:Thats how it does swamps... Sink to the bottom the pedal until you pop out at the other side

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