Tuesday, November 13, 2012

To fat or not to fat

I've been living in a struggle for the last couple months. I borrowed one of these from my LBS this past summer. I had a good time on it. My wife rode it around a little on a trail close to Deerfield and I think she enjoyed it. The Mukluk was ridden on M-hill for a while to test it's abilities and all was well.

Now the problem is that I want to go fat. However, do I need to make this other purchase. Don't get me wrong, a bike purchase is never a bad purchase but I don't get the opportunities to ride my 2 other bikes as much as I'd like. There are dreams of snow biking dancing around in my head... but then again, when do I have time to go snow biking? I don't take the time to go regular biking, touring, mt. biking, etc... Should I wait?

Crap.

2 comments:

Snakebite said...

I do have a fat bike - Surly Moonlander.

As far as your situation is concerned, good luck making it. I can say, unless you know you'll be doing some riding on snow that would be inaccessible to a regular bike, it's probably not worth it. I bought mine because I plan to do some winter, snow riding and perhaps enter the Arrowhead 135 bike race (some year).

SD_pedalpower said...

What Snakebike said. I've test rode the fat bikes but my snow biking consists of street riding so I'm sticking to studded snow tires on a mountain bike.