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How To Buy a Dependable, Used Fat Bike for Under $1,000
Many of us count ourselves fortunate to be able to afford just one decent bike in our garage. Usually, that bike is not a fat bike. More and more riders, however, are hoping to get into fat biking, which often has to be done on a budget. Most of the riders that I’ve talked to in the …
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Ride Report: Global Fat Bike Day, 2014
Global Fat Bike Day is evolving… not officially, but heck, nothing was ever “official” about Fat Bike Day anyways. What once was a few hours on a Saturday of riding around on big tires “united in fat” has increased to a full weekend of fat-laden, beer-drinking, beard-toting hooligans having a hoot about obese rims and …
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Review: RockShox Bluto Fat Bike Suspension Fork
In our fat bike survey earlier this year, 96% of fat bike riders reported running rigid forks on their bikes. Of course, the survey was conducted a couple months before the RockShox Bluto was available but still, not all fat bike riders are sold on the idea of suspension. After several weeks of summer fat …
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Niner BSB 9 Test Ride, ROS 9+ Suspension? and More Niner News
Last week I got a chance to check out a couple of the newest bikes from Niner–a cyclocross bike called the BSB 9 RDO and a fat bike (sorta) called the ROS 9+. And while both are slight departures for the company, each stays true to 29-inch wheels while offering all the high-end touches we’ve …
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Review: Salsa Bucksaw Full Suspension Fat Bike
I’m a new believer in the idea of summer fat biking and in particular, the merits of pairing suspension with fat tires. So I jumped at the chance to test the Salsa Bucksaw, one of the first production full suspension fat bikes to hit the market, and it was easily the best bike I’ve ridden …
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