Podcast: Are Fat Bikes the Biggest MTB Innovation Since Suspension?
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
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🗓️ 17 December 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we try to answer the question: Are fat bikes the biggest MTB innovation since full suspension was introduced in the early 1990s? We also discuss some of the common misconceptions around fat bikes and offer our predictions for where things are heading in the future.
Plus–what’s grinding our gears and stoking our spokes this week.
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| 0:21.9 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. Today it's me, Jeff, Aaron, and Greg, and we're |
| 0:27.2 | going to be talking about fat bikes. And we talk a lot about fat bikes on single tracks, but just so |
| 0:33.5 | you know, Greg and I are a real big fat bike fanatics. Aaron, not so much so, but we're going to have a conversation and discussion around the idea |
| 0:42.1 | that fat bikes are basically the biggest innovation in mountain biking since, well, since |
| 0:48.4 | full suspension in the 1990s. |
| 0:50.5 | I mean, it's hard for me personally to come up with something that's a bigger shift in how we view |
| 0:55.7 | mountain bikes. And so I wanted to talk about sort of that idea and maybe have a little debate about it. |
| 1:01.1 | You know, I want to start off by asking what is so revolutionary about fat bikes. |
| 1:06.0 | I'll start with you, Greg, since you tend to share my view on that. |
| 1:09.7 | So this has been a personal pet theory of Jeff and mine for a while now. |
| 1:15.2 | And I think it does depend a little bit on where you live. |
| 1:17.7 | But personally, having hailed from central Wisconsin being born and raised there, |
| 1:22.3 | I've sort of observed what fat biking has done for the mountain bike scene there and in other places where it gets |
| 1:29.0 | cold and snowy. And fat biking has truly turned mountain biking from a five month per year sport in |
| 1:37.0 | those areas to a 12 month per year sport. It's absolutely massive to think about riding your bike |
| 1:43.2 | and pedaling your bike all year round instead of just |
| 1:46.8 | during the summer months. I personally came to mountain biking from downhill skiing, so downhill |
| 1:51.0 | skiing was my main winter pastime, but then when I transitioned to train more aerobically |
| 1:55.6 | in the winter, I ended up running because biking just wasn't feasible. But now I look at biking totally different. |
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