No hating on my mods allowed. Yes, it’s duct tape.
Well if they don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
Keep your stick on the ice.
Cool although funny to me because winter is much better for cycling weather here than summer is! Way too hot!
We had one winter here with freezing weather and no snow and that was great for bike riding. Knee deep snow changes everything then.
Duct tape is fine. I don’t understand why people are obsessed with fat tired recently.
Because for third of the year I’m riding in deep snow.
Iz fun
it has mud guards for a reason
Four of them to be specific. Now brainstorming ones for the rotors as well.
That sounds amazing, but which ‘approach’ to the rotor would be covered?
It would need to be above it. I find that most often when they get wet, dirty and noisy it’s because of the water falling onto them from the tire. As long as I drive over puddles at certain speed then this doesn’t happen but when I slow down enough then the water starts dripping onto the rotors and calipers.
Fair enough! My favourite track at home runs down a river valley (its more of a MTB/enduro thing, too) and crosses the river ~8 times, so there’s a lot of rough wear on the bottom bracket and rotors generally getting wet from all angles…
Some sort of shroud would be great!
Those wheels/tires look like a nightmare for technical mountain riding with all that weight all the way at the edge of the rotational mass.
Looks like a fantastic bike for some chill cruising though.
My hardtail is much more nimble than this, but then again; with those tires it don’t need to be. I can just drive over what I’d otherwise be trying to avoid. Technical trail (not downhill) riding is what I almost exclusively do. It’s not fast but it’s consistent.
The accidental forced perspective of the image made my brain see it as a 30+ foot tall bike as I scrolled past.
Yes, it’s duct tape.
You say that like duct tape isn’t in all of our houses, just waiting to be useful in one of ten thousand ways.
Here it’s adding color contrast, presumably in a way the rider likes, and it makes cleaning up easier while also giving some minor protection against light scratching.
10/10
I can’t wait to take my ebike out. My wife and I managed to get a couple suburb rides in while my truck was busted, but then it got too cold for her and too snowy for me, but once it’s warm and dry enough we are heading to the nearest trail.
Do you ride in sand often?
Rarely and almost never by necessity. I needed the wide tires for snow originally but I’ve barely touched my other bike since.
Do those tires not work well in sand? That’s the #1 reason I’ve been looking for a fat tire electric.
Fat tires are far better in sand than any other kind of tire. Sand and snow is what they’re essentially designed for. Lowering down the tire pressure makes a huge difference too.
Whew! Thought I was way off in my thinking. Here in Florida, even the deep woods can get sandy. There’s one solid inch of topsoil, then it’s sand all the way to China.
And you currently have more snow than we do in Canada lol.
Why? More comfort?
It’s just overall more fun bike to ride compared to my acoustic hard tail. It’s like driving a tank and it goes quite literally anywhere. The electric assist then helps just enough to make it not feel like you’re dragging a car tire behind you. I guess it’s also worth noting that I almost exclusively ride hiking trails. Where I live it tends to be quite wet most of the year too. Being able to float over mud-pits is rather useful.
How do you find the traction?
I have studded tires for the snow.
I too have studded tires now. I made a thread about this a while back.
Snow is not an issue with tires like that. On ice the size doesn’t help a bit though, thus the studs.
Cool, I’ll look back to find that thread.
Thanks!
