Especially if seller is serious about that OBO part.
XXL seatpost, a couple threadless extenders, might not even have to get a custom bike made 
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Honestly just a bmx bar, recable and go. I have thoughts of replacing the front triangle with tubes from an adult bike to lengthen the reach and increase the seattube height. Wiating to see if “buddy with a welder” is down to make it with me.
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So I just scrolled the thread and didn’t see my main question answered. What is the tire selection like at this size? In my experience with fatbikes, tire selection was even more important than usual because the quality spread was even wider than with a typical wheel size.
I can’t think of a good reason to own such a bike under basically any circumstance, but with some good tires I feel like there are fewer reasons not to own one
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I can think of so many good reasons to have a bike like this but I deffinately would be worried about available tire choices.
Even if it’s built around standard 20 bmx, there are some wiiiiiiide rims and tires out. I don’t see this going away. Don’t know much about tiny fat bike tires.
There are some decent options out there. Probably a handful more than what I’ve shown here, because of all the 20” fat ebikes rolling around
Also that vee tire mission command comes in pink, green, orange etc
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I had the 26" Missions on a bike once. Don’t buy those! Apaches look cool, I’ve always wondered how they ride
I think the missions are the chonkiest considering they are OEM on most of the 20” fat bikes I’ve seen.
Easiest first modification is just a thick BMX:
Ultra long seatpost added, which would break quickly:
Could weld on some extra seat tube and a top tube brace:
Final proof of concept would be lengthening the top tube and down tube, but had trouble mocking that up
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what about BB height, aren’t those kids bike set up with 150s?
That’s a good thing to keep in mind if I swap out the top/downtubes, rotate the rear end up to simulate the bb height of the burro.
This is all proof of concept so I do want to mimic the custom geo as best as possible.
Why not a big front triangle and drop the seat stays
A Coast Cycles Juggernaut showed up on their instagram story and I messaged them saying I wished there was still a way to get one. They replied back with a link to their local Singapore store where they are somehow still in stock. Now I’m considering ordering one for $1,100 USD plus shipping. Maybe someone can either talk me into or out of this, because with a few mods, this is probably the quickest way to replicate the burro in full-fat form.
The rear dropouts look cool, cranks are decent, brakes are passable, and the geo looks pretty damn similar to what I’d envisioned ordering from Marino. I think generally it’s a little smaller than what I’d order custom: the seattube is only 370mm long, which would require 350mm of exposed seatpost. Also the overall length is 2.5 shorter than the burro, even with 4" tires. The reach pretty closely matches the burro, so my hunch is that the juggernauts chainstays are shorter?
I have these parts on my other bikes:
- bar & stem from my bmx
- 10s cassette, shifter, derailleur from burro
- 450mm dropper from burro
Once I get some knobbies and the seatpost extender thing that @wickedwagon posted, I think i’d be set. Thoughts? Is this dumb? I’m 6’0" for reference.
Dude hunt around for a framebuilder who will make your fop dreams come true for a f/f for $1100
Wasn’t the guy in Peru or wherever gonna do it for like a third of that?
You’d still need to bring it under the torch for warts and probably other things, why not get it right from the start? Also why sliding dropouts unless you really want them?
Thank you both for the dose of reality. Marino would be cheaper but that’s just frameset. Even with all the other parts I’d need to buy, I think I could still build it for less than 1100. And it would be the right size, and it would have all the zits, etc.
If I were shorter, I’d be more tempted to get the complete, but I’ll stay focused on the correct solution. Still so many geometry details to decide on
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Looks like a shit sandwich
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