Speaking of, I just ordered a $350 carpet fibre Amazon road wheelset. Will report back.
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Most folks I know who have a fat bike but don’t ride it exclusively on sand or snow discover they suck for everything but sand or snow.
Exception of course for cheap ass e-mopeds with fat bike tires. Those things suck for a multitude of reasons but not the same reason fat bikes suck.
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Our fat bike was the daily driver for wife and kiddo up until we had #2. Salsa blackborow I put some veerubber speedsters on it and it’s pretty sweet. Doesn’t feel super slow for what the bike is with the kid on the back but it is slow. It just doesn’t feel so slow for a bike that’s like 55lbs with everything on it except for kiddo and driver. Wife loves it for kid hauling and how stable it feels. It’s a size small which is perfect for the wife and with the seatpost at max height it’s not terrible for me to ride around on. That said wife now super wants a bullit since the baby can’t go on a regular bike right now and she doesn’t want to go a year without being able to bike anywhere.
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Look I know that fatbike fixed gear is a terrible idea, I just got this image of a Moonlander with deda pista bars and really really wide Sugino 75s and was like ok but why not
165mm NJS cranks on a 165mm JIS square taper spindle?
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spindle flexing so much you pedal like Mr. Natural walks
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Low spoke count carbon fat rims
Vintage flite
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I rode a moonlander on rooty singletrack once and it felt more like dribbling a basketball than riding a bike.
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Yes if you’ve got the pressure above 10psi it does feel kinda like riding on basketballs.
Thinking about throwing some 28s on my MIL’s old Specialized so I have a bike to ride on these beautiful country roads when I’m in town
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They’re here. Weight within expected range. Very true. Came with skewers, brake pads, rim strip (not tape), spare spokes, nips, valve extenders. No branding, but they’re SuperTeam/Sunrise/amillionotherbrands.
I’d have specced brass nips and stainless spokes, but if the rims are legit I’d be willing to rebuild at some point.
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Let us know how they last -I had a set for a while that were totally fine, but I didn’t really ride them enough to get a good long term eval before I sold them on.
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that’s like, worryingly cheap. and tempting.
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Up to you. In hand, they seem pretty high quality. I’m less scared of them than I am of the 20 year old alloy wheelset currently on the bike. And I’m not especially nervous about those.
I’ll mount them up and hopefully ride them tonight.
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Mine weren’t tubeless compatible. I had them fit up on an old steel frame, and did a slightly downhill TT where I touched 50mph. Did not assplode.
(why did I sell this bike I am not wise)
That said, @halbritt 's recent LightBicycle-rimmed wheel builds are probably what I’d do in the future.
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Most definitely superior but difficult to approach a $400 price point. $600 is certainly doable though if one is okay with DT 350 or Bitex hubs.
I’d go that route if at all possible because they use Sapim spokes and nipples. I like those things to be a known quantity.
That was my original plan. And then I started thinking about how they’re almost all made in China, probably in just a handful of facilities and sold under a bunch of names. Mused about something like Moore’s Law for composites. Wondered if a sticker set might bump RRP hundreds of dollars up.
But yeah, I’ve wrecked plenty of Al spokes in my day, so I think I know how this might play out after a few thousand miles.
@jimmythefly absolutely sick bike!
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Cheap fiber and cheap resin will also drop the price.
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Skinny tubing and deep rims looks so good
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