*The topic of On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Mark Reimer <marknrei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was definitely working much harder than the fat bikes, no doubt. The > trail was about 30km long and both fat bikers could ride about 95% of it or > more. I could ride about 70% of it, and almost all of that was a struggle. > If I could stay in a fat bike tire track, it'd be fine. Anything else and > i'd be washing all over. The trail had been mostly packed by snowmobiles, > but it wasn't enough to keep my tires from cutting through or sliding > around. And then there were the drifts.. > > I agree the fat bikes excel in a fairly narrow band of trail conditions. > Most of the time they are no better off than I am. This was one of those > times where conditions were 'just so' to make them ideal for fat bikers, > but a bit miserable for a 29er. > > The tops of Tumbleweed bikes was raised on the ride, which was new to me. > It's a new fit bike company in the start-up phase right now, owned by a > former Riv employee, who described his bikes as 'fat bikes Riv would make, > if they ever would'. Curious what that means... My heart would skip a beat > for a lugged 27.5+ bike. > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamontg...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Awesome! Oh, there were stars, they just were cloaked in cloud! Grin. >> Awesome! I love it! -14˚C is definitely friendlier than -30˚C. >> >> I am curious how much more total effort you felt you had vs. the fatbike >> in those conditions. It seems to me the delta between 2.1" and 4" is >> surprisingly small where the 4" is ridable but the 2.1" is not. Does that >> question make sense? >> >> I love that you slept outside a warming hut just because! Brilliant! >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/KUFD_inRumU/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
