Fat Bikes

'Aigh't then.. I always thought fat bikes were fun in a gimmicky way for sure. one of the more obscure trends that would always remain part of a sub culture. something that would always see US, steel or possibly aluminum fabrication and never sell more than maybe 100 a year industry wide. well now some fucktard marketing genius said "hey, let's mainstream these bad boys and we can cash in on them as a 'trending' product." 

But because of this we are seeing shit like this:

as well as super high end full carbon (which I have to admit is pretty cool, despite its amazingly scary nature.

Hell. Fat bikes are not new at all. remember Dan Hanebrink? 

Yeah people laughed at him too back in the 90's when he couldn't sell his forks to buy pizza

 The original concept fat bike by Danno was to have a true go anywhere moon lander of a bike. something you can go troll beaches for hotties with

Pose on the beach with and show off how much smaller your ass is from riding a bike that weighs more than you

oh man, the whole concept is just driving me to drink....

Sure there are some really cool designs out there like the aforementioned carbon bike and this:

but the fat bike is an adventure bike. something designed to go get lost in the backcountry with

 Ride the snow covered trails of Alaska (Dog knows there is no dirt there, just snow all year round, like Iceland)

But now with the major companies of Special Ed, Trek and Norco all making fat bikes and the push of these carbon and even Titanium "racey" models and talk of the new schooler fat bike types saying there needs to be a category to race these things professionally. Add to that noncense the addition of "sex appeal" to this platform and POW

well.. since you put it that way, I kind of want one now too. Maybe the 650B idiots should have tried this marketing method rather than just stopping production on 26" products. 

man, I really need to just take up golf!