My Fat Crawler/Adventure bike

[n8r]

Just wanted to share my latest project with you guys. I figured more people on this forum rather than over at mtbr, would see the value in a bike designed not for racing and going fast, but for slower paced adventure/exploration riding where the priority is maximizing where the bike can be ridden. Fast bikes are fun and I have one of those too, but I see a void that needs to be filled with another purpose specific fat bike. I'll soon strip it down and paint it, and add bikepacking bags, and get it adventure ready. Here's a link to my build thread over at mtbr for anyone interested.

http://forums.mtbr.com/fat-bikes/building-fat-crawler-908147.html?highlight=Building+Fat+Crawler

 

[Ron Bones]

I love it and your build thread!! Great stuff.

 

[DaveInDenver]

I saw the MTBR thread but why such a high BB? There's high bottom brackets but, wow, that's a really tall bike. The Beargrease and On-One Fatty are something like 60mm BB drop with slack head tube angles, like 68 degrees. I'd guess those would be about 13" clearance? I dunno. Remember the old Beast of the East? That was a 13.5" BB clearance on 26" wheels & 80mm fork and that was really tall. That thing was marginally stable as I recall and you're going to be even taller than that was. Interesting. That almost borders on trials frame height, zero or positive BB drop! Love the out of the box thinking and DIY ethic. My only concern would be the stack of head set spacers, that's a big moment on the steerer tube.

Here's the Cannondale BotE: