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@jesse-effing-edwards: Cheers to that!

I have never owned water proof bike gear that doesn’t turn into a ziplock bag sauna full of sweat.

@emptybe-er: sure, but it’s far more fun to use flat cornering in anger. I’m not as dead set against berms as I originally sounded, but I think they have a place: the park. I get all uppity when every damn thing gets turned into a flow trail. Long live jank; jank and turns should be able to co-exist.

@jesse-effing-edwards: I think this is a bit of a misconception on fat bikes: HA, rake angle and tire diameter play a really big roll in just how (un)intuitive fatbike steering can be. Compared to my MTB, my fatbike has a 68deg HA, some rake (just eyeballing it), 4.9 inch width tires and a metric ton of rotational inertia when riding with spikes. When leaning the bike into a turn the front wheel wants to tuck in even more and I have to give pressure on the handlebars like I want to counter steer. It feels bizarre after a summer on the mtb. If I'm riding on rutted ice (old ski tracks) the handles bars want to squirm around so much that they feel like they are alive. It might just be me but when booking it down a trail that is alternating between ice, snow and pockets of slush, I would definitely appreciate stability over playfulness. I'm just not sure the recipe for stability on a fatbike is the exact same as on an MTB.

Being out in the forest, after dark, without any trail grooming, -15C and loosing your bearings for a minute… That’s a nice place.

@yoobee: google «bell ends». Whoops typo!

@rowdycash: thanks!

WTF is Electra?

This too. Ban the berm! Flat turns only! Buy a Madonna!

Usually effing loosers trying to shave a couple of seconds off their Strava leaderboard time. Rot in heck.