Browse our selection of Electric Bikes for sale Australia-wide, or be sure to visit your local 99 bikes store to test ride an electric bike today. However, some types of pedaling are easier on a fat bike. You can ride over rocky terrain or soft dirt, as well as through slippery mud with confidence because of the substantial traction of your wider tires. All of this means the Heydey can easily be dressed up or down depending on where you plan to ride and for how long. It performs well as a touring bike for long expeditions, an overnight winter bikepacking rig, and a rigid mountain bike. All in all, it’s an excellent, well-rounded and reliable fat tire bike.
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A full-suspension setup can help you maneuver better, keep you from feeling beat up after a long ride, and make the ride more enjoyable if you swap fat rims for standard mountain bike rims. However, if you typically mongoose racing bike ride in extremely cold temperatures, a rigid fork may be more reliable. It’s also supremely lightweight at only 29 lbs., and comes with a SRAM GX Eagle 12-speed drivetrain and SRAM Level TL brakes.
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The stock brakes kinda suck too so I was thinking about upgrading to Shimano hydraulic brakes in the future. Australia has tonnes of paths, parks, and tracks that make for great bike-riding adventures for the whole family. The kids will want a cool design and to go fast, meanwhile, you’ll want to know they’re safe and one a bike that’s properly fitted for their size. While all of our bike ranges will suit your needs, you may want to start your search with our Mountain Bikes and Kids Bikes. Explore trails that aren’t on the app but clearly existright here, right now, in real life.
Equally passionate about leisure as he is his penmanship, Kevin dedicates his spare time to graphic novels, birding, making cold brew, and taking long, meandering walks. The Trek Farley 9 stands out in the overlanding and bikepacking categories because of its fully equipped frame-specific racks and bags, progressive trail geometry, and high-end components. It comes with custom racks (Farley front and back), a fender, frame bag (Adventure Boss full frame bag), as well as dry bag holders. In general, the wider the tire you want to use, the wider the rim you will want. However, a narrower rim will save weight and make the bike feel livelier. Since its introduction in 2014, Grade has pushed the boundaries of adventure riding.
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When not riding a bike, or talking about them, Tara listens to a lot of ska, punk, and emo music, and consumes too much social media. It also has a front suspension fork for keeping comfy on gravel, hydraulic disc brakes, and it even includes a rack and fenders. When we were young, my brothers and I routinely plowed our bikes into wood piles and fire pits just to see if they would go through or over and we’d remain seated. A hardtail with a rigid fork is the most affordable and most common type of fat tire bike. Because of the wider tires, and the fact that you typically run those tires at low pressure, even a rigid bike can feel like it has suspension, as the tires conform to irregularities in the trail.
Equipped with a 12 speed Shimano Deore drivetrain and 11 x 51 rear cassette, the Woo climbs steep, snowy mountains without fear (regardless of your reservations). With tires ranging between 4-and 5-inches wide, fat tire bikes are made to provide traction over shifty terrain like sand and snow. They also allow you to roll over most any kind of bump in the road–rocks, roots, cavernous potholes–without the fear of toppling over. A bike frame size is determined by the length of the seat tube.