Originally Posted by Kapusta

Fat tires are not the same as a suspension fork or rear shock. Yes, if you run the tires super low you get a couple inches of suspension, but it is undamped, uncontrolled travel. Fine for when you are going slow (snow, sand, mud) but I find things get sketchy when speed picks up in drier and faster environments. Its like a beach ball bouncing down the trail. I end up running higher pressure then.

My fat bike is rigid, but I mostly just ride it in adverse conditions (snow, mud, muck). Were I to ride it as my year-round bike on rough single-track, I’d want suspension on the front.

I do ride the rigid fatty occasionally in the dry months just to change things up and make a boring trail interesting again, but it would never be my main ride.... I’d want a front fork on it for that. I would likely swap to rigid in the winter, though. Less to maintain in the adverse conditions.