Originally Posted by
HerrKaLeun
The Gnarwhal is a good winter tire and probably good offroad. I assume it has higher resistance on pavement. But that is the compromise and better than the other way around.
It is a fatbike, if you bastardize it with tires good for pavement, you still have a worse pavement bike than a hybrid or so. But then it also sucks offroad and in winter. Then you wonder why you got a fatbike.
Good wheelsets and tires cost as much as frame and fork, so you really need to ride a lot to make a second set worthwile. Better to have a second bike for different type of riding.
Like a Jeep, don't put slick tires on. It will suck as an F1 car.
Yeah, I hear you on all those points. If I didn't already have myself an mtb, I wouldn't have gotten the fat bike. I bought the fat bike to ride both summer/winter and my mtb is for spring/summer but we'll see how much I ride the fat bike in the summer to start off with first off and go from there.