View Poll Results: Should there be a dedicated Fatbike Forum?
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12-09-17, 07:56 AM
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The decision is fine though. The vote has been heard. It's all good. Time to move forward and enjoy the new forum.
12-09-17, 10:58 AM
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It's another forum to descend into if I want to keep up. I prefer fewer forums with more traffic in each, because I can scan 30 or 40 thread titles faster than I can bounce down into and up out of a whole bunch low-traffic forums.
The decision is fine though. The vote has been heard. It's all good. Time to move forward and enjoy the new forum.
The decision is fine though. The vote has been heard. It's all good. Time to move forward and enjoy the new forum.
12-09-17, 11:02 AM
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Edit: Please don't interpret anything I say as continued opposition. Someone earlier was curious as to why I would vote the way that I did, and I only responded to share why I think the way that I do. I'm perfectly fine now with the outcome.
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12-09-17, 11:20 AM
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Sexy! Did you rig that up, or was it a custom job from Framed (I know they do quite a bit of build to order things)?
Of course the counterpoint is that I miss out on quite a bit of fat bike talk, because it is spread out over many subforums that I never look at and somewhat concentrated in a subforum I rarely look at.
I understand you aren't opposed, just presenting the counterpoint from a non MTBer POV!
I understand you aren't opposed, just presenting the counterpoint from a non MTBer POV!
12-09-17, 12:20 PM
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12-09-17, 01:10 PM
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Well it worked. Guess what you guys are getting from Siu? 
Hopefully by Monday. Hang tight! And after it's started, if you guys would please help me by finding the fatbike threads, reporting them by using the white exclamation in the red circle, and type in that Siu said to request these moved to the NEW FATBIKES FORUM!!
Hopefully by Monday. Hang tight! And after it's started, if you guys would please help me by finding the fatbike threads, reporting them by using the white exclamation in the red circle, and type in that Siu said to request these moved to the NEW FATBIKES FORUM!!
Question: If multiple people flag a thread to move to the new Fatbike Forum, does that cause you and your team issues? I flagged mostly my own threads, but realized if a few of us flag the same thread, it could be a pain for the BF team. Just want to help make this easy for the group that maintains BF.
12-09-17, 02:34 PM
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Hey guys, please don't report any further fat bike threads. As Siu said, report them AFTER the forum has been created, which will take a few days. Thanks!
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12-09-17, 02:46 PM
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Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Question: If multiple people flag a thread to move to the new Fatbike Forum, does that cause you and your team issues? I flagged mostly my own threads, but realized if a few of us flag the same thread, it could be a pain for the BF team. Just want to help make this easy for the group that maintains BF.
Question: If multiple people flag a thread to move to the new Fatbike Forum, does that cause you and your team issues? I flagged mostly my own threads, but realized if a few of us flag the same thread, it could be a pain for the BF team. Just want to help make this easy for the group that maintains BF.
But please, don't report them yet, do it after the section is live because what happens is the reports get pushed down on the list and at the rate we get reports, it will be a few pages back and we wont' be able to find them. We try to take care of a report as soon as it gets reported. But if we can't, it gets pushed down by the hundreds that we do get all the time.
12-09-17, 02:59 PM
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If multiple people flag the same thread, it just gets flagged multiple times on the same report.
But please, don't report them yet, do it after the section is live because what happens is the reports get pushed down on the list and at the rate we get reports, it will be a few pages back and we wont' be able to find them. We try to take care of a report as soon as it gets reported. But if we can't, it gets pushed down by the hundreds that we do get all the time.
But please, don't report them yet, do it after the section is live because what happens is the reports get pushed down on the list and at the rate we get reports, it will be a few pages back and we wont' be able to find them. We try to take care of a report as soon as it gets reported. But if we can't, it gets pushed down by the hundreds that we do get all the time.
12-09-17, 06:04 PM
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[QUOTE=jefnvk;20042696]Sexy! Did you rig that up, or was it a custom job from Framed (I know they do quite a bit of build to order things)?
It’s a Framed Minnesota 3.0 with tweaks: Salsa Woodchipper bars with a Ritchey adjustable stem. Bars have a triple wrap up, double wrap on drops. Salsa bar end shifters, SRAM GXP X5 B.B., and 40/22 cogs up front (custom 40, think of this as a fat bike version of a compact, let’s me roll fast and climb steep). Specialized Toupe saddle and Wellgo M4 pedals. Shaved BFLs for the beach! LA X9 rear D.
I ride the crap out out of it on the beach. Go through about 2 chains a year. Rode it in the 2016 Seattle to Portland (on 3.0 slicks).
When I’m in the hills, it’s a mountain bike, on the beach it’s a beach bike, on the road it’s all animal.
It’s a Framed Minnesota 3.0 with tweaks: Salsa Woodchipper bars with a Ritchey adjustable stem. Bars have a triple wrap up, double wrap on drops. Salsa bar end shifters, SRAM GXP X5 B.B., and 40/22 cogs up front (custom 40, think of this as a fat bike version of a compact, let’s me roll fast and climb steep). Specialized Toupe saddle and Wellgo M4 pedals. Shaved BFLs for the beach! LA X9 rear D.
I ride the crap out out of it on the beach. Go through about 2 chains a year. Rode it in the 2016 Seattle to Portland (on 3.0 slicks).
When I’m in the hills, it’s a mountain bike, on the beach it’s a beach bike, on the road it’s all animal.
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12-09-17, 06:26 PM
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Nice! What FD and shifters are you running with that? Any issue with that gearing differential? I was going to take mine to a 1x, but if I could do something like that, I could see some benefits!
12-09-17, 07:39 PM
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The FD is an SRAM X7, the RD SRAM X9 (wore out the X7, X9 was a good upgrade). No real issues as when I’m on the road or paved trail I’m on the 40 and beach or logging roads I’m on the 22. The 40 front was a LBS custom mod to fit the BB. Works great. Tektro roadie style brakes. Brifters might be ok except that beach grit gets everywhere.
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