Fat Bike

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Fat Bike rental: the bikes of the moment! THEMES OF THE MOMENT: Michele Scarponi Bike Fit Days Flanders by bike Job advertisements Nutrition From the earthquake to the bike Fat bike: questions and answers on the phenomenon of the moment Bikelife, Mtb • by Paolo Pinzuti In the beginning it was the bicycle, then someone decided (the legend wants that it was Joe Breeze) that the time had come to start using bicycles even on rough off-road terrain and so the mountain bike was born. It was the late 70s, but it took over a decade for the practice of off-road bicycle use to really assert itself. Fat bike: fat-bike-1 offers fat-bike-2 2015 will be remembered in the history of cycling as the moment when fat bikes have established themselves on the market (the recent Eurobike fair left little doubt). But what exactly are these bikes? How are they born and what are they for? Who are they suitable for and what are their characteristics? fat bike salsa Let's try to clarify. What are fat bikes and how are they born? Fat bikes are a direct evolution of mountain bikes, characterized by wheels fitted with very large tires and rims wider than 44 mm. Fat (which in English means "fat") is the reference, obviously not to the bike itself, but to the tires, whose section is so large that the diameter of the wheel is very close to 29 ". They are bikes designed to get where MTBs can't get: the larger section of the tire allows absolute grip, while the low pressure (which can vary from 0.5 to 1.0 bar) allows you to "float" on surfaces soft (like snow, mud or sand) or particularly uneven, such as the banks of rivers or the sleepers of the tracks.