Top 5 Fat Bikes of 2024!

Fat bikes are a small but exciting niche in the cycling market, and these our five of our top picks of 2024! Let us know which one you'd choose in the comments!

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:37 Best Lightweight Fat Bike
2:10 Best Pedal Assist Fat Bike
3:30 Best Budget Fat Bike
4:51 Best Race-Ready Fat Bike
6:21 Best All-Around Fat Bike

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[ErkiKurvits]

All year long, baby, all year long🤘💥💪. Every day basically on fatbike. I even started a trend in my little town by first showing up on a alu fatbike, that went bad... to now, owning Trek Farley 9.6 2024. And over some years, it has been over 15 bikes on streets. People first were 👍 or totally👎. But I quess it is just a love@ first pedal stroke. Once you ride, you fall in and from there it is just world of wobders. So so so much fun with this bike just crazy🤘🥳.

[OhTheNormanity]

I just purchased the Ari Explorer Peak. That is like the Kings Pea but with 85NM electric assist. Best of both worlds!

[stiniusdahl]

Year Round! 2015 Specialized Carbon Comp Fatboy. 28lbs w/alloy 26" rims. 4.0 Jumbo Jims. 9-46 Ethirteen 11spd cassette with Box Derailleur and shifter.

[Scott-Free-]

I just got a salsa beargrease and I love it. WAY more nimble than I expected

[romanxhe]

Uwielbiam fat bajki .. jeżdżę nim praktycznie przez cały rok ..
Latem w mojej okolicy jest mnóstwo piachu okolicznych lasach...
Częściej go używam niż normalnego roweru MTB...
Pozdrawiam wszystkich fanów fatbike 😃✨

[jackgarner]

I own a Framed Wolftrax & Foes Mutz full suspension. I happen to be one who rides fat bikes all year round...

[thomasandrews]

I ride fat bikes full time now having switched over from my 29er. The fat tires in any of the configurations provide superior traction and rollover capability in the Arizona desert. Mine are set up leaning toward XC styling and all weigh around 30 lbs or less. Having ridden regular mountain bikes for 25 years plus years I can say that I will never go back to the skinny tires.

[djgolf]

My biggest problem with the fatbike industry is that not enough brands make a full suspension fatbike. They dont put any money into the engineering of fatbikes so most of them in my opinion look extremely ordinary. I ended up going to the chinese market and got myself an ICAN SN04. Sick fs carbon fatbike.

[Johnnytotal]

I got a Specialized fatboy from 2017? It’s not so heavy, drives like a oiltanker. But it’s fun and easy to push up hills and through snow/sand.

[Paatrikklives]

I have the Salsa Beargrease C XT. Absolutely love this bike for riding groomed snow. It’s fast and lighter than my trail bike also surprisingly nimble.

[soulforrest]

Trek Farley 9.8 and Ari Explorer Peak are my favorites.

[valeccylinder]

Canyon dude cd 8.0 is the best price/ performance

[randywhelchel]

Thanks had no idea what these were saw Kona just put 2 models on sale half off

[LuenWarneke]

I have the Fezzari Kings Peak Elite and love it!
The Canyon Dude CF 8 looks pretty dam good also.
I mostly ride in sandy creeks and rivers. Great for off-track explores.

[mtbboy]

Ironically in Norway nobody sells modern fat bikes. all have old school geometry. Saw only one rocky mountain second hand but was wrong size, it was an older model. But VPG/Rock Mountain Norway don't import the bikes. But the geo sure looks decent. It was the closest to Pole Taiga with 63 deg fat bike and my G1 with 62.5 deg enduro bike.
So my options are get custom built frame from a frame builder somewhere, or buy a bike from an international store.
The salsa seem to be common in Norway, but as you mentioned steep head tube angle so not for me. My daily driver is a Geometron G1. So Pole Taiga looked nice, but Pole no longer makes this bike. Maybe I should get a tailored Nicolai as I already have a frame by Nicolai and the quality is superb.
Most common fat bikes seem White and older Nakamura bikes( catalogue bikes from Asia rebranded, but prototyped in Norway) but geo is not good, and cheaper models have junk parts.

[thdukeofwybourne]

I'm seriously considering ordering a Fezzari Explorer Peak when they are Released early 2024. What does 99 Spokes think of the spec of that Pedal Assist eFatbike?

[scott]

Awesome content, as always! 👊🏻

Is there a reason most fat bikes don’t have suspension?

[mellissanash]

No mention of the Reeb Donkadonk fat bike? USA made, modern xc geo and fun as heck based on the radavist review.

[mikaelljungberg]

Im in the prossess of taking a loan to by a fatbike.so i like them

[davemeise]

My partner has a Rocky mountain bike. I didn't even know they made an E-bike Fat Bike. I'm going to have to check them out at the dealers. I'm a fat bike fan so .... yeaaa.