Guess I should not have called you a liar on the trail
you called it. Never saw your last post.
Your fatty with the Lou and Nate is going to be a pretty slow machine. But like you said. Built for snow.
We had a good ride. But the guy I was with fell off Pain In The Neck. Gave me flashbacks. He was mostly OK but messed up his hand pretty good. Quite a ride for his first ride on his new bike, Bears old steed.
Yeah, it's a lot of tire to push around. The rotational mass is something special....it's not a bike meant for climbing for sure. It think a big fat larry tire weighs something like 3 pounds - Bud has to be at least a pound more and it's all rotational weight. Getting up hills is completely different - once your momentum fades you work hard. But as you said, they also hold momentum when you're not fighting gravity. The Bud also could corner on a sheet of ice, I think... I'm guess I was running 5 PSI or less at the end of my ride. The bike definitely got funner and nicer to ride as I let the air out of the tires.
It was fun to give it a first ride out at CamRock. It went over dragon back with no problem, but the handling is clearly different. But for me this bike is sheer novelty on singletrack, we set it up in classic fatbike spirit like you said - sand and snow and where other bikes won't go!
Drag about your friends crash. That feature looks far more harmless than it actually is.