Salsa Bucksaw full suspension Fatbike visits town...

This evening i rode a Fatbike that is really impressive, and the first Fatbike i have ridden since the first generation Surly Pugs, Moonies, Salsa Mukluk, Beargrease, and 9Zero7 bikes that has really impressed,, Friend Mike stopped over Friday evening on route to a weekend in the Tweed Vally and brought his Salsa Bucksaw full suspension Fatbike, this is some machine to ride!,

Here the Salsa guys explain the Bucksaw...


We went a 2 hour ride and i looked for a hill to go try this bike,

We have one wee hill around here, and North Berwick Law was climbed and descended while i filmed and took some pics, then had a quick spin, oh yeah!, only a couple of minutes riding the bike but this bike i would love to ride on loose stone paths where it would be in its element,
This bike is not designed for the coast and salt water exposure with suspension seals and shocks, it is a mountainbike, and what a bike for grip! :)

Watching the bike descending on the film i made does not really show anything different to this Fatbike and any other regular full suss bike of normal 27.5 wheel/tyre size,  but it is the control and grip of these wheels that is so impressive...

Happy days!, time to head home...

Crack open the cider, fire up the Chimenea, and BBQ some food as darkness fell...

That is a real nice bike...

Here is a wee film from up on the Law,
Song is `back in the Game` by Airborne

Salsa Bucksaw; North Berwick Law from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

More soon...

Salsa Cycles `Bucksaw` full suspension Fatbike!

This is a Fatbike that is not what i need or want for the coast and all the salt water bike eating environment i ride my bikes in.
I i was buying a new Fatbike it would prob be a Surly ICT Ops and run 5" BFL`s on it`s 80mm rims,

But... be cool to ride this on the rocks exposed at low tide here on our coast at the lowest tides.

An area no one else rides a bicycle, well except some guy on a Moonlander ;)
Some friends are coming over for the weekend and with the moon nearing full size and tides getting lower again were heading out to the far rocks below Kilspindie and Tantallon over 2 days cycling to go where er no other bikes seem to go!,
One of these Bucksaws would prob be fun with the suspension offering even more grip on those rocks.
While i like my original first generation Surly Pugsleys and Moonlander for what i do and where i go, it will be cool to see where this concept takes fatbikes in the future...

A film by Salsa...