Salsa Introduces a Stiffer, Lighter Bucksaw Carbon – Full Suspension Fat Bikes Taken Up a Notch

“vibration damping” – what kind of vibration can be felt through fat tires AND full suspension, I wonder? Bumps, sure, but vibration? Sounds like a princess-on-the-pea situation.

Gunnstein: look at a mountain biking video. all the latest technology, and it still looks like stop-motion video. Particularly in the techy sections. Herky jerky.

I rarely see fat tires bikes on any trails. So who are buying these things?

Thing looks like normal bike. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: 10 years from now we’ll all be riding something a lot fatter than what we are now. The advances in bigger rim & tires, will trickle down to all bikes, as fat tires & wider rims become less & less of a weight & durability penalty.

…better vibration damping…
The muffled sound & resonance of Marketing shaking the dollars out of your wallet! 😛

I’d sure look good on that.

@AlanM well you answered my question for me

@all the haters above-

So don’t buy it!

Go ride a fatbike around and try not to smile. Can’t do it. They’re fun!

I think the haters don’t realize that a fatbike won’t replace your xc/dh/road/trail bike. It is a addition to your fleet of bikes. I bought a fully ridged fatbike last fall and have used it way more than I ever expected.
This fatbike is very expensive. But so is a high end road bike.
You only own one bike? Work some overtime, that’s what I do.

I Recently demoed the Bucksaw here in Duluth, MN. That thing slays. Sticks like glue, hammers over just about anything, and you can pound the piss out of it without worry. The only downside is that it makes you way too overconfident, but even when I ate s#! / on it I still had an ear to ear grin on.

I guess the reason these bikes exist is because full sus, rigid etc normal Mtn bikes didn’t work in the conditions being asked of them. I.E. Winter, snow and sand etc later on so the segment slowly grew. As more and more of us in those types of conditions were able to obtain these bikes they also trickled/rolled over into other markets as well. I certainly never liked putting my Mtn bike away for the winter and went to studs until this option became available….. Bingo year around riding! Then I got it out a little earlier in the fall and put away a little later in the spring…year after that it stayed in play year round. I ride it way more than I ever thought I would. If you are trying to figure out how it fits in your existing riding, it may not. If you have to put a bike away because of the seasons it probably will. I guarantee you tho that if you ride one as a bike lover you will have a blast and revert to your inner childhood again and you will be right back here saying what I just did…. Time to go ride! See ya!

Why not a carbon chainstay? (rhetorical question)

@Jose: All of Dave Weagle’s Split Pivot bikes (Devinci, Salsa) so far have an alloy chainstay, because by the time they made a carbon chainstay that could handle the necessary forces for that particular design, it would be as heavy or heavier, plus more expensive, than the alloy chainstay. So alloy it is…