5 of the best children’s fat bicycles

For those of us in snow climates, fatty cycling extends the season of mountain biking to year -round activity. It provides a good exercise, allows you to explore your favorite paths in winter and hell is a lot of fun.

Unfortunately, there are very few options. A few years ago, the plus size tires were all anger, and it was easy to find a bicycle to ride in snow or sand. Today, plus size tires have dropped out of popularity, and it’s hard to find any bikes with tires above 2.5 ″.

Here are your very limited choices …

But first, what is a fat bike?

Oily bikes are mountain bicycles with wide-trim wheels and “fat” about 4-inch tires. Because the tires are so wide, they can be started with very low air pressure. As a result, they can drive on snow or sand.

They can also drive like a regular mountain bicycle on Singletrack. Because many baby bikes do not have a suspension, greasy tires can be beautiful because they provide a little extra pillow. This has said, if you are mostly planning to use a bike for mountain biking, your child will be much better on a A light hilly bike.

What about medium fat and plus baby bikes?

While a real “thick bike” has 4 ″ tires, children can easily be drawn with medium fat tires (3 ″) or even plus size (2.6 ″+) tires in the snow. Their bicycles are smaller and simply do not strive enough to require real fatty tires to roll over in the snow and sand.

If you don’t ride in some deep serious snow (which is not something that children mostly love anyway), you can probably get a medium -sized bicycle or plus. As mentioned earlier, there are no more children plus size on the market, but you may be able to find a used.

The bike bonus size plus is that you can drive it on dirt or trail as well as snow/sand. (You probably wouldn’t want to do it with the right bike for tires).

One of them is that bikes are the size of a plus harder. If you are a serious family of mountain bicycles for long driving, you might want to choose a oily bike for the winter and a regular hill bike for summer riding.

Our top choice

9: Zero: 7 nx squall

Price: $ 2,199

IN 9: Zero: 7 nx squall It’s not cheap, but it’s fantastic. If your family seriously takes the winter fat body, this is the bike you want.

In order to help compensate for investment, the bike will also accept smaller tires for summer driving. The bike comes with a carbon fork, a terrible disc brake and a shame NX 11 Speed ​​drive drive.

Mongoose Argus Trail 24

Price: List $ 649

Generally, we direct people away from Mongoose Kids bikes but Mongoose Argus Trail 24 It’s actually quite decent – especially if you’re just looking for a bicycle that will have a tool in the snow and again. It has an 8-speed shimano drive assembly, mechanical disco brakes and a beautiful 4 ″ tires.

This is a bicycle my son has been driving the last two winters, and we were surprisingly pleased with him!

Read our review: Mongoose Argus

Cannondale trail plus

Price: 540 USD / 550 USD

IN Cannondale trail plus It also comes in 20 and 24 inches versions and has 2.6 ″ tires. It is surprisingly light for a plus bike and has a lifelong guarantee. Achieve. The components are solid, including tektro mechanical brakes with discs and micro-speed with 8 speeds.

How to choose a thick bike for your child

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Weight

Due to wide wheels and large tires, baby thick bikes usually have a problem with weight-ha! The weights of many bicycles on this list are comparable to greasy bike size of adults, but riders are usually much, much smaller and lighter.

This causes a certain body weight regarding the weight of the bike weight. For this reason, I would recommend choosing a bike based on weight and another component/price.

Brakes

Assuming you buy a thick bike for use in the snow, not sand, discus brakes are definitely a path. Snow driving seems moist riding, and brake pads quickly become saturated.

Of course, there are different levels of quality when it comes to discus brakes. Many of the bicycles on this list have either Tektro or passionate brakes – any solid choice.

Size

Although it is always best to measure your child and compare yourself to the manufacturer guidelines before buying a bicycle (Read this article for tips on this), Here are some very general guidelines to choose the right size bicycle.

Keep in mind that the bigger the tires, the more likely the bike is to fit “big”. While my son easily fits on a 26 ″ hill bicycle with a tire of ordinary sizes, he still rides a 24 ″ fat bike with 4 -inch tires.

Components and price

Generally speaking, the more you pay for a fat bicycle, the better the components it will be. Better quality components make a more comfortable ride, lighter bicycle weight and longer bicycle life. I always invite my parents to spend as much as I can.

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About us

Rascals are three families. Kristen (Mom), Blair (Dad) and Parker (Kiddo). We started driving, when Parker was born and we didn’t want to give up our passion for cycling. As we found out, we shared. Over the years, we have tested hundreds of children’s bicycles, helmets, bicycle trailers and more.

Kristen is a coach of certified cycling in the USA -ui likes to share his passion for cycling with other families. Blair is a cycling geek, a mechanic and a hill for mountain bikes. Parker is our resident tester and inspiration.

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