Monday, March 3, 2014

Mongoose fat bike (s) recap

Last Thursday, Mongoose and Walmart released the 20" Mongoose Massif.
This obviously made everyone waiting for the Dolomite refresh Walmart's page a million times a day. A couple people were able to pre-order the Dolomite direct from Pacific Cycles last week. Rumor is that they shipped them out to Walmart now and pre-ordering is no longer an option. Hopefully, that means this week we can order them at some point. Price rumor is under 250$ A test rider for Mongoose has given us the frame specs which are:
24" effective top tube
19" chain stays
70d head tube angle
73d seat tube angle
Will have the same tires as the beast
Full alloy 1 1/8" stem
Hubs are steel nutted disc freewheels

fat-bike.com reported a spy shot of another Mongoose fat bike that's supposed to come out later this year. Yes, that will be three new fat bikes this year from Mongoose. This is a sub 1k$ bike with a 10 speed Shimano drivetrain. You can check that out here I'll be interested to see the actual price point and full specs and see how it compares to the sub 1500$ bikes and if having the Mongoose name will be a deciding factor for some people. Me? I can't justify that kind of money for a bike I won't use all the time.

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