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it's my new goPro hero 12, there are several types of timelapses now, this one is star trails, and everything was set to max and longest, as it's a very dark sky here in teh mountains of arizona

@@thunderdogproductions I never knew GoPros could do that, very interesting and cool.

and my video is tame compared to some others. i skipped a lot of features I thought I would be able to ride. I definitely want to try it on an enduro bike. mine is an XC bike essentially with fat tires

thanks old man fat bike!!! I am happy to be back making videos, I made 1 last year I think.

check out Pierce's vdeo, its nuts, way better than mine, but he also has way better riders with him and a drone as well. saw it and I immediately started researching, its 3.5 hours north of me, but well worth it. Defnitely need to go back when there is more daylight out, the sun was low the whole time, making some video useless. m 2 months the sun will be a lot higher and I wll go back with front and rear camera, and hopefully a friend with a drone

Pine, AZ

one thing I learned fast was that sometimes those small 2 mile trails on a computer monitor look enticing but turn into absolute hell. There's another one called rock springs over off fire road 64, it connects that fire road and the highline/azt. Its 1 mile. but 600 feet and most of it at the end, it took me 40 minutes. but it saved me from coming back in the dark. I NEVER even hike or walk after dusk there is a bunch of new mountain lions that were kicked out of their dens in the past 2 years that are trying to establish themselves all over the mountains surrounding town... not to mention bears, and coyotes.. out of all that, the scariest part was probably riding down the highway where there was no shoulder in places. that chili verde pie is the BEST! the strawberry creme is great too for dessert. that lady is one of my "sponsors", lol, meaning i get a discount

also, rock wall trail, your original plan back down, isnt really fun. it's an ATV trail, full of baby heads and sharp ones too. I put 15 psi even on my 5 inch tires and I can blast thru it, but, you need a enduro or DH bike to do it. my derailleur B tension screw unscrewed itself from all the jarring. its on here, on my channel. Ive done it a few times but once I got the KOM, I stopped

trails are great right now! we might get snow again this weekend though!

its not far... there's tons of options now from 3 different starting points on Strawberry Mountain, we are having the absolute best fall season for weather so try to come up before the snow hits. lets do a collab video sometime. ill be coming down that way once its gets too muddy here.

cool, yes the jeeps looked at us too like we were crazy, i told him this is the crawler of bikes, then he understood.

what was your question?

this was mid or late august, sorry for t he late reply

hell yes! we're buried in feet of snow up here, i need to ride! all i can do is snow shoe with the dog

no idea but used is always a good way to look, lots of people get a fat bike then they dont like it. I am going to upgrade the hardtail to a carbon one with GX for about the same cost as the alloy one was brand new with SX

Wow it's been that long? I got my number from a friend so he probably exaggerated it by about 5 to 8 degrees, instead of using weather.com

definitely a bucket list item!

sorry, sweetheart, no sound effects.. where you referring to?

Ooops clarification. lol--at 4:01 [video repetition] of Mark's voice when crashing off his FAT bike. 🤪

@@laughingcroc3539 yea the face smack. added a punch sound because well, thats how it felt

It's not really a secret, it's just SO FAR away from anything. It was a 2 hour drive on dirt roads south of green river, UT, on the map it's called "saucer basin". I got the GPS if you ever need it too. If you ever watched 127 hours, where James Franco has to cut off his own arm to survive, this is only about 3-4 miles away from Blue John Canyon, where that happened. I was gonna go to the Great Gallery, but with no GPS, and cloudy, indistinguishable terrain, I decided to just ride around where I could still see the car

it's a roadmaster 48-10 Hi-Lo adaptor. I cant remember if i got it on amazon or etrailer, just look it up. the 10 is 10 inches, there are a few different sizes.

Sweet!!! Fat bikes are great in the desert. Check out this cool channel New Mexico outside, those guys rip all over and know of lots of fat bike only trails too.

@@thunderdogproductions I am going to meet up with them next week at Mariposa bike park, should be super fun

@@duanedenning3500 tell them HI for me! Im headed out that way on a Saturday soon

a plus bike can join me, you know... jusssssayin

@@thunderdogproductions I will be getting some mtn bike training to match your skill level...yo yo dig it😁

you're right, but I was looking for a fat bike with suspension which was about $1,200 1500 after all the taxes and everything. Remember I was trying to split the difference between a racing bike, a trail bike, a Fat Bike, and skiing. The ones that I saw for under a thousand would not stand up to the abuse

Another thing I didn't mention in the review was that my mom was actually helping me get this and one of her stipulations was it had to be new because she wanted to make sure I had a warranty. Yes there's a lot of great used bikes that are under a thousand

@@thunderdogproductions bro.... there's a lot of nice new bikes for under a thousand. anywhere from 700 to a thousand is mid tier hard tail. giant for example.

@@Daniel-yo5es is it a fat bike? also, "mid-tier", I would consider it to have at least an NX groupset, and I have yet to see one with a n NX groupset for under 1000

@@Daniel-yo5es giant's only fat bike is the Yukon and it's like $2k.

this is my starter bike, a motobecane nighttrain bullet. those tires are really god in snow, but I heard the compound gets really hard in the cold... Still far better than my jumbo jims in the snow. I have the 27.5x3.8 minions on my new bike, and I love them! lighter, faster, but same grip thanks for watching! top 5 of the year comes out tomorrow

Yes!!

Yes I certainly can't blame the 120 mm bottom bracket for not clearing, but I actually made it through that top rocky entry part. the other stuff, not so much. there was a lot of really fun places to session though. they are bigger and steeper in person than in the videos, I found out. I went in thinking I could do those rollers, but I didn't

this one is a 27.5". 3.8" maxxis minions for the tires, which I actually LOVE. I hate the maxxis minion 26x4.8", its extremely heavy and sluggish. this one is leaner, meaner, and still grips really well.

you will. All you gotta do is believe. and ride. and ride. and then ride some more. and take a lesson from Sedona Mountain Bike Academy, you have an endless resource available, just open up and let it all that high frequency energy flow into you !!!!

Thanks a lot!

Right on!

cool! I usually get to know the sweeper pretty well because I am usually the one gasping for air in the back. But this was the first ride of the weekend and I managed to keep in the middle most of the time. at 2pm though, The Hardtail Party/Dusty Betty ride, I got to know the sweeper pretty well !!

nobody really said much. I noticed my rear camera got a lot of double takes but not too many questions. Moe from Awesome MTB interviewed me and asked all about it, he was stoked to see a full suspension fattie. The one comment I got was "that's gotta be heavy!", and I reply saying, "no, it's not."

I didn't see Rich. I found both these guys in 2020 when Rich put out the wheelie video

yes, it was sick

yes, I was intentionally aiming right at the janky stuff in certain places as I was testing out all the new suspension. feels like a flying sofa!

it's an absolute game changer!!!!! 2 days of Sedona MTB Festival, 25 total miles and I can certainly appreciate not gaving to use my legs as suspension 100% of the time!!! Funny thing too, I thought I saw you (the lady) there.. same jersey, same black hair, but then I noticed she was not on a fat bike so I knew it wasn't you guys.

@@thunderdogproductions 😀 Yeah, we are still here in NM but it would have been cool to go to Sedona for the festival for sure. Glad you are liking the new fat full squish. They are a completely different ride from the hard tail. Good to have one of each in the bike quiver.

growler double stout

@@thunderdogproductions thanks bro :)

this video I had my first bike a motobecane night train bullet 2020 version.

mine went thru hell in shipping, but Wheels is the best with the warranty on the axle issue i had. i have my older wheel on there and i can feel it's sluggishness compared to the carbon wheel