fat bike

English

a fat bike

Etymology

fat +‎ bike, from the fat tires (tyres) equipped to these bicycles and their requisite need for wider frames to accommodate the width of the tires.

Alternative forms

• fatbike

Noun

fat bike (plural fat bikes)

1. (winter sports) A bicycle specialized for riding on snow-covered trails, such as snowshoeing trails, cross-country skiing trails, winter hiking trails, and skiing pistes. The bikes have fat wide snow tires, similar to aviation tundra tires and trucking M/S tires, to increase traction on ice and snow.

Translations

Translations

• French: vélo sur neige, fat bike, vélo hivernal
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See also

• snowbike
• skibike

Anagrams

• bakfiet, fakebit

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fat bajk/

riding on a fat bike

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English fat bike

Alternative forms

• fatbike
• vélo fatbike
• vélo fat bike

Noun

fat bike m (plural fats bikes)

1. (winter sports) fat bike

Synonyms

• vélo sur neige
• vélo hivernal
• vélo à pneus surdimensionnés (VPS)