Originally Posted by
wolfchild
You can do all those things on a regular mountain bike or a hybrid with studded tires. Fat bike is too much work to be used as daily transportation.
+1
Fat bikes suck imho. Great on the sandy beaches, but blow hard on everything else. Fat tires are good for packed and groomed snow - not much of anything else. Best snow tire is narrow and studded to cut through tall snow and still give bite.