One of the guys on my team has been riding a friend of his' pugsley. Commuting through the icy death up here in ND.

Hes running it single or fixed (can't remember exactly but its setup for both) Its a neato bike. Weighs about 40lbs, rollin on 4's.

Said basically... he has the gearing set pretty low to keep a good cadence while going over deep snow. Floats real nice if you keep the psi's down. If he stops pedaling though.... it gets eaten right up and it sucks buckets to try and dig a bike like that out.

But that bike is hustler for sure.

God I want one.

Winter sucks in Toronto on a regular bike. I want to plow through feet of slush and snow in this thing. Spikes for the skating rink that always follows. Pedaling like a juggernaut past motorists spinning their wheels in futility trying to escape their prison/parking spot.

Muahahahaha! Ha!

http://www.63xc.com/pugsley/pugswheels.jpg

It's kind of rediculous to put the Fatties Fit Fine sticker on that. Just saying.

Where do you live in ND? I grew up up there. That thing would be pure sweet hell on the Maah dah hey in the winter.

Have you seen this? This guy had a surly single speed hub for a backup incase his 2 x 8 failed.

http://wildworks.co.nz/csr/home.php

Check out http://www.ridingthespine.com/ I can't be bothered to find if but one bloke on there has a custmom made Pugsley / xtracycle thing with a two chain setup to remove the wide q factor.

http://www.ridingthespine.com/Journey/page/4/

http://www.ridingthespine.com/Journe...6/img_0597.JPG
http://www.ridingthespine.com/Journe...6/img_0599.JPGhttp://www.ridingthespine.com/Journe...6/img_0605.JPG

I have one...
 

I have one. Commuted on it 18 miles each way for about six months as New Orleans was recovering from Hurricane Katrina when roads were beaten up by heavy equipment and flat tires/broken wheels were a huge issue esp riding at night. So I used the Pugs all winter.

http://12.152.111.66/joeybike/pugs.001.jpg

I also use it to play in sand at the beach and a few other spots around S. Louisiana. I have ridden off road single track with some more experienced buds and did fine too.

My setup new would cost around $2500. Tried to sell it on Ebay all winter (I moved back to flooded/remodeled house last Sept and have an easier commute) without success for $1500.

The major drawback (for me) riding that thing around town is the attention. I absolutely HATE talking to every stranger on the street about those freakin' tires. And in New Orleans, the odds of having some hoodlum knock my brains out to get such a thing is pretty high. I don't get to the beach enuf to justify having it. Bummer, because I really love that bike - on and off road.

If you love talking to strangers - 99 percent men - then you would love riding one of these around town! I suspect that if a woman with large breasts wore a bikini top around downtown that she would get similar attention. But put her on a Pugsley TOO! Mens heads would explode form sensory overload!

Just get a Big Dummy. Big Apples fit on it and you even get a Brooks with it.

I am all about the Big Dummy. It's too bad that the Xtracycle accessory and the Big Dummy frame come out to over $1000. Is that a Rohloff on the Riding The Spine dude's bike? I've never seen them mention that.

"so you'd get it just to be different, not to use it as its intended? unintentional irony detected "

Not exactly. I'd get it because it was cool, and it's cool partly because it's different.

If, on the other hand, it had tires 1/8" thick, it would be different, too, but wouldn't be cool, at least to me.