Mongoose Beast Fat Bike build and ideas

[Kendi]

Here is my Mongoose Beast. Future plans are to cut holes in rims, replace tires and crankset. The lights are fun, though!

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Here is my Mongoose Beast. Future plans are to cut holes in rims, replace tires and crankset. The lights are fun, though!
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Well, you will get seen at night!

Luke.

 

[Dhouch181325]

WOW! Lots of reading on this post. Just joined a week ago after my Mother gifted an old beach cruiser to my GF to ride at the beach with our 2 yr old and I found myself the only one of us 5 without a bike to ride and started eyeing my Pops old Mongoose Dozer we got him on Fathers Day in 2013 lol.

First off, I have no experience building or customizing bikes but I am pretty handy and have tons of tools at my disposal. You all did this bike justice over 10 years ago and parts are more readily available via amazon.

I'm looking to strech this bike out some by either welding some extended dropouts on the forks or finding some MTB fat tire forks also looked out ordering some custom forks from Lawless but that pricetag is rough right now, whitewalls, correct sized headset as the bars I got are 1" at clamp and original was 7/8" (ordered longer allen bolts to work). Now that Ive read this thread I'd like to change the rear cog and crankset and was wondering what the best setup you all found worked for cruising around at the beach? 22T?

Here's my Dozer so far after a week...not sure which seatpost I want to keep, I like the longer lay back but dont like it sits so high.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I'm looking to strech this bike out some by either welding some extended dropouts on the forks or finding some MTB fat tire forks

Hey bud, welcome to the place. There's a lot of helpful people here. However, you might get better replies if you were to start your own thread, either in the Introduction section, or the Bike Chat area. It's pretty busy here right now with the big Build contest happening though, so you might have to be patient

https://ratrodbikes.com/forums/new-member-introductions.9/

https://ratrodbikes.com/forums/bike-talk.1/

 

[Captain Awesome]

WOW! Lots of reading on this post. Just joined a week ago after my Mother gifted an old beach cruiser to my GF to ride at the beach with our 2 yr old and I found myself the only one of us 5 without a bike to ride and started eyeing my Pops old Mongoose Dozer we got him on Fathers Day in 2013 lol.

First off, I have no experience building or customizing bikes but I am pretty handy and have tons of tools at my disposal. You all did this bike justice over 10 years ago and parts are more readily available via amazon.

I'm looking to strech this bike out some by either welding some extended dropouts on the forks or finding some MTB fat tire forks also looked out ordering some custom forks from Lawless but that pricetag is rough right now, whitewalls, correct sized headset as the bars I got are 1" at clamp and original was 7/8" (ordered longer allen bolts to work). Now that Ive read this thread I'd like to change the rear cog and crankset and was wondering what the best setup you all found worked for cruising around at the beach? 22T?

Here's my Dozer so far after a week...not sure which seatpost I want to keep, I like the longer lay back but dont like it sits so high.

Hey bud, welcome to the place. There's a lot of helpful people here. However, you might get better replies if you were to start your own thread, either in the Introduction section, or the Bike Chat area. It's pretty busy here right now with the big Build contest happening though, so you might have to be patient

https://ratrodbikes.com/forums/new-member-introductions.9/

https://ratrodbikes.com/forums/bike-talk.1/

Just start a build journal in the competition