Brother Cycles is a small, consumer direct brand that offers a wide range of low priced and interesting steel framesets and bikes. While it’s been producing ‘cross and track frames for a number of years now, it recently sent us through its first foray into fat-tyred territory, the Big Bro.
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The most striking thing about the double butted, 4130 frameset is the colour matched rigid fork up front, a relative rarity in 2016. While your wrists will likely never thank you for shredding sans-squish, the unforgiving and lightning quick handling of a rigid fork is, dare I say it, kind of fun.
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Comparing the geometry of the Big Bro to any modern XC bike, the 71 degrees head angle stands out as pretty darn steep. Even the similarly spirited Marin Pinetrail we featured previously boasts a considerably slacker 69 degrees up front.
I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve spent some time on the bike, but I expect this will quicken up the handling over slow, technical sections while making the bike less stable at high-speed or when blasting through rock gardens.
However, the Big Bro is clearly designed as a long distance cruiser rather than a singletrack ripper, so the rigid and upright ride shouldn’t pose any problems when used for its intended purpose — particularly if it’s built around some suitably plump, tubeless rubber.
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