u/sjanzeir

Hello folks. I live in Saudi Arabia and I might be in the market soon for a 2WD, SWB Tahoe/Yukon as a second car for road trips. I've been specifically looking at 2002-3 models for their vacuum servo assisted brakes; I've been told that the hydraulic assist systems that were used in the Suburbans and later standardized across the range after the 2004 model year could be troublesome and expensive to repair, sometimes totalling the whole vehicle, given how ubiquitous these trucks are around here abd how cheap they've become. If I had to choose between performance and mechanical simplicity, I almost always would lean towards the latter (my daily driver is a 1991 Toyota Cressida station wagon with a 22R and five-speed manual - see a pattern there?) So what can you tell me about this? Thanks in advance!

So, I've been wanting to try out fat biking for a while. The area and the neighborhoods I live and ride in are much more sandy than gravely, with deep, very fine sand being the norm on most of the off-pavement surfaces that I ride and explore. I do not own a proper mountain bike, but the 2.00"-wide tires on the bike that I do own and use as my "mountain" bike (a 2015 Dahon Jetstream) will almost always bog and sink in. Owning and using that bike, I've long since figured that I'd rather not deal with the weight, complexity, and service of suspension, and would rather have me something fully rigid with wider (or outright wide) tires.

Since this would be my first foray into such a specific form of biking, I'm not too inclined to be spending well over a thousand bucks on something like a Farley 5 at the very least. I figured this might be a good way to dip my toes into fat bikes and fat biking. I know my way around bike maintenance, repair, and upgrading and already own a comprehensive set of tools and a man-cave that I operate out of.

With some mild, budget, mostly Aliexpress kind of upgrades in mind, my main concern is whether this kind of low-end, big-box/department-store quality bike will be using standard sizes for components, such as wheel spacings and bottom bracket threading. I'm also concerned as to whether this bike's frame sizing, stack and reach will fit 5'3" (160cm) me. What do you guys and gals think?