Does Mongoose Mushaboom (~$317 New) Run Standard Components?
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?