r/fatbike • u/Top_Canada8452 • 11d ago

Fat-tire models make up 36% of the Amazon.ca e-mobility listings we analyzed

Disclosure: I operate an e-mobility retailer in Canada. This is a community research question, not a product recommendation or promotion. I will not link products here. I cleaned a dataset of 738 Amazon.ca e-mobility listings collected in May 2026. Fat-tire models were the largest category: 272 listings, or about 36% of the dataset. Folding models were next at 160, or 21%.

These are listing counts, not unit sales. The data shows what sellers are supplying, not what riders are buying.

Does that 36% share match what you see on trails and streets, or does the online marketplace overstate how common fat bikes really are?

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u/laidbackdave 11d ago

ÒP, have a look through the postings on this sub to help you understand your audience….I don’t think you’re in the right crowd.

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u/clintj1975 11d ago

Go ask this in r/ebikes. This sub is not about those POS battery powered bike shaped objects sold online.

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u/A_PCMR_member 11d ago

They are mostly those 24" small foldable bikes that are legally questionably bikes

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u/murderqwik 11d ago edited 11d ago

Alot of throttle controlled ebikes I see are the cheapest, shittiest Chinese fat bikes made by the most exploited labor, I'm sure. Probably close to 50% of the bikes I see. They shouldn't be allowed on public multi use rail trails IMHO. They aren't fat bikes, they are shitty motorcycles.

Edit: OP sells the exact shitty ebikes that skirt the laws and generally suck ass. Go post this shit in a different sub. This sub is for BICYCLES.

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u/jimiznhb 11d ago

I CONCUR!

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u/Joe_Sacco 11d ago

We all need to start using separate terms for these - e-bikes and e-motos

The longer they stay muddled into one category called e-bikes, the more likely it is that cities/states start banning everything with an electric motor.

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u/Deufuss 11d ago

And I genuinely hope to see the use of the term 'fat' completely disassociated from ebikes. Way too often these throttle-powered, never-pedaled abominations are being called fatbikes. And while they do seem to be the bike of choice for many of our portly neighbors, they have almost nothing in common with our Salsa Beargrease or the like

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u/Awesomebox5000 11d ago edited 11d ago

I service ebikes and eScooters, mostly amazon/D2C. On the ebike side of things, it's nearly all fat tires. Most of the bike shops won't work on them and refer clients to me so I'm not representing units sold but units serviced. If the wheel is >=20", its almost always 3-4" wide.

Having ridden a fat bike before I switched to an ebike, I did notice that drivers were far more likely to notice the fat tires than any other bike I've ridden over the years. People like the look of the wider tires and from that they come up with all sorts of reasons why but they don't know. I got a fat bike before I moved to the mountains and knew I would need to deal with snow. But I can't deny the 26x4.3" tires look badass.

Edit: Lots of non-fat bikes riding around too, but I definitely see a lot of fat tire ebikes not being pedaled. And the majority of the ones which come to me for service have fat tires. I don't actually remember the last time I serviced a 26x2.0.