Published on 01/28/2025
Are you ready to take your offroad adventures to the next level? Check out the UTCustom Catrike Fat Cat 4! The Fat Cat 4 combines the reliability and quality that Catrikes are known and loved for, into the offroading quad riding scene! The Fat Cat 4 is a custom made in house Utah Trikes build that is equipped with 26x4 inch fat tires. This quad is ready to ride off to any adventure! The Fat Cat 4 is perfect for the beach, rough roads, and anywhere you're willing to take it!
Like any other trike that we build, the choice of gearing is yours. We offer many different options for special purposes, but we think that most people will be happy with our choice of the stock gearing.
Front Gearing - At the front, the Fat Cat-4 features the FSA Gossamer Triple Crankset. The Gossamer has an external bearing bottom bracket and comes with an integrated chain guard. The chainring sizes are 52, 42, and 30 teeth, so you get a wide range and smooth shifting.
Rear Primary Gearing - The middrive utilizes a SRAM wide range 11-36 tooth cassette paired with a SRAM GX 10-speed derailleur. Shifting is smooth and reliable with a great high gear and terrific low climbing gear.
Shifters - With different gearing components you need three shifters. For the derailleur gearing we use the SRAM TT500 bar end shifters. They are easy to use and reliable.
The first thing people notice with the Fat Cat-4 are the humongous tires. We went with a custom rim by Origin8 that has cutouts to keep the weight down. For some added bling, we can add some color with the WIDE Surly rim strips that show through the cutouts. Where the rubber hits the pavement we chose the Innova 26x4.0 Fat Off-Road tires. The tire tread is good for riding on the road, the beach, snow, or anywhere you want to go.
The Fat Cat 4 is the next best thing in comfort! The Fat Cat 4 comes with the standard comfortable Catrike seat and can be built on either a Villager or a MAX frame making it even more comfortable for bigger riders. It's big tires also make rough terrain smooth as can be!
Utah Trikes has been making Custom Quads since 2008 and the Cat-4 platform is the culmination of our experience. Our custom Cat-4 rear end interfaces with the Catrike frame and adds two-wheel drive to the trike. For the Fat Cat-4 we are using our own frewheel posi-traction geared differential and hardened steel axles. We can attach multiple drive interfaces to the differential included various middrives, gas and electric motor systems.
All of our motor kits allow you to choose the level of assist you want. That means that as you pedal the motor kicks in automatically providing additional power to your own pedaling efforts. We also provide a thumb-actuated throttle with our Bafang motor systems that act like the gas pedal in your car. Don't want to pedal? No worries, just push the throttle and go!
Currently we offer three different options here at Utah Trikes: the Bafang mid drive motor which ranges from 750 watts, 1000 watts, and our Ultra which is a 1000 watt motor with a 1400 watt max output.
The Bafang Middrive comes in a 750 Watt, 1000 Watt, or Ultra. You'll want to choose the motor size based on your style of riding. We install the Bafang motor on your bottom bracket, which means it replaces the front crankset of your trike. The motor being mounted here means the motor can utilize the rear gearing ratios, making it the best for speed and climbing ability
No matter how you spin it the UTCustom Fat Cat 4 is the perfect offroading machine! It combines the off roading capabilities of 4 fat tires with the stability and quality of a Catrike.