Daniel Kovach is a photojournalist for the local CBS News station in Salt Lake City in Utah. He took this shot on the top of Jacob’s Ladder in Corner Canyon, near Draper, Utah. He had this to say about his photo – “We thought it was going to be a typical Friday after work ride, but we [...]
Weekly Dose of Fat – 5-24-13
Site News // May 24, 2013We’ve got a Full Moon tonight! With a couple of nightime beach rides planned in our area we will have photos from our area for sure! We’d love to see Full Moon pix from your neck of the woods! Send ‘em to us at fullmoon@fat-bike.com. Among other stories that we are working on for next [...]
Fat WORS #1
Races, Site News // May 23, 2013Written By George Kapitz Photos By Kari Lewis Scheppman Editor’s Note : The Wisconsin Off-Road Race Series (WORS) is the largest state mountain bike race series in the country and this year they opened up a special Fat-Bike Category in all twelve of their races. Our amigo George is going to share his WORS experiences [...]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Dolomiti Mountains Italy
Wallpaper // May 22, 2013Luca sent in this shot of fat-bike action in the Dolomiti Mountains in Italy! We here at fat-bike.com are excited to see the fat-bike love spreading throughout the world. Keep the photos coming! Download the appropriate size and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the link below to open the full-sized version which [...]
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¡SPRING CONTEST! – One Month Left to Enter
Entries must be in by June 21st, 2013 Krampus Photo Contest We’ve teamed up with los gauchos del Surly to get you all a chance to win a sparkly new Krampus Frame and Fork! But that’s not all! In addition to the the Krampus frame and fork, we’ll be awarding a pair of Surly’s new Rabbit Hole Rims [...]
Continue →Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ The Dandenongs
David Peterson sent us a video clip from down under and had this to say about it. “My vid was filmed in a place that’s about an hours dive east of Melbourne (Oz) in a place called Mount Dandenong but it’s know to us more as just ‘The Dandenongs’. There are many walking and cycling [...]
Continue →Reader’s Ride(s) – Something Wicked This Way Comes
Written by Spinner Ryerson This is my Krampus. It’s my coolest bike ever. I think it’s cooler than yours, but that’s arguably arguable. The only things cooler that I can think of are: Absolute Zero and possibly Bill Murray. In that order. With the green frame I had a few ideas for color combos. I [...]
Continue →New Product Spotlight ♦ Growler Cage
As soon as I saw the Growler Cage, I thought of our test pilot, Colin. He works all day brewing delicious craft brewed beer for Lakefront Brewing in Milwaukee (The Beer City) and rides his Gravedigger Pugs from ‘where his crib be’ in River West, along the Milwaukee River, on the newly gentrified “river-trails” – back and forth, commuting on [...]
Continue →Fat Foto Friday ♦ Pink Sky
Jason Liddell took this shot of his 9:Zero:7 with the magic light of the East Lothian coastline bathing the beach in colour. You can see more of Jason’s photographs at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jason-l/. Triple F is a weekly feature, designed to inspire fat-bike fun, fueled by submissions from our readers. Would you like to help? Send your uncle [...]
Continue →Weekly Dose of Fat ♦ 5/17/13
Future Fat We kick off next week with a Reader’s Ride(s) piece from Spinner Ryerson and hit Austrailia and Utah for the rest of what’s fat & fresh for next week. Dr. Huber is in the house and building some wheels for our Krampus Show Bike project that we’ll be sharing with you over the [...]
Continue →Fat-bike 101 – Fat-bike Diet Plan
This article is part of the Fat-bike 101 series and is intended to help new fat-bike owners, and potential fat-bike owners, with some of the questions they may have about fat-bikes. In addition, it is a chance for experienced riders to add comments to help our new brethren enjoy all that fat-biking offers. Consider these [...]
Continue →Wallpaper Wednesday – Comox Lake, Canada
Crucial Matt sent us this photo from Canada! Here’s what he says about it: The What: My 2013 stock Mukluk3 The Where: Comox Lake, Courtenay BC Canada. In the beautiful Comox Valley…. The Why: Riding the shore of Comox lake while the water levels where way down gave way to some very interesting terrain. We [...]
Continue →FAT BIKE Championship – JAPAN
Our amigo, Nakashima Kurato checked in today to share some photos and results from this past weekend’s Fat Bike Championship at the 26ism Asagiri trail park” near Toyota City, Japan. The Fat Bike Championship was run in conjuction with the Singlespeed Japan Championships and some the racers in the fat-bike category embraced the weird, wild and [...]
Continue →Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Mammoth Lakes
Dan McConnell shot this video of Jodi Melton, Eric Hunter, and Alan Jacoby for The Mammoth Channel 72 (local tv channel in Mammoth). Alan Jacoby shot the GoPro footage of his purple Mukluk. The video was filmed around the Mammoth Lakes area on legal trails and roads (Sherwin Creek Rd., Antelope Valley Rd, and the [...]
Continue →Ride Reflections – Rabbit Holes on My Mukluk
Written by : Andy Oleson I’ve been able to log some decent single track mileage on my 29+ wheelset up at the Southern Kettle trail system, and have done some side by side comparison testing, swapping wheelsets between laps, and one thing is for sure, the 29+ Rabbit Hole/Knards are faster than the 26” Darryl/HuskerDu [...]
Continue →Bike Bag Dude – Chaff Bag
Written by Andy Oleson & Gomez Andy is up first with his review of the Bike Bag Dude – Chaff Bag – I usually never really have the Need, or make an Excuse, or even require a Reason to go for a bike ride. But today I had all three simutaniously! The “Need” was, I’ve [...]
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