November Fat Bike Packing Written and Photographed by: Ken Blakey-Shell Scotty Q and I had been talking about going on a bike packing trip for months now but something was always getting in the way of a trip actually happening. After too much talk and too little action, we knew the window of opportunity was […]
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Fat Video Tuesday – Fat-Pack Baja
Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot and International Playboy, Cale Wenthur, shot this vid last month on a fat-packing trip that he took down in Baja de California. You can read a full account of a similar trip that he under-took here. Do you have some Fellini in you? Are you the next Quentin Tarantino of fat-bike […]
Lake Superior Fat-Pack ~ Part Two
…continued from part one DAY TWO We awoke to a sunrise that looked remarkably similar to the hazey Mars sunset from the previous evening. After some oatmeal for breakfast, we loaded our packs and headed out under beautiful azure skies. We also had a nice tail wind blowing at about ten miles per hour that […]
Lake Superior Fat-Pack ~ Part One
About a year ago, I started to dream about a multi-day beach riding trip in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Someone from my past life had told me tales of how Lake Michigan ended as a shallow whisper against the southern edge of the deliciously underpopulated U.P. I hatched a plan, where four or five riders would tag […]
Salamandre Cycles ~ Fat-Pack Experimental
Yann from Salemandre Cycles just sent us a shot of a Fat-Packing Experimental Prototype that he’ll be personally testing on a 3 day trip this week. Look for a full report coming soon!
Wallpaper Wednesday – U.P. Fat-Pack Preview
Here’s a sneak peek of last week’s business trip up to the shores of Lake Gitchigumi. James, from Snow Frog Designs, and I camped and rode our fat-bikes on the beach from Whitefish Point to Grand Marais, Michigan. It was pretty damn splendid…….if you’re into that sort of thing. Feel free to download it and use it as […]
Fat-Packing Wish-List – Spring/Summer 2012
Vacation season is here! We thought we’d put a list of gear together for folks that want to try fat-packing this summer. We asked our Left Coast Correspondant, Cale to help put a list of gear together for your shopping pleasure and many items on this list have been field tested on his trip down […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Lake Superior
Here’s a flashback to what I was riding a decade ago. Here’s my Surly Moonlander all loaded for a three-day bikepacking trip in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. You can see more from that trip in a two-part series in the links below. Lake Superior Fat-Pack Part 1 – https://fat-bike.com/2012/08/lake-superior-fat-pack-part-one/ Lake Superior Fat-Pack Part 2 […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Unforgettable
Todd Poquette Facebook messengered me a link to this week’s Fat (Tuesday) Video. It’s a trailer for the movie, Unforgettable. The movie is about a bicycle tour around the outer perimeter of the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. They claim that the UP has been left off of a bunch of maps. I say that they’ve […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Babyhead Beach
I spied this shot and really loved the baby heads. It really brought back memories of the trip that James Healy and I took across the top of Michigan’s Upper Penninsula and exemplifies the sort of terrain for which fat-bikes transcend every other form of bicycle. This week’s photo was taken in the UK […]
Travis Reports on the Resurrection Pass Trail in Chugach National Forest in Alaska
Resurrection Pass, Chugach National Forest, AK – Trail Report The Resurrection Pass trail is located on the north end of the Kenai Peninsula in the Chugach National Forest. The trail is a 39 mile traverse with an elevation gain of 2,200 feet. The pass runs between the towns of Hope (north trailhead) to Cooper Landing […]
Fat-Bike Destination – Free Soil Michigan
Last week, I made good on a long standing plan to continue my exploration of the Lake Michigan Shoreline, just north of where I left off on a trip in 2012. The plan was to explore the area north of Ludington to the river town of Manistee. Over the years, I’ve visited and written […]
The Summer Sticker Boondoggle!
If you’ve been a reader of Fat-Bike dot com, over the last 4 years, you know that we love to give away stickers. We’ve had some doozies over the years and this latest batch, might just be, the best ever. This is also the first batch that features our updated logo, which makes all of our […]
Weekly Dose of Fat Radio – Show #53 – Tom McDonald Interview
Weekly Dose of Fat – Show #53 Friday, April 24th 2015 – Tom McDonald Interview In the studio today it’s Sven and Gomez along with J.K. Livin’! Surly pioneered the plus sized bike! Check out the true Instigator of fat-bike fun at http://surlybikes.com. On today’s show we have Special Guest Tom McDonald We delve into […]
Salsa Anything Cage New vs. Old
ad The folks up at Salsa sent Sven one of their new fangled plastic Anything Cages, but he doesn’t own a fork with braze-ons to accept cargo cages, so it fell to me. Come to think of it, Sven is testing one of those sassy Salsa Blackborrow’s that has the appropriately ventilated fork made […]
Otis turns One ♦ Fatback Long Term Review
On or about, one earth year ago, I took possession of a Raw Aluminum 190mm Fatback that I spec’d out with the owner of Fatback (and cool cat) Greg Matyas. I asked Greg to make the bike all silver, black and white, like the Oakland Raiders. I wanted to run Umma Rims with Bud and Lou. I […]
Weekly Dose of Fat – 8-8-14 – with Neil from Cycle Monkey – Show #16
Weekly Dose of Fat 8-8-14 Show #16 Intro This show is sponsored by Surly Bikes. Check them out at http://surlybikes.com Beer Colin decided that it was more important to get a head start on the trip to SSUSA than to talk beer to you folks so we put the task of beer procurement on to […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Tundra Muffins
Any video with Musk Oxen is money, in my world. Francois Carrier Deziel and his amigo Guillaume Bedard took their fat-bikes out to what locals call Dry Bay, near Ungava Bay for an overnight fat-pack. Great terrain and cool music make for some sweet tundra trippin! Tell us how you trip Share your photos and […]
Troy’s Fatpacking Adventure to North Stradbroke Island Off the Coast of Brisbane, AU
Troy from Brisbane, Australia sent me a note to check out a story that he wrote about a fatpacking adventure that he took recently on North Stradbroke Island off the coast of Brisbane, AU. He generously gave us permission to retell the story here. If you want to follow more of Troy’s adventures, be sure […]
Beach Slacker Rodeo – Part Three– The Core Banks
This is part three of a three part series about beach riding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. You can check out part one here and part two here. We Pick up the story with two ferry rides to get from Ocracoke Island to Cedar Island and then out to South Core Bank. Have you ever heard […]
Weekly Dose of Fat – 10-11-13 – It’s my Sister’s Birthday
Lots of Fall Rides going on around these parts. What’s happening where you are? We’d love to hear about it! Oh, yeah, it is my sister’s birthday today! Hippo Birdy Two Ewes! Spend some time with these Fat Links http://greatlakesfatbikeseries.blogspot.com/p/series-schedule.html – Great Lakes Race Schedule http://coastkid.blogspot.com/2013/10/saturdays-beach-rideout-with-posse.html – Posse Beach Ride in Scotland. http://thebottombracket.blogspot.com/2013/10/fatback_6.html – A new frame […]
Lynskey Names their fatty ~ STRATUS ~ like a floating cloud
Last week we shared the news that Lynskey Performance Cycles was soliciting names for their new “made in America’ titanium fat-bike and I have to say, that I was duly impressed with the creativity and sheer volume of names that the fat-bike community offered to the good folks, down there in Chattanooga, Tennessee. […]
Weekly Dose of Fat – 7-26-13
Tonight at 7PM a goodly portion of your favorite fat-bike test beaters from the will be competing in a 24-hour race through the streets of Riverwest in Milwaukee. The crew of 6 will be running Team A that requires all riders to ride the SAME bike, in this case a custom fat-bike. With over 1,000 […]
Platypus Duthie AM 12 Hydration Pack
Platypus has recently revamped their hydration pack lineup, which now includes five packs (3 classified as XC and 2 classified as AM). The Duthie AM 12 is the second largest pack that Platypus makes (the 12 designation an indicator of its total volume – 12 liters). It has a bladder capacity of 3 liters and […]
Pack your Fatty and ‘Run Away From Home’
Do you ever want to get on your bike and ‘Run Away From Home’? Do you look at the photos of gorgeous beaches, mountains and forests that we share on Fat-Bike and dream about strapping some gear on your rig and exploring the great out-of-doors? Why not take a Sub 24 Hour Overnight (S24O)? The S24O is a […]
Introducing the Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilots
Back in 2012 we started to assemble a group of fat-bike riders that ride hard and fat, all year long. We needed a diverse and accomplished group, dedicated to test gear and share the results of that testing, right here, on the pages of fat-bike.com. We assembled our team for 2013 and branded them the Bike Black […]
Sled-X v1.11
Sled-Hed v 1.0 – aka – the widow maker I read a parable on the surly blog the other day about a rope and pvc-pipe fat-bike sled that inspired me to build Sled-Hed v1.0. Noah had his arc and I….well I have a kid’s psychedelic plastic sled that I bought at the local hardware…. which (in […]
First Look ~ The Oveja Negra MM2-SSB/ON Frame Bag
Back in November, I shared my plan to have our amigos at Oveja Negra Threadworks make a custom frame bag for my Moonlander. I’ve had some fun, playing up the “Space Suit” theme, to the point where you all probably think I’m some sort of delusional space cadet, so its time to drop my NASA comedy routine […]
Salamandre Custom Fat-bike Build from France
Thierry from Bike-A-Lot in France has been working with Yann from Salamandre (We’ve done a couple of other stories on Salalmandre here and here) to build a really sweet fat-bike! Thierry translated his report that was originally in French so all you fine people could see what fat-biking is looking like in France! Enjoy! Direct […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Yukon Cabin
Anthony DeLorenzo lives and rides in the Yukon Territory up in remote Northwest Canada. He sent us this magic light shot taken at a back-country cabin that makes me want to get out and find some fat-packing adventures! Click on the photo to see it full size. Fat Foto Friday is a new weekly feature for […]
Moonlander – Mission 1.1 – Frame Pack – (MM2-SSB/ON)
Houston this is Moonlander; all systems are go…..again… After almost one full earth orbit, my Surly Moonlander (Thparkle) is in need of a replacement, heavy duty frame bag. In the last eleven months, We’ve put lots of hours in, riding together with a frame bag made by our west coast amigo, Cale (the locust). Thparkle […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Spring Aussie Beach Ride
Ross Cairns shot this footage on a fat-packing trip from Newcastle to Seal Rocks along the shores of the Tasman Sea. Flip Flops RULE! Want to see your name up in lights? Do you think you have what it takes to be a Hollywood producer? Do you wear your mustache, pencil thin? Have you ever danced, with the […]
True Confessions of Two Fat-Bike-Beach-Rats
Ecrito y fotografiado por Julio y Gomez Julio caught ‘beach-fever’ sometime last year and he’s been planning a fat-pack ever since. Somewhere along the line this summer, we agreed to take a little fat-bike adventure together and this is our beach-rat, ride report. We figured the weather could get dicey in late October, so we kept […]
Product Review ~ Salsa Anything Cage
I’ve been using a pair of Salsa Anything Cages on my Moonlander for the last few months for fat-packing trips and I plan on using them full time, this winter to carry liquid assets inside a water bottle koozie. The anything cages are designed to mount onto Enabler Forks that come standard on some Salsa […]
8 Months of Beach Riding ~ the Moonlander and the Damage Done
Last December, I received my Surly Moonlander and since then…I’ve done my best to ride the hell out of it. Snow, sand, mud, slurm and salt, all ridden, without a care in the world. Due to the lack of snow last winter, my fattie has seen more than it’s fair share of beach riding over […]
Oveja Negra Threadworks ~ Review
Our amigo James Healy of Snow Frog Design and Crutchbuddies tested out a full set of Oveja Negra’s bags on our recent fat-packing trip along las orillas del Lago Superior. Oveja Negra Threadworks – Bike Bags by James Healy When Gomez proposed I join him on the super sweet beach ride in the UP from Whitefish […]
Shop Profile – Central District Cyclery – Grand Rapids, Michigan
My first visit to Central District Cyclery was last winter on rainy February afternoon. I was on a whirlwind tour that took me to 616, CDC and Quiring Cycles. CDC is right in the center of downtown Grand Rapids – right next to GR Police Headquarters. The shop is in a sleek 3100 square foot […]
New Custom Bag Maker – Oveja Negra Threadworks
As you read this, mi amigo James and I are starting a fat-packing trip from Whitefish Point to Grand Marais in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. James will be testing some Oveja Negra bags on our 3 day, seventy mile journey. James took a few preview shots on his test run of the Oveja Negra set-up – […]
(Fat) Sub 24 Hour Overnight – (S24O)
I’ve had this idea in my head about bikepacking my fattie on the beach for awhile now. Mis amigo, Cale just came back from a long trip in Baja, that made the trip planning itch, all the stronger. In the past month I’ve traded email and read stories from experienced fat-packers that make a pretty […]