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Fatback Corvus FLT – One Year Review
A year has passed since I first rode my Fatback Corvus FLT for the first time. I swear that time just goes by faster and faster when you’re having fun. ...
Bivvy a Month Challenge #12 GFBD2018
Bivvy a Month Challenge Global Fat Bike Day 2018 We all know December 1st 2018 was ‘our’ special day as it was this year’s Global Fat Bike Day. However it was made even more special for me this year as I bagged my final Bivvy a Month for the year. I’ve organised the last […]
Product Spotlight: Chamonix Collection Cycling Gear
The Chamonix Collection is based out of St. Paul, Minnesota. It is described as, “A collection of affordable performance apparel and gear inspired by the vibrancy and personality of Chamonix, France.” They specialize in snowboards, snowboard apparel, and winter cycling apparel. I recently received two pieces of Chamonix Collection winter cycling-specific apparel. The first […]
2018 Global Fat-Bike Day Film Festival
Welcome to the 2018 Global Fat-Bike Day Film Festival. It’s an honor to host this year’s GFBDFF and we have an excellent post prepared with twenty-one celebrations from around the globe! Let me introduce our first guest presenter, the very first recipient of our Bivvy a Month Merit Badge, Mr. Jeff Price! JP – Here is […]
First Look – 45NRTH Van Helga – 27.5 x 4.0
The 27.5 fat tire selection continues to expand and this is the second tire that 45NRTH has offered in the 27.5 size (the other being the Dillinger 4). For those of you not familiar with the 45NRTH line of tires, the Van Helga is their more aggressive 4″ tire that is designed for “all-round mixed […]
Event Spotlight – December Events in Wisconsin
Hugh Jass RACE 03: 12/8/18 TREK HEADQUARTERS (WATERLOO, WI) Big Cheese Fatbike Series – 12/15/18 – Cottage Grove, WI Shelltrack Fat Bike Race – 12/15/18 – Minitowoc, WI Solstice Chase Fatbike Race 12/15/18 – Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin Fatbikes by Candlelight 12/26/18 – Minocqua, Wisconsin Check Out the Fat-Bike Event Calendar We’ve been loading […]
45nrth Ragnarok Boots and Torvald Jacket Review
Over the past couple of months, before the snow arrived, I had the opportunity to test the new 45nrth Ragnarok Boots and Torvald Jacket. These items are part of 45nrth’s transition season gear. I tested both pieces in various conditions from colder days around 25 degrees Fahrenheit to the rare warm fall day that […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Fat-Bike Day Finland
Global Fat-Bike Day seems to have successfully spawned positive vibrations and fun from every corner of the planet this year. So well done everyone! I know that I had fun here in Wisconsin. I can’t believe the huge group that showed up in Two Rivers to ride in some pretty slurmmy weather conditions. We hope that […]
2018 Holiday Gift Guide by – Tio Gomez
We’ve done a few of these holiday gift guides over the years. In the past, we’ve had our testers chime in with what they wanted as gifts and we’ve done the ‘what’s the hottest new bike’ thing, so this year you get what a grumpy old gomez thinks the fat-biker on your gift list […]
Foto Gordo Prize Winner!
A couple of weeks ago we launched a little foto gordo contest and we’re here to thank everyone that entered and announce the winner! David Lieble sent us this shot taken at the 2018 Polar Roll up in Marquette. Everyone that entered the contest is getting a sticker pack sent out to them and David wins […]
Full Spectrum Cycling Podcast #4 – 11-28-18
Everyday Cycles Radio – Full Spectrum Cycling Podcast #4 – 11-28-18 Welcome to the Full Spectrum Cycling Podcast from the Everyday Cycles Studio at our Riverwest shop. Sven and JK in the studio. Setting up the studio discussion Joe visited the shop today – Rides from here to Minocqua on his Salsa Mukluk Bohemian Rhapsody […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Australia Episode Eleven
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is the eleventh photo in our Aussie Wallpaper Series from our amigo, Eckart Altenkamp. This is a preview from Simpson Desert Bike Challenge 2018 that illustrates the vastness of the Australian Outback. Australia is the perfect example of four season fat-bike fun! Eckart shared this about the shot. Riding into the […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – GFBD Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
If you haven’t heard, Global Fat-Bike Day is this Saturday so we cued up a throwback to GFBD 2017 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden for this week’s Fat (video) Tuesday feature. GFBD is a great day to get together with your ride amigos and maybe join in with other groups of riders. Who knows, you might meet […]
2018 Global Fat-Bike Day – Ride Guide
2018 Global Fat-Bike Day Celebrations! Tag your photos with #gfbd2018 Northern Italy – Altopiano di Asiago, near the city of Vicenza – https://www.facebook.com/events/961865113969088/ Northern Illinois – Lakewood Forest Preserve – https://www.facebook.com/events/1153558161459627/ West Central Wisconsin – Levis Trow Mounds – https://www.facebook.com/events/633051900450361/ Wisconsin’s Middle Coast – Point Beach State Park – https://www.facebook.com/events/652355225146395/ Pocono Mountain Pennsylvania – https://www.meetup.com/Fc-Cycling-Club/events/255417869/ Sarthe (Le Mans) France – https://www.facebook.com/events/451855421990597/ Connecticut – https://www.facebook.com/events/179989432917221/ […]
Fatback Big Su Review
Back in September, we spotlighted the Fatback Big Su Wheelset and after a couple months of gnome roping, we’re back with a full review. I’ve been running the Big Su’s on my ‘murdered out’ Fatback Corvus FLT – [code name: ten beers] with a set of Schwalbe 26×4.0 Jumbo Jims (tubeless). I took a […]
Fat Camp Show #35
For show #35 of the Fat Camp Podcast, KBS and his sidekick, Andy chat it up about some new stuff coming down the pipe in terms of tires (of course, tires), trailers and testing. Lots of testing for this winter. You’ll also get to hear Ken’s Marji Gesick race report from a couple months […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Chaska Blues
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Paul Niebuhr in Chaska, Minnesota. This is what Paul shared about his photo. Here’s a picture of my 2018 Kona Wozo from this spring. This bike is a blast! We’re big fans of having a blast here at the fat dash bike dot com test labs […]
Bivvy a Month Challenge #11
Fat Bike Snowdon #BAMfatbike2018 I must admit, I’ve not been ‘feeling it’ the last few months when it came to getting out and that probably showed by the last 3 BAM’s being on the last weekend of the month. I needed that to change, so I picked an area that ‘ticks’ my boxes and […]
2019 Framed Alaskan Carbon Review – -JP Syverud-
Framed Alaskan Carbon 27.5- The Good, the Bad, and the Gnomey. Long Term Review -JP Syverud- In September we introduced you to the new Framed Alaskan Carbon 27.5 Fat Bike. The version we received came with NX Eagle. Here is the link to the first look article with all the specs and my initial […]
Everyday Cycles Radio – Full Spectrum Cycling Podcast
Sven and JK are back with the Full Spectum Cycling Podcast, a bi-weekly show featuring cycling in all its many guises. Fat-biking, Cyclocross, Adventure Cycling, Urban Assault and general schmack talking are all on the docket. Join us on this our inaugural, released into the wild show. In reality it is the 3rd we’ve done […]
Product Spotlight: Mission Workshop Advanced Projects Seamless Baselayers
Mission Workshop Advanced Project: Seamless Base Layers (MWAP/SBL) [em-wap’-say-bul] are truly one of a kind, with their technological and futuristic appearance, paired with high-performance specifications. I had never heard of this San Francisco based bag and apparel manufacturer previous to when I was asked to test the MWAP/SBL. Mission Workshop is a company that strives to […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Mont-Tremblant
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from north of the border in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. Dave Laberge shot his 9:Zer0:7 on a beautiful sunny day last Winter on the Écureuil trail at Mont-Tremblant. There’s a network of 60 km of groomed trails for all levels of riders at Tremblant. From the looks of the photo, […]
Event Spotlight – Portland Design Works 10 Year Anniversary Party – Fat Bike Swap Meet (MN)
How can you go wrong with free beer, tacos & vodka drinks? Michael’s Cycles in Prior Lake Minnesota is having a Fat Bike Swap Meet this weekend. Buy/Sell/Ride? Check Out the Fat-Bike Event Calendar We’ve been loading some of our favorite events onto our Event Schedule. Everything on our event schedule was hugged onto the interwebs […]
2019 Surly Ice Cream Truck Review – By Tony Grande
Sometimes I’m not sure of who I am. A father, a husband, a surveyor, or just Kato’s roadie who drinks for free (even if it means stealing L7’s beer, but that’s a story for another time). We all have different parts to play throughout our lives, sometimes balancing out multiple facets of ourselves within […]
Floyd’s of Leadville 25mg CBD Isolate Gel Caps – A Product Review
Floyd’s of Leadville (Yep, that Floyd! Floyd Landis!) has several Cannabidiol (CBD) products and I got my hands on a bottle of their 25mg Soft Gels in the Isolate formulation. No THC, whereas the Full Spectrum version has trace amounts of THC. CBD is an active ingredient in cannabis derived from the hemp plant and the […]
Foto Gordo – Texas #fourseasonfatbikes
Foto Gordo is back and comes to us from Phil Newton down in Texas. It seems Phil needed a little mid-ride derailleur adjustment and hoisted his fatty up into that tree like a one hundred percent natural bicycle repair stand. We love getting photos from all over the globe. Foto Gordo is all about sharing […]
Dose of Fat Show#139 – PED Testing – Hugh Jass – GFBD
This episode of the Dose of Fat Podcast was recorded at the Midwest Family Broadcasting Studios in Madison Wisconsin. Leia, Spinner, and uncle Gomez talk about USADA drug testing in the first half of the show and then we welcome special guest Amelia Kegel to talk about the Hugh Jass Fat Bike Race Series! […]
Road Trip 2018 – Visit to Why Cycles – Carbondale Colorado
This is the second report from a Road Trip to points west of the Mississippi last month. After spending a rainy weekend in Fruita, to visit some friends, I made my way to Carbondale Colorado to get a peek behind the Titanium Curtain at Why Cycles. It poured rain all the way there and my […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Bivy Spot Hunting
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from our amigo Johnclimber over in the UK. He describes his photo as “bivi spot hunting around the sand dunes and woods around Formby (north of the city of Liverpool, England).” You can see more of John’s sterling examples of the fat-bike life abroad on his Flickr […]
Fat videoTuesday – Bivvy a Month #10 – #BAMfatbike2018
Fat Bike to the Bothy #BAMfatbike2018 Despite trying to get more organised with my bivvy a month rides October took place on the last night of the month, Halloween night!! I initially had plans to spend a couple of days on one of the islands on the west coast of Scotland but the impending forecast […]
Event Spotlight – The Pie Burner – MN – 11/24/18
Back for the sixth year, the Pie Burner Fat Bike Ride will help ensure Northeastern Minnesota children have a bit more cheerful holiday season. There is no entry fee for the ride…but all attendees get to make a donation to the Northeastern Minnesota Toys For Tots Foundation….. in the form of: New/Unused, Unwrapped Toys, […]
First Look – Terrene 27.5×4.5 Cake Eaters
There are a lot of people excited about the Terrene Johnny 5 because it has been touted as a potential Bud/Lou challenger and I have to list myself as one of them. That said, I think I am actually even more excited about another Terrene tire; the 27.5×4.5″ Cake Eater. I didn’t realize this until […]
The Weekly Dose of Fat News – Events – Blinkie PSA – Enve Wheels & Fork
Welcome to the text version of the Weekly Dose of Fat! In Fat-Bike News: Anchorage has already gotten their first dump of snow and the Fat News is really beginning to percolate. We’re a month out from Global Fat Bike Day and the first wave of fun fat-bike events are already popp’n off this coming […]
Mid-Term Report – Pub Carbon Wheelset – 27.5 x 75mm
Uncle Gomez sent me a set of 27.5 carbon fat bike wheels recently. You can check out the “product spotlight” he wrote up but the basic stats of this wheelset are the following: Exterior width: 75mm Interior width: 69mm Front weight: 1,053g (with tape and valve stem) Rear weight: 1,164g (with tape and valve stem) […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – America’s Dairyland
Welcome to the local spooky singletrack. The Jefferson County-Trail Builders have been hard at work building a compact set of twisties just south of the Fat Cave. They just added the feature that Ten Beers is sitting on and the humpty-bump has been there for about a year. They’re currently working on the third loop […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – A test of the Global Fat-Bike Day Broadcast System
What better way to get everyone stoked to celebrate Global Fat-Bike Day than to share a video from last year’s celebration from the beaches of South Africa? Last December Dawie posted this video that chronicles his GBFB 2017 ride, or as he put it: “Three riders doing their bit for Global Fat-Bike Day 2017.” […]
Event Spotlight – OTSO Bikes & Beer (MN) – Hugh Jass Race #1 Lake Geneva (WI)
Did someone say the magic words? Bikes & Beer? Our amigos at Otso Cycles are hosting a social ride starting and ending at Shakopee BrewHall. The ride will be heading west to Chaska and Caver. The first 25 riders will receive a limited run Otso/Shakopee Brewhall bottle opener. Hang out and grab a beer with the […]
2019 Salsa Beargrease Carbon X01 Eagle Review – By Leia Schneeberger
It’s been a long and sometimes strange journey that’s led to my review of the new Salsa Beargrease. Back in March of 2017, I had just won the Fat Bike Birkie and right after I rolled over the finish line was when I first met Gomez. He was standing there, staring at me with […]
Fat Camp Podcast #34 – The Oregon Timber Trail – Part Two
This turned into a two-part podcast because of how long it ended up being. In the first part of the show, Ken interviews Gabe Tiller who is the executive director of the Oregon Timber Trail Alliance and the primary route creator for the Oregon Timber Trail. Here is a link to Ken’s geeky summary of […]
Teravail Coronado 29 x 2.8 Light & Supple Tan Wall Plus Tires
Just when you thought (or perhaps hoped) that 29 plus might be fading into history, QBP’s newest tire brand, Teravail has come out with the 29+ Coronado. Our pair of test tires is the Teravail Coronado 29 x 2.8 Light & Supple Tan Wall version. They also come in black sidewalls if you happen to have a […]
Oregon Timber Trail Gear List
People like to geek out on gear lists. I am one of those people. I always get ideas by seeing how other people roll. To give back to the bike packing community, here is my addition to the gear list cannon. This is what I used for 18 days and around 800 miles of riding […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series #10 – By Eckart Altenkamp
This is episode ten of our Aussie Series of Wallpaper Wednesdays by Eckart Altenkamp. The closest thing we have to this in my neck of the woods are wild turkeys or geese! This is what Eckart shared about this week’s Wallpaper. This picture was taken riding the “Sky Trek” in a 270 square km farm […]
Framed Minnesota LTD Review – by DosRenshos
First things first. Fat bikes and skate parks do not mix. (with my skill-set) Well…more to the point, super knobby fat bike tires (look’n at you Terrene Wazias!) and skate parts do not mix; for the general reason of causing me to scrub too much speed up the transition, further causing me to stall out before […]
Faturday News Brief – Revelate Designs 10 Year Anniversary – eeWings Ti Fat Cranks – GFBD Celebration List
Way back in the day, we used to post a news digest that Sven aptly named the Weekly Dose of Fat. Those weekly posts became the Weekly Dose of Fat Podcast…that briefly morphed into the Occasional Dose of Fat Podcast…which became just the Dose of Fat Podcast that currently is recorded about once a month. […]
Fat Camp Podcast #34 – The Oregon Timber Trail – Part One
This turned into a two-part podcast because of how long it ended up being. In the first part of the show, Ken interviews Gabe Tiller who is the executive director of the Oregon Timber Trail Alliance and the primary route creator for the Oregon Timber Trail. Here is a link to Ken’s geeky summary of his […]