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Wallpaper Wednesday – 5/23/18
This is eleven-year-old Landon Showalter getting a little air off of a gnome up in Alaska. His mom, Jen captured the shot. We ask that this be admitted into evidence ...
Ottolock Bike Cinch Lock Your Everyday Carry Lock (ECL)
The Ottolock is a unique bike lock that resembles a reusable Ziptie in operation but is A LOT more secure. Ottolock says it is a “Lightweight, compact cinch lock that is stronger than a cable lock and lighter than a U-Lock. Made with steel and Kevlar® bands. Ideal for cycling and outdoor gear to […]
Up.Bike Bicycle Storage Solutions
A couple weeks ago the folks at up.bike contacted us and asked if we’d be interested in testing out their new stainless steel rack system. I sent them a photo of the corner of the garage where we keep the bikes that we regularly ride. Like many of you out there, we own a pile […]
Dose of Fat Podcast Show #135 – The 2018 Gnomies Awards Show!
It’s the Gnomies! Hosted by Leia Schneeberger! Leia’s joined in the studio by Spinner, Gomez and Brett Stepanik. Through the magic of new media we welcome Colin Ford, Mark Peterson, Kevin Wren, Ryan Krueger, Chris Daisy, Lt. Evan LarSSon, Samsquantch, and Amelia Kegel to the show! Sit back, crack a beer and put a gnome in […]
The 2018 Summer Sticker Boondoggle
If you’ve been a reader of Fat-Bike dot com, over the last several 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. These designs were created by fine artists that have created sticker art worthy of the term […]
Salsa Blackborow Review by DosRenshos
The Family Truxter. The Shaggin Wagon. The Grocery Getter. I’m a wagon guy so the idea of this bike appealed to me right off the bat. Plenty of room out back to toss a bunch of junk in and go. I made it a point to use it for as many local errands as I […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Squamish, British Columbia
Alan Young shot this week’s spectacular Wallpaper Wednesday image. Alan shared the story behind his stunning photo (below). The riders: Joe Purves-Smith, Brian Helem, and Johnny Oshika. The location: The summit of the Elfin Lakes Trail in Garibaldi Provincial Park near Squamish, British Columbia, Canada which is 1590m altitude. The summit is about 7km in from […]
Dynaplug Racer – Tubeless Tire Repair – By Seth Bell
Howdy Fat-bike Friends! I received a little care package from Fat-Bike.com World HQ today containing one of Dynaplug’s “Racer” tubeless tire repair kits with the task of giving it a whirl and then letting y’all know how it works. Before we jump right in, I must confess, tubeless tires aren’t really my thing (go ahead and […]
2018 Australian Fat-Bike National Championships 5/11/2018
Mountain Bike Australia in conjunction with Karunjie Event Management is pleased to present the inaugural Fat Bike National Championships to be held at Cable Beach, near Broom, Western Australia. Fat-Bike beach racing is coming to Western Australia next Saturday! You can register for the race here and you can visit the event page here. […]
First Look – Teravail Coronado 26 x 4.0 Tires
The expedition team of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado is credited with the discovery of the Grand Canyon and several other famous landmarks in the American Southwest while searching for the legendary Seven Golden Cities of Cíbola. Exploration and discovery are two of my favorite things that go hand in hand with turning the pedals […]
Fat-Bike Van Life – Balkan Holiday by – Stephan Spruyt (Part 3 of 3)
Road Trip The Balkans (Part 3 of 3) (from Part 2) The shower session was quite hilarious as what first looked like an alright spot on the side of the road turned out to be a peepshow with ourselves playing the main characters haha 😆.. A bit later we set off, the scenery was really […]
Fat-Bike Van Life – Balkan Holiday by – Stephan Spruyt (Part 2 of 3)
Road Trip The Balkans (Part 2 of 3) (from part one) – We continued exploring the city a bit more and then left to visit my new Serbian friends… Having no idea what to expect, I was pleased to see a house with a little garage next to it and a Type 3 fastback on […]
Fat-Bike Van Life – Balkan Holiday by – Stephan Spruyt (Part 1 of 3)
Road Trip The Balkans (Part 1 of 3) Hey Ho.. another year another road trip so it seems.. As some of you may know my goal is to visit all EU countries in my bus before I’m 40.. As I’m scarily fast approaching this number I had to come up with a plan to see […]
Kona Alloy Wah Wah Pedal Review By: LT. LarSSon
Kona Wah Wah – Aluminum Edition The Kona Wah Wah pedals were dropped at my door via fat-drone with a little message that read, “Have fun”. I unpackaged the box to see some giant green platform pedals and I wondered, “Are my feet too small for these things”? I mean, I’m using these on my summer plus […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Truckee California
Mark Jacobson submitted this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. The photo was shot in Truckee California this spring above the Truckee River canyon. Truckee is where this year’s Interbike Dirt Demo will take place with lift service trail access. This is my computer wallpaper this week! Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature your fat-bike […]
Esker Pedal Review by Ronsta
Esker Pedals by Framed Bikes One of the great things about bicycles is freedom. Freedom to go wherever you want under your own power. For some that means going wherever you want, whenever you want, wearing whatever you want. Wanna ride the beach in your sandals and swimwear? Go for it. Breaking trail in the […]
iSSi Stomp XL Review
ISSI Stomp XL Pedal Review The iSSi Stomp XL pedal landed here in Wales from their HQ in Minneapolis. The Stomp XL is their first attempt at a platform pedal and first impressions are they look and feel great. They are available in four different colours from black, plum, lime and blue. The platform is […]
26″ & 27.5″ Fat-Bike Wheel Comparison
We’re in the midst of testing 4 sets of wheels that range from 26 x 4.8 to 27.5 x 3.8. All 4 wheels are pictured below and labeled A-B-C & D for reference. Starting last November, I ran 27.5 x 50mm Wheelset C and wrote an article about how stoked that I was to be able to ride […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Long Island in Spring
Greg Murray shot this week’s Wallpaper at Southampton, Long Island, New York. Spring provides a target rich environment for fat-bike beachventures! I think that I’ll try to get together with the willing and ride the beach this weekend. Spring is here. I know because I already have a mosquito bite on my ankle. But most […]
Bivvy a Month Challenge #4
Slate The summer made a brief appearance over the UK with a couple for days of nice warm weather so it was initiate #BAMfatbike2018 making this 4/4/ The area I picked is steeped in history as it was once the largest open slate quarry in the world. Slate put Wales on the map was shipped […]
Fat Fish 40 – Webster WI – May 5th, 2018
Rustic ~Authentic ~Scenic ~Breathtaking Simply one of a kind. Visit https://www.fatfishrace.com/ for more information Check Out the Fat-Bike Event Calendar We’ve been getting loaded at some of our favorite events and adding them onto our Event Schedule. Everything on our event schedule was hugged onto the interwebs and represents super smurfy good times! […]
Put Faith in Your Fatbike – by Daniel Smith
Within the first hour of our five-day bikepacking trip through the White Mountains, north of Fairbanks, we shared the trail with skiers, snowmachiners, one dog team, and a flock of fellow fat-bikers. The area is an oasis for such users, where one can penetrate into the winter-laden woods from the comfort of a groomed […]
2018 Sea Otter Classic – Special Report
In addition to hosting every denomination of bicycle racing, the 2018 Sea Otter Classic has become the best bicycle industry trade show in these United States. Even the corporate giants of the industry come out and show their wares and simultaneously support their race teams. Along with the big boys, the Sea Otter expo area features […]
Apidura Bikepacking Bag Review
Apidura Backcountry Bags With virtually the full set of Apidura’s Backcountry series of bikepacking bags landing on my doorstep you could say I was a little excited to try them out, and with my Bivvy a Month #2 just around the corner you could say it was great timing! As stated on the Apidura website […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series 4
Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp is back with our fourth instalment in his Series of Aussie Wallpaper Wednesdays. This week’s landscape was taken at Boat Harbour Beach at the northern end of Eckart’s regular 8km long training beach in Sydney’s South. Beach riding is one of my favourite forms of fat-bike fun! Got your […]
WHY CYCLES ANNOUNCES THE BIG IRON TITANIUM FAT BIKE
WHY CYCLES ANNOUNCES THE BIG IRON, A TITANIUM FAT BIKE Tuesday, April 17, Carbondale, CO. Why Cycles, the two-year-old Colorado-based company that designs, manufactures, and distributes high-end titanium bikes, today announced the official release of its brand new fat bike, the BIG IRON. Why Cycles is a small company that is quickly picking up […]
Rocky Mountain Suzi Q C70 Review by Nick Holzem
Rocky Mountain has laid down the blueprint for modern cross-country race fat bikes. Along the way they also have established a place in the endurance and adventure sectors as well. After an intense 5-week schedule of fat bike races during the heart of winter and capping it off with an impromptu excursion to the […]
The Weekly Dose of Fat – Friday the 13TH Edition
I found myself mesmerized by this short film about bikepaking and packrafting in Argentina. Poeple are already talking about a Gnomie Nomination for this spellbinding look at life in “Patagón” Terrene Releases Newly Designed Chunk 2.6 Trail Tire Bozeman, MT—April 12, 2018 — Terrene Tires announces a strong new addition, Chunk 2.6, to their proven lineup […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Dark Side of the Beach
My phone painted this portrait of my bike, Ten Beers, at Pink Floyd Rock yesterday. Things were looking pretty good with winds out of the west keeping the water nice and calm. I wanted to see how well 27.5 x 4.0 wheels handled the sand and was both surprised and impressed at the flotation […]
Product Spotlight – Pub Carbon Wheelset – 27.5 x 75mm
We’re going to get deeper into the 27.5 wheel size over the next few months and the next set of wheels in the spotlight is the Pub carbon 27.5 x 75mm rims laced to DT Swiss hubs with Terrene Cake Eater 27.5 x 4 run tubeless. The Pub Carbon rims have an inside dimension of […]
Spring into Bikepacking: Grand Staircase-Escalante – by Becky and Bryon Vordermann
A few months ago, we had decided we wanted to bikepack in Grand Staircase-Escalante. After many weeks of cold and clouds, our family was ready to head south to the desert for spring break. Neither Bryon nor myself had heard of the national monument, until this past year. After spending 3 days riding close […]
The Dose of Fat Podcast Show #134 – Fat-Bike Power Couple Heather & Corey Stelljes – Raspberry Mead
Show Number 134 – Friday, April 6th 2018 Welcome to the dose of fat podcast. Show #134 seems an odd number to celebrate, but if you look at it like we’re in a bowling league….we just bowled an entire season and we’re ready to celebrate like it’s 1974! This is our sixth show since Leia […]
Bivvy a Month Challenge #3
Fat Bike Snowdonia #BAMfatbike2018 With the first two camps done and dusted these following months should get a bit easier as the temperatures rising. However the UK saw winter bounce back with some chilling temps which made me bag my March camp near the end of the month. Despite all the planned locations I had […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Eagle River
This week’s Wallpaper comes to us from our newest contributor Cory Kittle. He’s a bush pilot up in Alaska and he’s a recent convert to fat-bikes. Cory snapped this shot of his Beargrease on the north fork of Eagle River, Alaska. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature your fat-bike photos from around […]
Fat Video Tuesday – Finnish Easter Egg Hunt
Our Fat Tuesday Video comes to us all the way from Lappeenranta Finland! We’re the international house of fat-bikes and Marko Lankinen and some of his amigos share what it’s like to ride on snowy snowmobile trails with just the sound of crunching snow under their tires. The lack of a musical soundtrack means that you can […]
Many Things Cage from King Cage
It turns out that my old set of 5-year-old Salsa Anything Cages that have been rattling around the shop have a couple of cracks in them. Those cages were on a fat bike up in Tosa, when our tester Jamie discovered the cracks. He’s going to try to repair that set of cages, but […]
Fat-Bike News – April 1st, 2018
New recycled and disposable fat-bike from – you guessed it – fat dash bike dot com. Full carpet fiber frame and fork and huge hi-viz yellow hot stamps on the inside and the outside of the race optimized eco-friendly tires. Bike (as shown) weighs just under one metric gnome. MSRP $120 gnomecoin. Everybody knows that our amigo […]
The Weekly Dose of Fat – March 30th, 2018
In Spring, you just can’t help being full of hope…The days are getting longer and temps are on the rise. All of our local Wisconsin trails are all still closed waiting for the frost to come out of the ground and that has me riding my Krampus on gravel more than anything else. This is a great […]
Maxxis Colossus 26 x 4.8 – Snow Tire Review
About two years ago, back in March of ’16, then BBR Test Pilot, David Glover tested a pair of the Maxxis Colossus, but Moab doesn’t get too much snow, at least, not enough to groom, like we get in America’s Dairyland. This is what Glover shared about the Colossus “The Colossus tire looks to be […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Galveston
I don’t know if you cats are hip to March being Fat Bike Beach Month, but one cat that lives in the bullseye of knowing is David Hartman Jr. Dave and his bride took a trip down to the Texas Riviera and captured some Fat Bike Beach Magic for this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. This is […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Valdez AK – Chugach Fat Bike Bash
It seems like everyone that I know in Alaska knows about Valdez, however, up until a couple’a years ago, I hadn’t heard about one of the most beautiful spots to ride a fat bike in Alaska. Thanks to the Valdez Adventure Alliance and the Chugach Fat Bike Bash we can all get an eyeful! Daredevil […]
8 Bike Maintenance Tips to Keep You Rolling this Spring! – by Seth Bell
Howdy Fat-bike Family! It’s that time of year again… the days are getting longer, the sun is packing some more btu’s, and the snow is turning to slush. For most of us in the Northern Hemisphere, Spring is just around the corner… can you feel it?! Speaking of feeling it, do you feel that […]
Fat Camp Podcast Show #31/32
It’s been a couple months since Ken and Andy sat down and did some blah, blah, blah. And for this show, there’s quite a bit. 1.5 hours of it. So hit play or download it for later but whatever you do, make sure to give #31 a listen. Here’s what’s happening for this show: What […]
Fatback Corvus FLT Review – the First 120 Days
Back at the very beginning of November 2017, I ordered a Fatback Corvus FLT. I pulled the trigger because after riding a Corvus for over six months we reviewed the Fatback Corvus earlier in 2017 and I wrote that I thought that it was one of the 3 Best Fat-Bikes that I’ve ever ridden. I […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Good Morning New Zealand
Chris Ferguson sent us a shot that he took of his camp on his first overnighter of the year. This is at Sutton Salt lake in central Otago, New Zealand. It looks like a beautiful spot to wake up to, in the morning! Slap this photo up on your computer desktop and you might have […]