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Ready – Set – Snow!
The first winter storms of the year are in the books! Here’s a little compilation of snow-bike clips to get you thinking about taking your fat-bike sledding!
Month: October 2011
Beach Riding
The 1st Uk fat bike gathering,September 2011
This is our UK Corespondent – Coastkid’s first contribution to the site. Enjoy these two fat-vids from the first UK Fat-Bike Gathering from last month. UK FAT BIKE Gathering 2011, Pt 1 of […]
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Red Rolling Darryl Rim Transplant
Next week I’ve scheduled the G-Fiddy to undergo rim transplant surgery in Iowa City, Iowa. Renowned fat wheel specialist, Dr. Adam Blake will perform the surgery at the World of Bikes clinic in Iowa City. My […]
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Weekly Dose of Fat
Here’s some of what we read around the web this week as Fat-Bike-related news stories are popping up more than ever. http://sportsyakima.com/2011/10/fat-chance-get-past-their-looks-and-you-might-like-fat-bikes/ – A story on the Yakima Herarld’s sportsyakima.com site about the growing interest in fat-biking in […]
FatBikes
Watson Cycles Great Divide FAT Tire
Watson Cycles Great Divide FAT Tire From the Watson Cycles Website: The Fat Tire tames otherwise un-rideable terrain. Designed to conquer the most menacing of landscapes, this expedition bike is your go-to for everything from […]
Beach Riding
On the Many Different Types of Sand
Fat-biking a shoreline of sand is one of the quintessential fat-bike experiences and one that any fat-bike rider will want to experience over and over. One of the keys to the enjoyment of riding a […]
FatBikes
Murdered Out Schlick Northpaw – A Review
With their growing popularity, there are now a number of choices for fat bike frames to be had. There is the quintessential Surly Pugsley and its cousin the Salsa Mukluk as well as other two […]
Accessories
Surly Marge Lite
The new Surly Marge Lite is 65 millimeters wide just like the Large Marge but the Marge Lite shaves a lot of weight over regular Marges while reportedly retaining torsional stiffness. This rim, like Surly’s […]
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Accessories
Colorful Rolling Darryl Fat-bike Rims
Colorful Rolling Darryl Fat-bike Rims URGENT! After a quick heads up from one of our peeps in Iowa we gotta get to ya’ll on the quick! From Surly there are some new, limited-edition, powder-coated Rolling […]
FatBikes
The 4 S’s of Fat – Sand, Snow, Singletrack and Smiles!
My journey into Fat-Bike love began innocently enough. It was born from my hatred of putting my bike on a trainer and “riding” it during the Winter months. A bike trainer is the only device […]
Beach Riding
Harvest Beech Ride Report
I hatched a plan to combine a trip up to a friend’s secret mountain bike race with a group beach ride out of one of my favorite Wisconsin State Parks. Saturday night’s hi-jinks along with […]
Accessories
Pugs Sunglasses
In the chaos of last weekend’s wanderings, I lost my sunglasses. When this happens, I usually try to find a pair of groovy glasses on the cheap at the local fill’n station or mini-mart. I […]
Accessories
Fat-Bike Dreams
For the last few weeks, the last thing I think about, before I go to sleep, is called Big Eau Pleine. It’s a park up in Marathon County, Wisconsin that I’ve frequented over the years. […]
Accessories
45Nrth Husker Du Fat-Bike Tire
If you were around the punk/hardcore music scene in the early ’80s I hope you got to check out Hüsker Dü, the Minneapolis band that was the inspiration for the name of 45North’s new 26×3.8″ fat-bike […]
Beach Riding
Harvest Beech Ride
7 fat-bike riders from Wisconsin and Illinois met at Kohler-Andre park a bit south of Sheboygan, WI for the Harvest Beech Ride. A nice mix of fat-bikes were in attendance with 2 Schlick Northpaws, 4 […]
FatBikes
Moots FrosTi Fat-Bike
After seeing Moots’ race fat-bikes, built for ultra endurance racers like Eric Hindes and Mark Curicak, at Interbike the past couple of years we always wondered if they were going to make them available to […]
FatBikes
Fatties Flip Fine
The guys at Surly rule. This video of a fatbike back flip is just awesome! Dig the sounds too! Is there anything a fatbike can’t do? The walls are coming down.
Beach Riding
Full Moon Beach Ride – Redux!
The first version was a blast! So we will do it again. Time: Saturday, December 10 · 4:00pm – 10:00pm Location: Port Washington, WI December 10th is a pretty cool day for a repeat because the sun […]
Beach Riding
Port Washington Beach Ride
Had a super October ride on the beach north of Port Washington, WI a couple of days ago. It was a great, October afternoon with temps in the ’70’s! Rare this time of year. The […]