Site News
Weekly Dose of Fat 9-28-12
With Interbike behind us and the race season just ahead we are working hard to keep out Events Calendar, sponsored by 45NRTH, up to date and to keep you all informed of the latest in […]
Month: September 2012
Races
The SandBox Showdown
The Biggest Fat Bike Event is not held on snow, it’s in the SAND! When Dejay Birch, Dirty (of drunck cyclist) and Chewie all tell me about an event…its an event worth posting. They’re like […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday – Australian Endo(s)
Our South Pacific Bureau Chief, Wayne Chapman, sent us this shot from Day 5, morning stage, Simpson Desert Bike Challenge 2010 (www.desertchallenge.org). This is Wayne’s description of the scene. (Read Wayne’s quotes with an Aussie accent) After almost […]
Videos
Fat (Video) Tuesday – Fat-Mail
Mis amigo djonnymac, made a little film of his mail run, riding his snow-white pugsley, del gatos locos. Eleven Minutes compressed into just shy of uno minuto! I bet some of our readers have been […]
Reader's Rides
Reader’s Rides – Marvin the Moonlander
Fat-bike.com reader, Mark Peterson, hails from Salt Lake City, UT and sent in this story about his Moonlander, “Marvin the Martian”, along with a bunch of pix of the upgrades he’s done. For all you […]
Site News
Weekly Dose of Fat – 9-21-12
I’m still winging my way back from Las Vegas and Interbike. Hopefully, Gomez is safely back in Wisconny. In case you missed the last week’s worth of posts we’ve been checking out all that is […]
Accessories
Interbike 2012 – More Fat from Vegas
Here’s the rest of what I collected, while working the show today. Surly Rubber Tree I revisited the production sample of the new Krampus and took some detailed shots for y’all. The Krampus demo fleet […]
Accessories
Interbike 2012 – Live from the Show Floor
Sven has been here before, but today was my first time in the maze called Interbike. We popped my interbike cherry today, to bring you all of the fat…all of the time! Just like we […]
Wallpaper
Wallpaper Wednesday ~ Canadian Fat-Bike Fire Fighters
This week’s WW comes from Éric Larochelle. Eric is an agent de protection for SOPFEU in Canada. Here’s what Éric had to say about the photo. We are the only fat-bike riders in our town, Val-d’Or, Quebec, Canada. All […]
Events
Interbike 2012 Dirt Demo – Day Two
Sven and I continued our coverage of the Outdoor Dirt Demo yesterday at Interbike 2012, employing the highest standards (tongue in cheek) of objective professional journalism that you’ve come to expect from fat hyphen dot com. Disfrute de las […]
Interbike
Interbike Dirt Demo – Part Two!
Another day of sweltering in the desert for you fine people just to get our Skin Sake-filled hands on the latest Fat-Bike goodness and, Man, I tell you what, fat-bikes aren’t just for snow anymore! […]
Site News
Fat Video Teusday – Arrowhead 135 ~ the movie
The 9 th Annual Arrowhead 135 bike/ski/run winter race is set for January 28th, 2013. http://www.arrowheadultra.com/ We’d like kind’a love to see what fat-biking is like jump’n off, in your part of the […]
Interbike
Interbike Dirt Demo – Day One!
Sven and I spent all day in the desert rope’n and ride’n the fat. You’n may’ve seen some of this here before but, Pard, I’ll tell ya, seein’ and ridin’ are two different things. Krampus […]
Site News
Weekly Dose of Fat – 9-14-12
With Steel is Real and GnomeFest behind us, Sven and Gomez are jetting out to Interbike this weekend. We’ll be test riding 9:0:7’s new fat-bikes at the Outdoor Dirt Demo and scouring the Show Floor […]
Events
The Dakota 5-0…No Sleep till Bacon
Decorah, IA bud, Ben Shockey AKA The Shockstar rode the Dakota 50 on his singlespeed Pugsley this year and sent in this report. Enjoy! Thanks to karoldesign.com and PahaSapaTrails.com for permission to use the accompanying photos. BTW, […]
Wallpaper
Wallpaper Wednesday ~ Clarence Point
‘Renaissance Man’ – Steve Meurett snapped this shot at what he calls “the most photographed spot at Levis” at the end of August of this year. Feel free to download it and use it as […]
Contests
PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS
Our panel of judges have chosen the top 3 photos in our Summer Photo Contest, sponsored by 45NRTH. FIRST PLACE Randy Armstrong wins a set of 45 NRTH Helva Pedals, Socks and a signed […]
Videos
Moreton Island Fat-Bike Ride
Last week we had a few links to blog posts from Troy Szczurkowski about trip to Moreton Island. Here is a video he made of the trip. Moreton Island is a large sand island off the […]
Events
Steel is Real 2012
The annual Steel is Real ride went off this past Saturday and was, by all accounts, a rousing success. Billed as a 25-mile bike crawl through the underbelly of Milwaukee, that is a fairly accurate […]
Site News
Weekly Dose of Fat 9-7-12
The Dakota 50 went off last weekend and there were fat-bikes in attendance. Our man the Shockstar was rocking one of them. Singlespeed no less! Look for a report soon! We updated the Wheel Weights […]
Components
Carver Ti O’Beast Fat Bike Fork
Thanks to Carver and Bikeman we had a super special deal on the Ti O’Beast fat-bike fork for our newsletter subscribers a while back and I just had to shell out my own hard-earned bucks […]
Wallpaper
Wallpaper Wednesday ~ Northumberland Fat-Bike Gathering
John Moore from England took this shot at a UK Fat-Bike Gathering, last year in Northumberland. Feel free to download it and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the image to open the full-sized […]
Videos
Fat (video) Tuesday ~ (POP) Aberlady Bay
Pugsley on Patrol creates an art film about fat-bikes in the UK. We’d love to see what fat-biking is like in your part of the world! If you’ve got a fat-bike related, short film that you […]
Beach Riding
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 […]