Every February Quality Bicycle Products invites dealers and media representatives up to their Bloomington, Minnesota, world headquarters for Seminars, Social Activities and an Expo. For those of you, that are unfamiliar, Quality (QBP) is the parent company of brands like Surly and 45NRTH (among many others). Frostbike is not open to the general public, so we took a few hundred pictures, so we could share the best of ‘fat-frostbike’ with our readers.
The Ice Cream Truck Was the Belle of this Ball
Surly also showed next years Pugsley Line up (top to bottom) – Ops, Singlespeed and Regular
Krampus gets the Ops treatment in flat black and vertical drops.
They also had an Instigator decked out with Marge Lites and 3″ Knards for some Fat-Rat Trail assaults.
Cogburn premiered the ‘Where Eagles Dare’ version of their fat-bike. Spoiler Alert – The Germans lose.
Hed’s Big Deal Carbon Rim
Dillinger 5 with Studs Installed
Whiskey Parts N0. 9 – 29+ Carbon Fork with Thru-axle to lighten up your Krampus.
Raceface’s Carbon Next Cranks and Flat Pedals
E-Thirteen Fat Cranks
Hope Fat-Snow Hubs and QR
Industry 9 Fat Hubs
Orange Sealant Fat Tubeless Kits – We’ll be testing this one out soon on Otis
Wheels Mfg. showed two levels of tools for seating press-fit bottom brackets. The red home mechanic level tool is only about 40$.
Paul from Paul Components showing us his new 170/190 QR
Saris has a Fat Kit out for their Hitch Rack
Thule’s T2 Fat Kit that we’ve already reviewed.
That is all the fat that we could find on the Expo floor. The show continues today (Sunday) and Colin and I are headed back to the Big Whiskey with a whole bunch of photos and tales from last night’s Pugsley Race. Spoiler Alert – Colin won it and there was an appearance by this clown, so keep it tuned to fat dash bike dot com for that (and more) coming up later in the week!
SWEET INTEL! Thank You.
Pretty sure all tubeless sealant is fine at subzero temps… but a nice tubeless kit and marketing piece there by Orange Seal with the orange rim strip tape.
That Whiskey fork and Saris rack adapters are exactly what I need to make my 29+ dreams a reality.
which fork was on that instigator?