Over the last few years, there’s been a really interesting Mississippi flyway trail building renaissance that has made Northwest Arkansas the latest mountain bike travel destination. Trail building contractors work on projects up in the Northwoods all summer and then spend their Winters down in Arkansas creating incredible mtb-playgrounds. Our amigo Pat Smage took a […]
Red Bull created a documentary film about the origins of Freeride MTB with interviews with Wade Simmons, Richie Schley, and Brett Tippe. The trailer is above and a link to the full-length film is below. I went down this rabbit hole and I was glad that I did! https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/films/the-moment?fbclid=IwAR3enabBhb4kqfBnqfhiZT-MCR6kym4raUY98RNW0jWa8afERzoZPwl_rgE Sram AXS SRAM’s AXS Web Ride […]
On a recent trip to Alaska, I was fortunate enough to score a guided day trip with Alaska Bike Adventures out to Knik Glacier. Alaska Bike Adventures is owned and guided by Christina Grande and Dusty Eroh. I met Grande on one of my previous visits to Anchorage and I know Dusty from his role […]
This week we’ve got my Fatback Corvus FLT named Ten Beers at the Knik Glacier in Alaska. Please consider this as a sort of digital picture postcard to all of our fat-bike amigos out there across the globe – with gnomes from all of us at Fat-bike.com. I’ll be posting my ride report from the […]
Having embarked upon a journey to reduce the width of my Krampus wheels from 45mm to 32mm, this video rung some bells for a small portion of my brain cells. Calvin and Ben from Park Tool take a Surly Ice Cream Truck and build a set of sew-up road wheels for it. We’re always happy […]
Cedaero Tank Top Bolt-on Pack final thoughts I always carry too much stuff on my rides. A full-frame pack just doesn’t cut it some days. When I ordered my custom frame pack from Cedaero Bags, I had them sew up a Tank Top Pack to match. I’ll consider them as enablers for my pack-rat ways. […]
In case you haven’t heard, I boxed up Ten Beers and the podcast gear and flew up to Anchorage Alaska earlier this month and I visited our Fatbassador to Alaska and the Yukon Territories, Travis Hubbard and his wife Lorrie. Travis’s Garage is somewhat legendary. It’s where Travis became a regular call-in guest on the […]
Due to the current state of Pandemic and numerous closures and in an abundace of precaution the 2020 race has been cancelled. We are working on dates for the 2021 event and will make an announcement as soon as we lock it down. When the date is decided (it is tidal dependant and […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Steffen Hautala. Steffen started tagging us in his Instagram photos and we totally dig his style! This is a shot of his Gavia fat-bike taken earlier this month in Storvika, Nordland, Norway. Slap this up on your computer desktop and show the office that you’re a card-carrying […]
Anchorage, Alaska, March 18, 2020 Forge into the future with the new stabilized Spinelock seat bags. Revelate Designs set out to create the most stable seat bag with the lowest profile mounting hardware on the market. The result is a feature-loaded, waterproof seat bag that checks all the boxes. The Spinelock integrates user tested and […]
A fun cruise around the Campbell Tract in Anchorage last Saturday with our Fatbassador to Alaska, Travis. Travis and I were joined by Ken Best and videographer, Al Heckart along with Ken’s pooch, Violet. It turned out to be a perfect bluebird day with low winds and temps in the twenties. Alaska in March can […]
Editor’s Note – Garret Olson gets the Artist Profile treatment today from Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot – JP Syverud. Garret is no stranger to the Fat-Bike department of stickers and decals. Before we take a look at JP’s artistic experiment, let’s visit some of Garret’s talented artistic expressions that we’ve turned into stickers. Toast […]
Here’s a new series that we’re introducing to showcase all of the fun bike news that comes across the niche bike newsroom all-D-time. Today we’ve got news from Otso, The Pros Closet, Geosmina, and the Sea Otter Classic! The New Otso Warakin Ti Otso News Release We’re excited to share the latest addition to the […]
This was meant to be a long term review of a pair of Icebreakers 200 weight long sleeve crewnecks and has somehow come out as somewhat of an ode to the merino wool base layer. What we gauchos and gnome hunters call the sheep. Merino wool base layers are the unsung hero of every cool […]
Late last week, I embarked upon my third visit to Alaska since I followed the pathway to becoming a fat-bike evangelist. Alaska is where fat-bikes were born and March in Alaska is prime-time for a fat-biking pilgrimage. The first event that I put on my itinerary in Alaska was the Talkeetna Trio World Championships. Talkeetna […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is Brandon Bender’s sophomore feature and is what you’d call a ‘double-wide trailer’ sort of opus. Brandon sized and cropped the photo such that it will perfectly fill dual 1920×1080 monitors side by side. The location of the shot is one of my favorite beach towns on the other side of the […]
Last week we shared Bob Rainville’s recap of the Saratoga Fat Bike Rally and today we’re featuring a video report from the event that comes to us from David Boshek and North Country MTB. Happy Tuesday! Would you share your Plus or Fat Pixels? Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled pixels, yearning to breathe free, The […]
Race day is always wrought with varying degrees of anxiety. How many calories do I carry? Did I set up the right tires? Do I carry an extra tube? Have I put the miles in to meet my goals? So much time and preparation leading to a single day event can really tax the mind. […]
(Carbondale, CO 3/5/20) – Why Cycles received a ton of feedback from a multitude of amazing adventurers with their OG Wayward and the V2 is the product of them listening to real-world input and making a few tweaks to make their Ti adventure sled even better! The Wayward V2 is still the same 29+ adventure […]
2020 Saratoga Fat Bike Rally Feb 8, 2020, Saratoga Spa State Park, The Warming Hut Since 2015, humans of the Fat Bike tribe have descended upon a small state park in Saratoga every February for the mandatory fun and camaraderie known as the Saratoga Fat Bike Rally. The 6th version of the Rally saw more […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday feature photo comes to us from Mark “Jake the Snake” Jacobson out in Truckee, California. We’ve featured two-thirds of Mark’s quiver in previous WW posts but I’ll let him fill you in on the rest. It’s been crust season in the “back 40” in Truckee, CA. Previously you’ve posted a picture […]
Brian Bechard from Main Public sent us this week’s FvT feature. It’s a video that he put together for the local PBS affiliate in Portland, ME. This is what Brian shared about his video presentation about Fat-Biking in Maine. Each season more and more miles of trails are groomed exclusively for fat tire winter cycling […]
Bikers line up for elite division race in 2019 – Courtesy Robert B Butler An interview with Shawn Spencer, Race Director WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NORTH CAROLINA – The US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship, the largest beach race in the nation, returns to Wrightsville Beach the weekend of March 27-29, 2020. “The growth of the Fat […]
Leia Schneeberger at last weekend’s Sweaty Yeti Race – photo by Bethany Raven We talk with Leia Schneeberger about her third win at the Polar Roll and get reactions from Todd Poquette – 906 Adventure Team Director, along with George Kapitz, the owner of the Broken Spoke Bike Studio. We also talk with Andy Tetmeyer […]
Scott Patterson & Chelsea Strate Adam Blake’s Pneu Podcast is back with the crew from 45NRTH and Teravail. Adam is joined by Scott Patterson, Chelsea Strate, and Stephen Wilcox. The show was recorded at the Quality Bicycle Products World Headquarters in Bloomington, Minnesota. Adam and his guests talk about tires (duh) and winter cycling apparel, […]
Our Alaskan amigo Jay Cable is back with another in his AK Jay series of Wallpaper Wednesday photos. I have to say that I made a special request for this shot due to the kind of ‘take me to your leader’ vibe. Here’s what Jay had to say about his image. This is a shot […]
The Big M Fire Tower Fat Bike Open Pure Michigan Fat-Bike Racing!
Click HERE for more information If you’re looking for an event that has retained it’s ‘old-school’ vibe from the golden age of Wisconsin Fat-Bike Racing, you’ve found your event with the Sweaty Yeti. The lemans start is signaled with a muzzle-loader fired into the air. The local brewery comes out with a keg and Chalet […]
Dr. John – Iko Iko – spurred a thought in my imagination that could possibly address the rumblings that folks from around the interwebs share with us about the timing of Global Fat Bike Day and the dicey conditions that early December can sometimes present. Fat Tuesday is the perfect new International Fat-Bike Holiday! Two […]
Some years back, Dave Ochs, John Norton, and Steve Kaczmarek helped start the Borealis Fatbike World Championships. The race is in its 5th year and over 750 riders participated in the elite division with over 1,400 competitors toeing the line in all of the various races during the four-day celebration. Crested Butte is a gorgeous […]
Our Amigo from the Empire State, Bob Rainville also helps out with the Saratoga Fat Bike Festival in Up-State New York. Bob’s been kind enough to volunteer as an unofficial Fatbassador to New York and share some of his imaginative pixel arrangements, like the one above. Bob’s got one hell of an eye and a […]
Over the last couple of seasons, I started to hear about a new trail system from some of my amigos that “have a cabin up nort”. “Up Nort is a Wisconsin colloquialism that describes the hundreds of thousands of wooded acres that make up the northern third of America’s Dairyland. The area of the state […]
Ahhh Wallpaper Wednesday…the middle of the week and the beginning of the Weekend! I found this inspiring image of an Extrawheel trailer matched up with a loaded fat-bike by a cat that goes by Fat Mongrel and then I busted out the photoshop pixel blender and came up with this little number. We’ll be testing […]
Winter fat-biking in Ruka Finland by Pekka Lintusaari. Vuoden ensimmäiset tunnit kuluivat sähkö-fatbiken selässä Rukatunturin kupeessa! Merkattu reitti kulkee nimellä Pyhän Jyssäys Pikku Pyhävaaralle josta kiertää takaisin kohti Rukan hiihtokeskusta reitin lähtöpaikalle. Tämä on mun ehdottomia suosikkireittejäni. (Mahdollisuus kiertää myös lyhyempänä “Hirsilammen talvireitti”) Pistä kommenttia, jos tykkäsit maisemista! Ootko muuten jo testannut sähköfatbikea? I spent […]
Join the Homer Cycling Club at the Big Fat Bike Festival and make it Epic!
https://www.2020wintercamp.com/ Winter Camp Cuyuna with Chris Rourke of the Angry Catfish in Minneapolis & Dan Jurek of the True North Basecamp in Cuyuna Angry Catfish – https://www.angrycatfishbicycle.com/ True North Basecamp – https://www.truenorthbasecamp.com/ Red Raven – https://www.redraven.bike/ Cuyuna – https://cuyunalakes.com/visitor-guide/ Dan Mutz – That’s the 5″ Travel Foes Racing Mutz Full Suspension Fat-Bike that wears Dan’s […]
I made a trip to what I like to call the belly of the beast, Schaumburg, Illinois, yesterday to browse groovy cycling wares at the CABDA Midwest Expo. CABDA has been around for a long, long time. Way back in the last century, the shop that I worked at (ABC Cyclery) used to prep and […]
One of the true blessings in life is art! We’ve always tried to keep a steady stream of cool cartoonists and illustrators working on a virtual parade of fat-bike stickers that we’ve given away over the years. Year after year, I’d see these incredible event posters that were illustrated by Ryan Thibault. One way or […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Brandon Bender from over in Michigan. This is what Brandon shared about his photo. Ayyye. Attached are a few pictures I took on the Lake Michigan shore near Grand Haven, MI.. When the trails are trashed here in west Michigan, the beach is the next go-to when […]
Joe Meiser Fat-Bike Radio presents Adam Blake’s Pneu Podcast. Adam’s second episode is a two-part interview with Mike ‘Kid’ Riemer, Lindsay Beltchenko and Joe Meiser from Salsa Cycles. In Part 2 Adam and the Salsa Crew talk about gravel bikes! Salsa Links Website – https://salsacycles.com/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/salsacycles/Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/salsacycles/Twitter – https://twitter.com/salsacycles Stop in and see Adam at – https://worldofbikes.com/ Registration is open […]
(L-R) Adam Blake – Pete Koski – Lindsay Beltchenko – Mike ‘Kid’ Riemer Fat-Bike Radio is proud to present Adam Blake’s Pneu Podcast. Adam’s second episode is a two-part interview with Mike ‘Kid’ Riemer, Lindsay Beltchenko and Pete Koski from Salsa Cycles. Adam and the Salsa Crew talk about Adventure by Bike in Part One […]
Location : Pebble Creek Golf Club 14000 Clubhouse Lane, Becker MN 55308 Date: February 22nd 2020 Time: Venue opens at 9am Practice Laps : 10am Race Start : 12pm 30 Mike Race covering the Pebble Creek Golf Course Chip Timing from Gopher State Registration $25.00 Registration Link: https://pebblecreekgolf.com/product/becker-fat-bike-blitz/ Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/FatBikeBlitz/ Website : https://fatbikeblitz.com/ Brief Description: Snow or not, […]
Kora Yak Wool Azog Jersey and Holocene Vest Review
I am delighted to bring to you the new and improved Wyatt Maverick. They have completely redesigned the rear end of the bike with a cnc’d seatstay yoke to match their chainstay yoke. This is all matched to rectangular stays and machined dropouts. This is all beautifully manufactured from blocks and tubes in their new […]
