The snow-bike race season in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula gets off to a start on Saturday, February 4 with the Low Pressure Loppet, a 15k, single-lap race to be held as part of the annual Keweenaw […]
You may have noticed the new “Event Calendar” tab in the top navigation bar of the site. Check it out if you haven’t already and see the fruits of our Holiday Break labor; The Best […]
Alex sent in this ride report from New York, Thanks, Alex! Commence report now: Hit the great 909 Pleasant Valley, NY on the Mukluk 2 Sunday. It was my first real ride on her. The […]
Five fantastic Friday’s of fat-bike news in December but it looks like we’ll have to gip ya and go for only four in January. Fear not, we’ll pack ’em full! FYI, the December Contest ends […]
Black Canoe Dog sent us this super-blam purple Pug photo to lively up your screen! Enjoy. Feel free to download it and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the image to open the […]
Fat-Bike-Packing the Oregon Coast!
Josh (Death Rider), the winner of our November Newsletter Sign Up contest and the fyxation Mesa pedals, sent us a brief note and a couple of SWEET shots of his Sewer Tour in the Twin […]
Origin8 recently introduced their first fat-bike tire, the 26×4.0 Devist8er. This tire, made by Vee Rubber in Thailand, is going to be, in one form or another, the stock rubber on the new Origin8 fat-bike […]
Well folks, the Holiday Season is upon us but the fat-bike news just keeps-a-comin’! With the end of the year on the way Gomez and I are going to scale it back a bit for […]
A Northpaw in its natural habitat. A wintery ride along the Milwaukee River last winter brings thoughts of winter yet to arrive this year. Feel free to download it and use it as your own […]
I did the switch over to my winter fat-bike setup on my Northpaw and saved weight in the process! My warm-weather set up has been double-wall Large Marges, Larrys and a 450mm Northpaw fork with […]
Beautifully shot and edited this video is about Fatbiking in Finland, 7th december 2011.
More mainstream media news on fat-bikes. Big News? Grooming trails specifically for winter fat-bike use! Can some one say explode? The Holidays are coming! Why not get that fat-biker in your life something to wear […]
For my fat-biking pedal needs I am a platform guy all the way. I ride my Northpaw fat-bike year round and have found that the freedom from clips makes me happy. Lots of other folks […]
Sandman Bikes is a Belgian fat-bike company that makes all-terrain bikes people have been doing incredible things on since 2007. Not just for sand and snow, these Sandman bikes! The current Sandman design is a […]
Sven took this puppy out for its first ride and this Surly Moonlander was treated to trails, sandy beach, rocky beach, cuddles and giggles from random people and a bit of beer spilled on the […]
We’ve got some great artists we work with for various purposes and have enlisted their help in creating some sweet fat-bike oriented designs. The screens have been burned for several designs with more on the […]
I like milestones and the publishing of our 100th article yesterday makes me happy as as well as the fact that we have A LOT more to come! I think that is is apropos that […]
If this report seems moderately disjointed it is because both Gomez and I wrote reports and I bailiwicked them into this conflagration. About twenty fat-bikers from SE WI and NE IL assembled on the shores of […]
Fat-bike.com Appalachian correspondent and Team SnowBike Enduro Podium Girl, Katy Snacks, is the model in this Holiday Bonus Wallpaper photo shot by photographer Scott Winklebleck. Happy Holidays from all of us at Fat-bike.com! Feel free […]
After being a tad sparse last week we are back with LOTS more fat-bike news you can use than you can shake a stick at. Event Coverage, How-to’s, Moonlander Sightings, Fat-Bikes on winter trails, Mainstream […]
Toni’s been riding his 9:Zero:7 in Finland since April 2011 and he is preparing a two part review of the bike, the first part will coverriding from spring to late fall and the second part […]
Thanks to the folks at Planet Bike we got a hold of a pair of their Borealis Winter Gloves to test. On first examination they seem well constructed and offer the options of using the […]
Fat-bikes are, obviously, not the sveltest of rides but that doesn’t mean there aren’t folks out there who wouldn’t like to shave a gram off here or there even if it is just for bragging […]
This fat-bike/hunting article about a trip to Wisconsin’s Northwoods over Thanksgiving Weekend is a guest post reprinted with permission from Dave Schlabowske, Communications Director for the Bike Federation of Wisconsin. Thanks, Dave! I am back […]
December already! Wow. The days are getting shorter and cooler but no significant snow here yet though we’ve had a tease or two. http://surlybikes.com/blog/post/new_things_arriving – Announcements about Moonlanders, Clown Shoes and such! Get Some! http://nuxx.net/blog/2011/11/28/low-cost-fat-bike-stand/ – Low-cost […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday photo is courtesy of our own Gomez and was, in his words “shot the day after epiphany in 2010 in a rager of a snow storm – this was pre-Larry – […]
This FatRack “Rack Hack” came courtesy of The Rider of the Purple Sage just hours before he headed back to Colorado from MKE. Thanks for all your hard work! Too bad we had the wrong […]
This fat-bike video shows that fat-bike fever has hit the Netherlands! Here shown in the guise of the Dutch Fatbike Meeting 2011 in which 6 Surly Pugsley riders cycle a tour around Texel Island – 36KM of Fatbike […]
A day late but certainly not a dollar short, here is the past week in fat news: http://atraincycles.com/453/fat-bike-season-is-coming/ – a sweet fat-bike from A-Train. http://deathrideradventure.blogspot.com/2011/11/kayakfat-bike-ride.html – Kayak and Fat-bike ride. http://magicvalley.com/lifestyles/recreation/snow-adventures-with-fat-bikes/article_b50a87e1-daa0-5a99-9490-9f1939bd4101.html – Idaho Newspaper gets in on the […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday photo comes from Northern Illinois correspondent xrsmith. He says “This is the old (1920’s) concrete bridge in Hononegah Forest Preserve, Rockton Illinois. I loved the fresh snow stacked up on […]
From our friends at CORBA (Chippewa Offroad Bike Association) on Saturday, January 28th, 2012 at the Eau Claire Expo Center & Lowes Creek County Park, “Join us for another year of Powder Keg fun, as we […]
Once again we bring you a compilation of fat-bike news from around the Internets. Yet again I am stoked about all the coverage our “freak bikes” are getting and look forward to next week when […]
With the exception of a bit of time spent in California I’ve been riding in cold weather for as long as I’ve been riding bikes. You want to ride year ’round here in the Midwest […]
I shot this while I was on vacation with the family at the Elroy – Sparta bike trail in Western Wisconsin. The 32-mile Elroy – Sparta trail has three tunnels on it and this shot […]
From Brother Evan to the Brethren of Fat Presenting FrozenFat 2012 – Expect to be unreasonably cold….then everything else will seem normal. After that realize that this is going to be a wild weekend of […]
This has to be one of the most viewed fat-bike videos on YouTube and is responsible, in no small way, for introducing thousands to the joys of fat-biking and to the Surly Pugsley. This 3-minute […]
I love this day! 11-11-11! Number are cool. Fat-bikes are cooler! Here is a collection of links to fat-bike stories around the web for this week. http://salsacycles.com/culture/one_fall_ride_tim/ – Riding with TJ and his Mukluk on the […]
Whoo Hooo! Our first contest! Read all this up in here! Hey! Remember that article about our Fat-Bike.com email Newsletter you may have seen a few days back? Actually, I’m sure some of you did […]
Josh from Far North Fatbikes sent this video to show fat-bike stream crossings on Valdez Creek Road, Denali Highway in Alaska. Josh’s only rule? Ride with the current or at a shallow angle across it, […]
The Gallery below is a collection of fat-bike photos we’ve found to be especially suitable for wallpaper on your computer screen. In some cases you will find a color and a black and white version. […]
Lots going on out there in the fat-bike world. Below is a collection of fat-bike related news we ran across this week. Heck fat-bikes are becoming so popular that outside Magazine even has an article […]
I corresponded with Josh at Far North Fatbikes in Fairbanks, Alaska about their Fat-bike rental business and asked him to fill us in with some info about their business. Here is some of what we […]
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