The Outer Hebrides are a formation of islands off the North West coast of Scotland which are joined by causeways and ferries. Since Bruce (Coastkid) put the idea in my head to go there on the fat bikes, I bought the maps which meant I was going! Unfortunately, Bruce couldn’t make it in the […]
Forth Fat, Bruce – aka; Coastkid’s social gathering on the East Coast of Scotland in North Berwick. The idea of Forth Fat is simple, ride fat bikes and socialise. After making the journey last year I was keen to be involved again in a great weekend of bikes and beer!! After unpacking my gear in […]
Ben Brown, 2015 Expert Division Champion, will defend his Championship at this year’s US Open Fat-bike Beach Championships photo by Bill Baggett Making it’s 2nd appearance on Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina event chair Shawn Spencer is finalizing details on The 2nd Annual US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship, scheduled March 11-13, 2016, in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. “Fat-biking is […]
Fat-Bikes and Surf Boards
Our amigo from the Atlantic, Deo, is back with a video that starts out nice and slow, but totally kicks into gear, right along with the soundtrack! We like to say, “Fat-Bikes and Lighthouses are like peas and carrots.” Get ready for two helpings of both! Join the Global Fat-Bike Revolution! Send us some rad […]
Fat-bike Radio color man, Mr’ J.K Livin’, brings us this story about his journey to the frame bag of his dreams, hand made by Andrew the Maker at http://atmhandmadegoods.com, for his Schlick Tatanka. Welcome to the ride! When out on the roads and trails, I tend to think of myself as a pack mule. You always […]
Joshua Macpherson sent us a shot from the mapping stage of the Big Fat Hurt. Josh was joined by riders, Brad Mertens and Ross Cairns, near Myall Lakes, New South Wales, Austalia. This is our way of suggesting that, “it’s not too late to load your bike and some gear and go explore the great outdoors this weekend!” Friday Fat-Bike Stoke…….Engaged. […]
FatBike in Floripa, Brazil: Sand’n’Fatty by Jonatha Jünge – jonatha@caminhosdosertao.com.br Six months ago, after a meeting on trails maintenance with local bikers, Normando Pereira took the floor to address the group. I am not sure if the high consumption of the local Ales made by the bike shop owner influenced the emotional tone of his […]
After Labor Day and into fall is an ideal time to beach ride along the shore of Lake Michigan. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: The lake is still warm making early morning starts 10-15 degrees warmer and a heck of a lot nicer There are generally still a lot of warm, […]
Fat-Bike.com’s, UK correspondent, Jeff Price, combined two of my favorite things in this week’s look at the gorgeous coastline of Wales. Jeff shared his Monday night ride with us, in what he calls “a quick edit of his local beach and singletrack”. How can you go wrong with a ride that has both fat-bikes and […]
A little over five years ago, Mike Curiak joined Eric Parsons, Dylan Kentch, Doom Fishfinder, and Roman Dial for a tour of SE Alaska. They rode the beach out of Yakutat and traveled along Alaska’s outer coast, via fat-bike and packraft to Glacier Bay. Five years ago, most of us were just trying to figure out how to put […]
Last week, I made good on a long standing plan to continue my exploration of the Lake Michigan Shoreline, just north of where I left off on a trip in 2012. The plan was to explore the area north of Ludington to the river town of Manistee. Over the years, I’ve visited and written […]
Mike Ripley tagged us in this video on twitter and it made me want to go and ride the Oregon coast, now, more than ever! Mike is the man behind mudslinger events in Oregon and our long lost fat-bike cousin. This clip is practically guaranteed to send you searching travel sites for tickets to Portland! Share your […]
Dave Caravias contacted us about his guided fat-bike adventures in South Africa. In addition to fat-bike beach riding that rivals anything that we’ve seen, the area also boasts, world class, whale watching and great white shark, cage dives! I’m going to let Dave describe his South African, beach ride, slice of heaven! Our area is extremely special with […]
By Jeff Price During the brief 19 months of owning my Mukluk, most of my rides have been solo with just the odd one being with fellow large-girth-tyre-lovers. So when details of the 2015 Forth Fat was announced a few months back I made a note in the diary. After loading the gear in […]
Arto Keipi sent us a video of his time on the northern coast of Estonia. You may want to turn down your volume on this one, because the surf sound is pretty loud intermittently through the clip. The scenery is gorgeous and I have to admit, that I had to go to the word atlas […]
My first recollection of the Big Fat Bike Festival came about 3 years ago. It was either sister-Kim or Hayley that contacted me to let us know that the Homer Cycling Club was holding an event in their picturesque corner of the world along the shores of the Kachemak Bay in Homer Alaska. Homer is […]
Any fat-bike festival with a gnome in the flyer gets extra points with me! I say this every year…..I really want to go to this! This festival has captured my imagination for 3 years! Is this the year that I get to go? Is this the year that you go? Bad Ass Beach Rides! Bonfires! […]
Our main man, Jeff Price, got together with a friend from work and few riders that he met through the UK Fat Bike Forums to conduct his Monthly Bivy in Wales. One of those other riders is our amigo John Moore. John’s photos have been featured on the site multiple times. You can check out […]
Religion on the River Written By – Mark Sirek Photos by – Nathan Swanson I’m Mark and I live in Minnehopelessness, Minnesota. My lady, The Instigator, and I try, whenever we’re going to be in town for the weekend, to assemble our friends on Sundays and spend the day in the woods, near rivers, and […]
I recently had the pleasure of stopping by Quiring Cycles World Headquarters in Freesoil, MI and picking up our new fat tandem. We asked Scott to build up the frame to fit the widest tires and rims available because Wifey and I are planning to play on this beasty during all four seasons. On a […]
I met Pat Smage at this year’s Mountain Bike Prom back in June. I seem to remember that he hopped his Mukluk with the skill and grace of a bicycle ninja. He sent me some great shots of he and his amiga on their fat-bikes, but this one really captured my imagination. The scores of rock […]
We´re leaving an epic summer behind. Temperatures has been the highest in 50 years. Riding has been amazing, from archipelago beach riding to big mountain fat bike adventures. And all of a sudden fall hits you in the head like a sledge hammer. Work, school for the kids, everything piles up and the weeks just […]
Written By : Bill Fleming How I found myself riding my fat bike across the mind-bending dunes of the Namib desert is at least as entertaining as the actual ride itself. It started last December in the bathroom with a smart phone. I started searching for areas with sparse population densities, like in Alaska.The long and […]
Our post last week about Polish fat-biker Norbert Jędrzejczyk, inspired Jarek Chincz to send me a shot of his Pugsley on the beach of the Baltic Sea, from Poland. I asked Jarek to fill us in a little bit about the riding in his area and he replied with this great story of how he got […]
Wally Hufford sent us this shot that his amigo Doug Armstrong took on a multi day fatpack trip up in Alaska. This is what Wally had to say about the shot. This photo was taken on July 24, 2014, by my buddy Doug Armstrong on our trip along the beach from Nikiski, Alaska, to Homer, Alaska, […]
The Mouth to Mouth Fat Bike Race Report By – Kaitlin Vadla & Zach Brown Celebrating clean water, healthy salmon, and healthy people, 67 runners and bikers (and a few of their canine friends) from Anchorage to Soldotna to Homer turned out Saturday, June 14th for the first Mouth to Mouth Wild Run & Ride. Participants […]
Our Amigo, John Moore got together with ten of his fat-bike friends and enjoyed a windy ride on the Merseyside Coast in the UK. You can see his whole set of photos from the ride here and you can enjoy more photos from Mr. Moore on his Flickr page, right here! Happy Friday Amigos! Why not share your […]
This is part three of a three part series about beach riding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. You can check out part one here and part two here. We Pick up the story with two ferry rides to get from Ocracoke Island to Cedar Island and then out to South Core Bank. Have you ever heard […]
This is part two of a three part series about beach riding in the outer banks of North Carolina. You can check out part one here – Part One – Beach Slacker Rodeo …We pick up the story on the ferry that goes to Ocracoke Island… The weather forecast cleared and I jumped at the chance […]
By : Kevin Higgins The missus and I were heading to the east coast to visit some friends down from the North Island. Kaka Point is a tiny community about two hours south of Dunedin nestled in a small bay right on the big, blue Pacific Ocean and it was a no brainer which […]
Somewhere back on the third or fourth oldest hard drive in my computer graveyard, I have a bucket list of destinations that I wanted to visit sometime during my life. The Outer Banks of North Carolina is on there, along with many other stops, that you would recognise. With the great and powerful winter we just […]
November Fat Bike Packing Written and Photographed by: Ken Blakey-Shell Scotty Q and I had been talking about going on a bike packing trip for months now but something was always getting in the way of a trip actually happening. After too much talk and too little action, we knew the window of opportunity was […]
Sometimes the best rides come up as spur-of-the-moment ideas and so it was for this past Sunday’s ride dubbed the Sunrise Service Beach Ride and Mimosa Tasting by The Fatbike Cult of MKE. The genisis of the ride idea came during the previous week’s Urban Assault MKE Ride as the man with the plan, Chris […]
Last January we introduced you to the Oveja Negra – Moonlander Mission 2 – Space Suit Bag (MM2-SSB/ON) that was custom crafted to fit my moonlander, Thparkle, in Leadville, Colorado. After 10 months of ‘life in the fat lane’, we’re going to take a look at how the MM2-SSB/ON has held up over the long haul. […]
Two years ago my first story published on fat-bike.com. Since then, many of our amigos and hundreds of our readers have contributed content and carnival to the pages of fat-bike. Sven and I truly appreciate, from the bottom of our hearts, all of our readers and sponsors. We look forward to sharing fat-bike news, […]
Disclaimer: No actual unicorns were harmed in the filming of the the Bike Black Ribbon Society’s Beach Ride & Unicorn Hunt. This post is rated NC-17 and should be viewed by mature audiences only. Eleven amigos answered the call to come out and hunt unicorns on the third coast of the big whiskey last weekend. […]
And then there’s this from Bruce Mathieson: aka: the coastkid. Bruce is the Viceroy of Scottish Beach Cycling and rides, one hell of good wheelie! His clips of exploring the scenic beach riding around East Lothian, have inspired thousands – (myself included!) A trip to Scotland to ride fat-bikes on the beach is, most definitely, on my […]
Some of our readers across the net asked to see the splash down of our amigo, Eric, busting out a dead sailor off of the ramp that we built, at last weekend’s beach party. We didn’t have any photos, but we do have some video! Watch Eric stick the landing….and don’t try this at […]
Sometimes the best rides aren’t planned and seem to come out of nowhere. Last weekend, Sven texted me about a beach ride that he was putting together for Sunday morning. The only thing standing in the way, was the fact that my moonlander was in need of some serious TLC. The small chain ring was […]
Written By Josh Spice ‘Camp at clam gulch rec area on the 8th of june. Ride beach through the 11th. Super duper casual. A rolling beach party.’ ~ Jason Boucher’s invitation to ride the beach with the Salsa crew & friends to Homer Three guys from Salsa Bikes, one of their contest winners, members […]
Jason Liddell took this shot of his 9:Zero:7 with the magic light of the East Lothian coastline bathing the beach in colour. You can see more of Jason’s photographs at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jason-l/. Triple F is a weekly feature, designed to inspire fat-bike fun, fueled by submissions from our readers. Would you like to help? Send your uncle […]
The Race When our amigo, Nate, of Central District Cyclery and the Winter Rush Race Series whispered in my ear that he was working on getting permission to run a beach race out of Grand Haven, I was delighted! I immediately offered to help in any way possible. So last weekend, I found myself headed […]
Down Under Holiday! Written by: Andy Oleson Ok, This story can’t progress another word without giving a HUGE shout out to Kath n Kedan Griffin, fellow BBR test pilot, Chris Zito, and MURU Cycles head man – Wayne Chapman! For without their great generosity and help this story would be non-existent. I’ve had the good […]
