What better way to get everyone stoked to celebrate Global Fat-Bike Day than to share a video from last year’s celebration from the beaches of South Africa? Last December Dawie posted this video that chronicles his GBFB 2017 ride, or as he put it: “Three riders doing their bit for Global Fat-Bike Day 2017.” […]
Bivvy a Month #8 – Take Two!! Well, when I set out to do the Bivvy a Month Challenge I knew they’d be challenges. Despite a so far successful year with my rides and the weather, my luck seemed to run out towards the end of August. I had my route planned so I […]
Fat Bike Jura I had a few days spare at the end of May for my 5/12 of #BAMfatbike2018. I must admit I wasn’t feeling like using them up as I wasn’t in the zone for a trip away. However as the weather forecast was looking hot here in the UK it would have been […]
Mountain Bike Australia in conjunction with Karunjie Event Management is pleased to present the inaugural Fat Bike National Championships to be held at Cable Beach, near Broom, Western Australia. Fat-Bike beach racing is coming to Western Australia next Saturday! You can register for the race here and you can visit the event page here. […]
Road Trip The Balkans (Part 3 of 3) (from Part 2) The shower session was quite hilarious as what first looked like an alright spot on the side of the road turned out to be a peepshow with ourselves playing the main characters haha 😆.. A bit later we set off, the scenery was really […]
I don’t know if you cats are hip to March being Fat Bike Beach Month, but one cat that lives in the bullseye of knowing is David Hartman Jr. Dave and his bride took a trip down to the Texas Riviera and captured some Fat Bike Beach Magic for this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. This is […]
I’ve wanted to attend the US Oen Fat Bike Beach Championships since it was first introduced back in 2015. I’ve done a bit of riding on the North Carolina Atlantic Coast a little further north from Wrightsville Beach on the outer banks, so I knew that it takes place in what I would call […]
Spring is in the air, but for the last few weeks, the Dose of Fat Crew have been visiting Winter on the weekends at events like the Sweaty Yeti – the Hugh Jass @ Trek HQ and the Fat Bike Birkie. We gathered up north in a flurry of activity that culminates this winter’s fat-bike […]
We’re stoked to introduce a new monthly series that will feature photos from the 2017 Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp. So once a month, we’ll flip your wigs with some incredibly beautiful images from Austrailia! This is what Eckart shared about this photo. I took this photo on a training ride for the Simpson […]
Ed ~ We ran a story about the Origin8 Supercell tires earlier this year, primarily, due to Pistil Pete bringing them to our attention. After our story published, we sent the tires down to Pete for some desert riding and a beach trip down in Mexico! Our story today comes as a two-part report […]
I shot this back in 2014 at one of the best beach crust rides that I’ve ever experienced. The rider is David Mulder and the location is Port Washington, Wisconsin. Download the image and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the photo to open the full-sized version which you can right-click to […]
A couple decades back, my friend Cale and I started a bike gang called the Bike Black Ribbon Society and over the years BBR established chapters all over the US. When we started to need help with testing bikes for fat-bike dot com, we established the BBR Test Pilots from BBR Chapters and their known […]
Today we’re proud to play a role as the international house of fat-bikes aka: fat-bike dot com and this week’s fat-Tuesday clip , comes to us from the Błędowska Desert in Poland. Makes me think that there has to be someplace nearby, where we could hold some sort of hill climb competition! Take a look […]
I know that this week’s WW, doesn’t fit your monitor very well, but if you set your desktop image, drop down menu to ‘fill’, you won’t be disappointed. We pulled this shot from the archives and digitally enhanced the original vinyl pressing from a trip over to Grand Haven, Michigan, where we took a Ferry […]
Forth Fat 2017 – Video by Bruce Mathieson Words and Pictures by Jeff Price The end of April saw Forth Fat 2017 take place on the trails of East Lothian where Bruce ‘CoastKid’ has been fatbiking for the last 10 years. This was my 3rd trip to the social gathering were its all about chatting […]
Beach riding is one of my favorite ways to enjoy bikes. I was born and raised on the shores of Lake Michigan and the moment that I got my hands on my first pugsley, I explored Lake Michigan and Lake Superior’s shorelines. We had 3 epic years of beach riding and then the Lake froze […]
Here’s a snapshot that captures the spring-like winter that sputtered along and laid waste to this year’s fat-bike race schedule. This particular photo was shot at the Shell Track Race up in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake Michigan. Well, now Spring is here, and if you rode all (cough) Winter, your bike […]
Bicycle Beachracing: Two of These Things Were Not Like the Others The 1st European Championship Bicycle Beachrace Was recently held in my new home country of The Netherlands. I’ve done my share of sand riding on fat bikes with a group of amigos on both the Washington coast and the dunes East of the […]
Show # 121 was recorded in the Cloud Factory Studios, where Tio Gomez was joined by Evan Larsson, Chris Daisy and features David Glover. This week’s Special Guests are the winners of the Pro Elite USA Cycling Fat-Bike National Championships, Ami Stuart & Cole House. Tonight’s Wardrobe was Provided by sPACYcLOUD Hemp Onesie Grab grandma’s […]
ED – Garrett Olsen is a really talented artist that we’ve worked with and when I saw the pictures of his group beach ride, I messaged him and asked if we could work together and share the story with our readers. Inspired by all the guys and gals who posted up lake picks last year, I got […]
Ed – This is the first chapter in a series of articles about life at the beach, written by an old friend. What would you do with the freedom to roam? Amy moved to the beach along with her fat-bike. The series will explore the endless smiles of beach and yes….tomfoolery….along the gorgeous Atlantic coast of […]
It’s been too long since we shared one of Bruce’s awesome beach videos, so today, we take a step in the right direction and present a clip that stars both the beach and the wind on the Scottish coast in nature’s sweet fury. Bruce has been kind enough to share his fat-bike adventures with us […]
Cédric sent us some photos from a beach ride on the coast of Belgium and Northern France. The route started at Depanne Beach in Belgium and ended in Leffrinckoucke in France. In addition to the seascape and the dunes, the shores are littered with bunkers from the second world war. An unknown artist, covered one of them with mirrors and mother […]
Uncle Gomez asked me if I’d like my own portal to fat dash bike dot com and this is my first solo flight. If this were one of Gomez’s posts, he might say – “This weeks video is posted by Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot Jeff ‘Summittoppler’ Price out there on the coast in […]
From the moment that I got my first glimpse of the Apache Fatty Slick from Vee Tire, it grabbed my attention as something that might work well for beach riding. Some of my Pac/West amigos have been experimenting with tire shaving on everything from Endomorphs to Snowshow 2XL’s to create the ultimate tire for beach […]
Last month we introduced you to Illya Rudkin and his wife, Vida and they’re back with a film about a trip to Sandwood bay near Durness in Scotland. We very pleased to announce that we’ll be featuring Illya and Vida’s adventures in a series of Fat (video) Tuesday posts over the next few months. Here’s Illya’s […]
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! […]
