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Enzo’s Button Hole Chamois Cream
I ran out of chamois cream about a month back. So (like any good ‘merican) I took to the interwebs to shop for a new tub of grundle butter. I was a bit shocked by […]
Bike Culture
Bike Culture
Foto Gordo – Summer Solstice 2023
It’s been a hell of a great spring for riding in the Big Whiskey. Drought conditions make for some really buff dirt ribbons at Kettle, JeffCo, and Camrock. What have trail conditions been like in […]
Bike Culture
2023 Mayday Mayhem Sit:Rep
A few years back, some of our northern Iowa gnome fest cousins started a klunker race, called the Mayday Mayhem. For one reason or another, I hadn’t been able to attend. In the meantime, I […]
Bike Culture
Fat Tribe Thursday – Winter ’23 – Vermont – UK – Utah – CHI – IL – New Hampshire
Fat-Tribe Thursday is back to support the age-old, adage that one picture says a thousand words! All of you have been so awesome with sharing your photos of fat-bike fun, we decided it was ‘high […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)
Shelltrack ’23 Race Report
The Snow Crown Race Series kicked off its first race last weekend in Manitowoc. The Shelltrack race goes back to the beginning of fat bike racing in Wisconsin. It’s one of my favorite spots that […]
Accessories
2022 Fat Biker’s Holiday Gift Guide
It’s the Fat-Bike.com Holiday Gift Guide with something for everyone that has a fat bike enthusiast on their holiday shopping list. This year, we surveyed our Bike Black Ribbon Society brain-trust for what they’d like […]
Bike Culture
The Fat Bike Triple Crown Sponsored by Wren
Fat Bike Race Season is heating up with the Fat-Bike Triple Crown sponsored by Wren! Wisconsin seems like the center of the fat bike racing galaxy, because the Fat Bike World Championships, the Fat Bike […]
Bike Culture
Canadian Business Spotlight: Fatbikes.ca – By Trevor (Allroy) Hughes
When Gomez approached me about doing write-ups on Canadian fat bike companies, gear and culture I jumped at the chance. Unfortunately, I am a much better talker than a writer. However, after some direction and […]
Bike Black Ribbon
Fat (video) Tuesday – Summer Squatch
You get a front-row seat to Summer Squatch at Levis Mound through the lens of our amigo rrrrRico (roll them r’s) aka MTB trail Sherpa! There are cameos by (yours truly) and pretty much all […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)
The Dose of Fat – September 2022
NEW stuff – Manitou Mastodon / Otso Voytek / Aeroe Spider Rack […]
Accessories
Burley Bark Ranger by Thumbelena
Burley Bark Ranger The Bark Ranger is a trailer designed specifically for your dearest companion. Just like how they make trailers for parents wanting to include their small children on their two-wheeled adventures; Burley makes […]
Beach Riding
Fat (video) Tuesday – Fat Bike Thoughts from the Coastrider
Bruce shares some thoughts on fat bikes, Surly, and the current state of fat bikes in the UK. It’s an interesting glimpse into the mind of one of fat bike’s early adopters and the beach […]
Bike Culture
Event Spotlight – Fatober-Fest (IA)
Our amigos from the Mitchell County Mountain Goats are throwing a fat bike party on October 1st and 2nd! They’ve got a plan for folks to ride fat bikes on singletrack. It’s a novel concept […]
Bike Black Ribbon
Singlespeed USA 2022
One of the reoccurring waves of enthusiasm for two-wheeled fun that I’ve enjoyed over the years has been driven by singlespeed bicycles. It probably was heavily influenced by growing up near Chicago and the Schwinn […]
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The Dose of Fat – Summer 2022
It’s Summer cats and kitties! Have you ridden your bike to a large body of water and then gone swimming? Time to do a cannonball into the deep end! […]
Bike Black Ribbon
Accessories
New PDW – Zit Bits Frame Bolts
The typical fat bike has over a half dozen M4 threaded cargo zits, just on the fork alone. Portland Design Works just introduced Zit Bits. Zit Bits are machined alloy bolts that are guaranteed to […]
Bike Culture
Mammoth Empire – Spartacus – The Fatter Fat Bike from the Philippines
If the fat bike in your life is not rotund enough for your flotation needs and you’ve been looking for a bike with the widest profile rims on the planet, you’re in for a treat. […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)
S240 – Fat Bike Freedom
The Sub 24 Hour Overnite or S24O is, yet another, sterling example of bicycle freedom and potentially another excuse to ride your fat bike. I’m quite fond of the S24O. I’ve recently taken a couple […]
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UP Field Trip – Bearclaw Bikes TŌWMAK
The second leg of my recent trip to the Upper Penninsula of Michigan took me to the east side and the tiny hamlet of Moran, home of Bearclaw Bikes. Moran is near the gateway to […]
Bike Black Ribbon
Klunkedekic Video Tuesday
Sunshine and klunky Tuesdays amigos! Does anybody else have Spring Fever? Today’s clip really got my blood going with the story of how the Crested Butte Pearl Pass tour all got started. Do you have […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)
Dose of Fat April 2020
It’s April and the transition from Winter to Spring shook me to the bone with what I like to call Prescription-Strength weather. My bike rides provided a front-row seat to the epic battles between the […]
Bike Culture
Ice Swampin’ by Raoul Glute
As our sun-starved pallid bodies become reintroduced to the bright warm stranger in the sky, I’m compelled to recall a recent last bit o winter biking frolic. During my typical mid-February cabin fever-induced blues I […]
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2022 Sea Otter Classic Bike Expo (Part 3)
We’re back with Part 3 of our coverage of the 2022 Life Time Sea Otter Classic presented by Continental. The bike industry came out of hiding and brought out all of the new toys for […]
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2022 Sea Otter Bike Expo (Part 2)
We’re back with part 2 of our coverage of the 2022 Life Time Sea Otter Classic presented by Continental. Let’s get right back to the parade of cool bike schwag. Our friends from Corvus Cycles […]
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2022 Sea Otter Classic Bike Expo (Part 1)
The 2022 Life Time Sea Otter Classic presented by Continental was last week. Racers, fans, and our favorite brands gathered at the Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey California! I walked the aisles of the expo […]
Bike Black Ribbon
Dose of Fat – March ’22
The calendar says that it’s Spring but Winter isn’t over until the fat-bike sings. The Dose of Fat is back with a look at what’s going on in the fat-bike.com test bunker and what our […]
Bike Black Ribbon
Chasing the Last Snow
For the last dozen, or so, years, my wife, Bethany, and I, have been blessed to live with Bodhi, Cecil & Cowboy. Bodhi and Cecil are both gone now but Cowboy is still around. All […]
Advocacy
Spring Thaw and Mud Season
The transition from winter to spring is underway and our trails will be experiencing freeze-thaw cycles until the frost is out of the ground. This means checking trail conditions will be more important during the […]
Accessories
Dose of Fat – February 2022
Here are a few things happening in the world of Fat Bikes! It’s the end of February and Fat Bike Racing is set at the proverbial “eleven”! We just got a new fresh coating of […]
Accessories
What to get your Fat-Bike for Valentines’ Day ♥
Want to show your fat bike some love this winter? Here are our top-ten ideas for what you should get your Fat Bike for Valentines’ Day. If your fat bike is anything like my fat […]
Bike Culture
Dose of Fat – Prime Winter Race Season – 2022!
Here we are in Prime-Time Winter Race Season 2022 (the year of the Double Duece. It’s the final weekend of January and Fat Bike Worlds starts today in New Richmond Wisconsin. I’ll be headed out […]
Bike Black Ribbon
Disc Brake Flip Flop
In the early days of fat bike development, complete bikes came spec’d with mechanical disc brakes. It was my understanding that the story behind that was hydraulic disc brakes were unreliable at arctic temperatures. I […]
Bike Culture
Winter Riding in Alta Norway
Kenneth Johansen sent us a few shots from a ride along the Alta River near Alta, Norway. The river is famous for being one of the best rivers for salmon fishing in the world. Alta […]
Accessories
2021 Holiday Gift Guide
Hola Vatos and Hippy Holly-Daze! Every brand pumps out a gift guide these days that tend to feature what they’d like to sell you. It’s kind of turned the typical Holiday Gift Guide into nothing […]
Accessories
CABDA Midwest Report
It’s been a long time since I’ve walked the floors of a convention center filled with the latest and greatest products from the bicycle industry, but earlier this week, I laced up a pair of […]
Bike Black Ribbon
Levis Mound Fat Tire Festival
◄ Bringing Derby Back to Levis Mounds! ► September 10th thru 12th – 2021 In the tradition of the bike festival formerly know as Gnomefest comes the Levis Mound Fat-Tire Festival set for September 10th thru the […]
Bike Black Ribbon
Full Suspension Fat Full Monty
I decided that it was high time to get out and ride the Full Monty at Kettle. The Full Monty is a colloquialism for riding the Blue Loop at the John Muir Trail system to […]
Bike Culture
The Occasional Dose of Fat – Summer 2020
The Dose of Fat is Back!. About ten years ago we started to share news and reports from the front lines of bicycle sub-culture here at the fat dash bike dot com. The dose has […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)
Free to Ride the Country
Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to rough it to get your bike-fun merit badge. I’m here to tell you that it’s ok to go glamping or (gasp!) stay in a nice hotel […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)
Reader’s Ride(s) Adam Blake’s Salsa Beargrease aka Buzz Lightyear
The Details Bicycle Base: Salsa Beargrease 2019 GX style with Kingpin Deluxe fork Hbar: Whisky 31.8 750mm width Stem: Paul Boxcar 90mm up from the stock 70 length, and in SUPER RAD PURPLE Grips: Wolftooth […]
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Project Fox Shox – by Tim Mallard
Put yourself in the “way back machine”. Way back to 1997. You are 14 years old and on summer break. You ride to the bike shop every day to drool at the new Rock Shox […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)
Da Crusher 40 EX Race Report – by JP Syverud
Todd Poquette is at it again. He loves creating super hard races in the most secluded spots in the UP of Michigan, changing the course every year. This year he outdid himself. His goal, for […]
Bike Black Ribbon
The Levis Mound Fat Tire Festival
◄ Bringing Derby Back to Levis Mounds! ► September 10th thru 12th – 2021 In the tradition of the bike festival formerly know as Gnomefest comes the Levis Mound Fat-Tire Festival set for September 10th […]