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Fat Tribe Friday! New Hampshire – California – Massachusetts – Michigan – Colorado – Wisconsin – Alabama
Fat-Tribe Friday is back with a coast to coast – North, East, South & West – all across the US representation of fun on bikes! Bob Bernoth is a fan of our Podcasts from New Hampshire. Dudley also hails from the Granite State and he sent us some pretty hilarious stuff along with this shot […]
Niche Bike News – Ritchey Outback V2 – Kindernay IGH – Tifosi Sledge – New Moots – Wolftooth Gold – Silca Super Secret Lube – Pirelli Tires – Stashers Contest Winners
Ritchey Outback V2 Tom Ritchey rides about 10,000 miles (16,000 km) per year, and most of that is off-road. Combine that with his more than 40 years of designing and building bicycles, and it’s no wonder the Outback has become an icon in the gritty world of gravel and adventure bikes. Updated for 2020, the […]
Fat Tribe Friday(s) Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Ontario
Fresh Gallery with photos from our amigos con el Tribe de Fat!
Adam Blake’s Pneu Podcast with Bobby Wintle
Adam interviews the man behind Stillwater Oklahoma’s District Cycles and the Mid South Gravel Race, Bobby Wintle! Links District CyclesThe Mid South Gravel Race Come see Adam at World of Bikes
Fat (video) Tuesday – Old Man Fat Bike – Fatbassador to the Ozarks
We’ve been fans of Old Man Fat Bike (Jens) for a long time now and we’ve featured a couple of his videos on FvT. After watching his newest release we talked and today we’re proud to Announce that Old Man Fat Bike is our official Fatbassador to the Ozarks! So you can look forward to […]
Double Dark Chocolate Fat Bike Birkie Championship Cookie Recipe
A couple of fun facts came to light in the interview with Heather and Corey Stelljes for the Danger Gnome Podcast Birkie Special. For instance, if you’d like to know about Corey’s bike set-up for his back to back wins at the Fat Bike Birkie or listen to what Heather thought about a full season […]
Stashers Bag Review by Andy Amstutz
Bags…Bags…get ya bags here. I have fallen in love with bags on my bikes. What used to be a simple “under the saddle” bag with a tube, tire lever, multi-tool and maybe some CO2, has evolved into carrying keys, phones, pumps, snacks and oh, maybe, just possibly, a few adult beverages for the mid-ride social […]
Pelebong Pedal Assist All-Terrain Exercise System (PATES)
News Release – April 1, 2020 – Rensselaer, Indiana Pelebong Bikes is proud to announce the first Pedal Assist All-Terrain Exercise System that combines cycling, legal marijuana, and video entertainment!- Now you can hit the trails and the bong harder than you’ve ever done before. All while staring at your strava, streaming humorous cat videos […]
Niche Bike News – US Open – USA Cycling – Old Man Mountain – Rocky Mtn/RaceFace Enduro Team
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 […]
Artist Profile – Garret Olson – by JP Syverud
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 […]
2020 Saratoga Fat Bike Rally – by Bob Rainville
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 […]
The Real Fat Tuesday
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 […]
Event Spotlight – The Epic Big Fat Bike Festival - Homer AK
Join the Homer Cycling Club at the Big Fat Bike Festival and make it Epic!
CABDA MidWest SitRep
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 […]
Is it time to Upgrade Your Legacy Fat-Bike? by Jeff Price
Editor’s Note – we should probably try to set some parameters for what we’re referring to when we talk about a ‘legacy fat-bike’. Legacy fat-bikes usually have a drive train with more than one front chainring. They generally have quick-release skewers instead of thru-axles. They might have a fork with front axle spacing that is […]
A salute to Athenas & Clydesdales
I’ve been looking for a way to express my thoughts about how popular culture looks at people with a BMI of 30 or more. I’ve always thought that we should look at the heavier cyclist the same way that we look at singlespeeders. So I’d just like to take this opportunity to say to everyone […]
UK Packrafting Meet Up
John ‘Climber’, one of Fat-bike,com’s friends decided it would be a great idea to get people who are packraft curious together in North Wales, UK. Luckily for me the venue was just a 1 hour drive away which was on the shores of Bala lake. However the attraction of trying out packrafts attracted people from […]
(Time to Start Planning…) Global Fat Bike Day 2019
Let’s kick it up a few notches… Summer, this time of year is when I start thinking of shorter days and colder temps and with that brings Global Fat Bike Day. This year the date falls on December 7th for peeps from all around our universe to get out on their own or with a […]
Fat-Tribe Thursday (WI-Italy-MI-India)
Fat-Tribe Thursday is a distant cousin of Throwback Thursday. Back in the day, we used to share photos from fat-bikers from around the world under the byline ‘Fat-Tribe Thursday’. It’s sort of like a modernized version of the “Magic Mirror” bit at the end of Romper Room. I don’t remember why we picked Thursday, but […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Munda Biddi Trail – Australia
Today’s video has the International House of Fat-Bikes seal of Approval! Tres amigos in matching green shirts chronicle their trip to Western Australia and the good times roll! This is Episode one, so follow FatTraction on YouTube to see more from these cats. Would you share your Plus or Fat Pixels? Give us your tired, your […]
The Crusher Interview with Todd Poquette, Director of Adventure 906 Adventure Team – by Greg Gentle
When I was a kid my older brother and I used to reenact the great battles on All-Star Wrestling in the living room of our house. Before Hulk Hogan and the WWF, All-Star Wrestling reigned supreme in the 1970s and early 80s. The back of the sofa would served as the top rope as my […]
The Weekly Dose of Fat – Summer Solstice Special Edition
509 Jabit III 27.5+ at Hartmans Creek State Park (WI) Photo by Kurt Geiger Welcome to Summer 2019! We thought that it would be nice to celebrate the first day of Summer with an old school WDoF post like we used to do before we started the podcast with the same name. I’m headed to […]
¡Funduro Video!
Our friends at ZuZu Pedals worked with David Schulta on this video that captures a pretty freak’n good afternoon of bike fun! Check out more about the day at – The First Funduro Thanks again to everyone that made the day possible!
MAY FOTO GORDO CONTEST
Before we get into our May Foto Gordo Contest, let’s award some prizes to some folks that attended our ultra smurfy beach bike rodeo from last weekend! Best Jello Mold Morpheus Mash-up goes to – Erv Sparks! Steve Pirelli – Puff the Magic Dragon Wins Best Costume Best Crash goes to Greg Hahn with an […]
Our First Funduro
photo by Chris Zito I’m sitting at my desk feeling exponentially luckier than I usually feel, which is saying something because I consider myself to be one of the luckiest humans on earth. The reason that I’m filled with an extra dose of gratitude is probably, in large part, enhanced by the feeling you get […]
Afterglow Lake Resort – Phelps WI – Northwoods Paradise
I was drawn to Afterglow Lake Resort by their incredible social media photo-stream. The intense sunset photography made me think back to shooting Kodachrome slide film and spoke to one of my life-long passions (photography). And it didn’t hurt that their photos feature two Bernese Mountain Dogs along with a Golden Retriever at the lodge to […]
The Dose of Fat Podcast Show No. 141 – Up to Snow Good & Afterglow Report
Leia, Spinner & Tio Gomez are joined in the studio by Patricia, the Race Director of the Up to Snow Good Dual Slalom Race to be held at Tyrol Basin Ski Area in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin on February 9th, 2019. For more info visit – http://www.uptosnowgood.com/ We close the show with a segment recorded in […]
Event Spotlight – 2019 Leadville Winter Mountain Bike Series (CO)
2019 LEADVILLE WINTER MTB SERIES TENNESSEE PASS NIGHT JAM JAN 19TH REG. AT 4 PM RACE STARTS at 6 PM $25 / $20 for CCW Members 12 MILE COURSE THROUGH THE TREES WITH A MIX OF NORDIC TRAILS AND A SWEET DH SINGLETRACK FINISH TENNESSEE PASS NORDIC CENTER @ SKI COOPER WINTERBIKE @ COPPER MTN […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Grand Falls on the Dead River
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is from one of our long-time amigos, Tom McDonald. I found this shot in my Wallpaper Folder from last year’s images, yet I knew we had never published this particular image. We’ve shared quite a few of Tom’s photographs over the years and Tom won a photo contest that we ran […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Round Square Adventures – Mongolia
Kirsten Scully promised that she’d send us a new video of her beautiful backcountry fat-bike tours in western Mongolia and this week’s Fat Tuesday feature is a compilation of Roundsquare Adventures’ 2018 summer trips. They guided three fatbike trips in Mongolia last year and also took a group of pro bikers from SEAT cars to make a promo […]
Event Spotlight – Up to Snow Good – Dual Slalom at Tyrol Basin
Just Send It! The first of its kind in Wisconsin, Up To Snow Good dual slalom is an intense, heart-pounding and spectator friendly bike race. There will be costumes, music, rowdy crowds, klunkers and epic wipe-outs because this race is on snow! What is Dual Slalom? The format is simple: in less than 60 […]
The Birkie Ladies Fat Bike Getaway – By Kitty
I just returned from attending the first ever Birkie Ladies Fat Bike Getaway. With so many women starting to fat-bike, I thought that I would attend and write about the experience. The weekend event took place up in the Hayward-Seeley-Cable area of northern Wisconsin. I have skied the Kortelopet once and felt kind of apprehensive […]
Event Spotlight – Portland Design Works 10 Year Anniversary Party – Fat Bike Swap Meet (MN)
How can you go wrong with free beer, tacos & vodka drinks? Michael’s Cycles in Prior Lake Minnesota is having a Fat Bike Swap Meet this weekend. Buy/Sell/Ride? Check Out the Fat-Bike Event Calendar We’ve been loading some of our favorite events onto our Event Schedule. Everything on our event schedule was hugged onto the interwebs […]
Dose of Fat Show#139 – PED Testing – Hugh Jass – GFBD
This episode of the Dose of Fat Podcast was recorded at the Midwest Family Broadcasting Studios in Madison Wisconsin. Leia, Spinner, and uncle Gomez talk about USADA drug testing in the first half of the show and then we welcome special guest Amelia Kegel to talk about the Hugh Jass Fat Bike Race Series! […]
The Weekly Dose of Fat News – Events – Blinkie PSA – Enve Wheels & Fork
Welcome to the text version of the Weekly Dose of Fat! In Fat-Bike News: Anchorage has already gotten their first dump of snow and the Fat News is really beginning to percolate. We’re a month out from Global Fat Bike Day and the first wave of fun fat-bike events are already popp’n off this coming […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – A test of the Global Fat-Bike Day Broadcast System
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.” […]
Global Fat-Bike Day 2018
December 1st is the date of this year’s – GLOBAL FAT-BIKE DAY! Some of you are probably wondering… why are we telling you about an event so far in advance? Well, it’s because you are all part of the planning process! It takes time to get all of your ducks in a row, and gather your […]
Moons Over My Chamois – July
We premiered the Moons Over My Chamois series last month and we’re back with episode deux. We asked our crew of twenty-some bike black ribbon test pilots two questions. This way, when you read a review written by one of these rugged individualists, you’ll know a little bit more about what makes them tick. So […]
Coast to Coast Bikepacking Michigan’s Mitten – By Andy Amstutz
Not many people drive across Michigan. It’s not on the way to anywhere. It’s the anti-Iowa in the way that I’ve driven through Iowa a dozen times to get to a destination but never had the pleasure of staying overnight. Michigan, like Florida and Maine, is a destination location, unless one is driving to Cuba, New […]
Fat Tire Tour of Milwaukeestein – June16th, 2018
If you’re anywhere near Milwaukee and you’re looking for a fun fat bike ride this Saturday, join me and a few thousand others at this year’s Fat Tire Tour of Milwaukee. The ride starts at the old Pabst Brewery and then hits a brewery and a distillery. They don’t divulge all of the stops until the […]
Fat Video Tuesday – Fatbike Touring Southwestern USA
Fat (video) Tuesday returns with the new live double album from ForestyForest recorded on his tour of the Southwestern US. This one sort of grabs you and pulls you in with poignant quotes and beautiful imagery. Check out the Route: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Rzm… Follow ForestyForest on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forestyforest/ Share your Plus or Fat Pixels Give us your tired, your […]
Fat-Bike Van Life – Balkan Holiday by – Stephan Spruyt (Part 3 of 3)
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 […]
Fat-Bike Van Life – Balkan Holiday by – Stephan Spruyt (Part 2 of 3)
Road Trip The Balkans (Part 2 of 3) (from part one) – We continued exploring the city a bit more and then left to visit my new Serbian friends… Having no idea what to expect, I was pleased to see a house with a little garage next to it and a Type 3 fastback on […]