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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 […]
The Trio Fat Bike World Championships – Talkeetna Alaska
Late last week, I embarked upon my third visit to Alaska since I followed the pathway to becoming a fat-bike evangelist. Alaska is where fat-bikes were born and March in Alaska is prime-time for a fat-biking pilgrimage. The first event that I put on my itinerary in Alaska was the Talkeetna Trio World Championships. Talkeetna […]
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 […]
Nation’s largest fat bike beach race returns to NC
Bikers line up for elite division race in 2019 – Courtesy Robert B Butler An interview with Shawn Spencer, Race Director WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NORTH CAROLINA – The US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship, the largest beach race in the nation, returns to Wrightsville Beach the weekend of March 27-29, 2020. “The growth of the Fat […]
Event Spotlight – Big M – 3/14/20 (MI)
The Big M Fire Tower Fat Bike Open Pure Michigan Fat-Bike Racing!
The Real Sweaty Yeti – Leap Day 2020 (WI)
Click HERE for more information If you’re looking for an event that has retained it’s ‘old-school’ vibe from the golden age of Wisconsin Fat-Bike Racing, you’ve found your event with the Sweaty Yeti. The lemans start is signaled with a muzzle-loader fired into the air. The local brewery comes out with a keg and Chalet […]
The Borealis Fat Bike Worlds
Some years back, Dave Ochs, John Norton, and Steve Kaczmarek helped start the Borealis Fatbike World Championships. The race is in its 5th year and over 750 riders participated in the elite division with over 1,400 competitors toeing the line in all of the various races during the four-day celebration. Crested Butte is a gorgeous […]
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 […]
Event Spotlight – Fat Bike Blitz – 2/22/20 (MN)
Location : Pebble Creek Golf Club 14000 Clubhouse Lane, Becker MN 55308 Date: February 22nd 2020 Time: Venue opens at 9am Practice Laps : 10am Race Start : 12pm 30 Mike Race covering the Pebble Creek Golf Course Chip Timing from Gopher State Registration $25.00 Registration Link: https://pebblecreekgolf.com/product/becker-fat-bike-blitz/ Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/FatBikeBlitz/ Website : https://fatbikeblitz.com/ Brief Description: Snow or not, […]
Event Spotlight – Alpine Valley Snowblast Downhill 2/9/20 (WI)
Click HERE for more information The Alpine Valley Snowblast presented by Hayes and Sponsored by The Bicycle Doctor Nordic Ski Shop is a downhill mountain bike race for all riders and all bikes! Don’t miss your chance to race the first ever MTB race held on the snow at AV. It is open to any […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Hugh Jass Season Five Race Four
Hugh Jass is part of a healthy, balanced fat-bike breakfast. Four out of five dentists recommend Hugh Jass to their patients that ride fat-bikes. Order today and we’ll send you not just one Hugh Jass. That’s right, we’re going to send you another Hugh Jass for no additional charge. Would you share your Plus or […]
Event Spotlight – Fattitude (WI) 2/22/20
Click the Flyer for more Information Attitude Sports is throwing a fat-bike race that makes me think that “deuces are wild”! (Cuz it’s on 2/22/20) I think it was Al Chervik that said “Golf Courses and Cemeteries are a waste of good real estate” but that’s because Al wasn’t a fat-biker. If you lay down […]
Event Spotlight – The Montane Yukon Arctic Ultra
MONTANE® Yukon Arctic Ultra Organizers Look Forward to 17th Edition of the World’s Coldest and Toughest Ultra Competitors face fierce wintry conditions along the race’s route Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada — (January 7, 2020) — Since 2003, the MONTANE® Yukon Arctic Ultra (MYAU) has been held every February along the Yukon Quest Trail – the route […]
Event Spotlight – SLiP N Ride Relay (WI) 2/1/20
Click the Flyer for more information SLiP N Ride Relay (WI) 2/1/20 Here’s another fun event down where I used to live in Westosha. The trails at Silver Lake are perfect for winter riding! Our amigo Kerry Gonzales is the race director for this 3 person team relay race that starts with a LeMans shush […]
The 8th Annual Überwintern Fatbike Festival (VT)
The Stowe Trails Partnership and Mountain Bike Vermont are at it again for 2020! MTBVT has partnered with the Stowe Trails Partnership to offer a day of fatbike revelry on powder packed singletrack. On Saturday January 11th, 2020 we will be gathering at Ranch Camp in Stowe to lead a two-wheeled charge against Old Man […]
Event Spotlight – Cross River Ripper Fat Bike Event (Mass)
Register here – https://www.bikereg.com/the-sandy-neck-fat-bike-winter-classic#Register $75 gets you a jersey and an after party. It’s gonna be fun! All fund raising goes to: * Barnstable Land Trust and * MassAudubon Long Pasture Wildlife SanctuaryHere are the event notes…. The Sandy Neck Fat Bike Winter Classic (SNFBWC) – first annual! – is a night time party ride on a […]
Burning Gnomes on the Spectrum – Shelltrack Race Report (Part 2) plus Shannon Chapwesk from Hugh Jass Race #2
Relay winners Fat-Bike Radio’s Podcast Week! It’s Part 2 of the Burning Gnomes on the Spectrum coverage of the Shelltrack – Snow Crown Race Series opener from Ryan’s on York in Manitowoc, WI. (L-R) Gomez-Jason-Amanda Spinner & Gomez interview Jason and Amanda Manders from Trail Genius along with Sarah and George Kapitz from the Snow Crown Race Series. […]
Burning Gnomes on the Spectrum – Shelltrack Race Report (Part 1)
Silver Creek Park is a super venue for a race! Sven, Spinner & Gomez recorded this recap of the Shelltrack Race at Ryan’s on York in Manitowoc, WI. It’s a combination of three of our Podcasts all rolled into a two-part report from what is rumored to be “the longest-running fat-bike race in Wisconsin”! The […]
Fatter By the Lake Weekend Retreat Sponsored by Surly Bikes (IL/WI)
Do you like to play bikes? Really? So do we! And so do a couple of our Amigos – Zion Cyclery and Hugh Jass! With this much fat-bike horsepower there’s bound to be sixteen gnome tons of certified fat-bike fun. The Fatter by the Lake Weekend Retreat Sponsored by Surly Bikes is the fourth event […]
Event Spotlight – Snow Crown Series (WI)
Geo Our long-time amigo George from Broken Spoke Bicycle Studio runs a race series in the Northeast corner of Wisconsin called the Snow Crown that consists of four events that all have a personality of their own. I may be a little biased but my personal favorite is the Shelltrack race! I was at the […]
Danger Gnome – Hugh Jass – Race No. 1
Fat-Bike Race season has begun and the Danger Gnome Podcast took a field trip out to Lake Geneva to do our best imitation of a bike racer and to record this bit of podcasting. Along the way, we interview Kerry Gonzalez who laid out the course at the Lake Geneva race. We also talk with […]
Event Spotlight – Hugh Jass Fat Bike Race Series
The Hugh Jass Fat-Bike Race Series is the kind of race that can feel very much like a kick-ass ride…and you can’t say that about many races. These races are so cool, that we’ve teamed up together to co-host one of the races at our next big bike party down in Zion (Fatter by the […]
Global fat Bike Day is less than a month away!
GFBD 2019 Celebrations! December Seventh Two Thousand and Nineteen Fat Foray Five – Return to Frensham, UK – https://www.facebook.com/events/666386143873892/Standing Rock Park, Stevens Point, WI – https://www.facebook.com/events/383942472301906/Point Beach State Forest, Two Rivers, WI – https://www.facebook.com/events/963209310690698/CamRock County Park, Cambridge, WI – https://www.facebook.com/events/385562995467637/Kivi Park, Sudbury, ON, Canada – http://www.waldenmbc.ca/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=1107East Lothian Coast Ride, Scotland – https://www.facebook.com/groups/762469277112898/Bell Joy, Madison, WI – https://www.facebook.com/events/363912971139045/Waterloo Iowa – https://www.facebook.com/events/373952966849471/Toledo, Ohio – https://www.facebook.com/events/674679796347970Waupaca, Wisconsin […]
Event Spotlight – Atwood Park – Rockford, IL
Click the Flyer for more Information This Saturday there’s a brand new fat-bike race series starting and the series is being held on a brand new trail system down in Rockford, Illinois! This grassroots Fat-Bike race series begins this Saturday! It’s put on by the Rockford Park District. It’s a great way to check out […]
¡El Funduro Grande!
Last weekend we co-hosted the third in a series of events that fly under the Flag of FUN aka the Grand Funduro Beach Ride & Ball or El Funduro Grande en españiol. I suppose that you would have to have been hiding under a rock if you hadn’t seen anything about GFBRAB, because we’ve been […]
Event Spotlight – Hugh Jass Fat Bike Race Series (WI)
The Hugh Jass Fat Bike Race Series is in its fifth year and I have to admit, that if I were to come back as a fat-bike race, I’d want to be a Hugh Jass Fat Bike Race! America’s Dairyland – aka, Wisconsin has taken a really fun approach to fat-bike racing and these races […]
Event Update – Grand Funduro Beach Ride and Ball
The Grand Funduro is looking like it might live up to its name! Surly Bikes added a Pre-Party on Friday night and they’re sending along their Demo-Van (Steel Force One) stocked to the gills with their beach tuned fat-bike demo fleet, including the new sparkly pink ice cream truck. So we’ve added two more events […]
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 […]
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Fat (video) Tuesday – Rock’n Beach Funduro Gnome Fu Demonstration with Pat Smage
Last spring I had the crazy idea to organize a free event up in Port Washington. It was the first in a series of fun events that we’ve been working on over the summer. Today’s FvT is a clip from a powerful bicycle wizard named Pat Smage. Pat put on fat-bike trials demonstration, that we […]
Event Spotlight – Grand Funduro Beach Ride & Ball
Click the Flyer to go to the Event Page Grand Funduro Beach Ride and Ball Schedule of Events Saturday2pm-4pm Arrival and Hotel Check in. Grab a goody bag.4pm Group beach sunset ride to the Dead River (4miles)5pm-7pm Group gravel evening ride to the The Tropics (8miles bring a headlight).7:30 to midnight Dancing and cocktails in […]
The Crusher Race Report – by Greg Gentle
Horrible Idea: Crusher Gravel Race Report For the past two summers, I’ve trained and mentally prepped myself for the 906 Adventure Team’s Marji Gesick mountain bike race in Marquette, MI. It’s a killer. Known for pushing you out of your comfort zone, the Marji director Todd Poquette has another event called The Crusher Gravel Race […]
2019 MTBA Australian Fat Bike National Championships – by Simon Rimmer
Fat Bikes might have been crafted for the snowfields of the northern hemisphere, but they’re as equally at home on loose trails, muddy tracks, and sandy beaches……….and that’s where they’ve captured the attention of Aussie riders ‘cause we’ve got plenty of incredible beaches surrounding our Great Southern Land. Arguably one of our best beaches is […]
The Danger Gnome Podcast El Rodeo Funduro Special
Gomez Joins Chris Daisy and Sprocket the Wonder Dawg at the Cloud Factory Studios down in beautiful Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin for a behind the scenes look at El Rodeo Funduro. Before you listen to the show take a look at Pat Smage’s video shot at the Rock’n Beach Funduro last Spring. Come and Join in […]
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 […]
Event Spotlight – El Rodeo Funduro – 7/28/19 – Silver Lake, WI
click the flyer to go to the FB Event Page We’re throwing a bike party in late July called El Rodeo Funduro. It’s a bicycle party with a pot luck bbq and BYOB (cans only) funduro to help our amigo Lance celebrate his retirement! The trails at Silver Lake are sweet and we’ll plan some […]
Fat Fish 40 Race Report – by JP Syverud
The Fat Fish 40 Race was held this past weekend. I missed out on this race last year for its inaugural run. I didn’t want to miss out on it again. Apparently, tio Gomez felt the same way, because he sent out an invite for one of the bike black ribbon crew to go up […]
¡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 […]
Fatventures in Alaska and the Chugach Fat Bike Bash
By Betsy Williford Photos by Rich Loftin Alaska, the Last Frontier. A land so vast, so wild, full of beauty, wildlife, big mountains and impressive glaciers. One can only fully grasp all of these descriptors by traveling there and experiencing it for yourself. A few weeks ago I, along with my husband, finally made my […]