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 […]
I think that they purposfully set up trade shows and expo’s in a maze to confuse and delight the folks that attend and Sea Otter is no exception. So I set out to cover all of the things that I might have missed in part one of this year’s Sea Otter coverage. You can view part […]
With the near death of Interbike, the Sea Otter Classic has become the pinnacle of the bicycle industry ‘show & tell’ in these United States of America. In addition to every kind of bike racing known to mankind, the Sea Otter presents an exposition area that features every cool bicycle company that you’ve ever […]
The 5th Annual Talkeetna Trio Fat Bike World Championships were held on Saturday March 11th, 2017 in the cozy Alaskan hamlet of Talkeetna, AK. Talkeetna is a 2.5 hour drive north of Anchorage. The town was formed in 1916 as a district headquarters for the Alaska Railroad. It’s an amazingly scenic small town that sits […]
In the fat-bike marketplace, we’ve seen a lot of gimmicks in the past couple of years. For example: carbon, full suspension, symmetrical rear ends, the color Orange, etc. etc. More and more I’ve been seeing fat bikes on the trails all year long. Fat Bikes are becoming THE choice for riders that want a bike […]
Every March we say that we’d really like to go down to the Outer Banks in North Carolina to attend 2017 US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship, but it seems like it’s always in conflict with both NAHBS and the Fat Bike Birkie. So this year we contacted the race director, Shawn Spencer and asked […]
Today Sherman, we set the way-back machine to: March 17th of Two Thousand and Twelve – Destination: Gaylord Michigan! Yes – St Fattys Day returns to the fat-bike event radar screen to punctuate the end of the winter (that wasn’t) of sixteen/seventeen. Coming Next Week – It’s Spring!
Please join the Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Association (CAMBA) for the Fifth Annual Fat Bike Race After Party fundraiser after the Fat Bike Race on Saturday, March 11, 2017. The funds raised at the party will be devoted to expand and improve CAMBA’s winter trail grooming efforts. CAMBA has been grooming close to […]
Here’s a race that we’d be honored to sponsor! A race that has the reputation as the best race and party in the great state of Alaska! Our amigos at Speedway Cycles and Fatback Bikes are in their fifth year sponsoring the Trio and this year is looking like the best event yet. Click the race […]
Longtime Fat-biker and Ogden, Utah resident, Mark Peterson sent us this report on the 2017 Utah Sweaty Yeti! Fat-biking has grown dramatically in Utah over the past 5 years. There have been many individuals and organizations that have helped the growth of the local Fat-biking scene. The most important factor, for me personally, has been […]
Hinton is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada and they’re hosting the first annual Hinton Growler Fat Bike Endurance Race is presented by the Hinton Mountain Bike Association. It is a family friendly event that is held during Hinton’s Winter Magic Festival. THREE ADULT CATEGORIES (AGES 13+, MIXED) : Growler (Expert Class): 3 hours to […]
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 […]
This week’s Event Spotlight is the Frozen Fat Fondo Festival out along the shores of the mighty Mississippi River. I promised our old friend, Bobby Parker, the full royale with cheese treatment, so we’re sending our best man out there. The Spinner Ryerson, along with Mitch from Revolution Cycles are headed out there to see what, […]
We worked with our amigos at Borealis Fat Bikes and Dirt Components to make sure that we shared the unmistakable beauty of the Fat-Bike World Championships in Colorado. Let’s take a quick look at all of the fat-bike fun that took place out there in the Grand Valley in Colorado! If you want to learn […]
Race the best groomed fat-bike trails in Wisconsin, Levis Mounds! According to the race flyer, this is the Premier Midwest Fatbike Race (even though they misspelled Fat-Bike). You can click the race flyer to go to the event web page or visit Bike Reg to go directly to register for the event and, possibly, star in […]
Congratulations to all of the new Fat-Bike National Champions! Both the men’s and women’s Pro/Elite Champions, Amy Stuart and Cole House will be guests on Fat-Bike Radio and….you can check out all of the results and all of the new National Champions here – https://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?year=2017&id=3
Up North in the Chequamegon National Forest, there’s a race coming up that sez it’s a different kind of race. You can click the race flyer to go to the event web page or click HERE to go directly to register for the event. If you go, let us know what was different and stuff. The Event Calendar […]
This is the longest running and highest (elevation) Fat-Bike Race series in this great land! Just click on the flyer (above) and you’ll be transferred to the Cloud City Wheelers web page, where you can track down all the essential information to attend one of these fine races. You may even run into samsquantch! The […]
Have you been meaning to see what all the fuss is about beach riding? Here’s your chance to go and ride some great beach and meet some cool peeps. Come early and watch the new WDoF cast carve fat-bike radio out of a solid block of colby-jack cheese with live music and guys talking into a […]
Check out the 2nd Annual Badger State Games – Hammer in the Hills Fat Bike Race. I think thats the freak’n longest race name that we’ve ever spotlighted! If you’re a cliff notes, sort of person, you can click the race flyer to go to the event web page or click HERE to go directly to register […]
The Farmhand Fat Bike Race is one of the original events that goes way back to the beginning of “fat bike racing” in Michigan! The FFBR is the third event in the, self proclaimed, ‘Largest Fat Bike Racing Series in these United States of America’ the Great Lakes Fat Bike Series. For more info about […]
South Shore Cyclery in Milwaukee is a putting on another Frosty Hog in 2017 as a fundraiser to benefit the Cudahy Community Education and Recreation Department in Southeast Wisconsin. The race is held in Milwaukee’s Sheridan Park on the bluffs above Lake Michigan. Awesome views, spectator friendly, short track fat-bike racing at it’s best! Race […]
The California State Fat Bike Championships were held on December 10th, 2016 at the Rim Nordic Bike Park in Running Springs, Calif., just west of Big Bear Lake. It is the home of Rim Nordic Ski Area which is a cross country ski area in the winter season. The weather was cool & crisp, […]
If you want to see the latest fat-bike hardware and talk to experts about winter camping or racing, this is where you need to be this weekend. Check out all the details at www.winterbikeexpo.com! ATTN: RACE DIRECTORS – Send us a race Flyer! Register your Race. Festival, Demo or Group Ride on the Fat-Bike.com Event Calendar then […]
Big Fat Bike Festival 2017 Registration is Open! The 6th annual Big Fat Bike Festival hosted by the Homer Cycling Club will take place on the weekend of March 17th-19th. Get more details and register at www.HomerCyclingClub.org Ed~ This is an event that I was lucky enough to attend two years ago. Unbelievable beach riding and the […]
With all of the growth that we’ve experienced in the world wide fat-bike tribe in the last five years, we have lot’s of new fat-bikers that might be looking down the barrels of their first Global Fat Bike Day celebration. Like all holidays, GFBD has traditions, so we thought that we’d share some of the […]
Day Two – Outdoor Interbike in the Dirt – Today I rode a bunch’a bikes, but I primarily focused on the Plus side of the force. However there was one exception, in the form of the Otso Voytek. Yesterday, I crowned this bike the belle of this here Interbike Ball, so I felt like I […]
Here we are looking down the barrels of Global Fat-Bike Day number 5! GFBD-Cinco! To give you an idea of what GFBD is all about, we’ve shared some videos from last year in this year’s announcement. The 2016 Global Fat-Bike Celebration is December 3rd, 2016 The GFBD LEGEND Five years, ago a couple of very clever Brits […]
Probably the most misunderstood aspect of this mountain bike festival, with the curious name, is its charitable nature. Behind all of the fun, this event and their counter-culture group of cyclists have helped support trail systems, all over Wisconsin. Over the past dozen years GnomeFest has channeled all of the proceeds from the event, directly to the various […]
Hi there Fat-bike.com readers. I’ve recently been given the opportunity to test ride Specialized’s Hellga, their new women’s specific fat bike. Please read on to see what my initial thought and impressions are of this bike are as I relay to you a little story of a mis-adventurous weekend spent at a mid-west mountain biking […]
Fat-bike.com’s Fatbassador, Travis, from Anchorage took in the Fat Bike Expo and Big Fat Ride that was held in Anchorage, AK this past February. Check out the happenings and then make a plan to be there next year! The Fat Bike Expo The Fat Bike Expo and Big Fat Ride was hosted by Iditarod […]
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 […]
There are not many fat bike races in the world that involve complicated logistics, dedicated support crews, 3000miles of driving, and a whopping 300 miles of multi-day, one-way stage racing. But if this type of event takes your fancy, then welcome to the Australian Simpson Desert Bike Challenge. Following on, from our race reports published […]
This year the 4th running of the Fat Bike Birkie, officially tagged The 45NRTH Fat Bike Birkie, presented by Freewheel Bike, was raced on Saturday March 4th. With 1000 riders registered and a few more on comped entries this was, by far, the largest field in the 4-year history of the Fat Bike Birkie and, […]
Mother Nature did not play fair with the inaugural edition of the Chugach Fat Bike Bash March 18 – 20 in Valdez, AK. Here’s a couple videos from the crit and the finale of the rodeo, the Big Air, Big Splash. We had a great time during the Ursa Major Northern Lights Criterium that kicked […]
The White Mountains 100 starts Sunday north of Fairbanks and boasts perhaps the strongest field in its six-year history. “The competitiveness is incredible in almost all categories this year,” race director Joel Homan said in an email. “Of the three categories (ski, bike and run) for both male and female racers, all but one winner from last […]
We are stoked to have this story from Bike Black Ribbon Tester, David Krueger called The Fat Bike Birkie: All My Winter Riding Leads to This! Read on! I had heard about it. I had wanted to try it out. So this year I signed up for the Fat Bike Birkie. I also had a […]
Fat Tom K, from Manitoba, captured this year’s Fat Bike Birkie in four minutes! Tom also shared some thoughts about this year’s race. Could this year’s race be BIGGER and BETTER?! Well, the 2016 version was all that and more than the great race I have enjoyed the last two years! It wasn’t just that it has […]
In an attempt to be in 4 places on the same weekend, Fat-Bike.com Central Command, engaged operation ‘Black Magic’, with the assistance of two Bike Black Ribbon sleeper cells, housed deep underground in decommisioned government missile silo’s, across the great plains of these United States of America. Our agents are genetically predisposed to bicycles and bicycle by-products like beer, surprise and […]
Will Ross repeated as the 47K Fat Bike Birkie winner for 2016! Brad Bingham was a close second. Jenna Rinehart was the first in the Women’s 47K again this year with April Morgan coming in second! Meanwhile, Matt Acker edged Jeff Hall at the line and that should give Matt the Great Lakes Fat Bike Series […]
It says on the Fat Bike Birkie website that we’re sponsoring the Fat Bike Birkie Post Race Party. It’s gonna be all…FATurday Night Fever with live Gnomes and a Whiskey Sponsor. So, after the race on Saturday, venture over to the Sawmill Saloon in Seeley for an evening of fun, music, gnomes and prizes! The party rages from […]
The Big Fat Bike Festival is a low-pressure fundraiser for the Homer Cycling Club, 2016 will be the 5th annual BFBF! Highlights include a 16 mile beach ride and transportation, obstacle course, t-shirt, good food and brew, raffle and silent auction, bon fires and good time. The ride for the 2016 Big Fat Bike Festival is on Saturday […]
Our Alaska Fatbassador, Travis Hubbard, sent us this Race Report from the 2016 Icy River Rampage in Eagle River, AK. Thanks, Travis! The Icy River Rampage was held on Sunday February 21, 2016 in Eagle River, AK. The race is a fund raiser for the Eagle River Nature Center and is put on by The […]
The Iditarod Trail Invitational is coming up at the end of February. With options of 130 miles to Finger Lake, 350 miles to McGrath, or 1000 miles to Nome. I was lucky enough to ride to McGrath the past three years. Since im not racing it this year, I thought I’d write up a little […]
