HAYWARD, Wisconsin (March 2, 2015) – The American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation (ABSF) is proud to announce its ongoing relationship with Freewheel Bike as Title Sponsor of the Fat Bike Birkie on March 7, 2015. Now, in its third year, the Fat Bike Birkie event was launched in 2013 with input from Freewheel Bike and a […]
In addition to the prizes on the poster we’ve got a bunch of other prizes that will be part of a “Bucket Raffle” at the After Party at the Sawmill in Seely including: A complete set of Schlick Cycles Northpaw wheels ready to ride – $599.99 retail. A pair of Surly Clown Shoe rims – […]
Wanna know where Sven and I might rather be this weekend? PWC in Decorah is where all the action is… Click the flyer to find out all of the details that can be explained and then get ready for some old school, fat-bike FUN! Send us a race Flyer! Register your Race. Festival, Demo or Group […]
The first US Open Fat Bike Beach Championships are set to go off at the Blockade Runner Resort in Wrightsville Beach, NC on Saturday, March 14th, 2015. What: A weekend of Fat Bike Riding and racing on Wrightsville Beach, NC. Three different divisions for the races, Beginner, Sport, Expert. Prizes for each age group in […]
Written by Kathi Merchant, Race Director, Iditarod Trail Invitational The Iditarod Trail Invitational race, the qualifiers to get into this by invitation only race and the annual ITI winter training camps in Alaska. When I moved to Alaska in 2002 from Germany I did not know that a decade later fat biking as well as […]
Every February Quality Bicycle Products (QBP) invites their dealers and media-volken, like Sven & I, up to their Bloomington, Minnesota, headquarters for Social Activities, Seminars and an Expo. It’s an event where ‘historically‘ some of their brands, have launched new product. QBP is the parent company of brands like Salsa, Surly and 45NRTH (among many others). Frostbike […]
The Vermont Mountain Bike Association (VMBA) has partnered with Surly and The Old Spokes Home, to put on a bike raffle to raise money for trail grants and advocacy in Vermont. VMBA is working hard at expanding FAT bike access on state and federal land and this raffle is key to that effort. “Donate 5 […]
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 […]
The original Wisconsin team snowbike race is back for yet another year!! Click on the flyer above to go to the FaceBook page or see below (or both!!) for more details. You don’t want to miss the good times that are – the Team SnowBike Enduro!! The Team SnowBike Enduro –The first and always […]
One of our favorite trail systems in Wisconsin is hosting one of our favorite events! Long time amigo and Black Ribbon Test Pilot, Steve Meurett, is your host for all things fat-bike fun at Yeti-Fest – February 28th, 2015. You can get more information by clicking on the race flyer or visit www.yeti-fest.com! Send us […]
It’s snowing in Hayward, and it’s getting that much closer to the Fat Bike Birkie! The next fee deadline is also coming up on February 1. They’re at just over 600 participants already signed up and with a cap of 750 this year, it looks like it’s going to sell out soon. If you haven’t signed […]
Ogden, Utah and Powder Mountain are the site of USA Cycling’s Fat-bike National Championships. This is your chance to win one of the first-ever fat-bike Stars-and-Stripes jerseys! Check out the event flyer for more info or go to http://www.usacycling.org/2015/fat-bike-nationals for course info, eligibility requirements and other rules for participation.
(click the race flyer to go to the event web-page) The first annual Snowball Fat Bike Race on the Sun Valley Nordic Trails! The “Snowball Special” was the name of the Union Pacific Railroad’s ski train which carried skiers from stops in Southern California to beautiful Sun Valley, Idaho, from 1958 to 1972. Many LA […]
Copper Mountain presents their 4th Annual Night Race & Fat-bike Demos Chris Cawley, the Event Coordinator for Copper Mountain Resort out there in Colorado, sent us this info for a day of fat-bike fun at the resort. Check it out and see the event flyer below! Slip, slide and ride at the 4th Annual night […]
Ullr Fest is an annual tradition in Breckenridge, CO. The 52nd Annual version of this fest is this January 11-18, 2015 with the marquee events being a zany, old-time-ski-town party Parade on Main St. – Breckenridge is an avid cycling community and they are adding a Fat Bike event (Ullr Bike) to the schedule! Our […]
Fat-Bike Events! You can list your event on our calendar by clicking right here! If you’d like to see your race or festival featured in an Event Spotlight, list the event on our calendar and then send a race flyer and links to the event page to uncle gomez@fat-bike.com. May the fat be with you!
Share your Cool Local Fat-Bike Event! You can list your event on our calendar by clicking right here! If you’d like to see your race or festival featured in an Event Spotlight, list the event on our calendar and then send a race flyer and links to the event page to uncle gomez@fat-bike.com. May the fat be with you!….(always)
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! […]
Story by : Colin Ford This past weekend I attended, for the second time, the Surly Bikes and Salvagetti bicycle shop’s demo camping weekend at Buffalo Creek Trail outside of Denver. I arrived on Saturday though the event started Friday. Surly Bikes, of Minnesnowta fame, sent out a horde of demo bikes to Salvagetti to […]
Before Fat-Bikes were around, the Iceman Cometh Challenge was the culmination of each year’s mountain bike race season around the Great Lakes. Now that (midwest) fat-bike racing is in it’s 4th season, the Iceman has become the pivot point between mountain bike race season and fat-bike race season. (Even though Fat-Bikes are Mountain Bikes). Located in the beautiful […]
US NATIONAL FAT-BIKE CHAMPIONSHIP Returns to the Fat Bike Birkie! HAYWARD, Wisconsin – The field limit for the third annual Fat Bike Birkie on March 7, 2015, has been bumped up to 750 riders and is quickly filling. According to Ben Popp, Executive Director of the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation, the field is already a third […]
Fat-bike.com has been added to the list of sponsors for the 2015 Global Fat-bike Summit to be held in Jackson Hole, WY January 23rd-25th, 2015. The Global Fat-bike Summit is hosted by QBP, along with Fitzgerald’s Bicycles, Hoback Sports, Wyoming Pathways, and Mountain Bike the Tetons/IMBA. The Global Fat Bike Summit combines a fat bike […]
Desert Challenge 2014 By – Euan Pennington “There’s a corrugated highway leading north from Port Augusta lined with battered cars that didn’t rate a tow, Salt plains out of Pimba, and your eyes begin to stream…” The song was circling my head, because we really were north of Port Augusta, heading for the […]
Two years, ago a couple of very clever Brits came up with an idea for a grass roots – worldwide – fat-bike holiday, that would bring the fat-bike community together, like nothing we’ve ever seen before or since! December 6th, is the date of this year’s – GLOBAL FAT-BIKE DAY! Some of you are probably wondering… why […]
click the flyer for more information Some local folks are building a new trail system in Southeast Wisconsin! They even groom the trails for snow biking in the winter! They want to build a 3 1/2 mile section of expert singletrack over the next 3 Sunday work parties. I even hear that there’s the promise […]
The Snow Epic is Europe’s first winter bike fest, a fat-bike event held in the idyllic town of Engelberg, in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Participants can compete in 5 events over 3 days, each with its own distinct character. visit http://www.snow-epic.com/ for all the details The Best Fat-Bike Event Calendar on the […]
We welcome you, once again, to the International House of Fat-Bikes! This week we have an event spotlight for the Miss Grape – Funny Fat Festival in and around Livigno in the Italian Alps. The fun includes night rides, an overnight bivvy and the incredible sights, sounds and smells of the Alps! Click the […]
(click the event flyer to go to the event web-page) Does your state or region have a fat-bike championship race yet? Well here in america’s dairyland, aka Wisconsin, you’re invited to the 2014 edition of the Kewaunee BuckThorn Buster. The buster is also the return of the WEMS 2014 Fat Bike State Championship race. There’ll also […]
What can we say about GnomeFest that hasn’t been said before? We could say that it ROCKS! We could give you a link to the fat-bike radio interview of the founder of GF moderating an interview of a past Mayor of GF along with the current Mayor. We could share what Dirt Rag said about GnomeFest […]
Day 2 of Quality Bicycle Product’s Saddle Drive dealer event presented the opportunity to ride more fat-bikes. Naturally, Mark and I were up for that! Cogburn Our first ride of the day was on a pair of Cogburn CB4s. The CB4 is designed with outdoor sports folk like hunters, anglers and foragers in mind to […]
The Mouth to Mouth Fat Bike Race Report By – Kaitlin Vadla & Zach Brown Celebrating clean water, healthy salmon, and healthy people, 67 runners and bikers (and a few of their canine friends) from Anchorage to Soldotna to Homer turned out Saturday, June 14th for the first Mouth to Mouth Wild Run & Ride. Participants […]
Our amigo Jamison has been busting his ass, building trail out at Alpine Valley Resort and he’s holding a time trial race for all of you racer boys and girls. Jamison says that an average rider can finish the course in about 40-45 minutes. There will be racing in all of the regular mountain bike […]
Our amigo and the man behind Salamandre Cycles, Yann, just sent us news from France : The first french fat-bike rally : Fat Bique 2014 (bique is the nickname for goat) took place in Ardèche (my own place) from April 4th to 6th. 29 riders and 28 bikes (26 single + 2 tandems). There were […]
Continued from Part 1 by : John Lackey Race Day Part 2: At the next vantage point about 10 km on, the race had actually started to come back together, the top 9 were still all close, but at this point Kara was only about 4 minutes back from the leaders. This road section was […]
by : John Lackey About three weeks before my fiancé, Kara, and I were going to set out to Finland to tackle the Rovaniemi 150 race I was having bad back pain, but we started on what was supposed to be an 8 hour training ride on Saturday anyway. After about 5 minutes, I couldn’t […]
Battle on the Beach/UK Fat Bike Championships by Patrick Joscelyne Congratulations to George Budd and Fiona Wilson for winning the inaugural Surly UK Fat Bike Championships at the Battle on the Beach. George Budd (#28) leading the pack across the sand. Surly and their UK Distributor, Ison sponsored the UK Fat Bike Championships and reported to […]
Last weekend’s US Fat-Bike Championships at the Fat Bike Birkie was the ‘Woodstock’ of fat-biking. Carlos Santana jammed with Hendrix and the Jefferson Airplane played a 2 hour set! The Fat-Bike Birkie had it all! Mountain Bike legends like Travis Brown and Ned Overend raced the very best of the rising stars of fat-bike racing. […]
Visiting Levis-Trow felt like a homecoming or sorts for my wife and I last weekend. We left our pack of wild dogs at home and traveled northwest to attend the third running of Yeti-Fest (formerly called the Sweaty Yeti). We were joined by several of our old ride tribe from our days serving time down […]
Like I mentioned in yesterday’s post about the Pugsley Worlds Championships, this really seems like a multi-day event. On the main PWC event day, Saturday, there are two distinct flavors to the day. Some folks participate in the race, some participate in the party and “Feats of Strength” and a few stalwart folks go […]
The Pugsley World Championships are really more like a multi-day event, you’ve got the pre-race festivities on Friday night about which very little will be mentioned from here on, the actual “Race for Cash” on Saturday morning and the “Feats of Strength” portion that actually awards the PWC Axe on Saturday night. Today’s report will […]
Looks like ol’ Tony B started something that had legs last year even though he ended up with a broken foot! He’d hatched a plan to get a group of fatbikers together on Fat Tuesday at the Ray’s in Milwaukee and we had a good turnout along with enthusiastic support from the local manager who […]
By – Michael McColgan This past Valentine’s weekend, 200 fatbikers showed their love for snowy singletrack by converging on Elm Creek Park’s flowy trails for the Fatbike Frozen Forty, the sixth race in the eight race Great Lakes Fatbike Series. The faithful followers of this site have seen the articles on various trail groomers, […]
The Fat-Bike Nationals After Party Cable Wisconsin – March 8th – 7:00 pm The line-up of sponsors for the Fat-Bike.com, US National Fat-Bike Championship – (Fat-Bike Birkie) After Party is Specialized, 9 :Zero:7, Fatback, Borealis Fat Bikes, Boo Bicycles, 45NRTH, 1 Up USA racks, Paul Components, Twin Six and Angry Minnow Brewing. They have all joined fat-bike dot com and the Rivers Eatery in a celebration that will help raise funds […]
Saturday night at Frostbike (FB), means one thing….The Surly Pug Race! This year featuring the 45NRTH snow lounge. Q somehow sculpted a danish modern living room, conversation pit, lounge, complete with sofas, tables and drink holders and then covered them with white shaggy upholstery….add in two raging pallet fires and twenty cases of beer and […]
