Will Muecke sent us this photo of Playa Esterillos Oeste on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. September is their rainy season, so this was just after the late-day thunderstorms rolled through and left the sky boiling with heavy clouds. Dusk — just around 530/6PM. Beautiful, briny warm air filled with that post-sunset in Blue […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is from Philippe Deshaies. He sent us this beautiful portrait of his whip surrounded by the arboreal splendor of Sentiers du Moulin in Quebec. This is what Philippe shared about his Wallpaper Wednesday contribution. This is my Norco Ithaqua today at the Sentiers du Moulin, a mountain bike destination 20 minutes North of […]
Michael Klausnitzer answered the call for Fat & Plus Bike pixels with this romantic lakeside composition. This is what he had to say about his contribution. Hope you’ll like some pics from my own favourite fatties… I’ve read your call for pics in one of the last articles – Fat Video Tuesday ♦ #BAMfatbike2018 ♦ By Tom Ice. fat-bike.com is […]
This is our August installment of our Aussie Wallpaper Series by our amigo Eckart Altenkamp. Eckart took this shot while out riding on a salt lake in Southern Austrailia. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature your fat-bike photos from around the world! If you’ve got a fat-bike related image that you feel […]
Simon aka: Super Domestique supplied this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday from across the pond. Here’s what he had to say about his photo. Given the callout for wallpaper worthy pics, I’m hoping my Pugs in the mist might be good enough to fit the bill! It’s not the most up to date pic as the Pugs […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Monte McAnulty. Monte named his Ti Motobecane Night Train ‘Fat Elvis’. He shared this beautiful shot of Elvis after a nice rain up in Cottonwood Canyon, Nevada. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature your fat-bike photos from around the world! If you’ve got […]
Welcome to the dog days kats and kitties. Augustus Maximus in the house and it’s the fucking weekend! So here’s a shot of a three-year-old Ti Motobecane Nighttrain (just a toddler) near Lake Mead in Nevada. Last time I checked, it doesn’t snow in Vegas but it’s surrounded by some of the best snow impersonators in the game. […]
Betsy Williford shared this week’s Wallpaper with us from Colorado and here’s a little bit about this week’s photo. Freshly into bikepacking I loaded up my fatty to test out my setup on what planned to be a daytrip only. I set out from Frisco, Colorado and rode the Ten Mile Creek bike pathway […]
Last December we announced the Bivvy a Month Challenge and our amigo, Tom Ice, has stepped up to the plate and is over half way to earning the Bivvy a Month Challenge merit badge. Our challenge will take you on a journey to discover just how much fun, you can tolerate. Are you up to the […]
Peter Warwick sent us this pastoral landscape with ‘black fat-bike’ and stepping stones along with a babbling brook. Here’s what Peter shared with us about his photograph. Are we still doing Wallpaper Wednesday? If so here’s a photo of my 2014 Farley in Wawayanda Park , in Northern New Jersey. This is the stone […]
First things first…Happy Birthday to Sven Hammer! and Happy 4th of July! aka Independence Day in the United States of America. This is a shot taken up in Port Washington, Wisconsin from a ride I did up there in the Spring of 2017. If I remember correctly, we gathered some ramps and fiddleheads that I cooked up […]
Our old friend from Eau Claire, Nathan Long took this shot on a back country road on a late night fat bike ride at 1 am. Summer does crazy things to a man’s blood. Nothing like a fat-bike ride in the country to silence the sound of the drums… Got your own Wallpaper Worthy […]
Our amigo from Australia, Eckart Altenkamp is back for his sixth Wallpaper Wednesday in our monthly Aussie Wallpaper Series. This what Eckart shared about this month’s image. This picture was taken riding the “Sky Trek” in a 270 square km farm in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. We encountered many Emus and kangaroos, but […]
Over the years, we’ve been incredibly fortunate to meet folks from all over the world that share our passion for plus and fat-bikes. More recently (about a year ago) I was introduced to Becky & Byron Vordemann and their Wee Lass April through Black Ribbon (Plus-Bike) Test Pilot, Bruce (best name ever) Smithhammer. Last winter […]
Tom Ice sent us pics from his Bivvy a Month Challenge – #5 BAM for May in picturesque Crystal, Colorado. We debuted the new design for the #BAMfatbike2018 merit badge last week. I should get cracking on getting some of those made. Speaking of getting things made…we were temporarily out of Otis stickers, but we […]
JohnClimber aka John Moore is a legacy contributor to the site. This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday features John’s Titanium Traverse Fat-Bike on Formby Beach. I’ve seen photos of this Antony Gormley sculpture many times before I looked up the artist. Click that link if you want to see more of Gormley’s sculptures. I enjoyed quite a […]
This is eleven-year-old Landon Showalter getting a little air off of a gnome up in Alaska. His mom, Jen captured the shot. We ask that this be admitted into evidence as our first visual aid in our latest #stickerboondoggle focused like a laser beam on displaying #fourseasonfatbikes in their natural habitat(s) from all over the […]
The week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is the 5th installment in our Aussie Series from Eckart Altenkamp. This is a shot of Eckart’s campsite on the edge of a large salt lake in Southern Australia. Eckart rides the salt lake to train for the Simpson Desert Challenge. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature […]
Let’s roll into Mudder’s Day Weekend with a festive shot from Tim Birchard. Tim rides a sweet OG Salsa Mukluk and shared this about his Foto Gordo photo. I just discovered your “foto gordo” gallery and wanted to share this shot of my 2013 Mukluk 3 up in Denver, on the river trail. My rear […]
Alan Young shot this week’s spectacular Wallpaper Wednesday image. Alan shared the story behind his stunning photo (below). The riders: Joe Purves-Smith, Brian Helem, and Johnny Oshika. The location: The summit of the Elfin Lakes Trail in Garibaldi Provincial Park near Squamish, British Columbia, Canada which is 1590m altitude. The summit is about 7km in from […]
Mark Jacobson submitted this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. The photo was shot in Truckee California this spring above the Truckee River canyon. Truckee is where this year’s Interbike Dirt Demo will take place with lift service trail access. This is my computer wallpaper this week! Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature your fat-bike […]
Greg Murray shot this week’s Wallpaper at Southampton, Long Island, New York. Spring provides a target rich environment for fat-bike beachventures! I think that I’ll try to get together with the willing and ride the beach this weekend. Spring is here. I know because I already have a mosquito bite on my ankle. But most […]
Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp is back with our fourth instalment in his Series of Aussie Wallpaper Wednesdays. This week’s landscape was taken at Boat Harbour Beach at the northern end of Eckart’s regular 8km long training beach in Sydney’s South. Beach riding is one of my favourite forms of fat-bike fun! Got your […]
My phone painted this portrait of my bike, Ten Beers, at Pink Floyd Rock yesterday. Things were looking pretty good with winds out of the west keeping the water nice and calm. I wanted to see how well 27.5 x 4.0 wheels handled the sand and was both surprised and impressed at the flotation […]
This week’s Wallpaper comes to us from our newest contributor Cory Kittle. He’s a bush pilot up in Alaska and he’s a recent convert to fat-bikes. Cory snapped this shot of his Beargrease on the north fork of Eagle River, Alaska. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature your fat-bike photos from around […]
I don’t know if you cats are hip to March being Fat Bike Beach Month, but one cat that lives in the bullseye of knowing is David Hartman Jr. Dave and his bride took a trip down to the Texas Riviera and captured some Fat Bike Beach Magic for this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. This is […]
Chris Ferguson sent us a shot that he took of his camp on his first overnighter of the year. This is at Sutton Salt lake in central Otago, New Zealand. It looks like a beautiful spot to wake up to, in the morning! Slap this photo up on your computer desktop and you might have […]
I’ve always loved the name Kamloops…it just sounds like a place that would be fun! Chris Carr and Eric Foltan sent us this week’s Wallpaper Image of their bikes up at Kenna Cartwright Park in Kamloops, British Columbia and it looks like a fat-bike paradise! Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature your […]
Our longtime amigo and contributor Kevin Breitenbach sent me a few shots under the heading “gnome hunting near the Alaska Range”. Kevin took this amazing shot of fellow Fatback riders, Tim Berntson and Kevin Murphy, presumably out stretching the legs in preparation for the ITI. The Iditarod Trail Invitational is happening as I type this […]
This week’s wallpaper image comes to us from Scott Berelson and it’s a bit of a “Where’s Waldo?”….or maybe Where’s Dora? We’ll let Scott explain in his own words. I recently took this shot of my bamboo fatbike “Cali Grown” and my dog Dora out early morning on our backyard trail. Not a lot […]
This is our second installment of our Aussie Wallpaper Series by our amigo Eckart Altenkamp. Here’s what Ecki had to say about this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday feature. Took a short break at the Maheno wreck on an early morning training ride along 75 Mile Beach on Fraser Island, Queensland Australia. The beach is also the […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from professional photographer David Markman. I met David at this year’s Arrowhead 135 when I dropped by the requisite ‘gear check’ the day before the race. David has been an adventurer for most of his life. He’s canoed across northern Canada twice, once going into the Arctic Circle. […]
Paulo LaBerge sent us this week’s Wallpaper image all the way from Ontario, Canada! Here’s what he shared about his scenic capture. Firstly, awesome website! I’ve enjoyed following your news feed, reviews and the pics submitted by your followers for quite a while now. I’ve sent along a photograph that I thought would be […]
We’re stoked to introduce a new monthly series that will feature photos from the 2017 Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp. So once a month, we’ll flip your wigs with some incredibly beautiful images from Austrailia! This is what Eckart shared about this photo. I took this photo on a training ride for the Simpson […]
I spied this shot and really loved the baby heads. It really brought back memories of the trip that James Healy and I took across the top of Michigan’s Upper Penninsula and exemplifies the sort of terrain for which fat-bikes transcend every other form of bicycle. This week’s photo was taken in the UK […]
This week’s WW really ties the whole room together, man…..if you’re into what we have coming up later this week. Our longtime Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot and the C0-Host of the Fat Camp Podcast, Ken Blakey-Shell, is also a member of the crew at the Big M Groomed Fat-Bike Trails, where another of our Michigan […]
Let’s take a look back at the year’s Best Wallpaper Wednesday images from 2017. January This photo was taken by Rocky Hallows in Dixie National Forest near Cedar City, Utah and Brian Head Ski Resort. February Paul captured his fat-bike in the Peak District in Derbyshire, England. March Fat biking the Mineral Belt Trail in the […]
Peter De Mattia sent us this week’s Wallpaper feature from Northern New Jersey. This is what he shared with us about his image. Here is a photo I took of my 2014 Trek Farley on the Doublepond Trail in Wawayanda State Park in northern New Jersey. This is such a great park, with singletrack […]
Every now and then we come across an image that doesn’t fit into the normal ‘Wallpaper’ (landscape) perspective and we’ve generally posted them on Friday afternoons or Saturday mornings under the Foto Gordo banner. This week we’ve got a shot from Dave Krueger’s Borealis Aspen Crestone photo spread that we published last week that depicts […]
The calendar says that Winter doesn’t officially start until next week but in the French Alps…and here in Wisconsin, Jacque Frost is painting the landscape with ice and snow! Our Wallpaper features a shot from earlier this year, taken by Patrick Strahm at the end of this past Winter. You can check out more […]
I spied this photo as part of the incredibly huge wave of photos and videos that came in from the Global Fat Bike Celebrations that took place this past weekend. I tracked down the photographer, Masahiro Matsushima, that shot the photo during a GFBD ride in Sapporo Japan. It’s a Kuwahara Tandem that’s been fitted with […]
I shot this back in 2014 at one of the best beach crust rides that I’ve ever experienced. The rider is David Mulder and the location is Port Washington, Wisconsin. Download the image and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the photo to open the full-sized version which you can right-click to […]
Steve Olson sent us a shot of photo of his Moonlander at sunset on the trails at Strawberry Pass near Rossland B.C. Canada. Download the image and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the photo to open the full-sized version which you can right-click to save. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We […]
I shot this yesterday with my little point and shoot camera.This is the bike that I’ve been riding the last few times out. It’s a Specialized Fatboy Expert in flat black carbon and some peacock blue accents. This is a spot about halfway down Richard’s Revenge on the Blue Loop at Kettle. There’s a fox […]
