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The Dose of Fat News Digest – March 2023
MY23 Trek Farley – Framed Bikes is Dead – 28 Below Results – Jorden Wakeley Wins FBB
Cedaero Space Heater Pogies
There’s a new pair of pogies in the test lab. The Space Heater Pogies from Cedaero. We’ve had a bit of a cold snap over the Christmas break, so I’ve had a chance to field test them in temps as low as the single digits. I’m a fan and long-time user of pogies for winter […]
C5 GORE-TEX THERMO GLOVES Review – by Summittoppler
C5 GORE-TEX THERMO GLOVES I’ll get straight to the point about these gloves, fantastic once again by GORE! I’ve used these gloves down to -4c here in the UK and they kept the cold air from getting to my hands which is a great indication of their insulation and windproofing. When I did wear them […]
Framed Minnesota gets a Makeover
Back in the winter of 2014 Framed bikes released its first fat bike and it had a significant impact on the fat bike market to this day. The Framed Minnesota was the first thousand-dollar fatty and that affected the price points of the other few bike companies that were producing fat bikes back then. The […]
Old Man Mountain Elkhorn Rack Review – by Greg Gentle
Old Man Mountain Elkhorn Rack $148 The first cargo rack I put on a bike was a rear Blackburn rack on my 1984 Trek touring bike. And yes—It was 1984. A couple of years before that Specialized Bikes released its first production mountain bike. Growing up a BMX bandit in the early 1980s, I knew […]
Atwood Park Fat Bike Race Series (IL)
Here’s a race series held by some of our friendly Illinois brothers and sisters down in Rockford, Illinois. Here are their edited plans for the three events. Hey Hey!It’s that time of the season. Let’s air those giant clown tires pumped up and get ready for a great season of fat biking in Northern Illinois.A […]
The Fat Bike Triple Crown Sponsored by Wren
Fat Bike Race Season is heating up with the Fat-Bike Triple Crown sponsored by Wren! Wisconsin seems like the center of the fat bike racing galaxy, because the Fat Bike World Championships, the Fat Bike Birkie, along with with the US Fat Bike Open are all in America’s Dairyland. Wisconsin is hosting all three of […]
The Dose of Fat – Rocktober 2022
Five out of seven wizards recommend a healthy steaming dose of fat to their patients, and this dose has all kinds of fun packed events for you to choose from. Fat is where it’s at!
ABUS MoDrop Helmet
I’ve been using the ABUS Modrop helmet for about 3 months now and here’s my take on it. Firstly, I think this helmet looks pretty cool and with that it does keep you cool with the 14 vents dotted around the wonderfully manufactured lid. The front 3 vents feature a protective netting so as to […]
Global Fat Bike Day – December Third Two Thousand and Twenty–Two (or thereabouts) – Worldwide!
GFBD 2022 Celebrations! December Third Two Thousand and Twenty–Two (or thereabouts) GLOBAL FAT-BIKE DAY! You are all part of the FUN! Gather your regional fat-tribe for some worldwide group fun. The event is a grassroots, community-based dealio. Just, one of the best times, you have ever had on a fat-bike! GFBD belongs to everyone that […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Sylvan Park
Here’s a video produced by the City of Wausau, Wisconsin about their Sylvan Park pump track and trail cluster. People ask me what the hell progressive geometry means and this clip made me think about the symmetry between advanced trails and the aptly named, ‘progressive geometry. It all sort of revolves around the fact that […]
Reader’s Ride(s) Six One Six Twenty Four Fat
Wilhelm Rumpf sent us some shots of his new custom Twenty Four inch steel fat bike. It’s an interesting build that’s worth a closer look. Here’s Red’s story told by its owner, Wilhelm Rumpf. I wanted to share my new fat tire bike Red. Red is a custom build by John at 616 cycles in […]
Fat (Video) Tuesday – Formby Fatbikers
Graham Foot is back with the second video from the UK where fat bikers are gathering for fun with fat bikes! We love that sort of thing, so we made this our FvT to celebrate fat bike fun! That’s two videos from the UK back to back. Maybe this is UK week here at the […]
Foto Gordo – Le Tour de Gnome
Lode Crommen sent us a shot of his fatty and dog out hunting beach gnomes in Belgium. It’s almost the dog days of summer…so go jump in the lake! Sticker it Forward How do you like the new sticker and jersey design? If you’d like some stickers for you…your ride buddies…or maybe the bartender with […]
Gore Trail KPR Gloves
Lovely Glovely I’ve been using these gloves for a few weeks now, both on the fat bike and on the commuter gravel bike. The Gore Trail KPR gloves are designed to be a robust but lightweight summer glove. Gore says that “Trail gloves have multiple needs: they should be lightweight, offer grip and tactility while […]
The Dose of Fat – Summer 2022
It’s Summer cats and kitties! Have you ridden your bike to a large body of water and then gone swimming? Time to do a cannonball into the deep end!
Foto Gordo – Tom Ice
Is there a better fat bike name than Tom Ice? I think not. Tom sent us a shot of his bike from last winter in Colorado and I love nothing more than to exploit the contrast between a hot sunny summer day with a cold crisp winter portrait of a fat bike in the Colorado […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – What to do when your trails are closed
Our amigo and Fatbassador to the Ozarks, Old Man Fat Bike rides everything except dirt in this clip. It looks like he’s upgraded his wheels and bars to Enve carbon fiber since I’ve seen him last. Nothing but the best for Jens! Would you share your Plus or Fat Pixels? Give us your tired, your poor, Your […]
Dose of Fat – May 2022
Is everybody ready for Summer? Unless you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, Summer is here starting this weekend! There are a ton of things going on as far as field test updates from the Colonel Steve Austin underground test bunker get ready to receive your Dose of Fat for the Month of May 2022! May might […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – What modifications do you make to your fat-bike for Summer?
We haven’t featured a film from our long-time amigo, Bruce the Coastkid Mathieson, for a few months, so here’s his latest bike film. Bruce switches to a 29+ set-up in the summer, which made me continue to think about the subject of….What modifications do you make to your fat-bike for Summer? I’m in the middle […]
Lad and Dad in Scotland
We all love making plans of future bikepacking trips, don’t we? Back in October 2019, I set off with a plan of heading up to the Assynt which is in the far north of Scotland for a few days bikepacking. However, after 5 hours of driving, an engine warning light decided to throw those plans […]
Dose of Fat April 2020
It’s April and the transition from Winter to Spring shook me to the bone with what I like to call Prescription-Strength weather. My bike rides provided a front-row seat to the epic battles between the seasons until I high-tailed it to Sunny California for Sea Otter. I came back to Wisconsin and Winter continued to […]
Dose of Fat – March ’22
The calendar says that it’s Spring but Winter isn’t over until the fat-bike sings. The Dose of Fat is back with a look at what’s going on in the fat-bike.com test bunker and what our colleagues are working on out in the field. Stand by for Spring….wait for it….It’s snowing again….remember that gnomes control the […]
The 2022 Trio Fat Bike World Championships – Talkeetna, Alaska
The Talkeetna Trio Fat Bike World Championships are scheduled for Saturday, March 19th, 2022. Our Fatbassador Travis will be there working his magic. This is a great event with all of the trimmings. I’ve been out to Shangrila and back. I don’t think that I’ll ever forget it. I clearly recall that there were copious […]
Dose of Fat – February 2022
Here are a few things happening in the world of Fat Bikes! It’s the end of February and Fat Bike Racing is set at the proverbial “eleven”! We just got a new fresh coating of snow and I’m looking forward to some sweet Wisconsin singletrack this weekend. I was looking at our event calendar and […]
2022 Leadville Winter Mountain Bike Series (CO)
The Cloud City Wheelers from Leadville Colorado hosts a fat-bike race series that starts in January and goes all the way into April! http://www.cloudcitywheelers.com/race For more information visit – – http://www.cloudcitywheelers.com/race 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 […]
First Snow of Winter
We’re proud to welcome Nick Tryon to our staff of cycling adventurers. Nick is a former Royal Marine and lives on the West coast of Scotland. Nick loves all things outdoors and is one hell of a great photographer.
The Dose of Fat Holiday Ten Year Special?
What’s a Holiday Special without some rock&roll from the Suffragettes to set the mood? Let’s take a little scroll downward together, along with the ghost of Christmas-Past for a curated collection of holiday cheer from the fat dash bike dot com archives! 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Dress up like […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – OMM (one) Fiddy-One
Our Fatbassador to the Ozarks, Jens, aka – Old Man Fat Bike is back with a visit to the largest pump track in the world? Jens picked some cool music for this episode! Click play and have a nice day! Check out the Danger Gnome Fat Bike Worlds Contest. WIN ONE of TWO FREE ENTRYS […]
Bontrager Adventure Bags
Bontrager Introduces New Line of Adventure Bags Adventure comes in all shapes and sizes. Day tripping, gravel races, overnighters to your favorite spot, or multi-day bike trips to disconnect and unplug from life’s daily grind. Earlier this fall Bontrager introduced a new set of adventure bike bags for rides when you need to get back […]
Fatties by Candlelight (WI)
Click the Flyer for more information December 29th, 2021 This looks like a great event up in the Northwoods. There are far too few events like this for folks that don’t enjoy racing. Group rides are all about fun and riding with your friends. This one looks like a real good time. What could be […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Sandblasted
The elements play a pivotal role in every ride. In today’s video from the original gangster of beach riding, Bruce Mathieson, the wind and the sand combine to take the starring role on a windy Scottish beach ride. We need new stickers… What should we come up with next for a sticker? We’ve got a […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aztalan Sunset
The low light of November has been creating some beautiful sunsets lately. I’ve been getting out and enjoying a nice dry (and dark) November on Ten Beers and the other bikes in our test rotation. This is the bridge over the Rock River on the Glacial Drumlin Trail in Wisconsin. The photographer is some old […]
The Weekly Dose of Fat – Black Fly-Day 2021
Let’s just jump right in with Nick Barbetta’s Krampus on the north rim of grand canyon! #visualslpendor Newness Leialoha Concetta Sousa-Sommo Fat Biking in Alaska Terrene released their new tweener 27.5 x 4.3 Yippy Ky Yay fat bike tire this week. It’s sort of a goldilocks fat knobby varietal for the ‘one tire does it […]
The Dose of Fat Ten Year Anniversary!
Ten years ago, the first installment of the Weekly Dose of Fat was published on fat dash bike dot com. It started as a weekly news digest that covered everything that was going on in the world of fat bikes. The Weekly Dose of Fat evolved into a podcast with a revolving eclectic cast of […]
Sconny Beach Safari – Port Washington
Some Beach Safari mood Music from the Surfragettes After the relative success of my recent beach safari to Michigan, I wondered how the beaches on our side of Lake Michigan were riding. The thing about beach riding is you really have very little in the way of a trail conditions report about how things are […]
Tifosi Kilo Endurance Sport Sunglasses
I’ve been wearing embargoed sunglasses for the last few weeks. The Tifosi Kilo. We got these in at the end of the summer and they’ve been added to my daily cycling adventures. For mountain biking in the woods, I really dig the red foto-tec lenses. They’re comfortable and the quality or these glasses is every […]
Event Spotlight – Fatober Zombie Ride (IA)
Click here for more information The 4th Annual Fatober Fat & Mountain Bike Ride! The Fatober Zombie Ride will start & end at Limestone Brewers (518 Main St, Osage, Iowa). Prizes for the best Zombie Costume! Limestone pizza & beer or food truck specials from Stampedes-on-Wheels after the ride along with music from Ruthless Ruth! […]
CABDA Midwest Report
It’s been a long time since I’ve walked the floors of a convention center filled with the latest and greatest products from the bicycle industry, but earlier this week, I laced up a pair of comfortable shoes and drove down to Schaumburg, Illinois to explore the aisles of the CABDA show. CABDA isn’t open to […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – OMFB
It’s ben quite a spell since we shared a visit with Jens aka Old Man Fat Bike so here you go video lovers – It’s Fat Tuesday almost every Tuesday at the fat dash bike dot com! Would you share your Plus or Fat Pixels? Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled pixels, yearning to breathe […]
Levis Mound Fat Tire Festival
If you want to be guaranteed a shirt you should probably go ahead and pre-register. Pre-registration is open until 8/20/21 ◄ Bringing Derby Back to Levis Mounds! ► September 10th thru 12th – 2021 In the tradition of the bike festival formerly know as Gnomefest comes the Levis Mound Fat-Tire Festival set for September 10th thru the […]
icebreaker Women’s Cool-Lite™ Merino Sphere Short Sleeve Low Crewe T-Shirt – by Thumbelena
icebreaker was founded in 1995 by Jeremy Moon with the philosophy that nature has the solution. He wanted to provide natural performance apparel to create a more sustainable future for our species and the planet. From developing new materials like their Merinoloft(duck down alternative) to using vegetable-based ink to releasing a transparency report that publicly […]
Danger Gnome Podcast – The Bike Black Ribbon Society
This episode of the Danger Gnome exposes the seedy underbelly of a hedonist bicycle cult called the Bike Black Ribbon Society. Tio Gomez’s guests include Dustin Marsh, Angry Andy, JP, Crazy Chris Daisy, Evan Larssen and various songs from the glorious orchestra called nature. There’s a dose of pure truth that emerges when you lean […]