A stock Sunspeed Spark Sunspeed Bicycles are sold in India and they make a fat bike called the Spark. Sarthak Narayan Rastogi sent us some photos of his Spark updated with drop bars. He also shared a few insights into Indian fat bike culture. Fat biking is a global phenomenon. It doesn’t just happen in […]
I came across some photos of Chris’s fat bike all loaded up with litter from the beaches of Cape Town. Chris uses his fat bike to remove beach plastic along the West coast beaches of Cape Town, South Africa. I contacted Chris and asked if he would answer a few questions about his endeavors and […]
September is my favorite month of the year. I love the warm days and cool nights. So this month’s Fat-Tribe post is probably going to be a favorite as well! Let’s get things rolling from Big Sky Montana! Tim Herset sent us this snapshot from Montana. #coffeeoutside Greg Madison sent in this shot taken at […]
I think it was Grand Funk Railroad that said “Get Ready cuz here I come. Are you ready for some bike fun? I still think that fat-bikes have the best fun per-mile rate in the entire bike world and today we’re spreading the fat-bike-fun like guava jelly on hot toast! Let’s get right into that […]
The Details Bicycle Base: Salsa Beargrease 2019 GX style with Kingpin Deluxe fork Hbar: Whisky 31.8 750mm width Stem: Paul Boxcar 90mm up from the stock 70 length, and in SUPER RAD PURPLE Grips: Wolftooth Fatpaw grips Brakes: Sram Guide RS with Centerline-X 180/160 rotors Shifter: Sram GX 12sp Seatpost: SDG Tellis when running a […]
Put yourself in the “way back machine”. Way back to 1997. You are 14 years old and on summer break. You ride to the bike shop every day to drool at the new Rock Shox Judy SL suspension forks. It was as if they were handed down from the mountain bike gods and will forever […]
Editor’s Note: After seeing the Reader’s Ride(s) post about Angry Andy’s Ritchey P29 singlespeed, Philip Rohrer sent us some shots of his newest build. It’s a Stooge Dirtbomb. 29+ enduro-klunker and asked if we’d be interested in featuring his bike. We gave him a yes followed by another yes. (that’s two yesses) The results are […]
Ritchey P29 Singlespeed! #bikeporn #singlespeedcenterfold #steelisreal
Today we celebrate our readers with some photos of their rides and a few words about the sort of bike fun that happens out there in the real world. Ya know…the good stuff! Let’s start off and get verticle…. Meade Anderson sent us a picture of his Jones LWB Plusbike leaned up against an ancient […]
Damian Drobyk is a paramedic from Poland. He’s ridden his bike and traveled across six continents (66 countries). His expeditions have covered 100,000 kilometers and he’s climbed over 1,000,000 meters. The highest elevation that he’s reached was when he rode over the 5805m Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia during a six-month trip through South America. Damian […]
We’re back with fat-tribe funskis from our readers, so let’s dive right in! A wee bit of the green for St. Fatties Day from Sean Moore. Here’s a picture of a Blackborow on the shore of Cayuga Lake near King Ferry, NY. The water level is lowered in the winter to prevent flooding which opens […]
Klas Mathiasson sent us this shot from northern Sweden. Klas explained that he’s running Pringles instead of water because water would just freeze. #frozenpringles Julio Bustos Soto – Central Massachusetts #fatboy Michael Higham – Twin Rocks Oregon “An early Saturday morning ride in December 2020 on the Snowy Owl Trail in Bragg Creek, Alberta.”Rob Charron […]
We’re back with another Faturday morning post featuring photos from our readers from all over the place. Let’s get right to it! My friend, David Tinnes, suggested I submit some pics to your site. Yesterday’s ride was quite glorious. After work, I went for a solo ride through two local parks. I expected to only […]
Our readers generously share their fat-bike fun with us in so many different channels from all over the globe. Today we’re sharing a few of the ones from the last little bit. Our friends Ronsta & Beth frequently win facebook with their adventures. I asked if I could post this shot to break the internet […]
Normally we feature the bike of one of our readers in a Reader’s Ride(s) column, but today we’re taking a look at a ride that Mark “Jake the Snake” Jacobson took last month that is visually stunning. We had featured Jake on Wallpaper Wednesday, and today he’s taking us for a ride in the High […]
It’s August amigos! It’s almost time for the great gnome migration to begin and we’re smack dab, in the middle of them ‘dog days of summer’. Check out the Cedaero Dog Days of Summer Contest and you might win some cool stuff. We’ve got some photos from our readers to share today for your perusal. […]
Editor’s Note: Joel sent us the photos featured in today’s post to share his new build. We asked him if he could If he could send us a list of the key components and maybe a little information about the bike so we could feature it in a reader’s ride article. The results are below […]
Fat-Tribe Friday is back with a coast to coast – North, East, South & West – all across the US representation of fun on bikes! Bob Bernoth is a fan of our Podcasts from New Hampshire. Dudley also hails from the Granite State and he sent us some pretty hilarious stuff along with this shot […]
Paul Wackowski sent us some shots of his creation ‘The Big Crosley’. Paul lives in California’s Central Valley. He learned how to weld in 8th or 9th grade. He started on cars and motorcycles but when he didn’t have space for larger projects he started customizing bicycles. Paul started out by cutting frames up to […]
Custom Quadrangle Fat! made in Kalispell Montana.
June 21st and the summer solstice luckily fell on a Friday, and luckily for me I finish work early on a Friday! YEAH!! The sun was shining, the forecast was good so a quick plan hatched to bivvy out for the night. I’ve had my eye on this sheltered spot facing east for some time […]
(Editor’s Note) – The following is from our old friend Will Ross! Will recently made a career move to the Trek Store of Anchorage and that means that he’s riding a new bike! We asked Will if he could write a story about his new whip and the rather fantastic results are below. I have […]
JP gets REEB’ed by JP Syverud Well, it finally happened. My dream has finally come true. I got REEB’d! I have always wanted to have a custom fat bike built just for me. I sold a few bikes and other things lying around the house just to gather enough acorns to get this thing built. Be warned, this isn’t for the faint of heart. It took some sacrifice, but in the […]
60 Days of a Midnight Special (Disclaimer: This is my personal bike I purchased from my local bike shop. Since it’s a “fat road” bike I offered to write up my take on it for fat-bike.com. I changed some of the parts to suit my needs but it’s not far off from original. Here are […]
It has been almost 5 months here in Peru and just like any other long stay like that I had the urge to change country, scenery, and experience. Eventually, the constant up and down in the rain can get tedious and all these beautiful mountains and remote mines start blending together into something less […]
Ed ~ We would usually publish this sort of article under our ‘Reader’s Ride(s)’ category, but Dave is the Head writer for the Black Ribbon Bike Hour and one of our veteran Test Pilots. Dave’s also a damn fine photographer! Borealis recently issued their critically acclaimed Crestone in a stunning Columbia Blue and Gold “Aspen” […]
A last minute change of plans saw a window of opportunity open up for me to get out in the hills of Snowdonia (Wales, UK) for an overnighter. I had a place in mind as I’d ridden there many times before. For some people bivvying out on your own in an old quarry may not […]
I don’t know for how long, but getting a custom built frame, has been a dream since long before I got bitten by the fat bike bug. The bug bit me back the winter of 2013-14. I got my self a Salsa Mukluk and it´s been my loyal steed since then. We fell deep in […]
For years I’ve always had a dream of riding somewhere desolate and remote on my bike. I thought that dream was just going to stay a dream as I’m a normal guy with a wife and 3 kids. However, last December during a bivvy ride with my mate, John ‘Climber’ I planted a seed of […]
The dog days of summer brings the return of Fat-Tribe Thursday. This is where we like to show off some of the photos sent to us by our readers. We’ve been getting so many great photos in from out in the field that we thought we should go ‘old school’ and share a few. Let’s […]
Winter in the UK, the time were riding seems to be a wet affair. However, with spring showing its face one Saturday late in March I thought I’d hatch a plan. Now I’ve took in this route at the start of the ride a few times before. Starting at 1,200 feet I made my way […]
We’ve published a series of articles about the bikes that our reader’s ride, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone that has quite the list of bikes that JP shared with us. It’s not that JP has a huge stable of bikes, there are many others that have more bikes in the shed than […]
A couple of years ago, we predicted that kids fat-bikes might reach Stingray or PK Ripper status for the current generation of grommets. I don’t keep my finger on the pulse of what’s cool for grade schoolers, but if I’m reading the tea leaves of the cycling interwebz correctly, there’s a 32% chance that we did’t […]
Earlier in the summer Brad sent me a note with a photo of his son Noah and Noah’s Specialized Fat Boy 24. Over the next few weeks he sent us a couple of updates and ended each note with the phrase “Fat bikes are fun!!” I bought the family fat bikes this spring. They seem […]
They say to never shop on an empty stomach, apparently that applies to the bike store too. On an innocent July lunchtime trip to the bike store to buy a shifter cable and a seat, I saw this bike…. I had always liked the fat tire bikes and had been thinking of one to continue […]
Wyatt Driftless: Endless Fun The bicycle has come a long way. Going to the real definition of “balloon tires”, the fat bike has changed the game for many riders that face a tough riding condition known as winter. Wyatt Bicycle Co. out of La Crosse, Wisconsin is pumping out a bike designed for adventure biking […]
Ken sent us this story about a unique wooden fat-bike he built and how the design progressed to what you see here. Very creative, Ken! Thanks for the insight into your project. Here are some close ups and general photos of my wood fat-bike project. It originally started out with a cantilevered seat but it […]
Winter greetings from Slemmestad (“Badlands”) in Norway. I’m Thomas and I’m a happy owner of a Beargrease XX1 with some light customization to the build spec that I bought from a local store in 2015. In general I do both road and MTB biking (Hardtail) and in the last 12 months enjoyed the venture of […]
Nathin recently sent me a teaser photo of a VERY interesting fat-bike and now has this report on a customized ERB frame that was converted to take a 5″ fat-bike tire! Check it out! So, I used to race for ERB racing for a number of years and used their bike platform for many 24hr […]
Reid sent in the first image of this story as a Wallpaper Wednesday but when I sent him a request for a bit more info on his Mongoose Dolomite i realized there is a Reader’s Ride(s) story here. A lot of times I think of Reader’s Ride(s) stories as seeing all the high-end, blingy things […]
Two years ago, we posted some pictures of Kris’s first Kona WO that he built up from a frame into one sick machine! It was a great first fat bike for Kris and it saw many adventures, on and off the snow. He knew there was so much more potential for the WO if it only had […]
It looks as though, my old friend, Nick, and I share an admiration for the classic Bullmoose handlebar! Nick’s a pro bike jock at Geoffs Bike and Ski in Iowa City and his “fat-rod” restoration of his legacy Surly Pugsley, is a work of art! Here’s what Nick had to share about his sweet Fat-Rod! I just […]
Todd sent in this story about a custom Salsa Carbon Beargrease build that he suggested to one of his physical therapy clients. Here it is in his own words! I work as a physical therapist, including part time at a bike shop, http://www.westhillshop.com/. One of my clients injured his knee and as part of the rehab […]
Fat-Tribe Thursday is back to support the age old, adage that one picture says a thousand words! All of you have been so awesome with sharing your photos and fat-bike fun, we decided it was ‘high time’ that we post some of them to show the entire world wide, fat-bike tribe! If you’re new to fat-bikes, please […]
