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 […]
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Reader’s Ride(s) – Todd’s Story About a Custom Carbon Beargrease
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 July 2nd 2015
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 […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Graham’s KTM Fat Rat
Graham, who lives in Queensland, Australia, sent us this info about his new KTM Fat Rat fat-bike. Graham reckons it is the first in Australia. Let’s have a look! Recently, I turned the big four zero and I asked my lovely wife if she could get me a present that I’d remember this big milestone […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Evan’s Singlespeed Pugsley
Written by: Evan Larsson Oh, now I get it! Seeing that it’s late into the spring season with summer, just around the corner, everyone is out and about on their dirt adventures. For me, in the Midwest, it seems to only rain……Constantly! I’ve spent more time on crushed limestone, riding skinnies, than rippin up some […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – D.R.’s 2015 Genesis Caribou – UK Model
Dave Floyd sent us this story about his 2015 Genesis Caribou which he rides in and around Hampshire, UK. Here is what he has to say along with a few pix that he took. Take it away Mr. Floyd! There’s usually one or two days of settled snow here a year so you wouldn’t […]
US Fat-Bike National Championship Belt Holding / 9:ZERO:7 Carbon Whiteout!
Sven and I sat down with, US Fat-Bike National Champion, Will Ross, earlier this month to talk about his championship ride at the Birkie. During Will’s visit to our spartan industrial suite, Sven shot some studio photos for all of you out there in fat-bike land to drool over! One of the many really cool aspects of fat-bikes is that […]
Sally Bell’s Moots FrosTi
Seth contacted us a little bit back asking if we’d like to post a review of a Moots FrosTi. Little did I know at that time what a tragic and very heartfelt story Seth would produce. Thanks for the story and keep it rolling! Seth begins: I typed this up this evening following your response […]
Reader’s Ride(s) ♦ Indy Fab – 45NRTH – Chubby D-Lux Fat-Bike
Our Reader’s Ride(s) articles are always more than just a story about a bicycle. There’s always a back story about the people and the places that the bikes gets ridden. Today we get to introduce you to a pretty spectacular bike with any equally interesting story about the rider and the race series that the bike […]
Reader’s Ride(s) ♦ Fraser’s Custom Ti Fatty
Fraser Kennedy lives in Hampshire, England about 30 miles southwest of London. The rolling hills of southern England might not be very big, but with a network of ancient paths and trails often through ancient woodland there’s no shortage of great riding right on his doorstep and Fraser can ride the 50 miles to the […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Brandon’s Custom Titchmarsh / Rohloff 29+
Originally, Brandon sent me a single shot of his custom-built Dan Titchmarsh 29+. I immediately spied the clean cable routing, the Rohloff and the EBB, all frame elements that I really like so I asked Brandon for more info on the bike. Brendon says: First off, this bike is a handmade 29+ made by […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Al’s Custom Fillet-Brazed Fat-bike
Editor’s Note: Al originally sent us a couple photos of his custom built, fillet-brazed fat-bike that has some interesting specs so I asked him to tell us a bit more about it. Well, as you will read, this is not a bike that was just thrown together. The back story is about a guy who […]
Otis turns One ♦ Fatback Long Term Review
On or about, one earth year ago, I took possession of a Raw Aluminum 190mm Fatback that I spec’d out with the owner of Fatback (and cool cat) Greg Matyas. I asked Greg to make the bike all silver, black and white, like the Oakland Raiders. I wanted to run Umma Rims with Bud and Lou. I […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Calvin and Bob
Stephen from up in Powell River, BC, Canada sent us this story about the trail building set up that he made for his Ice Cream Truck. Take it away, Stephen! This is Calvin & Bob. I modified my B.O.B. trailer to fit ‘Calvin’, my Surly Ice Cream Truck. The standard 26” BOB yoke was lengthened […]
Julio’s New Whip
A few years back I had kicked around the idea of getting a custom 29er frame built. I even went to NAHBS (with mi hombres Gomez and Ernesto From Wisconsin at that!) when it was in Indianapolis and talked to several builders, including Curtis at Retrotec. That eventually kind of fell off the radar. Enter […]
Fatty Quiring Tandem
I recently had the pleasure of stopping by Quiring Cycles World Headquarters in Freesoil, MI and picking up our new fat tandem. We asked Scott to build up the frame to fit the widest tires and rims available because Wifey and I are planning to play on this beasty during all four seasons. On a […]
A Pugsley in Poland!
Our post last week about Polish fat-biker Norbert Jędrzejczyk, inspired Jarek Chincz to send me a shot of his Pugsley on the beach of the Baltic Sea, from Poland. I asked Jarek to fill us in a little bit about the riding in his area and he replied with this great story of how he got […]
Please Welcome Olov Stenlund!
We’d like to introduce Olov Stenlund – Swedish fat biker, and the newest columnist at fat dash bike dot com. Olov lives and rides, Swedish Lapland and is an established blogger, podcast’r and adventurer! We look forward to Olov sharing his fatventures with all of us! ~gomez~ Sweden. The fifth largest country in Europe by area. Located […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Jean Marc’s Custom Steel Victoire Cycles Fat-bike
Victoire Cycles in France had this story on their website about a custom, lightweight, steel fat-bike that they built for customer Jean Marc. Just so happens that our International Man About Town, Mark Peterson, is in contact with the owner of this one-off steed and asked him to write a bit about the rig. To […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Adam Blake’s Alubooya!
There’s nobody in the world, that is more happy, for mi hermano, Adam, than Sven and I, when he was hired on to be the new GM at Boo Bicycles. You see, Boo is located in Fort Collins, Colorado and we both really look forward to visiting! In the mean time, we can always bide our time by […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Burnsey’s Oddity Cycles 29+ Orange Crush
If you’ve been perusing this site for a while you may remember a Reader’s Ride story about “The Fat Pearl” from Burnsey who runs the Single Speed Pirate website among other endeavors. Well, he’s branched out a bit and is now living in Fort Collins, sharing shop space with none other than James Bleakely of […]
Builder Profile – Ellis Cycles
The Neve at the North American Handbuilt Bicycle Show We featured Dave Wage’s NAHBS, Award Winning, Neve, fat-bike in a story written by mi primo, Sven, last month. You can check out more shots of this beautiful frame, before it was powdercoated there – http://fat-bike.com/2014/03/seen-at-nahbs-ellis-fillet-brazed-fat-bike/. Fat-Bike’s home base, here on earth, is located in South Eastern […]
1st French Fat-Bike Rally : Fat Bique 2014
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 […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Graham Cycles Convertible
Noy sent us some shots of his custom Graham Cycles Fat-Bike / 29+ Convertible about 6 weeks ago and check out the ‘photo skills’ on, my man, Noy! It always helps, when you have a gorgeous handbuilt bike as your subject. Joe Graham is the framebuilder that fabricated Noy’s new pride and joy! We’ve been […]
Amazing Fat (bike) Kid from New Zealand
Kelvin Arthur from Massey University gave us the ‘heads up’ about a 10 year old boy, named Mac, and his dad riding the length of the North Island of NZ (about 1300km/800+ miles) on their Pugsleys to raise money for St Johns. St. Johns is the ambulance and first aid service in NZ. About a year ago […]
Great Lakes Fat Bike Series Champion – Jorden Wakeley’s 616 Race Bike
Jorden Wakeley won the GreatLakes Fat Bike Race Series last year and looks like a favorite to repeat. On his way to the Series Championship, Jorden won the coveted Noquemanon race in Marquette, MI that is the ‘self proclaimed’ World Fat-Bike Championship. In just a few days he’ll defend that ‘World Championship’ on a new steel, Six-1-Six […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Snow-Wo
Kris Dennan sent us a shot of his Kona that he built up from a frame and fork. It didn’t take too much convincing to get him to do a little reader’s ride(s) write up about his new toy. This is what Kris shared with Fat-Bike about the build. I ride for Kona and have […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – White Mike’s Violet Krampus
Michael Kauk sent us six metric gnome tons of Krampus pixels the other day along with some spec’s for his Lavender? Lilac? Violet? Purple Singlespeed Krampus. I lived through the original purple anno period of the early 90’s and still kind’a love me some burple blingage, so without further ado, we present White Mike’s Violet […]
Iceman Fat-Bike Champion – Carey Grumelot and his 9:Zero:7 Whiteout
Earlier this month Carey Grumelot won the Men’s Icebike Division of the Iceman Cometh Challenge over a field loaded with fast fatties. The Iceman calls their fat-bike division ‘Icebike’. He rode a new 9:Zero:7 – full carbon – Whiteout to victory, so we thought that our readers might want to know a little more about his race […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Putting the Romance in Necromancer
This episode of Reader’s Ride(s) features my old amigo Travis’ Love Machine! Travis and I met a few years ago at the 24 Hours of Wausau, held up at Nine Mile County Swamp, plus we’re gnome-fest cousins. Travis is one lucky goucho, because his wife, Kelly, presented this blood red and jet black work of […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Alaskan Fatback for a Lady
Ed’s Note: John from up Alaska way sent on this build report on a Fatback that he and his lady built. Take it away, John! I finally got around to snapping a couple of photos of my lady friend’s awesome Fatback, really, this bike is awesome, just look at the sexiness. I wish that I had […]
Jared and the Ginger’s North Shore Fatty Trip
Jared and the Ginger took a trip on Lake Superior’s North Shore and Jared wrote up this account. 4:30 on a Friday, drained from work, I squeeze my fat pug into my cramped neon and head North. Around 7PM I reach East Duluth and meet up with the Ginger. He finishes strapping gear to his […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Josh’s Mukluk
Josh was another of the fat-bike.com faithful who heed the call to exchange words for Interbike Sticker Packs! Take it away, Josh! My Salsa Mukluk might look like an ordinary Salsa Mukluk, but to me, it’s a little different. It wasn’t always MY mukluk, and in fact, at one point, I even looked DOWN on […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – BigAD’s Colorado 9:Zero:7
bigAD out of Denver Metro is rollin’ a Phat 9:Zero:7 and sent us these words when he discovered our stickers-for-stories post. Dig what bigAD has to say: “When life gives you lemons, YOU PAINT THAT SH*T GOLD” is a personal mantra I’ve taken from the title of Minnesota Contemporary Rabbits* Atmosphere’s fifth studio album. Like […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Richard’s Moonlander
Richard is from Portland, OR. His astute reading, and loyal following of the fat-bike.com site, revealed Gomez’s stickers-for-a-story offer and this prompted him to send in this story about his Moonlander! Thanks, Richard! He says: After several years of lusting over fat bikes I decided to pick up a Surly Moonlander. I went with the […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Stephen’s Canadian Moonlander
Stephen sent us the shot above with a simple description – “Recently we had a had a huge wind storm in the area of local trail system. My Moonlander proved to be an amazing trail maintenance machine carrying all the tools I need to help make the trails rideable again.” Well, we wanted to know […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Chris Daisy’s Borealis – 24.9 lbs of Mayhem
Chris Daisy owns Zion Cyclery and knew he wanted a Borealis Yampa carbon fat-bike the moment he saw it and so put in a preorder for the frame, set about getting the parts together and this is the result. A man of few words, Chris had the following to say about his 24.9 lb creation: […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Euan’s Rohloff 9:Zero:7
Australian, Euan Pennington, originally published this story on his blog and let us know about that but we thought it was so good that we asked him if we could share it with you all. So, here it is! When it came to acquiring a new bike, as a bike nerd I had many thoughts, hopes […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Vlad’s Troika a Custom-built Fat-bike
Vlad contacted us with a story about the fat-bike frame he custom built and we asked him for a bit more detail so here ya go. In Vlad’s own words, the story of Troika the fat-bike. My name is Vlad Dolinsky and I wanted to share with you my recently build Fat-Bike. During July this […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Robert’s Fatback
Robert recently sent us an email saying he would love to see his ride featured on our site. Thanks, Robert! Here you go! Robert says – “It surely isn’t the sweetest Fat Bike every built but it is mine and I am gonna ride the HELL out of it. I currently live in NJ and […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Nigel’s Customized Moonlander
Nigel from Ontario, Canada sent us yesterday’s Wallpaper Wednesday photo and we had to know more about his rig so I pinged him to get the scoop on his build. Here is the skinny! It all started at the 2012 Toronto bike trade show. I test rode a the Surly Moonlander, and was sold in […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – WhiteMike, AKA Miguel del Blanco’s Singlespeed Fatback
If you read our Weekly Dose of Fat religiously, like you should, you may remember the link to this article on Singlespeed Pirate’s website detailing WhiteMike’s first ride on this sweet, singlespeed Fatback. If you haven’t seen it go check it out now and then come on back here! Here is an idea of what […]
Fat-Tribe Thursday is BACK!
Aileen Frey caught her husband, Scott, admiring a Vibe Cycles, Copper masterpiece, at the (South Western Idaho Mountain Bike Association) SWIMBA rendezvous this weekend. Vibe had three custom fat bikes available to demo on the trails at Eagle Bike Park. Aileen tried out a Vibe Frozen Bitch fatty and was impressed. She added “We learned […]
Building, Riding, and Racing a 38 Frameworks Hogback in Fairbanks, Alaska
Written by Trystan Herriott 11 June 2013 A fine day on the trail with the Hogback, with sun and sundogs and at times 35° F below zero with wind-chill. A backcountry cabin awaited my fellow travelers and me at the end of the day, and was a welcome site after a 30-mile ride in the […]