Jussi and Andrej from Entis are back in episode five of Bugging Across Finland. In this episode of Bugging Across Finland Andrej and Jussi hurry from Kalajoki to Oulu in just two days to see the Korpiklaani’s concert. Will they make it? Also, the first accident is caught on tape. Would you share your Plus […]
By Betsy Williford Photos by Rich Loftin Alaska, the Last Frontier. A land so vast, so wild, full of beauty, wildlife, big mountains and impressive glaciers. One can only fully grasp all of these descriptors by traveling there and experiencing it for yourself. A few weeks ago I, along with my husband, finally made my […]
The fat bike film, Blue is now available for sharing with friends, family, fellow fat bike enthusiasts, neighbors and all the lovely ladies in your life. The short film was directed by Aly Palmer Nicklas. The film’s sponsors include: Fatback Bikes, Adidas Outdoor USA, City of Valdez, Alaska – Government, PeopleForBikes.org, REI, Ursa Major Distilling, HooDoo Brewing Company Click the […]
Greetings from freezing Finland fat bikers of the world. Jussi and Andrej from Entis are on a mission to spread the word of ecological and protein-rich insect food by biking 1500 kilometers in Finland. These bug crusaders encountered freezing cold, tough blizzards and some huge freaking trucks on the way from Turku to Nuorgam. In […]
ITI Champion John Lackey sent us this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday featured photograph. When one ITI Champ takes a photo of another ITI Champ we believe that’s a pretty good recipe for something legendary. Here’s a shot of Fatback Bikes rider/snow biking legend Tim Berntson on the Yentna River on Saturday, Feb 23rd. We were riding out to Northwoods Lodge […]
It’s the (real) Fat Tuesday so let’s PARTY! You may have noticed that we tend to post fat or plus bike videos on Tuesday(s) but there’s only one real Fat-Tuesday and this year, it’s today. Today’s video comes to us from Lake Saimaa near Lappeenranta, Finland from Marko Lankinen and a group of his fat-bike friends kick’n it […]
Betsy Williford sent in this week’s WW feature. Betsy appears to be a Woman of few words, yet in her brevity, she answers all of the most important questions. (see below) Photo: Jill Homer Rider: Betsy Williford Location: Rollins Pass Rd, Colorado Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature your fat-bike photos from […]
The Wind River Mountain Festival presents the inaugural Drift 100. The race takes place in Wyoming, at the northern base of the Wind River Range. Participants (“Drifters”) may run, bike, or ski. This year’s event is coming up on March 9. For more information visit www.thedrift100.com . Check Out the Fat-Bike Event Calendar We’ve been loading some of […]
I was drawn to Afterglow Lake Resort by their incredible social media photo-stream. The intense sunset photography made me think back to shooting Kodachrome slide film and spoke to one of my life-long passions (photography). And it didn’t hurt that their photos feature two Bernese Mountain Dogs along with a Golden Retriever at the lodge to […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is Cory Kittle’s second photo that’s been featured here. Cory’s a bush pilot as well as a professional photographer up in Alaska and more recently, a fat-bike fanatic! 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 […]
On January 4th and 5th, this year, Jay Petervary hosted the 200 mile and 200k Fat Pursuit events, in Island Park, Idaho. We are very familiar with this event. Bryon participated in the event last year and I volunteered at the West Yellowstone Checkpoint. Jay is our neighbor and we try to get out and […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday feature comes to us from Gus Villanueva. Gus just wanted to share his early morning ride with us. I love getting emails like this! This is what Gus shared about his ride. I took an early morning weekend ride on my fat-bike in the middle of the city. There’s a network […]
Leia, Spinner & Tio Gomez are joined in the studio by Patricia, the Race Director of the Up to Snow Good Dual Slalom Race to be held at Tyrol Basin Ski Area in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin on February 9th, 2019. For more info visit – http://www.uptosnowgood.com/ We close the show with a segment recorded in […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is from one of our long-time amigos, Tom McDonald. I found this shot in my Wallpaper Folder from last year’s images, yet I knew we had never published this particular image. We’ve shared quite a few of Tom’s photographs over the years and Tom won a photo contest that we ran […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Keith Christensen. It’s back to work after the long holiday weekend and Keith is multitasking on his Norco Sasquatch. That looks like a chainsaw strapped to his backpack. I get a fat-biking, lumberjacking, zombie hunting roustabout sort of vibe to this shot. Let us know what […]
I just returned from attending the first ever Birkie Ladies Fat Bike Getaway. With so many women starting to fat-bike, I thought that I would attend and write about the experience. The weekend event took place up in the Hayward-Seeley-Cable area of northern Wisconsin. I have skied the Kortelopet once and felt kind of apprehensive […]
Global Fat-Bike Day seems to have successfully spawned positive vibrations and fun from every corner of the planet this year. So well done everyone! I know that I had fun here in Wisconsin. I can’t believe the huge group that showed up in Two Rivers to ride in some pretty slurmmy weather conditions. We hope that […]
If you haven’t heard, Global Fat-Bike Day is this Saturday so we cued up a throwback to GFBD 2017 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden for this week’s Fat (video) Tuesday feature. GFBD is a great day to get together with your ride amigos and maybe join in with other groups of riders. Who knows, you might meet […]
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 […]
Within the first hour of our five-day bikepacking trip through the White Mountains, north of Fairbanks, we shared the trail with skiers, snowmachiners, one dog team, and a flock of fellow fat-bikers. The area is an oasis for such users, where one can penetrate into the winter-laden woods from the comfort of a groomed […]
Our Fat Tuesday Video comes to us all the way from Lappeenranta Finland! We’re the international house of fat-bikes and Marko Lankinen and some of his amigos share what it’s like to ride on snowy snowmobile trails with just the sound of crunching snow under their tires. The lack of a musical soundtrack means that you can […]
Jordan Fox shared a video of some Sunday shenanigans with his amigo, Matt Wild at Nitehawk (year-round) Adventure Park out in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Jordan and the boys at the Hawk wanted us to share a message, so here she goes… Happy Trails from Canada! Share your Plus or Fat Pixels If you reach out […]
Editor’s Note: Becky Vordermann shares her first crack at fat-bike racing in Colorado. Last month, just outside of Steamboat Springs, CO, the Bear, a 105 and 50-mile fat bike race, took place. The race was put on by Jon Kowlasky, of Steamboat Springs. The race was sponsored by numerous local businesses from the area, […]
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 old friend Deo has shot a quick wheelie filled tournament of destruction out on the Atlantic East Coast of Canada. It’s the end of February and very soon we’ll be experiencing the dreaded Spring Thaw portion of the calendar, where places like Deo rides in his clip, will be under water. So let’s get […]
In recent years there has been an explosion in the number of groomed fat bike trails. During this trend, we have seen a huge variety of different grooming solutions from homemade contraptions to companies selling finished products. Rollers were sort of the first wave of successful fat bike grooming implements because they could […]
A longtime reader, Robert Krügel, dropped us a line with some hot, low-rise, mesh, european pixels from a recent trip to the Ore Mountains. Here’s what he shared about this week’s video clip. Hey Fat-Bike.com Team, My Name is Robert and I’m from East-Germany, I read your Website for many years now, it’s great! Thank you for […]
Well, it’s our last post of 2017 and instead of looking back on a pretty crazy year, let’s talk about what the plan is for the New Year! Our amigo, Jeff Price, over in the UK suggested that he’d like to engage in a Bivvy a Month in 2018 and I thought that was a […]
Ed ~ This is part 2 of Will Ross’ story about his trip up to Point Lay, Alaska. You can read part 1 of the story here – https://fat-bike.com/2017/11/kali-adventure-club-part-1-by-will-ross/ Thursday, Day 3 of our time spent at Kali School in Point Lay, Alaska was a big day. The five of us coaches kicked off the day […]
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 […]
When the bike world and the beer world align under a banner that reads SURLY, you know that unlike most watered down, new school, fat-bike events that go down these days, there’ll be DERBY! In addition to a good old-fashioned bicycle hootnanny, there’ll be Surly craft-brewed beer. Surly Bikes plans to have their demo fleet, […]
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 […]
About a week and a half ago at Chain Reaction Cycles where I’m the Service Manager, I overheard some news that some 9:ZERO:7 Bikes were headed up to a school on the Arctic Slope of Alaska. I thought that it was super cool that a school was getting bikes, but didn’t think much more about it. […]
Felipe Civita sent us a couple of shots from a 3-day hut trip to Elk Lakes Cabin in British Columbia. The picture above was taken by K.Orriely (with Felipe riding), and the shot below of the cabin that is taking me away to the mountains in a fat-bike daydream, was taken by Felipe. So there you […]
Let’s set the “Wayback” machine for the year 2014, shall we Sherman? Where are we going this week, Mr. Peabody? The Pacific Northwest of the United States of America, specifically the Methow Valley to hear from a group of early adopters that call themselves the Northwest Fatbikers and our old friend Ward. Here’s a […]
In the fat-bike marketplace, we’ve seen a lot of gimmicks in the past couple of years. For example: carbon, full suspension, symmetrical rear ends, the color Orange, etc. etc. More and more I’ve been seeing fat bikes on the trails all year long. Fat Bikes are becoming THE choice for riders that want a bike […]
This week’s Fat (video) Tuesday presentation comes to us from Sweden. Our new amigo, Viktor Linnerö shared this rock’n little clip and the music coupled with the ski-slope style session…. well they go together like peas and carrots. As is our custom, here at the fat dash bike dot com, we’ll let Viktor tell you […]
Our Amigo Illya is back with a clip from the Scottish Highlands. We haven’t shared a Fat Tuesday Video recently, so its always nice to back into the groove! I can think of no better way to get back into the groove, than with a clip from Scotland! Here’s what Illya had to say about […]
Photo description: Fat biking the Mineral Belt Trail in the mining district of Leadville, CO Photo Credit: Scott Andreson Some people call this kind of post a wallpaper, I like to call it Foto Gordo. This week we present an image that’s been my personal desktop background since Christmas. The image was created by Scott […]
We worked with our amigos at Borealis Fat Bikes and Dirt Components to make sure that we shared the unmistakable beauty of the Fat-Bike World Championships in Colorado. Let’s take a quick look at all of the fat-bike fun that took place out there in the Grand Valley in Colorado! If you want to learn […]
After being given the OK to travel to Gstaad, Switzerland as Fat-Bike.com’s European Bureau Chief to cover this year’s Snow Bike Festival I was expecting some fantastic scenery to greet me. After stepping off the train following the most scenic train ride I’ve ever had, a winter wonderland certainly did greet me in the luxurious […]
Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot, Dustin Carlson, is behind this week’s FvT feature presentation. It’s great to see the next generation of mountain bikers enjoying the the trails with cycling’s new wider tire/wheel choices! The Specialized RipRock sports 24×3 inch rim/tire and can open up a world of possibilities for family outings. Here’s what Dustin […]
I sit here and write this while psyching myself up for another 3-4 hour ride of breaking trail on the Cannolis. It has been a good winter here on the west coast of the northern lower peninsula of Michigan and we have already gotten over 5′ of snowfall. We got the okay from the National […]
The California State Fat Bike Championships were held on December 10th, 2016 at the Rim Nordic Bike Park in Running Springs, Calif., just west of Big Bear Lake. It is the home of Rim Nordic Ski Area which is a cross country ski area in the winter season. The weather was cool & crisp, […]
