Will Ross gets a congratulatory hug from 9:Zero:7 owner Jamie Stull after winning the Fat Bike Birkie! Weekly Dose of Fat – Show Number 97 – Friday, March 11th 2016 Sven, Gomez and JK are in the studio and are joined by phone with Tim Berntson fresh off his ITI 350 win for a bit […]
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Weekly Dose of Fat Show #96 – Men’s and Women’s Great Lakes Fat-bike Series Points Leaders
Weekly Dose of Fat – Show Number 96 – Friday, March 4th 2016 Sven, Gomez and J.K. welcome the Men’s and Women’s Great Lakes Fat-bike Series Points Leaders Matt Acker and April Morgan! The Weekly Dose of Fat is brought to you by Surly. Learn more at http://surlybikes.com On the show this week We Start […]
US Open Fat-bike Beach Championships Are Returning to Wrightsville Beach, NC in 2016
Ben Brown, 2015 Expert Division Champion, will defend his Championship at this year’s US Open Fat-bike Beach Championships photo by Bill Baggett Making it’s 2nd appearance on Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina event chair Shawn Spencer is finalizing details on The 2nd Annual US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship, scheduled March 11-13, 2016, in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. “Fat-biking is […]
Rogue Panda Designs Custom Frame Bag and Top Tube Bag
When I got my Quiring Triple B bike this fall one of the first things I thought about was getting a frame bag. I love having a frame bag to stash gear in during any season but especially during the winter where having some extra warm gear can be a life saver. The problem was […]
Rever MTN1 Disc Brake Review by Kevin Breitenbach
Back at the beginning of the winter riding season, the old dependable mailman dropped off a box from Wisconsin. Surprised to find it devoid of cheap beer and cheese curds, I was delighted to see a full setup of the new Rever MTN1 Brakes. Living up North in Fairbanks, I’ve always used mechanical disc brakes, […]
REEB Announces more Donk in their 190mm 2XL Compliant B’donkadonk
Our amigo Chris Sulfrian from REEB cycles out there in Longmont, Colorado sent us some news, that basically said ” Gomez….our REEBdonkadonk frame just got fatter” The repercussions of Vee’s Snowshoe 2XL 5.o5 tire are starting to make ripples on lake fat-bike. REEB continues their US Made steel awesomness with your choice of 170 or 190mm on […]
Rider Report – Ventana El Gran Jefe Fat Bike Tandem
Patrick sent in this report about the Ventana El Gran Jefe Tandem Fat-bike that Alex at MTB Tandems built for he and his wife Gabrielle. 95% of my cycling is on a tandem with my wife. We’ve been wanting to extend our cycling season into winter here in Iowa so we’ve been watching all the fat […]
Weekly Dose of Fat Radio – Show #76 – Special Guest – ITI Champion Kevin Breitenbach
Here is a taste of things to come! Robert Hood shot this photo of his wife riding their homemade fat-bike trail in Auburn, Wyoming last January. Weekly Dose of Fat – Show Number 76 – Friday, October 16th, 2015 Join Sven, Gomez and JK Livin’ for today’s show with special guest, and ITI champion, Kevin […]
The Point to Point Beach Ride
After Labor Day and into fall is an ideal time to beach ride along the shore of Lake Michigan. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: The lake is still warm making early morning starts 10-15 degrees warmer and a heck of a lot nicer There are generally still a lot of warm, […]
Weekly Dose of Fat Radio – Show #67 – Special Guest Nick Frey From Boo Bicycles
Arboreal Pugslys – Photo by Evan LarSSon Weekly Dose of Fat – Show Number 67 – Friday, August 14th, 2015 Sven, Gomez and JK are joined in the studio by musical guest, Uncle Dick! Fat-Bike Radio, and The Weekly Dose of Fat, is brought to you by Surly. Learn more about bikes at http://surlybikes.com. On […]
Fat-bike Radio – Fat Camp Show #4 – Tire/Wheel Sizes and Tire/Rim Ratios
Above is Scott Quiring’s 29+ Rig Fat-bike Radio – Fat Camp Show #4 In this episode Ken and Andy talk about Tire/Wheel Sizes and Tire/Rim Ratios. Learn about the hows, whats and whys of using different rim widths with various tire combos. Show Notes: Tire rolling resistance links: http://www.schwalbetires.com/wider_faster_page http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/12/bikes-and-tech/resistance-futile-tire-pressure-width-affect-rolling-resistance_355085 http://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/specials/tubeless-latex-butyl-tubes http://www.mtbonline.co.za/info/mtb-tyre-rolling-resistance.htm “Tech Tuesday – […]
Fat-Bike Destination – Free Soil Michigan
Last week, I made good on a long standing plan to continue my exploration of the Lake Michigan Shoreline, just north of where I left off on a trip in 2012. The plan was to explore the area north of Ludington to the river town of Manistee. Over the years, I’ve visited and written […]
Duluth Winter Enduro Gets Rad At Spirit Mountain
Duluth is the new epicenter of getting rad in the upper Midwest, and the upper Midwest is the epicenter of progressive fatbike use. So naturally, the first downhill/enduro specifically for fatbikes took place at the city-owned Spirit Mountain, side by side on the ski hill with the regular crowd of knee droppers and knuckle draggers. […]
NAHBS 2015 – Louisville Kentucky
The North American Handbuilt Bicycle Show is sort of like ‘Fashion Week’ for bicycles. All of the newest and wildest, bike couture assemble in one exhibit hall and work the cat-walk like the supermodels of the two wheeled fashion universe. There’s something for every sort of bike-nut at the show, from outlandish modernity to stodgy old […]
The Sram Ice Cycle Expo at The Iceman Cometh Challenge
Before Fat-Bikes were around, the Iceman Cometh Challenge was the culmination of each year’s mountain bike race season around the Great Lakes. Now that (midwest) fat-bike racing is in it’s 4th season, the Iceman has become the pivot point between mountain bike race season and fat-bike race season. (Even though Fat-Bikes are Mountain Bikes). Located in the beautiful […]
Be Careful When You Follow the Judas Goat
Back in December I wrote about my new Quiring fat bike (Achieving Fat-Bike Versatility). That article got into how the bike can switch geometry to suit different riding conditions such as summer and winter fat biking. This summer I have been exploring another aspect of the bike: A summer fat bike setup versus a 29er+ […]
Weekly Dose of Fat – 6-7-14 – with Paul Ellis from HED – Show #7
Weekly Dose of Fat for SATURDAY – June 7th, 2014 – Show #7 Intro Sponsor of this show is Surly Bikes. http://surlybikes.com We want to send out some healing vibes out to our amigo, Scott Quiring. Scott crashed his 29r trying to follow a fat bike and broke 8 ribs and his arm! On this […]
Fat-bikes at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show 2014
Here are shots of all the fat-bikes I saw at NAHBS last weekend. We’ll have more details on most if not all of these fat-bikes coming up over the next week or two. For now, whet your appetite! There you go, folks. Like I mentioned above, we will have more on most of these bikes […]
Otis Got a Brand New Bag
The day that I unpacked our Fatback 190, that we eventually named Otis, I made a template to guide Michigander, Jason Snell, in crafting one of his custom sailcloth Barking Bear Bagworks frame bags. I like to keep a frame bag on my fat-bike to store ride essentials or the ubiquitous puffy jacket. A frame bag […]
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 […]
Borealis Carbondale/Industry Nine Short-Term Review
This review comes after about 20 hours and 150 miles of trail riding. A vast majority of that riding took place in fresh snow because Northern Michigan got a heaping helping of December snow this year. I tried to get onto groomed trails as much as possible but even those were still fairly loose due […]
Achieving Fat-bike Versatility
Please welcome one of our newest Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilots, Ken Blakey-Shell. Ken will be testing gear and sharing his adventures and racing from the fat-bike paradise of Northern Michigan and beyond! Written and photographed by : Ken Blakey-Shell Right now in fatty world, options are one of the biggest “issues” a fat biker […]
Michigan Fat-Pack
November Fat Bike Packing Written and Photographed by: Ken Blakey-Shell Scotty Q and I had been talking about going on a bike packing trip for months now but something was always getting in the way of a trip actually happening. After too much talk and too little action, we knew the window of opportunity was […]
Iceman Expo – Photos – Specialized’s New Ground Control Tire
When I found out that Specialized would have a couple of their new Fatboys with their, much anticipated, Ground Control 26x 4.6 Tires on-board we just had to make our way to Traverse City Michigan to show our readers what was happening at the Iceman Cometh Expo. There was also some really tasty treats from […]
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 […]
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Manistee
Ken Blakey-Shell and Scott Quiring, of Quiring Cycles, have been exploring some local Off Road Vehicle (ORV) trails on their fat bikes and it turns out they are really, really fun. Ken shared the following description of what the Manistee National Forest, in Northern Michigan, has to offer. “This video was taken on one of the […]
Race Report – 8 Hours of Cannonsburg
Written by: Ken Blakey-Shell Race promoter: Fun Promotions When: June 8th, 2013 Where: Cannonsburg Ski Area A couple weeks ago a friend and riding partner named James Gomez tossed out the idea of riding the 8 Hours of Cannonsburg to Scott Quiring and I. The race is held at the Cannonsburg Ski Area by Grand […]
Danielle Musto reports on the Barry Roubaix!
Written by: Danielle Musto The Great Lakes Fat Bike Series wrapped up this past Saturday with the Barry-Roubaix, a “killer gravel road race” in Hastings, Michigan. Racers had the option of racing 24, 36 or 62 miles. The fat bike category was in the 36-mile division. I felt very relaxed going into this race. I had […]
Event Spotlight – St. Fatty’s Day
Sven, Puck and I went to this last year and had an absolute blast! Shorts Brewing makes some delicious craft ale and the cat that runs this race Casey Buckleitner, knows how to throw a race party! We saw bikes from Bob Keller, Scott Quiring and 616 at the race last year. Crazy Good-Times! […]
Interview with Jorden Wakeley – Michigan’s Rocketeer
Written By : Casey Buckleitner Photos By : Jack Kunnen Editor’s Note: Fat-Bike.com will be featuring a series of interviews of the best racers from fat-bike hot-spots from around the world in the coming months. When I asked who the man to beat was in Michigan, Jorden Wakeley was the name that I heard over […]
Shop Profile – Central District Cyclery – Grand Rapids, Michigan
My first visit to Central District Cyclery was last winter on rainy February afternoon. I was on a whirlwind tour that took me to 616, CDC and Quiring Cycles. CDC is right in the center of downtown Grand Rapids – right next to GR Police Headquarters. The shop is in a sleek 3100 square foot […]
St Fattys Day Post-event Report
The St Fattys Day event was held March 31, 2012 at Marsh Ridge Resort in Gaylord MI. Gomez and I attacked the Michigan event from different directions with G heading around the southern end of Lake Michigan and heading up through Grand Rapids where he met up with 616 Fabrications and Quiring Cycles as well as […]
St. Fatty’s Day Fatbike Expo and Race – Michigan
Casey Buckleitner and the Marsh Ridge Resort in Gaylord, MI are holding a Fatbike Expo and Race at the resort March 31st, 2012. The Fat-Bike expo vendors include Einstein Cycles, Gore Bike Wear, Gore Ride – on Cable Systems, Surly, 616 Fabrication, Quiring, Bandits International and many others. The race on the 31st will be on the […]
Weekly Dose of Fat – 1-13-12
Friday the 13th! Whoo Hoo! And we finally got a bit of snow here in SEWI. The SnowBike Team Enduro event in Wisconsin is coming up NEXT weekend the 21st. with the recent snow, more on the way and below freezing temps it should be a good one. Don’t miss it and then come crying […]