Fatbassador, Travis from Anchorage, AK sent in this report on a local trail known as The Power Line Trail for obvious reasons. Check out the report and thanks, Travis! Last week my good friend Al Heckart and I decided to head up to the Anchorage hillside for a ride on the Power Line Trail. We […]
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Fat-bike Ambassador Trail Report – Crescent Creek Trail, Alaska
From one of our Alaskan Fat-bike Ambassadors, Travis Hubbard of Anchorage, comes this story that will make you want to get out on that fat-bike! The weekend of August 1st and 2nd, 2015 the wife, dog and I camped out at Quartz Creek Campground on the Kenai Peninsula. This is by far my favorite campground […]
NEW! Fatback Skookum & Rhino
NEWS RELEASE – FATBACK INTRODUCES SKOOKUM & RHINO, NEW ALL-TERRAIN FAT BIKES Anchorage, Alaska (August 12, 2015) – Fatback announces the addition of the SKOOKUM CARBON FRAME and the RHINO ALLOY FRAME to its lineup of all-terrain fat bikes. With their suspension-optimized design, these two are made to rip through whatever terrain you are willing to […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Video Flashback
A little over five years ago, Mike Curiak joined Eric Parsons, Dylan Kentch, Doom Fishfinder, and Roman Dial for a tour of SE Alaska. They rode the beach out of Yakutat and traveled along Alaska’s outer coast, via fat-bike and packraft to Glacier Bay. Five years ago, most of us were just trying to figure out how to put […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Fatbikes in Homer
Travis Hubbard from up Anchorage way sent in this shot from a trip to Homer he and his wife took earlier this summer. Travis is also our first, official, Fat-bike.com Ambassador. Travis will be checking in with us from time to time on The Weekly Dose of Fat Radio Show as well as help us […]
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 […]
Saturday Video!
Our amigo, Eric Parsons (from Revelate Designs) and some of his amigos took a trip on the ITI route, but the opposite direction that the racers were going. This is a cool little edit from that trip. If this doesn’t get your motor running, you might, just be wired wrong or have iron poor blood. […]
Wallpaper Wednesday ♦ Iditirod Trail
Frank Janssens shot my amigo Morris during the ITI this year, with spectacular results! We kept this week’s image in the original format to preserve the photographer’s vision! Just click on the image above to open the full-sized version which you can right-click to save. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We’d like to feature fat-bikes from around the […]
Event Spotlight ♦ Talkeetna Trio WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS!
Last week was the Pugsley Fat-Bike World Championships, so in the year that we enjoyed two US National Fat-Bike Championships, it only makes perfectly logical sense that we should also enjoy two World Championships! This one is run by our amigos at Speedway Cycles and is Sponsored by Denali Brewing, so get ready for some […]
The ITI from Kathi Merchant, race director Iditarod Trail Invitational in Alaska
Written by Kathi Merchant, Race Director, Iditarod Trail Invitational The Iditarod Trail Invitational race, the qualifiers to get into this by invitation only race and the annual ITI winter training camps in Alaska. When I moved to Alaska in 2002 from Germany I did not know that a decade later fat biking as well as […]
The BIG FAT BIKE FEST Situation Report
My first recollection of the Big Fat Bike Festival came about 3 years ago. It was either sister-Kim or Hayley that contacted me to let us know that the Homer Cycling Club was holding an event in their picturesque corner of the world along the shores of the Kachemak Bay in Homer Alaska. Homer is […]
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Burton Beach
A great video from one of my favorite videographers. This was shot over 4 years ago along Burton Beach in Kodiak Alaska. These are some of the first Fatback bikes that I ever saw, back then. If you look close you’ll see an old spider tire, getting some miles on the beach. The beaches in this […]
Event Spotlight – Big Fat Bike Festival – Feb 6 – 8, 2015 – Homer AK
Any fat-bike festival with a gnome in the flyer gets extra points with me! I say this every year…..I really want to go to this! This festival has captured my imagination for 3 years! Is this the year that I get to go? Is this the year that you go? Bad Ass Beach Rides! Bonfires! […]
Not a Wallpaper Wednesday ♦ Mirror Mirror
Wally Hufford sent us this shot that his amigo Doug Armstrong took on a multi day fatpack trip up in Alaska. This is what Wally had to say about the shot. This photo was taken on July 24, 2014, by my buddy Doug Armstrong on our trip along the beach from Nikiski, Alaska, to Homer, Alaska, […]
The Mouth to Mouth Race Report – Homer AK
The Mouth to Mouth Fat Bike Race Report By – Kaitlin Vadla & Zach Brown Celebrating clean water, healthy salmon, and healthy people, 67 runners and bikers (and a few of their canine friends) from Anchorage to Soldotna to Homer turned out Saturday, June 14th for the first Mouth to Mouth Wild Run & Ride. Participants […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – 9:Zero:7 Whiteout – Snow Optional
The 9:Zero:7 boys up there in Anchorage have been keeping busy. The just finished their first video that supports what we’ve been saying for years. Fat bikes make really fun trail bikes! And now with the unbelievably light and burley, fat-carbon bikes, like the 9:Zero:7 Whiteout, it’s a whole new ball game! Take your fat-bike out on your local […]
Borealis Echo – Battle of Camrock – Race Test
With the success of our 80 mile – 4 person race test of the Borealis Echo, we decided to put out 6th test pilot in the saddle to race the Echo at last week’s WORS Race near Madison, Wisconsin, called the Battle of CamRock. This week’s test pilot is Aristotle Peters….the guy who pulled off […]
Foto Gordo – Captain Crust
Awhile back, I asked for some crust photos from our viewing audience and Paul Rotkis, from up in Anchorage (by way of Racine Wisconsin) sent me a couple of fresh, fat, tracks on luxurious, Alaskan, crust along with this shot of his red white and blue, polished aluminum, 9:Zero:7 that I named Captain Crust. […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Hunting Monsters!
In 2013 Bjørn Olson and Brent Phillips hopped aboard a cargo ship destined for the far shore of Alaska’s Cook Inlet with fat-bikes, packrafts, minimal food, even less camping gear and a burning desire to go. Through beach, tundra, swamp and mud they rode, pushed, hauled and kicked their bikes through Iliamna country, with eyes always peeled for […]
NEW! ♦ Borealis + Bluto = Echo! ♦ NEW!
We all knew Rock Shox was coming out with a front boinger, but what we didn’t know was that our Amigos at Borealis have been working with them on the development of their Senator Blutarski (Bluto) fat-suspension fork. I bet just about everybody will have something to say about Bluto. Today we get to talk […]
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Knik Glacier
I had the pleasure of meeting Randy Armstrong at the Frosty Bottom awards ceremony when I visited Anchorage in January. Randy is also a past winner of our photo contest from a couple of years back! He sent me a video that he put together about a ride that he’s been dreaming about. This is what […]
Jeff Gillmore – Fat-Bike Mechanic to the Stars
Mi amigo and pro pack slinger, Tupps Becker, gave me the idea to interview his homie, Jeff Gillmore. Between Josh Spice, Kevin Brietenbach and Tupper, I had come to know Jeff and the bikes that he wrenches for some of the biggest names in the Ultra Endurance Fat-Bike Racing. Stars like world record holders, Jeff […]
Triple F ♦ Knik River
Doug Schutte sent us in this gorgeous photograph that he took on a ride up the Knik River near Palmer, AK. The week that I spent in Alaska this past January was incredibly enlightening and I know that we’ve barely scratched the surface of what there is to learn and experience there. That’s why we […]
US Fat-Bike Nationals – Up Close & Personal
Last weekend’s US Fat-Bike Championships at the Fat Bike Birkie was the ‘Woodstock’ of fat-biking. Carlos Santana jammed with Hendrix and the Jefferson Airplane played a 2 hour set! The Fat-Bike Birkie had it all! Mountain Bike legends like Travis Brown and Ned Overend raced the very best of the rising stars of fat-bike racing. […]
2014 ITI Leader Photos by Adam Miller
There are currently three riders that have broken away and are on a record breaking pace at the Iditirod Trail Invitational. Tim Berntson, Kevin Breitenbach and Alec Petro are in the lead pack with Pete Basinger and Francis Lambert about two hours back from the three leaders. Alaskan native, Adam Miller from Borealis Bikes has […]
Alaska – Episode 4 – Revelate Designs
This is the final Episode in our Alaska Series (till we return)…In this segment we share a visit that I had with Eric Parsons at Revelate Designs. We’ll also show you Revelate’s new Williwaw Pogies along with a matching frame bag. Revelate Designs is probably the most recognized brand of frame bag in both Alaska and […]
Alaska – Episode 3 – Fatback & the Speedway Shop Ride
Greg Matyas is the captain of the USS Fatback. A fat-bike maker, true to its Alaskan heritage. I chose to introduce Greg, in such a manner, because Greg posseses the charisma of Jame T. Kirk along with a good balanced helping of pirate ship captain. Greg’s one of those guys that you want to follow […]
Alaska Episode Two – 9:Zero:7
My trip to Anchorage probably would have not happened without Bill Fleming’s invitation to come and spend a week, to check out 9:Zero:7’s operation. Bill is one of the founders of 9:Zero:7 and during my trip, I stayed with Bill and his wife Sheryl. They even set me up with one of their gorgeous carbon […]
Fat Video Tuesday – A Thin White Line
A Thin White Line is the story of the 2001 Iditasport adventure race featuring racers on foot, bike and ski, as they challenge the 1000 mile Iditarod Trail in the Alaskan winter. This is before modern fat-bikes were developed. We also are archiving this link to our fat-bike history page. Get out the popcorn and […]
Alaska – Episode 1 – The Frosty Bottom
I spent the first full week of 2014 in Alaska with the goal of learning about the fat-bike culture of Anchorage. Anchorage is the home of two well respected fat-bike companies (9:Zero:7 & Fatback) as well as a premier frame bag manufacturer (Revelate Designs). I was fortunate enough to spend time with the folks behind […]
Fatback Corvus Carbon Spy Shots!
The timing of my trip to Anchorage, could not have come at a more opportune time! I attended the Speedway Cycles Tuesday Night Shop Ride on the very day that Greg received their first sample/test frame and we have the first shots to share with all of our readers! I even got to take it […]
Fatback 190 – Product Test – Episode 1
It seems only appropriate that we publish a story about a boy and his new bike on Christmas Day! Last week we received a shiny new bicycle that has created a feeling of delightful anticipation, around the fat-bike dot com research and development, test track and proving grounds. Inside a rather giant cardboard carton lay, […]
Fat Video Tuesday – Bicycles on Snow – Iditabike 1988
Here’s a blast from the past! Mark Forman contacted us about a television segment that he produced for the Discovery Channel about fat-biking before there were fat-bikes! We asked Mark to share some insights into this historic clip and here’s what he had to say. Original Budget was $55K Money got back on the project […]
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 […]
3rd annual Big Fat Bike Festival – Logo Contest
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Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Iditabike
Peter Basinger put together this video of the 2013 Alaska Ultrasport Iditarod Trail Invitational. Pete has done the 350 mile race 13 consecutive times and won 6 times. Pete was one of the guys in the early days of “fat bikes” using a mountain bike with 2 rims welded together to make them “wide” and has seen just about […]
FBC’s Night at the Movies – Fat Bike (2009)
Fat-Bike.com is proud to present the 2009 documentary ‘Fat Bike’ by Carl Battreall! Carl’s film can always be found on our Fat-Bike History page accessed under the “Resources” Tab at the top of the home page.
Fatback – Carbon Uma Rims
Fatback Bikes shared a photo of their new pre-production 77mm wide, bead lock, tubeless ready, carbon fiber rims last week. Greg Matyas, told us that they haven’t determined a final weight or price for these units yet and added that they are shooting for a final weight of 600 grams (or less) per rim. […]
NEW! Fatback Corvus Carbon
FATBACK INTRODUCES CORVUS, A COMPLETE CARBON FIBER FAT-BIKE Anchorage, Alaska – Fatback announces the addition of the CORVUS CARBON FRAME AND FORK to its lineup of back-country all-terrain bikes. The complete bike, frame, and fork are available now for pre-ordering through the Fatback website. The Fatback Corvus is made for snow treks and shoreline tours, […]
Sneak Peek ♦ Fatback Sterling 4.2″ Tire
In a Fat-bike.com exclusive, we bring you the first photo of Fatback’s New Sterling fat bike tire! It measures 4.25″ on a 70mm rim and uses a 120tpi casing with a Kevlar bead that’s tubeless compatible. The weight is approx 1300g and the price is yet to be released. Fatback owner, Greg Matyas, tells us that […]
Fatbiking the Alaska Beach
Written By Josh Spice ‘Camp at clam gulch rec area on the 8th of june. Ride beach through the 11th. Super duper casual. A rolling beach party.’ ~ Jason Boucher’s invitation to ride the beach with the Salsa crew & friends to Homer Three guys from Salsa Bikes, one of their contest winners, members […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Montañas Blancas
(click to enlarge) Our amigo, Josh Spice captured this beautiful shot of his Mukluk, 60 miles deep in the White Mountains National Recreation Area, northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. Josh was out riding the 100 mile loop in preparation for the White Mountains 100 Race, where he placed 3rd out of a very fast field of racers. […]
Event Report – Big Fat Bike Fest – Homer AK
Big Fat Bike Festival 2013: Bigger, Fatter, Homer-er Written BY : Kim McNett So it has come to pass! The Homer Cycling Club [homercyclingclub.com] has hosted a second annual Big Fat Bike Festival in beautiful Homer, Alaska! 53 fatbikers from the local area, Anchorage, and beyond convened on the weekend of March 1-3rd to […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Renzo’s ITI Training Adventure
Renzo from Italy took this photo on the Iditarod trail between Point McKenzie and Flathorn Lake, during the first day of ITI Winter Training Camp by Bill and Kathy Merchant owner of Winter Bike School Alaska. Renzo says: I had 5 amazing days in the wilderness of Alaska, where I tested my equipment, gear and […]