Fat Bikes might have been crafted for the snowfields of the northern hemisphere, but they’re as equally at home on loose trails, muddy tracks and sandy beaches……….and that’s where they’ve captured the attention of Aussie riders because we’ve got plenty of incredible beaches surrounding our Great Southern Land. Arguable one of our best beaches is […]
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Wallpaper Wednesday – Stormy Skies
Jake Meadley sent us a shot from Western Australia for today’s Wallpaper Wednesday. This week is the Australian Fat Bike National Championships in Broome. Good luck to all of our amigos toeing the line! Here;’s what Jake shared about his photo. This is my Salted Sandfly. Out for a ride on a stormy day along […]
2022 AusCycling Fat Bike MTB National Championships – Broome
Friday May 13, 2022 Cable Beach is world famous and for good reason. It boasts white sands, massive 10 metre tides, red pindan cliffs, warm waters, killer sunsets, iconic camel rides and even dinosaur prints. Now it hosts Australia’s only beach cycling event – the AusCycling Fat Bike National Championships. If you’re rolling larger than 3.8″ […]
2021 AusCycling Fat Bike National Championships
Broome Western Australia will once again host the Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA) Fat Bike National Championships.
Fat (video) Tuesday – Mt. Piniibar Australia
Chris Rishworth is back with a snowy Australian adventure in this week’s video feature. This is what Chris posted about his video. Bicycle Touring up to Mt Piniibar & camping on the summit. Steep uphills & snow riding on a Fat Bicycle with 4 inch tyres. Great sunset & timelapse. Mt Piniibar 1772 metres. Would […]
2019 MTBA Australian Fat Bike National Championships – by Simon Rimmer
Fat Bikes might have been crafted for the snowfields of the northern hemisphere, but they’re as equally at home on loose trails, muddy tracks, and sandy beaches……….and that’s where they’ve captured the attention of Aussie riders ‘cause we’ve got plenty of incredible beaches surrounding our Great Southern Land. Arguably one of our best beaches is […]
Wallpaper Wednesday Aussie Series No.19
We’re celebrating our monthly series that features photos from our amigo – 2017 Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp. Once a month, for the last nineteen months, we’ve delighted your retinas with some intensely beautiful images from Australia! This is what Eckart shared about this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday photo. Simpson Desert Bike Challenge 2018. An […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Munda Biddi Trail – Australia
Today’s video has the International House of Fat-Bikes seal of Approval! Tres amigos in matching green shirts chronicle their trip to Western Australia and the good times roll! This is Episode one, so follow FatTraction on YouTube to see more from these cats. Would you share your Plus or Fat Pixels? Give us your tired, your […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – It’s Winter Down Under
Chris Rishworth is back on FVT with a beautiful Australian High Country fat-bike ride in the snow! Nothing beats the heat of summer like a ride in the snow! Would you share your Plus or Fat Pixels? Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled pixels, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming hard drive. Send […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series – Sesquipedalian Sesquiannual!
We’re celebrating the year and a half mark for our monthly series that features photos from our amigo – 2017 Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp. Once a month, for the last eighteen months, we’ve delighted your retinas with some intensely beautiful images from Australia! This is what Eckart shared about this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Mt. Moffat
This week on Fat Video Tuesday we’re featuring the second clip from Chris Rishworth. This clip features Chris’s bikepacking trip through the Mount Moffatt Section of Carnarvon National Park on a MURU Cycles TiWitjira expedition fat-bike. Would you share your Plus or Fat Pixels? Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled pixels, yearning to breathe free, The […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Big Red!
We’re stoked to continue our monthly series that features photos from our amigo – 2017 Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp. So once a month, we get to spur your imagination with some tasty images from Australia! This is what’s on my desktop…What’s on your computer’s desktop? This is what Eckart shared about this week’s […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Fraser Island
Fraser Island, off Australia’s eastern Queensland coast, is the world’s largest sand island, encompassing seventy-one square miles. Our amigo Eckart Altenkamp clued our staff and readers into just how beautiful Fraser Island call look through a camera lens with his Wallpaper Wednesday Series, but this isn’t Wednesday. This is Fat Video Tuesday! So here’s a […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – The Simpson Desert Bike Challenge Wants YOU!
How does a bike trip to the Australian Outback sound? How about a Stage Race run by volunteers and – whilst offering an extreme sporting challenge – has a beautify non-commercial / family atmosphere? The location is incredibly remote (4×4 only, no mobile/cell phone reception) so it offers a rare opportunity to unplug and kick […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Chapter 14 – Big Red
We’re stoked to continue our monthly series that features photos from our amigo – 2017 Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp. So once a month, we get to flip your wigs with some incredibly beautiful images from Australia! This is what Eckart shared about this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday photo. This shot was taken at the 2018 […]
Henty Enduro 2.0 Backpack
Who’s Henty? That was my first question too. Founded in Tasmania, Australia, (yeah, that’s a real place) Henty started out making suit and garment bags for business clothes. They’ve been adding different versions of these bags and have a line of bags and packs specifically designed for active commuting. The Enduro was launched […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Camp
It’s Summer in Australia and this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from our amigo from down under, Eckart Altenkamp. I’m a fan and practitioner of overland style camping so this photo really resonates for me. This is a shot of Eckart’s camp in Purni Bore on the Western fringe of the Simpson Desert, […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Australia for the Holidays
Eckart Altenkamp shot these photographs of his Specialized Fatboy at The Opera House in Sydney Austraila for our twelfth chapter in the Aussie Wallpaper Series that premiered at the beginning of 2018. I couldn’t decide which shot was best so I uploaded my 3 favorites. Passing the Sydney Opera House on a Friday Commute to […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Australia Episode Eleven
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is the eleventh photo in our Aussie Wallpaper Series from our amigo, Eckart Altenkamp. This is a preview from Simpson Desert Bike Challenge 2018 that illustrates the vastness of the Australian Outback. Australia is the perfect example of four season fat-bike fun! Eckart shared this about the shot. Riding into the […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series #10 – By Eckart Altenkamp
This is episode ten of our Aussie Series of Wallpaper Wednesdays by Eckart Altenkamp. The closest thing we have to this in my neck of the woods are wild turkeys or geese! This is what Eckart shared about this week’s Wallpaper. This picture was taken riding the “Sky Trek” in a 270 square km farm […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series #8 – By Eckart Altenkamp
This is our August installment of our Aussie Wallpaper Series by our amigo Eckart Altenkamp. Eckart took this shot while out riding on a salt lake in Southern Austrailia. 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 you feel […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series No. 6
Our amigo from Australia, Eckart Altenkamp is back for his sixth Wallpaper Wednesday in our monthly Aussie Wallpaper Series. This what Eckart shared about this month’s image. This picture was taken riding the “Sky Trek” in a 270 square km farm in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. We encountered many Emus and kangaroos, but […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series 5
The week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is the 5th installment in our Aussie Series from Eckart Altenkamp. This is a shot of Eckart’s campsite on the edge of a large salt lake in Southern Australia. Eckart rides the salt lake to train for the Simpson Desert Challenge. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature […]
2018 Australian Fat-Bike National Championships 5/11/2018
Mountain Bike Australia in conjunction with Karunjie Event Management is pleased to present the inaugural Fat Bike National Championships to be held at Cable Beach, near Broom, Western Australia. Fat-Bike beach racing is coming to Western Australia next Saturday! You can register for the race here and you can visit the event page here. […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series 4
Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp is back with our fourth instalment in his Series of Aussie Wallpaper Wednesdays. This week’s landscape was taken at Boat Harbour Beach at the northern end of Eckart’s regular 8km long training beach in Sydney’s South. Beach riding is one of my favourite forms of fat-bike fun! Got your […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series #3 – 2018 Simpson Desert Challenge Announcement
Here’s why we deemed March as Fat-Bike Beach Month…Mud. Spring thaw renders most of the trails in our home region unridable in March, because the spring thaw makes our trails suceptable to damage. Different regions and countries have differing rules and customs that off-road cyclists follow to protect the local trails. It’s up to […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – The Maheno Wreck – by Eckart Altenkamp
This is our second installment of our Aussie Wallpaper Series by our amigo Eckart Altenkamp. Here’s what Ecki had to say about this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday feature. Took a short break at the Maheno wreck on an early morning training ride along 75 Mile Beach on Fraser Island, Queensland Australia. The beach is also the […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Aussie Series Premier – Featuring Eckart Altenkamp
We’re stoked to introduce a new monthly series that will feature photos from the 2017 Simpson Desert Challenge Champion, Eckart Altenkamp. So once a month, we’ll flip your wigs with some incredibly beautiful images from Austrailia! This is what Eckart shared about this photo. I took this photo on a training ride for the Simpson […]
Fat Video Tuesday 2017 Simpson Desert Challenge!
Eckart Altenkamp is the winner of this year’s edition of the 2017 Simpson Desert Bike Challenge and he sent us an update on this year’s event. Echart shared “We only had 12 participants in 2017… and I think that’s is a shame. It is such an amazing event… and the volunteers running it deserve […]
Gnome-Proof Gear – From Down Under by Euan Pennington
The question went out, when you put aside the glory of test gear, (not always as glorious as you think), what do real riders use in the real world? It’s so flattering to think people assume I live in the real world. Here are some thoughts: Ergon GP2 Grips Naturally all the Black Ribbon […]
Diamant F1-LTD Review – By Euan Pennington
I’m old enough to remember the 90’s, when mountain bike brands would occasionally build a bike for a trade show, it would be boggling at sub 24 pounds in weight, it would be made of unobtanium, paper-mache and hope, and it had a rider weight limit of not very much. It was still […]
Video Race Report – 2016 Simpson Desert Bike Challenge – by Martin Solms
There are not many fat bike races in the world that involve complicated logistics, dedicated support crews, 3000miles of driving, and a whopping 300 miles of multi-day, one-way stage racing. But if this type of event takes your fancy, then welcome to the Australian Simpson Desert Bike Challenge. Following on, from our race reports published […]
Reid Zeus Review by Euan Pennington
Reid Zeus – Godly or Ghastly? For the last couple of months I have had the Reid Zeus fatbike lurking in my shed, to try and determine what’s what. Reid is a budget brand based here Down Under, but with distribution to Europe and the US. They keep their prices down by selling not only […]
First Look – Reid Cycles – Zeus
By: Euan Pennington Anyone who rides a fatbike will know there is huge interest out there surrounding these bikes, but in a strange twist of fate, not everyone has an unlimited bike budget. Apparently there are those who squander their hard earned on fripperies such as mortgages, rent, food and children, and to these people […]
2015 Simpson Desert Bike Challenge Report
By : Euan Pennington “It’s the French Line.” Four words, but as Hipsters might say, it could get Cray Cray. Last year I ran support for a rider on the Simpson Desert Bike Challenge, I was undecided if I would indulge again this year, then the email arrived. The French Line. Mad not to. […]
Foto Gordo – Big Fat Hurt
Joshua Macpherson sent us a shot from the mapping stage of the Big Fat Hurt. Josh was joined by riders, Brad Mertens and Ross Cairns, near Myall Lakes, New South Wales, Austalia. This is our way of suggesting that, “it’s not too late to load your bike and some gear and go explore the great outdoors this weekend!” Friday Fat-Bike Stoke…….Engaged. […]
Weekly Dose of Fat – Wayne Chapman Interview – 11-7-14 – Show #29
Weekly Dose of Fat – Show #29 – 11-7-14 – Wayne Chapman Interview As you’ve come to expect it’s Sven, Gomez and J.K. Livin’ in the studio. Thanks to Chris Daisy And The Zion Cyclery Fat bike Band Our show is sponsored by the Surly – In 3 words – Surly is…….Bikes – Parts & […]
Not a Wallpaper Wednesday Club ♦ Bangalee NSW Australia
Kev Bristow sent me these 4 shots that are all pretty damn incredible! ! love the Blackness of the shot below. Tell us your favorite in the comments. All of these shots were so good, I kept them all pretty large, so you can look at them full size. Just click on any photo to […]
Queen Fattie – Ruling Over Her Skinny Subjects
We’ve had quite a few articles from riders in Australia over the years and site contributor, Mark Peterson, put out his tentacles to uncover this on from his Bro, Troy, in New South Wales. Written and shot by: Adam Troy (August, 2014) Location: Shellharbour, NSW, Australia Fat bikes. They are freakish looking things. I wasn’t quite […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Canning Stock Route Australia
Tom Walwyn from the land down under recently did an unsupported ride of the Canning Stock Route in Western Australia. Total distance, about 1150 miles and they did it in 26 days! You can read more about the ride on Tom’s blog www.bicyclenomad.com. Download the appropriate size and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click […]
Aussie Winter Micro-Adventure
Written & Photographed By – Euan Pennington Recently home renovation has been the story of our lives, until at last, this week cabin fever set in. Our 1970s shabby brick veneer now looks like a 1970s smart brick veneer, and we needed a sanity saver. Having just purchased a new 9:Zero:7 I was keen to […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ The Dude on the Dune
Ross Cairns captured, thee – Bike Bag Dude – Kedan Griffin, kicking up a little rooster tail at Stockton Sand Dunes, last month during a ‘south hemi’ – winter fat-biking trip! What’s your fat-bike fetish? Send us an electronic post card from your local fat-bike rodeo or just drop me a line at gomez@fat-bike.com and let […]
Muru Cycles Swale [O] Suspension Fork
Our amigo from down under, Wayne Chapman, is the main man behind MURU Cycles. He’s been teasing us with the news that he would be bringing a fat suspension fork to the market for awhile, and today, we get to show you what he’s been been working on. The MURU Swale[O] Features a lockout, […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Yurrebilla
(click to enlarge) Billy Somerville took this shot on the Yurrebilla Trail in South Australia. You can see more of Billy’s camera work at http://500px.com/bcdsom. Share Some Fat-Bike Fun! Send your Fat Foto Friday shots to gomez@fat-bike.com along with some sort of description and help us provide a little inspiration to the […]