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, […]
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Hills and Beaches
By Jeff Price My local favourite loop this one. There’s nothing better than leaving the house in the early evening, riding some of the hills and dropping down onto the beach for the last few miles home. This ride takes me along the causeway to the medieval town of Conwy and up into the hills […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Summittoppler Recalls his First Fat-Bike Beach Ride!
My First Beach Ride By Jeff Price It’s nearly two years since I first got my fat bike, the 2014 Salsa Mukluk from Keep Pedalling, Manchester, UK. I knew the type of riding I could do was going to be different, but wow, it’s been a totally new riding experience. After 2 weeks the Surly […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fat-Bike Beach and Dune Rides in South Africa!
Dave Caravias contacted us about his guided fat-bike adventures in South Africa. In addition to fat-bike beach riding that rivals anything that we’ve seen, the area also boasts, world class, whale watching and great white shark, cage dives! I’m going to let Dave describe his South African, beach ride, slice of heaven! Our area is extremely special with […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Illinois Beach
Zito, Puck and I took a trip over the Memorial Day Weekend to Illinois Beach State Park for a ride along the beach in Zion, IL. The beach at the park is in great shape and is one of the few along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan that is currently ridable due to the […]
Forth Fat Report
By Jeff Price During the brief 19 months of owning my Mukluk, most of my rides have been solo with just the odd one being with fellow large-girth-tyre-lovers. So when details of the 2015 Forth Fat was announced a few months back I made a note in the diary. After loading the gear in […]
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Low Tide Tour
Our amigo Jeff Price is back with a beach cruise that’s practically in his back yard! We’ll let Jeff tell you all about it! Since it’s been nearly 3 months since my last video I thought I’d take full advantage of the spring low tide and head for the beach 3 miles from home. With a […]
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 […]
Photo Gordo ♦ Beach Spiral
Our amigo Jason from the UK took this hypnotic shot of his fatty out on the sand. I wonder where his footprints are? You can see more of Jason’s photos at www.flickr.com/jason-l Share Your Local Stoke! Send us your photos or hosted video so we can send that stoke to riders that haven’t discovered the pure unbridled […]
Foto Gordo ♦ Montana Beach
Mark Christensen sent us some great shots of his girlfriend, Amber Steed, riding her fat-bike on the north beach of Flathead Lake in Kalispell, Montana. I can’t get enough of winter beach riding! How ’bout you? Share Your Local Beach! Send us your photos or hosted video so we can send that stoke to riders […]
FATuesday VIDEO ♦ Cider Shortbread & Fatbike Shennanigans
The Godfather of Beach Riding, Bruce Mathieson, sent us one of his excellent video clips to share. Bruce presents this film as a joint effort, created with his amigos Brian and Craig. Where does your Fat-Bike Take You? Share your hosted video with us and we’ll provide you with the virtual theater of the inter-webz, […]
The Triumphant Return of FOTO GORDO!
Foto Gordo returns! to bring all of our fat-bike cousins some friday foto stoke! Let’s get ready to go play bikes all weekend! This week’s foto comes from Jeni Axelsen out in Big Sky Country. Her photo was taken while riding the North end of Flathead Lake in Somers, Montana. Jeni shared, “It’s a seasonal beach with […]
Fat Video Tuesday ♦ GFBD – Solo Style
Global Fat-Bike Day isn’t all about big group rides. It can be a solo ride if that’s what you can swing. Some folks (like me) love going out for solo rides. The same is true of our amigo Rusty Knorr. The rust-man sent me this clip of his GFBD ramble on the beaches of the […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Northpaw on Cape Cod Beach
Today’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes from our own Greg Smith who was out visiting Cape Cod this past summer and went on a beach ride on a solitary stretch of Atlantic shoreline with fellow fat-biker Bob K. Greg says “We went at low tide and the beach was wide and inviting. The Piping Plover was nesting along […]
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! […]
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ The Perfect Ride ♦ November Beach Bivvy at Newborough, North Wales, UK
Our main man, Jeff Price, got together with a friend from work and few riders that he met through the UK Fat Bike Forums to conduct his Monthly Bivy in Wales. One of those other riders is our amigo John Moore. John’s photos have been featured on the site multiple times. You can check out […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – A Cold Day in November
Our amigo Jason Liddell from Scotland has been getting some dramatic beach riding photos with great reflections in them. This is what Jason had to say about this shot. “Here’s a shot showing two frequent riding companions of mine, Craig Finlayson (Surly Pugsley) and Brian Thomson (OneOne Fatty), riding our local coast here in East Lothian, […]
Not a Wallpaper Wednesday Club ♦ Fat-Bikes from the Planet Gnometron
I met Pat Smage at this year’s Mountain Bike Prom back in June. I seem to remember that he hopped his Mukluk with the skill and grace of a bicycle ninja. He sent me some great shots of he and his amiga on their fat-bikes, but this one really captured my imagination. The scores of rock […]
Riders of the fall
We´re leaving an epic summer behind. Temperatures has been the highest in 50 years. Riding has been amazing, from archipelago beach riding to big mountain fat bike adventures. And all of a sudden fall hits you in the head like a sledge hammer. Work, school for the kids, everything piles up and the weeks just […]
Not a Wallpaper Wednesday Club ♦ Costa Rica!
Our old amigo from Costa Rica, Will Muecke sent us a shot of his Borealis Yampa on Playa Esterillos Oeste on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. They’re in their rainy season down in Costa Rica and the shot was taken after the late-day thunderstorms rolled through and left the sky boiling with heavy clouds, last weekend. My […]
A Traverse of the Namib Desert – by Bill Fleming
Written By : Bill Fleming How I found myself riding my fat bike across the mind-bending dunes of the Namib desert is at least as entertaining as the actual ride itself. It started last December in the bathroom with a smart phone. I started searching for areas with sparse population densities, like in Alaska.The long and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Not a Wallpaper Wednesday – The Greeting Card
Some of you may recognise my Fatback 190 named Otis in this shot that I took up near Two Rivers on the Lake Michigan Shoreline. When I saw this shot it reminded me of the soft focus photographs that appear on anniversary cards or other romantic greeting cards that one might see at their favorite card shop, […]
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 […]
Not a Wallpaper Wednesday – North Wales
Mark Weldon took his new Carver O’Beast for its first proper ride on the hills and coast of North Wales! He captured a rather angry looking sky and his beautiful Titanium Carver in this week’s Not a Wallpaer Wednesday feature photo. This is what Mark had to say. Been riding the fat bike on the […]
Not a Wallpaper Wednesday – Otis’ 1st Beach Ride
Back at the end of March, I took Otis for his first beach ride, just across the border, down in Zion Illinois. I took this shot on my way back from the Dead River. Otis is suspended off of the ground by what was once the roots of this small cluster of cottonwood trees on […]
Fat-Foto-Friday ♦ The Merseyside Ten
Our Amigo, John Moore got together with ten of his fat-bike friends and enjoyed a windy ride on the Merseyside Coast in the UK. You can see his whole set of photos from the ride here and you can enjoy more photos from Mr. Moore on his Flickr page, right here! Happy Friday Amigos! Why not share your […]
Beach Slacker Rodeo – Part Three– The Core Banks
This is part three of a three part series about beach riding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. You can check out part one here and part two here. We Pick up the story with two ferry rides to get from Ocracoke Island to Cedar Island and then out to South Core Bank. Have you ever heard […]
Beach Slacker Rodeo – Part Two – Ocracoke Island
This is part two of a three part series about beach riding in the outer banks of North Carolina. You can check out part one here – Part One – Beach Slacker Rodeo …We pick up the story on the ferry that goes to Ocracoke Island… The weather forecast cleared and I jumped at the chance […]
Foto Gordo ♦ Bikini Beach
Last Sunday the Bike Black Ribbon Society hosted a Bikini Beach Ride & Waxing Clinic up in Port Washington that turned into fun, times the power of grey skull! This is mi amigo nuevo, Dave, riding his Fatback over an ice bridge along the shores of Lago de Michoacan. We had a couple of hours […]
UK Fat-Bike Championships Report
Battle on the Beach/UK Fat Bike Championships by Patrick Joscelyne Congratulations to George Budd and Fiona Wilson for winning the inaugural Surly UK Fat Bike Championships at the Battle on the Beach. George Budd (#28) leading the pack across the sand. Surly and their UK Distributor, Ison sponsored the UK Fat Bike Championships and reported to […]
Fat Tuesday Video ♦ Old Mexico
Matt Whitehead sent us few of his video clips from his trips to baja. He used a custom fat-cargo bike to tote all of his gear and his surf board up and down the Baja Coastline. Fat-Biking and Surfing! You can check out more from Matt by visiting his blog at http://www.afewsketchymoments.com/.
Fat Foto Friday ♦ ‘Holiday Ham’
Our amigo, Ian, from Kona Bicycles sent us this gorgeous shot, that he took of Dale Plant and Kevin Noble, on the Pacific coast, near Bellingham, Washington. Dale is a Kona sales rep and Kevin is the national sales manager for the US. Ian Schmitt is a product manager for Kona and happens to be, […]
Triple F – Beach Echelon
I don’t know anyone that can choreograph a rolling beach echelon, like John Moore. John’s photos have graced our pages quite a few times over the past two years. Here’s what John had to tell us about this week’s Fat Friday Foto! Nine fat bikes got together in Merseyside, England yesterday. All together, we […]
Triple F ♦ Cockerham Sands
click to enlarge Today’s photo stoke is from Steve Makin. Here’s what Steve had to say about this stark and beautiful portrait of the English coastline. The photo was taken at Cockerham Sands which is on the north west coast of England, looking out at Morecambe Bay which is a notorious place for fast […]
The Future…
…Looks Fat & Fun! In one month the world wide, fat-bike community is going for a ride. A little something called Global Fat-Bike Day! Find your Celebration or Plan Your Own! Check out tomorrow’s Weekly Dose of Fat for links to GFBD Celebrations!
¡Foto Gordo! – The Isle of Skye
This is one of the many reasons that I love this job! We get notes, like this, from all over the world. Snippy is our first contributor from the Isle of Skye! We’re elated that you’re loving your new fatty Señior Snips! Thanks for sharing your beautiful coastline with us! Balance We try to […]
Second Anniversary
Two years ago my first story published on fat-bike.com. Since then, many of our amigos and hundreds of our readers have contributed content and carnival to the pages of fat-bike. Sven and I truly appreciate, from the bottom of our hearts, all of our readers and sponsors. We look forward to sharing fat-bike news, […]
Fat Video Tuesday – Swedish Lapland
Olov Stenlund shared his first fat-bike video with us last week. This is what Olov had to say about it! “I’ve had the fat bike for a week now. I just gotta say. It´s the most incredibly fun bike that I’ve ever owned. It sure is a eye catcher. If you want to be discrete […]