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Beach Ride & Unicorn Hunt
Disclaimer: No actual unicorns were harmed in the filming of the the Bike Black Ribbon Society’s Beach Ride & Unicorn Hunt. This post is rated NC-17 and should be viewed by mature audiences only. Eleven amigos answered the call to come out and hunt unicorns on the third coast of the big whiskey last weekend. […]
Fat Video Tuesday ♦ West Coast Meet-Up
Our long time amigo,Ward Whitmire, sent me this vid from the 3rd annual meet at Ocean Shores, Washington. Fourteen riders gathered out in the Pacific Northwest for a Saturday group ride and then enjoyed beers and some of the ‘best food’ on the coast at ‘Bennett’s Fish Shack’, followed by more riding and a fire on the beach. […]
Triple F ♦ dark side of the beach
(click to enlarge) “There is no dark side of the beach really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.” Fat-Bikes and Fun are like peas and carrots… Send us a shot of your fat-bike having some fun! Our email address is still info@fat-bike.com. Please make a note of it.
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Ride off Into the Sunset
(click to enlarge) Gil Montague shot his wife, Pam, at Whitby Beach in North Yorkshire, England with his – blackberry z10 cell phone! What’s your plan for this summer’s beach assault? Send a post card to your uncle gomez at gomez@fat-bike.com and then let’s go ride bikes.
The Landing
Some of our readers across the net asked to see the splash down of our amigo, Eric, busting out a dead sailor off of the ramp that we built, at last weekend’s beach party. We didn’t have any photos, but we do have some video! Watch Eric stick the landing….and don’t try this at […]
Triple F ♦ The Coho Grater
I took this shot on a stormy beach ride that I took up near Belgium in the early part of June. It was the first ride back on the Moonlander, since we built up our test Krampus. Beach riding in raw weather is something that I love and recommend to anyone out there with […]
Bike Black Ribbon – Bastille Day – Beach Ride
Sometimes the best rides aren’t planned and seem to come out of nowhere. Last weekend, Sven texted me about a beach ride that he was putting together for Sunday morning. The only thing standing in the way, was the fact that my moonlander was in need of some serious TLC. The small chain ring was […]
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Sandwood Bay
Our old amigo Bruce – aka coastkid, is world famous for his video artistry and fat-sporations along the coast of Scotland, but somehow, we haven’t featured one of his works here, for quite some time. Today we remedy that situation by sharing a clip that Bruce describes, thusly…… “a cycle out to Sandwood Bay in […]
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 ♦ Pink Sky
Jason Liddell took this shot of his 9:Zero:7 with the magic light of the East Lothian coastline bathing the beach in colour. You can see more of Jason’s photographs at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jason-l/. Triple F is a weekly feature, designed to inspire fat-bike fun, fueled by submissions from our readers. Would you like to help? Send your uncle […]
Chilly Blues Race Report & More – from Michigan
The Race When our amigo, Nate, of Central District Cyclery and the Winter Rush Race Series whispered in my ear that he was working on getting permission to run a beach race out of Grand Haven, I was delighted! I immediately offered to help in any way possible. So last weekend, I found myself headed […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Beach Tunnel
Our long time friend and early adopter, Antoine Pethers shot his original purple pugs in a tunnel that goes under the main road at Murrays Bay in New Zealand. You can check out more of Ant’s photography here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/79498713@N00/ Dig it, for realz! Spread that Fat-Love like guava jelly…or is it jam? How would […]
¡ Angry Andy Gets Down (Under) !
Down Under Holiday! Written by: Andy Oleson Ok, This story can’t progress another word without giving a HUGE shout out to Kath n Kedan Griffin, fellow BBR test pilot, Chris Zito, and MURU Cycles head man – Wayne Chapman! For without their great generosity and help this story would be non-existent. I’ve had the good […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Pipeline
John Moore from England took this shot on his morning commute! UK Fat-Bikers are planning one of their now famous gatherings later this month. The Fourth UK FatBike Gathering is on the East Lothian Coast, 30 Miles East of Edinburgh, Based at the Victorian Seaside resort of North Berwick. That’s Scotland for those of us […]
Ride Report – Quad City Enchanted Fat Bike Stomp
QUAD CITY ENCHANTED FAT BIKE STOMP – (QCEFBS) Written By: Jake Ralfs & Aaron Mielke Photos By: Drew Hanson / Hanson | Photo · Design It all started out as an idea over a few craft beers at Great River Brewery in Davenport, IA (as all great ideas do) one cool afternoon, post-fat bike ride with a few […]
Chilly Blues Challenge ♦ Beach Race ♦ 4/20/13
FAT SAND RACING comes to South West Michigan! The start time is 1:00 P.M. You have two hours to finish an 18 mile route directly along the shore of Lake Michigan. (South from Grand Haven to Port Sheldon and back) Successful completion of the challenge puts you in the running for fab prizes! You must check-in at […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Water Spout
Aussie amigo, R Cairns captured this image of a water spout, while out beach riding with a friend, down under. Check out more from R Cairnes at www.theunknownrider.com. We love getting out on the beach in raw weather! Next time a storm is brewing, grab your fatty and head to the beach. Maybe you’ll wake […]
Fat Video Tuesday – Fat-Pack Baja
Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot and International Playboy, Cale Wenthur, shot this vid last month on a fat-packing trip that he took down in Baja de California. You can read a full account of a similar trip that he under-took here. Do you have some Fellini in you? Are you the next Quentin Tarantino of fat-bike […]
Late Winter Beach Ride Weekend
On the spur of the moment, last week, Bethany & I, got an invitation from some long time, friends to spend the weekend over in Michigan at their beautiful lake house near New Buffalo. Our hosts DJ & Wendy, along with our buenos amigos Tom and Amy, met us on the shores of Lake Michigan on […]
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 […]
A Tale of Two Beach Rides
Here’s the tale of two consecutive rides on an ice glazed beach comparing my 1 year old Big Fat Larrys and a brand new set of 45NRTH Dillinger Studded tires. The rides were conducted on the same stretch of Lake Michigan beach in East Central Wisconsin at the beginning of January, 2013. Ride #1 – Sunday […]
Fat-Tribe Thursday ♥ Fiesta de el San Valentín!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Aileen and Marley out for a ride! Jessica Johnson took this great shot of a romantic Florida Sunset – See more at http://glittergravel.com/ Sue and Ron, from Minnesota and their Fat Tandem = True Love Ricky and Jo with some love for fat-bike.com! Our long-time amigos – Sue & Craig! My dear friends, […]
ShellTrack Race Report
Story by Josh Gabriel Photos by George Kaptz & Craig Smith Manitowoc’s second annual Fat-bike race on the now notorious Shelltrack is in the books and as the saying goes, ‘What a difference a year makes.’ Just one year ago, Fat-bike fanatics were laying down fast laps in short sleeves, this year riders were layered […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Rock House
You may remember Randy Armstrong from our Summer photo contest (he won!). He and two of his friends took a ride on the shores of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska and captured this enchanted landscape, while enjoying a boulder filled playground. Makes me want to grab my camera and go out to play! Fat Foto Friday is a […]
Fat-Bikes, Beach Tours & Coffee in The Hague
That’s the photo that led me to come in contact with our new amigo from the Netherlands, Tommy. I learned that Tommy is a guide at Lola Bikes and Coffee and that the shop runs Fat-Bike Tours in The Hague, the capitol city, of the Netherlands, nestled on the sandy shores of the North Sea. Every […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Anglesey Beach Ride
Steven J Makin took this shot back in September on the rocky beaches of Anglesey in the UK. You can click the photo to see it larger. Fat Foto Friday is a weekly feature where we try to help kick off everyone’s fat-bike weekend(s)s with a little Friday afternoon foto-stoke, thanks to the help of submissions […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Pugsley on Patrol
Our long time amigo Gary Buckham aka Pugsley on Patrol took a shot that makes still life seem like it’s ready to roll. Fat Foto Friday is a new weekly feature for us. We’d like to help kick off everyone’s fat-bike weekend(s)s with a little Friday afternoon foto-stoke, thanks to the help of submissions from our readers. […]
Fat Foto Friday ♦ Global Fat-Bike Day Flashback
Tom Kellett took this shot back in December, on Global Fat Bike day. He celebrated GFD at Druridge Bay in Northumberland on the North East England coastline. Fat Foto Friday is a new weekly feature for us. We’d like to help kick off everyone’s fat-bike weekend(s)s with a little Friday afternoon foto-stoke, thanks to […]
Wallpaper Wednesday ~ Photo Contest Coutdown #1
For the last few weeks we featured the top photos from our 45NRTH Summer Photo Contest and today we get to share the #1 photo! Randy Armstrong, of Anchorage Alaska sent us this great photo and this is what he told us about the shot. Here’s my entry for your photo contest. Three of us did […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Moon Safari
Moon Safari – written by Cody Sovis As an exceedingly average bike racer, cycling is often about hitting intervals, obsessively checking my heart rate and stressing out about each and every minute detail of every single ride. (and yet) Somehow, it’s an awful lot of fun. But after months of racing and training, and more […]
True Confessions of Two Fat-Bike-Beach-Rats
Ecrito y fotografiado por Julio y Gomez Julio caught ‘beach-fever’ sometime last year and he’s been planning a fat-pack ever since. Somewhere along the line this summer, we agreed to take a little fat-bike adventure together and this is our beach-rat, ride report. We figured the weather could get dicey in late October, so we kept […]
Wallpaper Wednesday ~ Northumberland Fat-Bike Gathering
John Moore from England took this shot at a UK Fat-Bike Gathering, last year in Northumberland. Feel free to download it and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the image to open the full-sized version which you can right-click to save. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? If you’ve got a fat-bike related image […]
8 Months of Beach Riding ~ the Moonlander and the Damage Done
Last December, I received my Surly Moonlander and since then…I’ve done my best to ride the hell out of it. Snow, sand, mud, slurm and salt, all ridden, without a care in the world. Due to the lack of snow last winter, my fattie has seen more than it’s fair share of beach riding over […]
Fat (Video) Tuesday – Sunset Playtime
If this doesn’t make you want to ride beaches in Scotland, I don’t know what would! Simply beautiful! We’d love to see what fat-biking is like in your part of the world! If you’ve got a fat-bike related, short film that you feel is “Fat (Video) Tuesday” material, slap a link in an email with […]
Lake Superior Fat-Pack ~ Part Two
…continued from part one DAY TWO We awoke to a sunrise that looked remarkably similar to the hazey Mars sunset from the previous evening. After some oatmeal for breakfast, we loaded our packs and headed out under beautiful azure skies. We also had a nice tail wind blowing at about ten miles per hour that […]
Lake Superior Fat-Pack ~ Part One
About a year ago, I started to dream about a multi-day beach riding trip in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Someone from my past life had told me tales of how Lake Michigan ended as a shallow whisper against the southern edge of the deliciously underpopulated U.P. I hatched a plan, where four or five riders would tag […]
Wallpaper Wednesday ~ Pimp my Pug, on the Beach
Our homeboy Craig sent us a shot of his Moonlander along side Sue’s White Wedding Pimp my Pug project on a slice of beach we know very well, here in the big whiskey. Feel free to download it and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the image to open the full-sized version which […]
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 […]
Fat Video Tuesday ~ NW Coast Beach Brotherhood
Ward and some friends met up last October in the Pacific Northwest for some fat-bike fun! Share your corner of the world with our readers! If you’ve got a fat-bike related clip that you feel is “Fat Video Tuesday” material, slap a link in an email with what, where, why-type info and videographer’s credit to info@fat-bike.com and […]
Fat Video Tuesday ~ Lindisfarne
This week’s fat-bike video is from Gary Buckham – aka – Pugsley on Patrol. This is how Gary describes his clip… Day trip on the Surly Pugsley to the island of Lindisfarne, off the Northumberland coast. Route took me across the tidal causeway, then clockwise around the island on the beaches and dune trails, […]
Fat-Bike Surfari ~ Beach Riding Research
Fat-bike beach riding isn’t always peaches and cream. Sometimes you ride the beach…and sometimes the beach wears you like a prison jumpsuit. Last month, Sven, Puck and I went to explore a new section of beach north of Milwaukee. It was windier than a fifty pound bag of politics and Lake Michigan was rock’n real good. […]
Fat-Bikes on a Ferry
Four of us rode the High Speed Ferry from Milwaukee to Muskegon last week to meet up with some Michigan amigos to enjoy 3 days of beach riding. We left our cars behind and spent the weekend in Grand Haven (about 20 miles south of Muskegon). Between our friends in Grand Haven and Liisa – […]
six-1-six – fat tandem preview
We just returned from another Michigan beach riding excursion, where we were treated to a sneak peak of 616’s new fat tandem. Talk about an attention getter! Aaron Joppe, from 616, was kind enough to bring out this work of art, so we could get a few impromptu photos before we all headed out for a […]