Revel Bikes is announcing that they’re unifying their brands. For fans of fat bikes, that means the Why Cycles Big Iron is now the Revel Big Iron. The Big Iron is one of my top five fat bikes that I’ve had the pleasure to ride and the new Revel version has an updated dropout that […]
Hud Darrah sent in some photos of his singlespeed Why Cycles Big Iron from Cheyenne Wyoming! Here’s what they had to say about their opus. The photos are from a recent trip to Soapstone Prairie / Red Mountain Open Space in northern Colorado before it closed for the winter. The bike as mentioned is a […]
Kevin Noel shared a shot from a New Year’s Day ride from Colorado with twenty-seven fat bikers joining in the fun! That’s quite a lineup! We sent him some stickers and he said that he’d send us some of his stickers in return. I like getting good old-fashioned mail that is not a bill or […]
Click the Flyer for more Information The highest fat bike race series in the gnation is hosted by the Cloud City Wheelers in Leadville, Colorado. The series features five races that have to be on every fat biker’s bucket list. Mark your calendars and start sewing your costume! Check Out the Fat-Bike Event Calendar We’ve […]
Is there a better fat bike name than Tom Ice? I think not. Tom sent us a shot of his bike from last winter in Colorado and I love nothing more than to exploit the contrast between a hot sunny summer day with a cold crisp winter portrait of a fat bike in the Colorado […]
Mike Tey sent in some pictures of his Mukluk in Winter Park, Colorado and we sent him some sweet stickers! It’s what we’ve coined the sticker boondoggle. All part of the fat bike love here at the home of fat-bike-fun! Feel free to download this image and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on […]
Andrew Meyer answered the call and sent us eleven point two smurfy megabytes with reflections of fat bikes frolicking in the great outdoors. The gnomes down in the mailroom sent him some stickers (I hope). In this case, (above) it’s Andrew’s Salsa at Hartman Rocks in Gunnison, Colorado that is cast in the starring role […]
The Cloud City Wheelers from Leadville Colorado hosts a fat-bike race series that starts in January and goes all the way into April! http://www.cloudcitywheelers.com/race For more information visit – – http://www.cloudcitywheelers.com/race Check Out the Fat-Bike Event Calendar We’ve been loading some of our favorite events onto our Event Schedule. Everything on our event schedule was […]
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Tim Birchard. Tim hails from Durango, Colorado and he sent us quite an array of images of his hawt pink Ice Cream Truck. Tim inspired us to break the mold of just one image per post and opened up the pixel floodgate with a full gallery of […]
The highest fat-bike race series in America
The view from the beaver pond is of Mt. Hope and to the left, Hope Pass. This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday features photos from our long-time amigo, James Healy. His photo is from a ride that he and his pooch, Hazel did on the Colorado / Continental Divide Trail along the shores of Twin Lakes, CO […]
Justin Van Alstyne is our March Foto Gordo Contest Winner! Justin sent us a handfull of photos, each one better that the last. Justin is a pro pixel slinger from Colorado and for his efforts wins all of the fabulous prizes below. If you entered and your name isn’t Justin Van Alstyne, the gnomes down […]
Betsy Williford sent in this week’s WW feature. Betsy appears to be a Woman of few words, yet in her brevity, she answers all of the most important questions. (see below) Photo: Jill Homer Rider: Betsy Williford Location: Rollins Pass Rd, Colorado Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We love to feature your fat-bike photos from […]
JP gets REEB’ed by JP Syverud Well, it finally happened. My dream has finally come true. I got REEB’d! I have always wanted to have a custom fat bike built just for me. I sold a few bikes and other things lying around the house just to gather enough acorns to get this thing built. Be warned, this isn’t for the faint of heart. It took some sacrifice, but in the […]
2019 LEADVILLE WINTER MTB SERIES TENNESSEE PASS NIGHT JAM JAN 19TH REG. AT 4 PM RACE STARTS at 6 PM $25 / $20 for CCW Members 12 MILE COURSE THROUGH THE TREES WITH A MIX OF NORDIC TRAILS AND A SWEET DH SINGLETRACK FINISH TENNESSEE PASS NORDIC CENTER @ SKI COOPER WINTERBIKE @ COPPER MTN […]
Tom Ice sent us a compilation video that covers all twelve of his Bivvy a Month trips from 2018. If this doesn’t get you stoked to take up the quest to complete the Bivvy a Moth Challenge for 2019, nothing will! I got out a few times in 2018 in what some might say was […]
This is the second report from a Road Trip to points west of the Mississippi last month. After spending a rainy weekend in Fruita, to visit some friends, I made my way to Carbondale Colorado to get a peek behind the Titanium Curtain at Why Cycles. It poured rain all the way there and my […]
One of the places that captivated my imagination, ever since I was a kid, is The Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. My last visit to Great Sand Dunes was over twenty years ago. While I was planning my 2018 Road Trip out west, I saw that the National Park Service allows fat-bikes on […]
Here’s a pretty sweet video to up your stoke for singletrack. New Mexico Outside snuck across the border and explored the trails at Hartman Rocks in Colorado. The recreational area there has scenic granite rock features and ribbons of singletrack. Check out @just_ridenm on Instagram to see more textbook examples of #keepfatbikesfun and #fourseasonfatbikes. Please share […]
You may ask yourself who is Why? Why Cycles is a fairly new company, being about 2 years old. Their focus is making high-performance, titanium bicycles, with their newest release being the Big Iron fat bike. Why may be fairly new, but the company is made up a number of individuals that have extensive […]
Scott and I first rode the Crest back in 2009 and have ridden it several times since. Though any version of riding Monarch Crest is typically a shuttle adventure, we have always ridden out-&-back from Monarch Pass for an all-high-elevation ride that we call “The Best of the Crest”. However, after hiking the South Fooses […]
The Big Iron, is the newest addition to the fleet over at Why Cycles. Named after a Marty Robbins ballad, this titanium bike has our stoke levels off the charts. Last Monday, a pair of Big Irons’ showed up at our doorstep. A size medium, for Becky to test, and a size XL for […]
Betsy Williford shared this week’s Wallpaper with us from Colorado and here’s a little bit about this week’s photo. Freshly into bikepacking I loaded up my fatty to test out my setup on what planned to be a daytrip only. I set out from Frisco, Colorado and rode the Ten Mile Creek bike pathway […]
Fourmile Travel Management Area: 100,000 acres of “spaghetti-western” scenery plus over 100 miles of dirt roads and trail equals fat biking paradise! Words: Nancy Anderson Photos: Scott Anderson Fourmile is located east of the Arkansas River and stretches north of Buena Vista, south of Johnson Village and up to the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness, smack […]
Last December we announced the Bivvy a Month Challenge and our amigo, Tom Ice, has stepped up to the plate and is over half way to earning the Bivvy a Month Challenge merit badge. Our challenge will take you on a journey to discover just how much fun, you can tolerate. Are you up to the […]
Peekaboo Gulch – Buena Vista, CO Words: Nancy Anderson Photos: Scott Anderson except where noted Wednesday was the second time we fat biked South Fork Lake Creek (SFLC) Road into Peekaboo Gulch. But we have played on SFLC road many times before; from there we hike to the summit of 14,336′ La Plata […]
Let’s roll into Mudder’s Day Weekend with a festive shot from Tim Birchard. Tim rides a sweet OG Salsa Mukluk and shared this about his Foto Gordo photo. I just discovered your “foto gordo” gallery and wanted to share this shot of my 2013 Mukluk 3 up in Denver, on the river trail. My rear […]
Editor’s Note: Becky Vordermann shares her first crack at fat-bike racing in Colorado. Last month, just outside of Steamboat Springs, CO, the Bear, a 105 and 50-mile fat bike race, took place. The race was put on by Jon Kowlasky, of Steamboat Springs. The race was sponsored by numerous local businesses from the area, […]
There are 3 races to go in the Leadville Winter Mountain Bike Series and the Mineral Belt Mayhem is this weekend. Get ready for FUN at the highest fat-bike race series in Colorado! Visit www.cloudcitywheelers.com and tell’em that tio gomez sent’chew. Check Out the Fat-Bike Event Calendar We’ve been loading some of our favorite events onto our […]
Here’s an event coming to Silverton, Colorado! I love everything about these celebrations of winter recreation! Check out the Tiki Time Schedule of Events for a weekend full of FUN! We like and support fun here at fat dash bike dot com. You can get all of the details at SilvertonWhiteout.com Check Out the […]
Crested Butte Colorado is throwing their version of the Fat-Bike Whirrled Champ-peen-ships this weekend and it’s an event like no other fat-bike event (at least that I’ve ever been to) Crested Butte is a Colorado mountain town that supports a thriving winter tourism economy and for one weekend a year they focus all of that sweet […]
If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, Crested Butte is holding the Borealis Fat Bike World Championships. Crested Butte is the closest thing that there is to (fat-bike) heaven on earth and the entire town comes out to throw a huge party cleverly disguised as a bike race (or three). How can […]
Welcome to episode 27 of the Fat Camp Podcast all you gnome hunters out there. It’s time to settle in for part deux of KBS’s recap of his August bikepacking adventure on the Colorado Trail. In this episode of Fat Camp, Ken shares his stories with Andy on second half of his trip which […]
It doesn’t take more than a glance at Guerilla Gravity’s “Pedalhead” to quickly see that it is one of the more unique plus hardtails on the market right now. Follow this up with a look at the geo numbers, including a 65.5º head tube angle, 74º seat tube angle and 419mm chainstays, and you’ll either […]
On the first official day of Summer, Eric Prinster sent us this perfect example of how to beat the summer heat. Here’s the story behind those handlebars. While everyone was sweating in the mid 90’s temps and wind in Grand Junction, I choose to escape to the Mesa to stay cool and make my own path on […]
We worked with our amigos at Borealis Fat Bikes and Dirt Components to make sure that we shared the unmistakable beauty of the Fat-Bike World Championships in Colorado. Let’s take a quick look at all of the fat-bike fun that took place out there in the Grand Valley in Colorado! If you want to learn […]
This is the longest running and highest (elevation) Fat-Bike Race series in this great land! Just click on the flyer (above) and you’ll be transferred to the Cloud City Wheelers web page, where you can track down all the essential information to attend one of these fine races. You may even run into samsquantch! The […]
Borealis is known for making top notch fat bikes. Their design and attention to detail is best in the business. We all know that the high end, carbon “Crestone” models are great, but Borealis also has the aluminum “Flume” line. The geometry is much the same between the two models, with the major […]
Brett Davis sent us a shot of his Salsa Blackborow out on an early morning training ride above Durango, Colorado. Brett is a Wallpaper Wednesday veteran. We featured a photo from Brett’s trip to Iceland. You can see that shot here. We’re coming up on five years of Wallpapers and you can browse the archives and pick […]
I met Mason & Riley at the Fat-Bike Worlds this February in Crested Butte. I had seen Mason, riding a fat-bike that I recognized from a small Wisconsin bike company, Wyatt Bicycles, and it turned out to be Riley’s sled. Riley and Mason were at worlds, as part of the herd of ‘working media’ and we […]
Way back in July – I got the opportunity to ride one of the early samples of the new Borealis Crestone at the Borealis Fat Bike World Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was just a paved urban spin from their former location to their new location, but my first impressions were positive. The ride felt familiar […]
Fat-bike.com contributor, Jason Mead, headed to Snow Mountain Ranch in Winter Park Colorado for a race and sent in this report on this super fat-bike destination just a couple of hours from Denver. Snow Mountain Ranch is the seat of the YMCA in Colorado. It boasts 6,000 acres of pure outdoor Colorado activities and views. […]
My long time friend and singlespeed outlaw, RickyD, has a long and bright history within the world of mountain bikes. Ricky took a Summer trip out west and his amigo Tejen Shrestha shot this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday at Buffalo Creek, Pine, Colorado. This is a rare photo of Ricky D , since both of his tires are firmly […]
I nabbed a sneak preview of these new ELITE carbon, double wall, rims, when I visited Borealis at the end of July. The spy shots don’t show the final graphics, but these are the new wheels that have been developed through a strategic partnership between Borealis and Reynolds Cycling. The official press release is below. We should have more information […]
