Gary Buckham is one of the pioneers of fat biking in the UK and we’ve featured a number of his videos during the early days of the site. You may know his work from ‘Pugsley on Patrol’. Today we feature another video from him called Aberlady Dawn. I got a nice chill vibe from this […]
This month’s Foto Gordo contest winner is David Tinnes! David regularly shares his fatventures with us. His perseverance alone won him some schwag a few months back, but this month he’s the Foto Gordo Grand Prize Winner. We even swapped out a different t-shirt so it would fit Dave. I think this might be the […]
Before we get into our May Foto Gordo Contest, let’s award some prizes to some folks that attended our ultra smurfy beach bike rodeo from last weekend! Best Jello Mold Morpheus Mash-up goes to – Erv Sparks! Steve Pirelli – Puff the Magic Dragon Wins Best Costume Best Crash goes to Greg Hahn with an […]
Kurt Schneider sent us a shot of his (dropbar/dinglespeed) Surly Pugsley on a ride out to the Snake River in southern Idaho to win our Foto Gordo Contest for last month. Kurt had some close competition and everyone that entered will be getting a sticker pack next week. The Next Foto Gordo Contest! I know this is […]
Last month we launched a little foto gordo contest and we’re here to thank everyone that entered and announce the winner! ? Darren Giordano sent us this shot taken in Northern Utah. Everyone that entered the contest is getting a sticker pack sent out to them and Darren wins some sweet barware supplied by Why Cycles! FOTO […]
Welcome to WEEK Three of the Secret Word Contest! Every week till Global Fat-Bike Day, we’ll be giving away a prize package from Surly Bikes during the taping of the Weekly Dose of Fat Show on Fat-Bike Radio. All you have to do is be the first caller that can name the fat-bike seven dwarves that we […]
Welcome to WEEK TWO of the fabulous Secret Word Contest! Every week till Global Fat-Bike Day, we’ll be giving away a prize package from Surly Bikes during the taping of the Weekly Dose of Fat Show on Fat-Bike Radio. All you have to do is be the first caller that can guess the porn name that […]
Every week till Global Fat-Bike Day, we’ll be giving away a prize package from Surly Bikes during the taping of the Weekly Dose of Fat Show on Fat-Bike Radio. All you have to do is be the first caller that can tell us the secret word from the previous week’s show. The secret word from […]
A few years back we ran a Pimp my Pugs contest, where we took the winner’s snow white pugs and made it blanca de blingy! That was back when there were only 4 or 5 fat-bikes to choose from, so for our spring contest, we’re going to turn the tables and pimp your parts with […]
We’ve been teasing this for a couple of weeks on the Weekly Dose of Fat Radio Show so it should be no surprise that we at Fat-bike.com love contests and we love beards! With the cold upon us in most of the country it is time for an IceBeard Contest! The good and kind folks […]
We have a little radio show that we record on Wednesday nights called the Weekly Dose of Fat. Every episode, we have a Special Guest on the show. We’ve had incredible guests like Ned Overend, Rebecca Rusch, Heather Best and Travis Brown from the racing side of things and Greg Matyas, Bill Fleming and Eric […]
We’re in the need of some snow in our neck of the woods, so we’re going to crank up the old fat dash bike dot com contest generator and send out an all points bulletin for all of our readers to put together an entry to win a prize package that can only be referred to […]
…..and the Winners are… We had the winners on our radio show earlier today, but we wanted to give them their own post to show off their entries into our Dog Days of Summer Photo/Video/Secret Word Contest. The winner of the Video Prize Package is Tom Miller and his border collie Mishchka. Tom won everything pictured below. […]
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It’s August! We commonly refer to August as the “Dog Days” of summer in our little slice of fat-bike paradise, so we decided to call our August contest the Dog Days of Summer Photo/Video/Word Contest. There will be 3 prize packages up for grabs and three ways to WIN! We’ll award an awesome prize package to the […]
Yesterday I met up with Zito and Puck and a couple of the port crew to ride Klode beach up to Doctors Park, where Sprecher Brewing and the Milwaukee Parks Department had a mobile beer garden set up. It was a very wet and wild, few miles of beach with about equal time riding and […]
Have any of you seen Sven? He’s on the move and this week’s radio contest is all about where the hell is Sven Haamer! Has Sven headed out to Decorah to get a look at last week’s special guest, (Sov from Surly’s) wasabi green, Ice Cream Truck? Is he headed out to the front range to tour the […]
Sven and I have a new Internet Radio Program called the Weekly Dose of Fat. We have a half dozen shows in the can and we’ve had a little contest going that required contestants to utilize the new voicemail tab to record a funny promo for the show. For some reason or another, we have not […]
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The two winners of the Krampus Photo Contest Are : Janne Peippo & John McNeill! Tell them what they’ve won, Gnomez! Krampus Frame and Fork! Rabbit Hole Rims! 29 x 3+ Knard Tires! Thank you to everyone that entered and a huge thanks to our contest sponsor – Surly Bikes! Stay Tuned […]
ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY JUNE 21st, 2013 Krampus Photo Contest We’ve teamed up with los gauchos del Surly to get you all a chance to win a sparkly new Krampus Frame and Fork! But that’s not all! In addition to the the Krampus frame and fork, we’ll be awarding a pair of Surly’s new […]
Entries must be in by June 21st, 2013 Krampus Photo Contest We’ve teamed up with los gauchos del Surly to get you all a chance to win a sparkly new Krampus Frame and Fork! But that’s not all! In addition to the the Krampus frame and fork, we’ll be awarding a pair of Surly’s new Rabbit Hole Rims […]
Here’s a little video inspiration for our Krampus Photo Contestants! Krampus Photo Contest We’ve teamed up with los gauchos del Surly to get you all a chance to win a sparkly new Krampus Frame and Fork! But that’s not all! In addition to the the Krampus frame and fork, we’ll be awarding a pair of Surly’s new Rabbit […]
Krampus Photo Contest We’ve teamed up with los gauchos del Surly to get you all a chance to win a sparkly new Krampus Frame and Fork! But that’s not all! In addition to the the Krampus frame and fork, we’ll be awarding a pair of Surly’s new Rabbit Hole Rims and if you act now […]
You know what bike mojo is, right? (Fat)-Bike Mojo is the same thing only on a fat-bike! Often attached with zip ties to the handlebar, but regularly strapped, lashed or otherwise attached to other areas of the bike, (Fat)-Bike Mojo is a bit of personality to help make your bike unique and expressive. Plastic cartoon characters, […]
CAPTION CONTEST Tommy from Katwijk, the Netherlands sent us this photo that begs to be captioned. Post your caption and we’ll pick a winner next Friday. The winner will receive a pair of 45NRTH Wool Cycling Socks! Thanks for sharing your fat-bike photo,Tommy! Check out his blog at http://micro-adventures.blogspot.nl/ This Week’s Fat-Bike News Digest http://www.desertchallenge.org/race_reports/results_2012.php – Australia’s Simpson […]
Hey, y’all! I know you are busy and have been meaning to get to this but it is last call now. You’ve got one day left! Midnight CDT tomorrow and this one is closed. (BTW, we will be out on a beach ride but our Interwebs clock will alert us if you try to sneak […]
Hey fat-bikers! We’ve got another contest for you! Our friends at 45NRTH have teamed up with Fat-Bike.com to sponsor our Summer Photo Contest! We want to provide you with a little motivation to get out on your fat-bike to shoot some pictures this summer! All you have to do is send us a photograph that […]
Porter Million is the winner of the Carver Carbon Fat-Bike Fork in our Spring Contest! Porter entered the contest with some prose that came right from the heart. “Fat n’ Fun” She calls me to ride, Her curves hang low and wide. Although a bit heavy in the tail, She soaks up the bumps […]
Win a Carver O’Beast Carbon Fat-Bike Fork by entering our Spring Essay contest! Entries can be written, photo or video or any combination of the three. Entries must be received by May 31st, 2012. Send entries to: info@fat-bike.com. The subject of your entry is to share your personal-favorite, fat-bike friendly bike shop with us anything fat-bike related. […]
Sue from Rockford, Il is the winner in our Pimp My Pug contest! Since getting her Pugsley last September the bike has become Sue’s ride of choice for everything from beach, to snow, to sweet singletrack. She told us that she really doesn’t even ride her full-cush rig anymore and simply LOVES the Pugsley. The […]
Well at least not with out help from one of the fat-bikinest friendly sort of shop, World of Bikes in picturesque Iowa City, Iowa. You already got your color on. You already got your head(set) in the right place. You already got cables and housing. Now it is time for the nerve center of your […]
Get ready cats and catettes, we are slamin’ with more trick gear for that lucky so-and-so who sends us the best story, anecdote, cajole, threat or simply good reason for us to Pimp Your Pug. You already got your color on. You already got your head(set) in the right place. Now direct from James and […]
Did you think that fancy new color for your Pug was all we were going to do to Pimp Your Pug. Not on your life Jose, or Hose-B! We are not done with you by a long sight! Is that stock headset creakin’? That plastic bit squeakin’? Are you feeling like your freakin’? Begin your […]
So you wanna be a playa/But your wheels ain’t fly You gotta hit us up/To get a pimped out ride… Send us a story, sob or otherwise, about why you think we should choose you to have your Fat-Bike pimped up a notch. You can write a story…..add in some photos…..or even make a […]
We all know what you call a group of badgers, and now we’re finally close to finding out ~ what do you call a group of fat-bikes? Click on over to our contest thread and tell us what you think we should call a group of fat-bikes and you might win a sweet Ahearne Cycles Flask and […]
This Month’s fat-bike.com contest asks the question – “What shall we call a group of Fat-Bikes? ~ a shrewdness of apes – a sloth of bears – a clowder of cats – a tribe of goats – a murder of crows ~ and a [{( ? )}] […]
Whoo Hooo! Our first contest! Read all this up in here! Hey! Remember that article about our Fat-Bike.com email Newsletter you may have seen a few days back? Actually, I’m sure some of you did because we’ve had good response to the initial mention BUT, we want MORE! So, to help encourage you mugs to […]
