Will Muecke sent us this photo of Playa Esterillos Oeste on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. September is their rainy season, so this was just after the late-day thunderstorms rolled through and left the sky boiling with heavy clouds. Dusk — just around 530/6PM. Beautiful, briny warm air filled with that post-sunset in Blue […]
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Fat-Bike Costa Rica!
Pura Vida, Fatties! Costa Rica as a Fat Bike Destination Written by – Will Muecke, Team CoreCo Snow is overrated. – Or, perhaps, because now that I am denied long, lovely winters blanketed in the white stuff I react by hiding my true feelings behind a statement that I know is not true. I love […]
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 […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Tropical Borealis?
Our amigo Will from Team CoreCo and La Ruta de los Conquistadores, shot a nice video of a couple of his team riders tearing up some flow trail along with (braaap!) sweet jumps down in Costa Rica on their new Borealis Echos. Makes me wanna go ride! Inspire some Inspiration? Send us your sweet fat-bike vids […]
Race report – 2013 Fat La Ruta – Day 3
Welcome back to continuing coverage of the 2013 Fat La Ruta race from Costa Rica with words and pix provided by Team CoreCo’s Will Muecke. You can look back at Day 1 here and Day 2 here. NO ESCAPING THE HEAT: FAT LA RUTA, DAY 3 (CATIE TO PLAYA BONITA, 120KM, +2,200M ASCENT) Day 3 […]
Race Report – 2013 Fat La Ruta
Friend of fat-bike.com, resident of Costa Rica and leader of Team CoreCo, Will Muecke, wrote over 10,000 words on his experiences racing the La Ruta de los Conquistaodres on a fat-bike, forming the team of fat-bike riders who joined him on the odyssey and the genisis of the idea of attacking this race on a fat-bike […]
Fat-bike Category Announced at La Ruta for 2013
It is now official! Fat-bikes will have their own category at La Ruta de Los Conquistadores in Costa Rica this year from October 24th to 26th, 2013. Billed as “The Toughest Race in the World” the La Ruta has been going on for 20 years and this year you can grab your rig and 3+” […]