Bikepacking
Bivvy a Month Challenge #11
Fat Bike Snowdon #BAMfatbike2018 I must admit, I’ve not been ‘feeling it’ the last few months when it came to getting out and that probably showed by the last 3 BAM’s being on the […]
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Wallpaper Wednesday ♦ 7/25/18
[adrotate banner=”38″] 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 […]
Bikepacking
Bivvy a Month Challenge #6
A Quick Getaway June’s bivvy a month is the halfway mark in this year of adventures. The month of the summer solstice is the main night for spending a night under the stars but as […]
Bike Culture
Coast to Coast Bikepacking Michigan’s Mitten – By Andy Amstutz
[adrotate banner=”192″] Not many people drive across Michigan. It’s not on the way to anywhere. It’s the anti-Iowa in the way that I’ve driven through Iowa a dozen times to get to a destination but never […]
Bikepacking
The Shadow of Ausangate By Iohan Gueorguiev
[adrotate banner=”192″] It has been almost 5 months here in Peru and just like any other long stay like that I had the urge to change country, scenery, and experience. Eventually, the constant up […]
Bikepacking
Put Faith in Your Fatbike – by Daniel Smith
[adrotate banner=”192″] Within the first hour of our five-day bikepacking trip through the White Mountains, north of Fairbanks, we shared the trail with skiers, snowmachiners, one dog team, and a flock of fellow fat-bikers. […]
Accessories
SkiPulk Fat-Bike Pulk Kit Review by -JP Syverud-
[adrotate banner=”192″] Last January we introduced you to the SkiPulk FatBike Pulk Kit. The version we received in the test lab came with the original orange Paris pulk, a black Paris duffle bag, a […]
Accessories
Oveja Negra – Bootlegger – Direct Mount Fork Bags
We’ve been enjoying a set of Bootlegger Fork Bags from our old friends from Oveja Negra. The Bootlegger has a two-liter capacity and is a perfect fit for a Nalgene water bottle inside of a […]
Bike Black Ribbon
The Bonus Bivvy
Well, it’s our last post of 2017 and instead of looking back on a pretty crazy year, let’s talk about what the plan is for the New Year! Our amigo, Jeff Price, over in the […]
Bikepacking
Fat (video) Tuesday – Two Bothy Tour – by Illya Rudkin
[adrotate banner=”213″] We had a week at Ballater in the highlands of Scotland. It was an opportunity to complete a route intended for the bikepacking weekend trip up Glen Tilt earlier in the year. […]
Bikepacking
The Salsa Blackborow – Mid Tail Adventure Platform
The big surprise at Saddledrive this Summer was the new Salsa Blackborow. Not the same Blackborow that Sven raved about in years past. This is a new mid-tail fat cargo bike that might look […]
Site News
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Cairngorm Tour 3 (Scotland) – By Illya Rudkin
Fatbike Cairngorm Tour 3. This is the third weekend sortie exploring another glen called Glen Edendon. Like the first tour up Glen Tilt (https://youtu.be/dh5QS2MJ0_o) it runs from the southern edge of the Cairngorms north. The […]
Videos
Fat (video) Tuesday – August Beach Bivy
[adrotate banner=”114″] John Moore has been a contributor, all the way back to the beginning of our little internet experiment in fat-bikes. John’s first contributions were beautiful still photographs and today include videography. There are times […]
Bike Culture
Nicaragua Volcano Vision – by Damien Artero
[adrotate banner=”114″] It takes a vision. Life does, and any creative project needs one, I reckon. Upon launching myself and my friend Tibo into this fat-bike adventure on the volcanos of Nicaragua, my vision […]
Beach Riding
Outer Hebrides Fat Bike Tour by Jeff Price
[adrotate banner=”114″] The Outer Hebrides are a formation of islands off the North West coast of Scotland which are joined by causeways and ferries. Since Bruce (Coastkid) put the idea in my head to […]
Videos
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Mid Wales
[adrotate banner=”114″] It looks like four season fat-biking has taken hold in Wales. Our European Bureau Cheif, Jeff Price, lives and rides his McSalasa MukLuk all up the Welsh countryside, and now we have […]
Accessories
Apidura Half Frame Bag & Food Pouch Review by Jeff Price
Apidura has appeared on Fat-Bike.com a couple of times now, but this particular review, features one of their new products, The Food Pouch. The concept is really simple, it’s an extra pocket that easily attaches to […]
Accessories
New Product Release – Surly 8-Pack Rack / 24-Pack Rack
[adrotate banner=”133″] Those mad-cap rebelz up at Surly have been busy making more cool stuff for us to play with and bolt onto the old sled this winter! The 8-pack and (triple-wide) 24-Pack racks […]
Beach Riding
Foto Gordo – Big Fat Hurt
[adrotate block=”7″] Joshua Macpherson sent us a shot from the mapping stage of the Big Fat Hurt. Josh was joined by riders, Brad Mertens and Ross Cairns, near Myall Lakes, New South Wales, Austalia. This is our way of […]
Beach Riding
The Point to Point Beach Ride
[adrotate banner=”133″] 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 […]
Accessories
Barfly Bags – Banana Hammock
By Michael McColgan I’m a big fan of the Jones Loop bar, there’s one on my Krampus and my Pugsley. And whenever I’m fortunate enough to abuse, I mean test, a new fatty I […]
Accessories
Apidura bike bags – Review
Bike-packing is growing in popularity and the bike bag market is exploding. There are loads of brands to choose from and many of them are custom-fit so they can work on all kinds of bikes. […]
Bike Culture
The ITI from Kathi Merchant, race director Iditarod Trail Invitational in Alaska
Written by Kathi Merchant, Race Director, Iditarod Trail Invitational The Iditarod Trail Invitational race, the qualifiers to get into this by invitation only race and the annual ITI winter training camps in Alaska. When I […]
Videos
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Snowy North Wales
Our man in Wales, Jeff Price sent in his latest bivy-quest with a distinct winter flair. This is what Jeff had to share with us about the clip. As snowfall in Wales can usually […]
Ride Report
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Llyn Alwen
Our man Jeff Price is back to show us another slice of why the UK is such a hot-bed of fat-bike fun! You may remember that Jeff made a promise to himself to get out […]
Videos
Fat Video Tuesday ♦ August Welsh Bivvy
Last week we introduced you to Jeff ‘summittoppler’ Price and his once a month bivvy-quest. Well this week we’re sharing the August version of his year of monthly bivvys! Here’s what Jeff had to say […]
Beach Riding
Not a Wallpaper Wednesday ♦ Mirror Mirror
[adrotate banner=”38″] 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 […]
Fattie Approved
New Zealand – Godley Valley – Fatpack
We’re pleased to welcome back Kevin Higgins. Kevin is our correspondent from Alexandra, NZ which is an hour from Queenstown and Wanaka, and surrounded by epic riding! Kevin was born and raised in San Jose, California but now lives […]
Videos
Fat (video) Tuesday – Tundra Muffins
Any video with Musk Oxen is money, in my world. Francois Carrier Deziel and his amigo Guillaume Bedard took their fat-bikes out to what locals call Dry Bay, near Ungava Bay for an overnight fat-pack. […]
Videos
Independence Day Fat Video!
It’s Sven’s Birthday and Independence Day (my favorite holiday) so we took the day off and let our euro-amigos take over the site with a “behind-the-scenes” quick edit of a film, shot in Lapland this […]
Accessories
Product Spotlight – Apidura Ultra-Light Cycling Bags
Apidura is a new UK Brand that makes ultra-light cycling bags for bike-packing and we just received three bags from them, to test and share with our readers. The first thing I noticed about these new bags were […]
Videos
Fat (video) Tuesday – Ancient Lakes
Rusty Knorr sent us his second video that we’ve shared here on fat dash bike dot com. Rusty and his amigo, John, went on a Sub 24 overnight in Washington State. This is what he had […]
Winter Riding
Chasing Winter – Part 2
….Continued from Part 1 A Fatbike Tale By : Eyk Deutschmann The night was long and cold in soaking wet blankets while the temperature dropped furthermore to 18°C below zero inside the tent. The following morning […]
FatBikes
Chasing Winter – Part 1
[adrotate banner=”98″] A Fatbike Tale By : Eyk Deutschmann Once upon a time two splendid looking young fellows spent their lazy summer eves, hatching the utmost, astonishing plan. And this is their story: Both of the […]
Reader's Rides
Amazing Fat (bike) Kid from New Zealand
Kelvin Arthur from Massey University gave us the ‘heads up’ about a 10 year old boy, named Mac, and his dad riding the length of the North Island of NZ (about 1300km/800+ miles) on their Pugsleys to […]
Videos
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 […]
Accessories
Alaska – Episode 4 – Revelate Designs
This is the final Episode in our Alaska Series (till we return)…In this segment we share a visit that I had with Eric Parsons at Revelate Designs. We’ll also show you Revelate’s new Williwaw Pogies along […]
Ride Report
Southern Comfort Tour De Fat – 1st Ride Report
Shawne Camp is taking a 1600 mile long road trip on his fatty and along the way he’s checking in with us. Here’s his first message to us from from the outer banks! […]
Site News
FBC’s Night at the Movies – Fat Bike (2009)
Fat-Bike.com is proud to present the 2009 documentary ‘Fat Bike’ by Carl Battreall! Carl’s film can always be found on our Fat-Bike History page accessed under the “Resources” Tab at the top of the home page.
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Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Manistee
Ken Blakey-Shell and Scott Quiring, of Quiring Cycles, have been exploring some local Off Road Vehicle (ORV) trails on their fat bikes and it turns out they are really, really fun. Ken shared the following description […]
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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 […]
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Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Bikepacking the Owyhee Uplands
Aileen Frey sent us a great video, but I have to warn you ahead of time, that there’s skinny bikes mixed in with fat-bikes, wild horses and a beautiful snake. The Frey’s and some friends toured […]
Ride Report
Pack your Fatty and ‘Run Away From Home’
Do you ever want to get on your bike and ‘Run Away From Home’? Do you look at the photos of gorgeous beaches, mountains and forests that we share on Fat-Bike and dream about strapping some […]
Site News
Fat VIDEO Tuesday ~ A Midwinter Night
The video was filmed by Peter Nylund and features Peter and Toni Lund (www.tonilund.fi). You can check out Peter’s blog at (www.yetirides.com) Share your video with the rest of World Wide Fat-Bike Tribe! If you’ve got a […]