FatBikes
New Pivot Les Fat
It’s been about a year since I visited the Bicycle Doctor to check out the 2021 Pivot Les Fat. (Now I work there part-time) When I showed up to work last week, there was a […]
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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 […]
Events
Event Spotlight – The Leadville Winter Mountain Bike Series
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 […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday – #fatbackbikes #denali #tonightsthenight #Iditarodtrail
[adrotate banner=”38″] Our longtime amigo and contributor Kevin Breitenbach sent me a few shots under the heading “gnome hunting near the Alaska Range”. Kevin took this amazing shot of fellow Fatback riders, Tim Berntson and […]
Events
Event Spotlight – Lake MacBride Fat Tire Classic – March 3rd, 2018
[adrotate banner=”192″] This is a first-year event out in Iowa that looks like a real hoot! We used to have a Bike Black Ribbon Chapter out in Iowa, but they’re all in jail old farts now. The […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday – Truckee California
[adrotate banner=”38″] This week’s wallpaper image comes to us from Scott Berelson and it’s a bit of a “Where’s Waldo?”….or maybe Where’s Dora? We’ll let Scott explain in his own words. I recently took […]
Events
906 POLAR ROLL RACE REPORT – by Leia Schneeberger
The 906 Polar Roll is the final race of the Great Lakes Fat Bike Series. It’s advertised as a 35 Mile race (Actually 41, Thanks Todd) which starts on the main street of Marquette Michigan. This has taken the […]
Events
Event Spotlight – Sweaty Yeti – Levis Mound Trail Center – Feb. 23-25, 2018
[adrotate banner=”192″] If you’re looking for an event that has retained it’s ‘old-school’ vibe from the golden age of Wisconsin Fat-Bike Racing, you’ve found your event with the Sweaty Yeti. The lemans start […]
FatBikes
2018 Kona Wozo Review – by Aristotle Peters
[adrotate banner=”192″] I’ve spent the past few months aboard the 2018 Kona Wozo, a bike that is designed as an all-season, aggressive, hardtail that happens to have fat tires. This bike hasn’t seen much […]
Events
Event Spotlight – Fat Forest Fourteen – 2/17/2018 – MI
[adrotate banner=”192″] The Triple F Fourteen, two-thousand eighteen is happening on February seventeen. Just click the flyer to be whisked directly to the grimba.org webpage. You can tell by the look in the eye of […]
Components
Surly Edna 26 x 4.3 Review by Ron Stawicki
[adrotate banner=”192″] Getting Dirty With Edna Few bike parts can affect a bikes fun factor like tires. You can roll with a generic stem or hubs and I doubt it’ll ruin your day […]
FatBikes
Product Spotlight – 2018 Salsa Mukluk Carbon GX Eagle – By Travis Hubbard
Mukluk – (noun) muk·luk \ ˈmək-ˌlək \ a soft winter boot traditionally made of reindeer or seal skin originally worn by Arctic aboriginal people of Alaska. Mukluks weigh little and allow hunters to move quietly. I received word recently from […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday – Big M by KBS
[adrotate banner=”38″] This week’s WW really ties the whole room together, man…..if you’re into what we have coming up later this week. Our longtime Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot and the C0-Host of the Fat Camp […]
Events
Event Spotlight Badger State Games (WI) 1/20/18
Wausau Wisconsin hosts the 2018 Badger State Games and the Fat-Bike Race in on January 20th. Details on how to get registered are up on the event webpage. Central Wisconsin has great fat-bike riding opportunities […]
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 […]
FatBikes
Product Spotlight – 2018 Kona WoZo – By Aristotle Peters
Happy Winter to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere! I am especially happy this year because I have the pleasure of reviewing the 2018 Kona Wozo. This bike checks all the boxes on my holiday wish […]
Videos
Fat (video) Tuesday – Heli-Fat Iceland
My new amigo Magne Kvam sent us this week’s video all the way from Iceland. You’ve probably seen Heli-Ski adventure in a Warren Miller film, so it’s only natural that Heli-Fat-Biking would be next, right? Magne’s […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday – Doublepond
[adrotate banner=”38″] Peter De Mattia sent us this week’s Wallpaper feature from Northern New Jersey. This is what he shared with us about his image. Here is a photo I took of my 2014 […]
Destinations
JayP’s Fat Pursuit 60K Summary – by Smithhammer
[adrotate banner=”213″] It is the evening before the start of JayP’s “Fat Pursuit” 60k race. The tribe is trickling into the pub at the Pond’s Lodge in Island Park, Idaho. Many of us know each […]
Videos
Fat Video Tuesday 2017 Simpson Desert Challenge!
[adrotate banner=”213″] Eckart Altenkamp is the winner of this year’s edition of the 2017 Simpson Desert Bike Challenge and he sent us an update on this year’s event. Echart shared “We only had 12 […]
FatBikes
Borealis Aspen Crestone – Photo Spread – by David Kreuger
Ed ~ We would usually publish this sort of article under our ‘Reader’s Ride(s)’ category, but Dave is the Head writer for the Black Ribbon Bike Hour and one of our veteran Test Pilots. Dave’s […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday – Winter is Here!
[adrotate banner=”38″] The calendar says that Winter doesn’t officially start until next week but in the French Alps…and here in Wisconsin, Jacque Frost is painting the landscape with ice and snow! Our Wallpaper features […]
Bike Culture
Event Spotlight – Surly Masher – MPLS – 2/3/18
[adrotate banner=”192″] When the bike world and the beer world align under a banner that reads SURLY, you know that unlike most watered down, new school, fat-bike events that go down these days, there’ll be […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday – Xtra-Fat
[adrotate banner=”38″] I spied this photo as part of the incredibly huge wave of photos and videos that came in from the Global Fat Bike Celebrations that took place this past weekend. I tracked down […]
Videos
Fat (video) Tuesday – Fairbanks Alaska
Our amigo Jeff Gillmore shared a clip, shot by his buddy Clint on his first snow ride up in Fairbanks. Fairbanks is home to a who’s who of Fat-Bike celebrities, like Tupper Becker and Jeff […]
Beach Riding
Wallpaper Wednesday – Crust Ride
[adrotate banner=”38″] I shot this back in 2014 at one of the best beach crust rides that I’ve ever experienced. The rider is David Mulder and the location is Port Washington, Wisconsin. Download the image […]
Destinations
Wallpaper Wednesday – Chill Out – (in a Fat-Bike Daydream)
[adrotate banner=”38″] Felipe Civita sent us a couple of shots from a 3-day hut trip to Elk Lakes Cabin in British Columbia. The picture above was taken by K.Orriely (with Felipe riding), and the shot below […]
Videos
Fat Video Tuesday – Heartbreak Ridge – by Illya Rudkin
Heartbreak Ridge Ballater – Sublime ice age granite ridge You know when you think you know a place? A place which is a few hours away from home but you have ridden there enough times […]
Radio
The Dose of Fat Podcast – Show #129
[adrotate banner=”141″] Show #129! The new crew, Leia,Gomez & Spinner, are back in the posh Midwest Family Marketing Studios in beautiful Madison Wisconsin, for about an hour of conversation that revolves around plus and fat-bike […]
Beach Riding
Bikes, a Boat & maybe a Goat – A Traveling Fat-Bike Side Show
A couple decades back, my friend Cale and I started a bike gang called the Bike Black Ribbon Society and over the years BBR established chapters all over the US. When we started to need […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday – Train Trestles, Tunnels and Fat Tires
[adrotate banner=”38″] Our old friend Cpl. Jeffrey McFarland of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police emailed us some beautiful shots from a bike trip, that he took to British Columbia. If Jeff’s orange Foes Mutz looks […]
FFF
Foto Gordo – Tasmania
[adrotate banner=”38″] This week’s wallpaper comes from our long time amigo and photo contributor, Ross Cairns! The photo was taken near Latta on the North Coast of Tasmania on a bikepacking trip that Ross […]
Components
First (& Second) Look – Surly Edna 26 x 4.3 Tire
Our amigos at Surly recently added a new fat-bike tire to a legendary list of names like Bud & Lou – Nate – Larry and now……Edna! I’m a fan of the name, because of my […]
Events
The Hugh Jass Fat Bike Series – Starts October 7th!
I know the frost is barely on the pumpkin, but that isn’t putting a dent is the enthusiasm for fat-bike racing here in America’s Dairyland. Our friends over at Wheel and Sprocket just announced their […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday – “Le Coquibus”
[adrotate banner=”38″] Ahh….the French Countryside in Autumn. Today, we set the wayback machine to the year 2012 and take a sample from our voluminous archives. Our destination is the Fontainebleau Forest, in France, for this […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)
Product Spotlight – Maxxis 27.5 x 3.8 Minion FBF/FBR Tires
We’re checking out a pair of Maxxis 27.5 x 3.8 Minion FBF & FBR tires. These are the tires that are coming on the new Salsa Beargrease complete bikes for 2018, so we thought it […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)
2018 Heller Bloodhound Trail – 27.5 Fat Mountain Bike
[adrotate banner=”192″] Heller made a bold departure from their 2017 Bloodhound, and set their sights on building a fat (mountain) bike. The result is the 2018 Heller Bloodhound Trail, that made it’s debut at […]
Radio
The Dose of Fat – Show #128 – New Cast with Special Guest Joe Meiser from Salsa
[adrotate banner=”141″] Presents It’s the Vernal Equinox Episode of the Dose of Fat Podcast. The Weekly and then Occasional and now roughly ‘monthly’ – Dose of Fat is our first and most prolific podcast that […]
FatBikes
2018 Fatback Corvus FLT News Release
We’ve been waiting for this news since Greg and Fuzzy told us that Fatback would be making a Black on Black Corvus FLT, all the way back at Sea Otter in April of this year. […]
Beach Riding
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Polish Hill Climb
Today we’re proud to play a role as the international house of fat-bikes aka: fat-bike dot com and this week’s fat-Tuesday clip , comes to us from the Błędowska Desert in Poland. Makes me think […]
FatBikes
ELEVEN Bike Review by Nick Holzem
[adrotate banner=”192″] The test bike from Eleven, that I’ve been riding is a dirt jump inspired fatty with a (Made in the USA) aluminum frame and our rig came equipped with a high end parts […]
Gallery
Wallpaper Wednesday ♦ OG Pug & the Maah Daah Hey
[adrotate banner=”38″] This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes straight out of the high plains of North Dakota from Barb Curtis. This is Barb’s OG Purple Pugsley out on the Maah Daah Hey Trail. Her sweet steel pug […]
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 […]
Bike Culture
Fat (video) Tuesday – Round Square Adventures Mongolia – By Kirsten Scully
FATBIKE ADVENTURE THROUGH TAVAN BOGD NATIONAL PARK, ALTAI MOUNTAINS, WESTERN MONGOLIA The first time I went to Mongolia was 4 years ago. As a photographer, I had long wanted to visit the far western part […]