Every March we say that we’d really like to go down to the Outer Banks in North Carolina to attend 2017 US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship, but it seems like it’s always in conflict with both NAHBS and the Fat Bike Birkie. So this year we contacted the race director, Shawn Spencer and asked […]
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Event Spotlight – St Fattys Day – March 18-20
Today Sherman, we set the way-back machine to: March 17th of Two Thousand and Twelve – Destination: Gaylord Michigan! Yes – St Fattys Day returns to the fat-bike event radar screen to punctuate the end of the winter (that wasn’t) of sixteen/seventeen. Coming Next Week – It’s Spring!
Fat (video) Tuesday – Aboyne
Our Amigo Illya is back with a clip from the Scottish Highlands. We haven’t shared a Fat Tuesday Video recently, so its always nice to back into the groove! I can think of no better way to get back into the groove, than with a clip from Scotland! Here’s what Illya had to say about […]
RSD Ti Mayor Mid Term Review
People love to complain about the weather and the last couple of winter’s around the midsection of the Great Lakes have been pretty shy on sustainable snow-pack. As I write this (Late February) , my local temperature is forecast to be nearly 70 degrees and we’ve completely lost our base down to the bare dirt. […]
Fat Bike Race After Party Fundraiser – March 11, 2017 – Seeley Wisconsin
Please join the Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Association (CAMBA) for the Fifth Annual Fat Bike Race After Party fundraiser after the Fat Bike Race on Saturday, March 11, 2017. The funds raised at the party will be devoted to expand and improve CAMBA’s winter trail grooming efforts. CAMBA has been grooming close to […]
Product Spotlight – Framed Mini-Sota – By Andy Amstutz
Careful what you wish for, right? I’ve been wanting to get my kids on fat bikes for years. We’ve shopped, priced and measured but simply never have pulled the trigger on one. So who comes to the rescue for a testing session……? Uncle Gomez of course. Just when you think winter is done (with […]
Specialized Turbo Levo vs. Felt Lebowski – By Craig Smith
Since I’ve been an e-Fat-Bike rider since December of 2014, Gomez asked if I could compare my 2015 Felt Lebowske and the 2017 Specialized Turbo Levo HT Comp. The two bikes are almost opposites in many ways. The Felt Lebowske looks like a Fat-Bike with a motor and battery added to the frame, but the […]
Event Spotlight – Hinton Growler – Alberta 2-26-17
Hinton is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada and they’re hosting the first annual Hinton Growler Fat Bike Endurance Race is presented by the Hinton Mountain Bike Association. It is a family friendly event that is held during Hinton’s Winter Magic Festival. THREE ADULT CATEGORIES (AGES 13+, MIXED) : Growler (Expert Class): 3 hours to […]
Fat Camp Show #21- Mid Winter 2017
Fat Camp show #21 is totally non-monumental but as usual, one heck-of-a-listen. Ken and Andy hammer through some recent fat news, Ken blasts riders that post hole groomed trails, Andy reveals a personal tire issue and listener’s emails are discussed. Also, enjoy the snoring dog, Lobo, as he slowly falls asleep during the podcast. Of […]
The 1st European Championship Bicycle Beachrace – by Ian Nicoud
Bicycle Beachracing: Two of These Things Were Not Like the Others The 1st European Championship Bicycle Beachrace Was recently held in my new home country of The Netherlands. I’ve done my share of sand riding on fat bikes with a group of amigos on both the Washington coast and the dunes East of the […]
Mid-Term Review – Terrene Wazia 4.6
This has been one of those winters where I have been pretty darned stoked to be testing studded tires. It seems like every other weekend has been “studded tire only” conditions due to a big melt and freeze cycle. During this time the 4.6″ studded Terrene Wazia tires have become my best friend because they […]
Event Spotlight – Frozen Fat Fondo Festival – February 11, 2017
This week’s Event Spotlight is the Frozen Fat Fondo Festival out along the shores of the mighty Mississippi River. I promised our old friend, Bobby Parker, the full royale with cheese treatment, so we’re sending our best man out there. The Spinner Ryerson, along with Mitch from Revolution Cycles are headed out there to see what, […]
Borealis Flume Review by Dustin Carlson
Borealis Flume Review By Dustin Carlson Do you ever find yourself looking out the kitchen window at a barren wasteland of frozen tundra covered in snow? Do you ever think to yourself, while looking out that window, why can’t it be spring, so I can start riding my bike again? If this sounds like you, […]
Framed PUB Carbon Big Ride Wheelset Review – by Andy Amstutz
I’m a convert. They’re worth the money. The kids might not have the warmest boots and the wife might not have the biggest diamond, but doggone it, I will have a carbon wheelset for my fat-bike. And this set won’t break the bank so the fam will still have food on the table. […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Fat-Bike Worlds in Crested Butte
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 […]
Event Spotlight – Sweaty Yeti
Race the best groomed fat-bike trails in Wisconsin, Levis Mounds! According to the race flyer, this is the Premier Midwest Fatbike Race (even though they misspelled Fat-Bike). You can click the race flyer to go to the event web page or visit Bike Reg to go directly to register for the event and, possibly, star in […]
Burley Flat Bed Trailer Review – Part 2 – Skis and Fatties
One of the great things about a fat bike is that they can do work. Just because carbon bikes exist doesn’t mean you have to race, and trailers aren’t just for toddlers and groceries anymore. When you want to do things, sometimes you gotta haul stuff. If you want to do things in the snow, Burley […]
Qloom Winter Apparel Review by K8
Winter riding just got a little sweeter while dressed in Qloom’s Cayley Pant and Jacket. It’s as if someone who really knew their shiznitz from cycling, sailing and skiing and put it all together in one product line… oh wait they did ! Success ! Its sealed nice and sweet so the elements stay […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – JP’s Parade of Bikes
We’ve published a series of articles about the bikes that our reader’s ride, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone that has quite the list of bikes that JP shared with us. It’s not that JP has a huge stable of bikes, there are many others that have more bikes in the shed than […]
Mid-Term Check-In: Vittoria Cannoli
I sit here and write this while psyching myself up for another 3-4 hour ride of breaking trail on the Cannolis. It has been a good winter here on the west coast of the northern lower peninsula of Michigan and we have already gotten over 5′ of snowfall. We got the okay from the National […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – “Fat and Furious” (Fatbike Backflip)
Damjan Siriški dropped us a line and shared this week’s FvT feature presentation filmed in the Czech Republic. I like the cookie monster thrash and Damjan has got the skills to pay the bills! Enjoy! Send Uncle Gomez a Picture Post Card (if you like stickers) Give us your sweet, your awesome, Your fantastic pixels, yearning to […]
Event Spotlight – Big Fat Race – 1/22/17
Up North in the Chequamegon National Forest, there’s a race coming up that sez it’s a different kind of race. You can click the race flyer to go to the event web page or click HERE to go directly to register for the event. If you go, let us know what was different and stuff. The Event Calendar […]
May I Assist You? Specialized Turbo Levo Fat Review – by Craig Smith
I was very interested in testing the new Specialized Turbo Levo HT Comp Fat bike for a couple of reasons. I’ve been riding a Felt Lebowske e-fat-bike since December of 2014 and I wanted to see how the e-technology has changed in two years. And I was also curious to try a hardtail again. […]
Happy Fat 2017 from the Beaches of North Carolina by Amy “Beach Belle” Mossman
Ed – This is the first chapter in a series of articles about life at the beach, written by an old friend. What would you do with the freedom to roam? Amy moved to the beach along with her fat-bike. The series will explore the endless smiles of beach and yes….tomfoolery….along the gorgeous Atlantic coast of […]
Bontrager Gnarwhal TLR – 27.5 x 4.5 Studded Tire
It’s not very often, that we need to borrow a fat-bike to test a fat-bike tire, but it’s happened before with super fat sized tires and the litany of new wheel/hub and tire choices has created a similar situation at times. This time it was Trek’s new 27,5 fat wheel size that created the need […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Door County, WI
This is a photo of my Schlick Tatanka taken during a trip I took to Door County, The Thumb of Wisconsin, in 2013 when the water level of Lake Michigan was substantially lower than it is now. All the moonscape that is visible here is now under 1 to 3 feet of water. With the […]
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Tyninghame Beach Ride – by Coastkid
It’s been too long since we shared one of Bruce’s awesome beach videos, so today, we take a step in the right direction and present a clip that stars both the beach and the wind on the Scottish coast in nature’s sweet fury. Bruce has been kind enough to share his fat-bike adventures with us […]
First Look – Otso Voytek
It is kind of funny, last year/season we saw a flood of similar “me-to” fat bikes from manufacturers trying to jump on the fat bike bandwagon. Everyone seemed to want to pile on the fat bike craze. From those heady times, we have seen some really interesting and fresh bikes emerge for the 2017 season. […]
Event Spotlight – Fatter By the Lake 5 – Fat-Bike Radio – This Weekend!
Have you been meaning to see what all the fuss is about beach riding? Here’s your chance to go and ride some great beach and meet some cool peeps. Come early and watch the new WDoF cast carve fat-bike radio out of a solid block of colby-jack cheese with live music and guys talking into a […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Fat Bike Super Cut
Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot, Dustin Carlson put together what he’s calling the “Fat-Bike Supercut”…..some people call it a kaiser blade……I call it a slingblade. Three out of four dentists recommend that you hit play and read the very few words of the man, his own bad self…. I can’t express enough how much fun […]
Event Spotlight – 2017 Badger State Games – Hammer in the Hills Fat Bike Race
Check out the 2nd Annual Badger State Games – Hammer in the Hills Fat Bike Race. I think thats the freak’n longest race name that we’ve ever spotlighted! If you’re a cliff notes, sort of person, you can click the race flyer to go to the event web page or click HERE to go directly to register […]
Product Spotlight 2017 Fatback Rhino FLT – by Travis Hubbard
In late October Gomez reached out to me with the proposition of testing the Fatback Rhino FLT, my immediate answer was a resounding “Hell Yeah”! Having the opportunity to test a Fatback in Alaska, during winter, was an exciting proposition. I got the call in late November to swing by Speedway Cycles in Anchorage […]
First Look – 2017 Borealis Flume – by Dustin Carlson
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 […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Everybody wants to Get a Lil’ Rad
A couple of years ago, we predicted that kids fat-bikes might reach Stingray or PK Ripper status for the current generation of grommets. I don’t keep my finger on the pulse of what’s cool for grade schoolers, but if I’m reading the tea leaves of the cycling interwebz correctly, there’s a 32% chance that we did’t […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Frensham
Tomorrow is the first day of Winter on the earth’s northern hemisphere, so that make’s this Yule’s Eve; or as your favorite cable TV meteorologist might refer to as the winter solstice. I like to say it’s the shortest day of the year (even though each day is 24 hours long, more or less). The […]
Race Report – California Fat Bike Championships – by Bev Brown
The California State Fat Bike Championships were held on December 10th, 2016 at the Rim Nordic Bike Park in Running Springs, Calif., just west of Big Bear Lake. It is the home of Rim Nordic Ski Area which is a cross country ski area in the winter season. The weather was cool & crisp, […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Snow Fun in Scotland by Illya Rudkin
This month I have chosen the first video I made of my fat-bike. It was the first big ride on my new bike apart from the ride around the block just to be sure nothing fell off. I had just finished building the bike 2 weeks earlier back in February 2016. I had only […]
Bluto Vs. Wren – Suspension Fork Shootout – by Dustin Carlson
Fat bikes are still, somewhat of a niche right now. A byproduct of this is a lack of choices for fat bike specific components. Case in point, air suspension forks. It seems like there are a lot of choices (on paper) with Olaf, RST, Bluto & The fork of many names, but there can […]
The Surly Big Fat Dummy
Back in September, I visited the QBP corporate campus in sunny Bloomington MN, for an opportunity to meet and talk with Surly’s product development team about a project that’s been in the pipeline for quite some time. I learned of the existence of the Big fat Dummy project about the time that the Ice […]
Foto Gordo – FYF-GFBD-EVE!
We get to share some really cool stuff here, but Global Fat-Bike Day really seems to bring out the very best of fun on bikes, from all around the world. This shot was sent to us from Greenland from Jesper Regin Christensen and it contains real GFBD Holiday Magic! Hi Gomez I talked to […]
Event Spotlight – The Freewheel Winter Bike Expo – MPLS MN
If you want to see the latest fat-bike hardware and talk to experts about winter camping or racing, this is where you need to be this weekend. Check out all the details at www.winterbikeexpo.com! ATTN: RACE DIRECTORS – Send us a race Flyer! Register your Race. Festival, Demo or Group Ride on the Fat-Bike.com Event Calendar then […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Big Eau Pleine – Stickers? Contest!
Big Eau Pleine (BEP) is one of my favorite little spots in Central ‘Sconsin. It’s a Marathon County Park that’s situated on a peninsula that juts out into the Big Eau Pleine Reservoir on the Wisconsin River. It looks somewhat like the Korean Pennisula in 1/250th scale. I’ve always dreamed of winter camping there […]
Quick Review of the Bearclaw Balthazar as a 29+ Bike
Bearclaw Bike Co. is a name that many people may not be familiar with but I am guessing if you follow the fat bike race scene (in Michigan) it will be a name you start to see a whole lot more. The first offering from Bearclaw is the Balthazar and it is an unapologetic race […]
Global Fat-Bike Day and The Art of Bicycle Chillification
With all of the growth that we’ve experienced in the world wide fat-bike tribe in the last five years, we have lot’s of new fat-bikers that might be looking down the barrels of their first Global Fat Bike Day celebration. Like all holidays, GFBD has traditions, so we thought that we’d share some of the […]