John Moore from England took this shot at a UK Fat-Bike Gathering, last year in Northumberland. Feel free to download it and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the image to open the full-sized […]
Last December, I received my Surly Moonlander and since then…I’ve done my best to ride the hell out of it. Snow, sand, mud, slurm and salt, all ridden, without a care in the world. Due […]
Our fellow ‘Cheesehead’ Michael Lemberger took this shot of his friend, Johnny Settle riding his brand new Fatback, out on Lake Monona last January. Feel free to download it and use it as your own wallpaper. Just […]
Jeroen’s Custom FatTi BR – by Jeroen Oomkens A short introduction of the builder of this bike, he’s a guy from the Netherlands, and yes, that’s the country which is really flat. So why go fat? […]
We’ve been searching for the paramount, “how to’ video for going tubeless on a fatty, and our South Pacific Bureau Chief (Wayne Chapman) sent me this ‘how to’ instructional video, put together by two of his mates that race […]
Our long time amigo Ricky deLeyos is featured in this week’s WW on his custom Vertigo Cycles Fat-Bike. Ricky has a Lefty, in addition to the Black Sheep Faith Fork that he’s running in the […]
Bruce the ‘coastkid‘ lent his go-pro to his close friend B.F. Larry and this well scored, short film speaks for itself. We hope you enjoy the ride! We’d love to see what your tires experience? […]
Last Friday, Sven and I met up with Jason and Eric (E-Fred) Fredrickson of Salsa Cycles at Rock Cut State Park on the “sweeping pampas” of Illinois! Jason had emailed me the generous offer to […]
Our amigo Puck is the Super-Dave of fat-bikes. Summer’s days are numbered and it’s beginning to look a lot like fat-mas at the fat-bike television recording studios in beautiful downtown Milwakee! In case you haven’t heard…45NRTH came […]
…continued from part one DAY TWO We awoke to a sunrise that looked remarkably similar to the hazey Mars sunset from the previous evening. After some oatmeal for breakfast, we loaded our packs and headed […]
An interesting clip that compares a standard mtb, a 4″ pugs and a 5″ moonie on semi-crusted wettish snow. I wonder what the tire pressures were set at? Oh!…..and you might want to mute the […]
About a year ago, I started to dream about a multi-day beach riding trip in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Someone from my past life had told me tales of how Lake Michigan ended as a […]
[{(wiki-wiki-whirr )}]- what do you do in your driveway? Let’s hear from every driveway in America? If you’ve got a fat-bike related image that you feel is “Fat (Video) Tuesday” worthy, slap a link in […]
Here’s a reader’s ride – slash review – slash bed-time story, from one of my ride buddies that I started riding with, back when Cannondale’s mtb’s used to have 24″ rear wheels (over 25 years […]
Fat Cats in the dog days of summer – it’s freak’n August! The news desk heated up this week with several stories coming across the wire(less) that should keep you enthralled and hopefully have you […]
Our homeboy Craig sent us a shot of his Moonlander along side Sue’s White Wedding Pimp my Pug project on a slice of beach we know very well, here in the big whiskey. Feel free […]
Yann from Salemandre Cycles just sent us a shot of a Fat-Packing Experimental Prototype that he’ll be personally testing on a 3 day trip this week. Look for a full report coming soon!
My first visit to Central District Cyclery was last winter on rainy February afternoon. I was on a whirlwind tour that took me to 616, CDC and Quiring Cycles. CDC is right in the center […]
http://www.chequamegon100.com/ This sounded like a bad idea. Believe it or not, earlier this Spring I was sitting around behind a bike shop drinking beer and talking about bikes. The conversation started getting into Single […]
Eric Sovern introduces us to Krampus – ala choy
Ward and some friends met up last October in the Pacific Northwest for some fat-bike fun! Share your corner of the world with our readers! If you’ve got a fat-bike related clip that you feel […]
This week’s fat-bike video is from Gary Buckham – aka – Pugsley on Patrol. This is how Gary describes his clip… Day trip on the Surly Pugsley to the island of Lindisfarne, off the […]
As you read this, mi amigo James and I are starting a fat-packing trip from Whitefish Point to Grand Marais in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. James will be testing some Oveja Negra bags on our 3 […]
This is a video from Bart van Schendel riding his Pugsley at the ski area in Voss-Norway. Bart is our first contributor from Norway! BvS shared with F-B dot com that this footage was shot […]
2012-13 Fat-Bike Race Schedule! If you have an event that you would like to promote, we invite you to email us at info@fat-bike.com, so we can add your event to our comprehensive fat-bike event […]
Mike Taylor Chronicles the first month of riding his new custom painted pugsley around (where else?) – Scotland! Got your own fatbike video? If you’ve got a fat-bike related image that you feel is “Fat (Video) […]
John from Old Man Mountain sent us two of their racks to test on the front of K8’s Pugsley and a variety of Sven’s Fat-Fork configurations. Sven has all the coolest toys. Their newest generation Pioneer front rack […]
Fat-bike beach riding isn’t always peaches and cream. Sometimes you ride the beach…and sometimes the beach wears you like a prison jumpsuit. Last month, Sven, Puck and I went to explore a new section of […]
Four of us rode the High Speed Ferry from Milwaukee to Muskegon last week to meet up with some Michigan amigos to enjoy 3 days of beach riding. We left our cars behind and spent […]
We just returned from another Michigan beach riding excursion, where we were treated to a sneak peak of 616’s new fat tandem. Talk about an attention getter! Aaron Joppe, from 616, was kind enough to […]
We always keep our eyes peeled for new and emerging talent in the industry. In the case of Kristofer Henry and 44 Bikes, it was Kristofer’s graphic design work that led us to this incredible story […]
Cool off with a little glacial blue ice, in this week’s Fat (Video) Tuesday selection, shot on Knik Glacier. Knik Glacier is located on the northern edge of Alaska’s Chugach mountains. It’s over 28 miles long […]
The next stop on our tour of Michigan’s western shore takes place at another beautiful State Park. Silver Lake State Park was repeatedly mentioned in my research materials as a visual gem and ‘not to […]
Finally it’s time to introduce some of the fatbikes found here in Finland. There are probably close to 50 fatbikes in all, and quite many of the owners are active in the Finnish bicycling forum, […]
Finland’s geographical location means that there is usually good snow conditions in the winter time. If you really want something special, head to Lapland where hunderds of miles of snowmobile tracks can be found. And […]
The fatbike boom has landed on other countries too. In this three part series I take a look how fatbiking has progressed in my home country, Finland. The country’s location in Northern Europe means that […]
Well my goal last fall was to build up a rig I’d never ridden before and could tinker with over the season. I wanted something light for the base and play around after that. Build […]
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