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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
Our friend, Kirsten Scully, from Round Square Adventures is back with her second Fat Tuesday feature. This week’s clip is a stunning video from the Altai Mountains in Western Mongolia, where Kirsten guides adventure tours utilizing […]
[adrotate banner=”38″] Steve Olson sent us a shot of photo of his Moonlander at sunset on the trails at Strawberry Pass near Rossland B.C. Canada. Download the image and use it as your own wallpaper. Just […]
A last minute change of plans saw a window of opportunity open up for me to get out in the hills of Snowdonia (Wales, UK) for an overnighter. I had a place in mind as […]
[adrotate banner=”192″] Get your holidays started out on the right foot at the Pie Burner Fat Bike Ride and Toys for Tots (toy drive) up in the Iron Range in Minnesota. Just go ahead and […]
[adrotate banner=”38″] I shot this yesterday with my little point and shoot camera.This is the bike that I’ve been riding the last few times out. It’s a Specialized Fatboy Expert in flat black carbon and […]
Bryce Webster sent us a video of his shake down cruise near Calgary. The Canadian winter starts earlier than down in the US and the trails look pretty sweet. We experienced our first snow flakes […]
[adrotate banner=”192″] Bev and the Crew at Rim Nordic out in Big Bear, California are gearing up for the California State Fat Bike Championships. There’ll be both XC and DH races so there’s a high probability […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
This week’s fat video Tuesday presentation was recorded by Dan McDonough from Lifetime Adventures at the 2016 Fat Bike Expo. We want to express our gratitude to Kathi Merchant the Director of the Iditarod Trail Invitational for putting us in […]
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 […]
Eric Parsons and I trade emails, now and then and a few weeks ago he included a photo of some Musk Ox hair stuck on a bush, with a vague reference to his latest trip […]
This week’s fat video Tuesday presentation was recorded by Dan McDonough from Lifetime Adventures at the 2016 Fat Bike Expo. We want to express our gratitude to Kathi Merchant the Director of the Iditarod Trail Invitational for […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
The one and only, Pistil Pete asked about this tire and after our editorial staff took a look at them on the interwebz, we decided to pull the trigger and bought a set for $49 […]
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 […]
[adrotate banner=”38″] Our long time contributor Johnclimber captured this image on a stormy day over in England. This is what John shared about the photo that currently occupies my computer’s desktop wallpaper. Hi Gomez, This […]
[adrotate banner=”38″] Is it too early to be thinking about Fall? Well, here’s a shot from Ray Walker out in Arizona to get you in the mood for nice cool fall fat-biking. Here’s what Ray […]
There’s a fine history of of Independent Bicycle Dealers – aka : ‘Bike Shops’ creating their own fat-bike brands. Both Fatback and 9:Zero:7 were created by two enterprising bike shops in Anchorage Alaska and Bear […]
[adrotate banner=”38″] One of my oldest riding amigos, that I’ve known, all the way back to the 1980’s, sent in this flashback to Gnomefest 9 at Nine Mile County Forest, near Wausau, Wisconsin. Andy gives […]
For years I’ve always had a dream of riding somewhere desolate and remote on my bike. I thought that dream was just going to stay a dream as I’m a normal guy with a wife […]
[adrotate banner=”141″] The Fat Camp is back again for another techy discussion of fat and plus bikes and this time, it’s all about geometry. No, not the class you had to take back in […]
The dog days of summer brings the return of Fat-Tribe Thursday. This is where we like to show off some of the photos sent to us by our readers. We’ve been getting so many great […]
[adrotate banner=”38″] This week’s wallpaper image is my Krampus loaded for bikepacking down along the Little Fox River in Western Kenosha County in Wisconsin. The bags from our amigos at Oveja Negra and Revelate Designs. […]
Our amigo Illya is back with a video of a trip to the Isle of Harris in Scotland. Here’s what Illya shared about this week’s clip. Fatbikes ride the infamous Postman’s trail on the Isle […]
[adrotate banner=”38″] James Gipson sent us this week’s Wallpaper image. Ya’know the reason that we call this series “Wallpaper Wednesday”, is to provide our readers, with a steady stream of free bike porn* to adorn […]
Hello all of you fat bike buffs (and gnomes)! I’d like to take a second to introduce myself as one of the newest Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilots. My name is Nick Holzem, you may have first […]
I’ve been riding a Fatback Corvus for the last few months and it’s ‘high time’ for me to put into words, the way I feel about the fourth carbon fat bike that I’ve reviewed over the […]
This week’s desktop wallpaper comes to us directly from my hard drive. You just never know what you’ll find out there in the woods. I’ve been a long time fan of utilizing bicycles for recreational […]
The Smokestone Henderson fat bike is the brainchild of Graham Foot from Slam69 Cycles in Gloucester in the UK. I was invited to spend the weekend with Graham and find out about the history of […]
[adrotate banner=”38″] Our new desktop image for this week came to us from Chris Heyworth. This is what Chris had to say about his portrait. Taken on the longest stretch of sand in Europe – […]
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