This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Ilari Lindstedt. Ilari grabbed this shot of his Ice Cream Truck at the beach near Raisio in Finland early this spring with anticipation for warm summer beach rides! Well, summer is here and I’m already thinking about snow riding….but that’s just the way my mind works. Does […]
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Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Il Passo del Ghiacciai del Gelas
Bobo & Filippo rode their fat-bikes on the Southern Europe Glaciers Trail in Italy and sent us this week’s Fat Tusday video. You can read the full storyof the tour at their blog – www.cicloalpinismo.com. There are some beautiful vistas in this video. Happy Last Day of Winter! Would you share your Plus or Fat Pixels? […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – The Dobratsch
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from a reader from Austria, Daniel Tscharnuter. Here’s what Daniel shared about this stunning image. The Dobratsch is a mountain near the city of Villach, which is a popular destination for hikers all year. Because of this, they are usually rideable all winter except right after heavy snowfall. […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Bivvy a Month 2018, the best bits!
Jeff Price sent us a compilation video that covers all twelve of his Bivvy a Month trips from 2018. If this doesn’t get you stoked to take up the quest to complete the Bivvy a Month Challenge for 2019, nothing will! I got out a few times in 2018 in what some might say was […]
Bivvy a Month Challenge #12 GFBD2018
Bivvy a Month Challenge Global Fat Bike Day 2018 We all know December 1st 2018 was ‘our’ special day as it was this year’s Global Fat Bike Day. However it was made even more special for me this year as I bagged my final Bivvy a Month for the year. I’ve organised the last […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Fat-Bike Day Finland
Global Fat-Bike Day seems to have successfully spawned positive vibrations and fun from every corner of the planet this year. So well done everyone! I know that I had fun here in Wisconsin. I can’t believe the huge group that showed up in Two Rivers to ride in some pretty slurmmy weather conditions. We hope that […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – GFBD Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
If you haven’t heard, Global Fat-Bike Day is this Saturday so we cued up a throwback to GFBD 2017 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden for this week’s Fat (video) Tuesday feature. GFBD is a great day to get together with your ride amigos and maybe join in with other groups of riders. Who knows, you might meet […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Bivy Spot Hunting
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from our amigo Johnclimber over in the UK. He describes his photo as “bivi spot hunting around the sand dunes and woods around Formby (north of the city of Liverpool, England).” You can see more of John’s sterling examples of the fat-bike life abroad on his Flickr […]
Fat videoTuesday – Bivvy a Month #10 – #BAMfatbike2018
Fat Bike to the Bothy #BAMfatbike2018 Despite trying to get more organised with my bivvy a month rides October took place on the last night of the month, Halloween night!! I initially had plans to spend a couple of days on one of the islands on the west coast of Scotland but the impending forecast […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Skipton in the Mist
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Bob Wightman. The shot was taken near Skipton on the Leeds to Liverpool Canal in the north of England. Here’s what Bob had to say about this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday Autumn is starting to show its hand here in the UK and there was a mist […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Taustakuva Keskiviikkona
Taustakuva Keskiviikkona is Wallpaper Wednesday in Finnish. This week’s Taustakuva Keskiviikkona comes to us from Antti Hakonen. Here’s what Antti shared about this week’s new gorgeous wallpaper image. Here’s my candidate for Taustakuva Keskiviikkona. I was going to shoot some sunset photos at a nearby lakeshore but got distracted and shot pics of my Pole […]
Wallpaper Wednesday ♦ Klausnitzer
Michael Klausnitzer answered the call for Fat & Plus Bike pixels with this romantic lakeside composition. This is what he had to say about his contribution. Hope you’ll like some pics from my own favourite fatties… I’ve read your call for pics in one of the last articles – Fat Video Tuesday ♦ #BAMfatbike2018 ♦ By Tom Ice. fat-bike.com is […]
Bikepacking Glencoe to Loch Etive Scotland By Illya Rudkin
This bikepacking adventure was born out of looking at the map and seeing what looks remote yet kind of flat for the bikes. It was also to tick off visiting another part of Scotland we had not been to before. A small further motivation to visit Loch Etive was to find the location of the […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Pugs in the Mist
Simon aka: Super Domestique supplied this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday from across the pond. Here’s what he had to say about his photo. Given the callout for wallpaper worthy pics, I’m hoping my Pugs in the mist might be good enough to fit the bill! It’s not the most up to date pic as the Pugs […]
Event Spotlight – 53N Adventure Festival – Ireland
Our amigos at Fat Bike Adventures in Ireland shared an event that encompasses more than cycling. 53 Degree North presents Adventurefest! Here’s a little info from 53N. At 53 Degrees North, we know that everybody has an inner-adventurer.  An inner explorer.  A hunger for the outdoors. And a need to share their experiences with […]
Fat (video) Tuesday ♦ Glen Feshie by Illya Rudkin
Like many of my bikepacking or MTB videos before you may have gathered that we like to ride or explore the Cairngorms highland range in Scotland. This film is no different. It is a beautiful area and Glen Feshie is one of a few areas where the estate owners are actively promoting and restoring the […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Wawayanda Park
Peter Warwick sent us this pastoral landscape with ‘black fat-bike’ and stepping stones along with a babbling brook. Here’s what Peter shared with us about his photograph. Are we still doing Wallpaper Wednesday? If so here’s a photo of my 2014 Farley in Wawayanda Park , in Northern New Jersey. This is the stone […]
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 I was too busy for that one I had to squeeze a bivvy in at the end of the month. […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – July 4th, 2018 – Independence Day!
First things first…Happy Birthday to Sven Hammer! and Happy 4th of July! aka Independence Day in the United States of America. This is a shot taken up in Port Washington, Wisconsin from a ride I did up there in the Spring of 2017. If I remember correctly, we gathered some ramps and fiddleheads that I cooked up […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – 5/30/18
JohnClimber aka John Moore is a legacy contributor to the site. This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday features John’s Titanium Traverse Fat-Bike on Formby Beach. I’ve seen photos of this Antony Gormley sculpture many times before I looked up the artist. Click that link if you want to see more of Gormley’s sculptures. I enjoyed quite a […]
Fat-Bike Van Life – Balkan Holiday by – Stephan Spruyt (Part 3 of 3)
Road Trip The Balkans (Part 3 of 3) (from Part 2) The shower session was quite hilarious as what first looked like an alright spot on the side of the road turned out to be a peepshow with ourselves playing the main characters haha 😆.. A bit later we set off, the scenery was really […]
Fat-Bike Van Life – Balkan Holiday by – Stephan Spruyt (Part 2 of 3)
Road Trip The Balkans (Part 2 of 3) (from part one) –Â We continued exploring the city a bit more and then left to visit my new Serbian friends… Â Having no idea what to expect, I was pleased to see a house with a little garage next to it and a Type 3 fastback on […]
Fat-Bike Van Life – Balkan Holiday by – Stephan Spruyt (Part 1 of 3)
Road Trip The Balkans (Part 1 of 3) Hey Ho.. another year another road trip so it seems.. As some of you may know my goal is to visit all EU countries in my bus before I’m 40.. As I’m scarily fast approaching this number I had to come up with a plan to see […]
Fat Video Tuesday – Finnish Easter Egg Hunt
Our Fat Tuesday Video comes to us all the way from Lappeenranta Finland! We’re the international house of fat-bikes and Marko Lankinen and some of his amigos share what it’s like to ride on snowy snowmobile trails with just the sound of crunching snow under their tires. The lack of a musical soundtrack means that you can […]
Bivvy a Month Challenge #2
Fat Bike Galloway #BAMfatbike2018 After committing myself to the Bivvy a Month Challenge its got me thinking about where to have these mini adventures. With February usually a bit on the chilly side (by UK standards) I had my thoughts on staying in a bothy. A bothy? Let me explain, a bothy is an unlocked […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Babyhead Beach
I spied this shot and really loved the baby heads. It really brought back memories of the trip that James Healy and I took across the top of Michigan’s Upper Penninsula and exemplifies the sort of terrain for which fat-bikes transcend every other form of bicycle. This week’s photo was taken in the UK […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – One Day Off
A longtime reader, Robert Krügel, dropped us a line with some hot, low-rise, mesh, european pixels from a recent trip to the Ore Mountains. Here’s what he shared about this week’s video clip. Hey Fat-Bike.com Team, My Name is Robert and I’m from East-Germany, I read your Website for many years now, it’s great! Thank you for […]
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 a man of few words. This is all he shared regarding this week’s clip. “Fly out, ride back.” You can […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Winter is Here!
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 a shot from earlier this year, taken by Patrick Strahm at the end of this past Winter. You can check out more […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Two Bothy Tour – by Illya Rudkin
We had a week at Ballater in the highlands of Scotland. Â It was an opportunity to complete a route intended for the bikepacking weekend trip up Glen Tilt earlier in the year. We were to go north from White Bridge up to Corrour Bothy and loop back round back to Glen Tilt and home. […]
Halloween Bivvy – by Jeff Price
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 I’d ridden there many times before. For some people bivvying out on your own in an old quarry may not […]
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 to do most of the trails on the map you think worthy of your valuable time. But as you stop […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – “Le Coquibus”
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 week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. Take a close look at those tires…what other bike zine shows you a hand-made, one off, steel, fat-bike rock’n […]
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 BÅ‚Ä™dowska Desert in Poland. Makes me think that there has to be someplace nearby, where we could hold some sort of hill climb competition! Take a look […]
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 plan was to ride its entire length and do a U turn at the top in to Glen Feshie. However […]
Reader’s Ride(s) – Custom BTR Roamer by Olov Stenlund
I don’t know for how long, but getting a custom built frame, has been a dream since long before I got bitten by the fat bike bug. The bug bit me back the winter of 2013-14. I got my self a Salsa Mukluk and it´s been my loyal steed since then. We fell deep in […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – By Johnclimber
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 photo was taken on my local Merseyside (England) beach and trails Fat Bike Sunday morning loop. The photo was taken on Southport […]
Fat Bike Iceland
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 and 3 kids. However, last December during a bivvy ride with my mate, John ‘Climber’ I planted a seed of […]
Fat (video) Video Tuesday – Isle of Harris Scotland by Illya Rudkin
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 of Harris. If you live in Scotland or visiting the land of the clans then probably very high on a […]
Smokestone Henderson short term review
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 the bike and to spend some time in the saddle. Graham’s history in the bike industry goes way back to […]
Foto Gordo – An Trá is Faide
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 – Morriscastle beach in County Wexford, Ireland Where’s the Longest Beach on your continent? Send us your fat or plus bike photos or […]
Fat (video) Tuesday – Trippy Tuesday
Paul Scott just started his journey as a film maker. I’m a fan of this sort of thing. Triptastic Techno n’stuff. This is how Paul describes his clip. The first of a series of short ‘rushes’ created using clips from Blue Coo MTB members rides. The clips used in this little multi-layer test edit were […]
Foto Gordo from Germany
This week’s desktop background was shot by Michael Schneider on the Brocken, which is the highest mountain in the Harz district in Germany. The Brocken is known for strong winds which frosted everything with snow and his Mukluk really pops, in stark contrast, from the frosty background. If you’d like to see more from Michael, he put […]
Wallpaper Wednesday – Fugleberg, Finnmark, Norway
GeirB sent us an open invitation to share his incredible arctic riding shots from 70 degrees north in Norway. Here’s what Geir shared about his shot. “This place is just named Hut 345. It’s 345 meters above sea level. The hut can be used as a shelter in bad weather and it’s left open all year […]