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Fat-bike History

Throwback Thursday – This Week in Fat Bike History from 7-6-12

July 4, 2025 Greg Smith Comments Off on Throwback Thursday – This Week in Fat Bike History from 7-6-12
This column is all about fat-bike history! Ride along with us as we check in on stuff that happened, back […]
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Fat-bike History

Throwback Thursday – This Week in Fat Bike History from 6-29-12

June 26, 2025 Greg Smith Comments Off on Throwback Thursday – This Week in Fat Bike History from 6-29-12
This column is all about fat-bike history! Ride along with us as we check in on stuff that happened, back […]
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Fat-bike History

Throwback Thursday – This Week in Fat Bike History from 6-22-12

June 20, 2025 Greg Smith Comments Off on Throwback Thursday – This Week in Fat Bike History from 6-22-12
This column is all about fat-bike history! Ride along with us as we check in on stuff that happened at […]
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Fat-bike History

Throwback Thursday – This Week in Fat Bike History from 6-1-12

May 29, 2025 Greg Smith Comments Off on Throwback Thursday – This Week in Fat Bike History from 6-1-12
This column is all about fat-bike history! I really dig checking in on stuff that happened at the beginning of […]
Weekly Dose of Fat

Weekly Dose of Fat – Chiru Bikes Nanulak – Goldstream Valley AK – This Week in Fat-bike History

February 28, 2025 Greg Smith Comments Off on Weekly Dose of Fat – Chiru Bikes Nanulak – Goldstream Valley AK – This Week in Fat-bike History
Weekly Dose of Fat 2-28-25 Fatbike News You Can Use Fat-Biking in Goldstream Valley, Alaska – https://akguiding.com/fatbiking/ Fat Bike Birkie […]
Events

Pie Burner – Toy4Tots Ride – Nov. 26th (MN)

November 20, 2022 Gomez Comments Off on Pie Burner – Toy4Tots Ride – Nov. 26th (MN)
Get your holidays started out on the right foot at the Pie Burner Fat Bike Ride and Toys for Tots […]
Gallery

Wallpaper Wednesday – Lake Byllesby

August 31, 2022 Gomez 1
Dan Funke sent us this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday from the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes. We asked Dan some questions […]
Gallery

Wallpaper Wednesday – Fat Bikes are Mountain Bikes Perfected

August 24, 2022 Gomez Comments Off on Wallpaper Wednesday – Fat Bikes are Mountain Bikes Perfected
Bobby Vachon sent us a shot of his Salsa Bucksaw at the Elm Creek singletrack dance studio in Champlin, Minnesota. […]
Gallery

Wallpaper Wednesday – Down by the River

July 27, 2022 Gomez Comments Off on Wallpaper Wednesday – Down by the River
Josh Busch sent in this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. Josh shot some photos of his Battkeship Grey Surly at the Minnesota […]
Adventure Bikes

The Day Across Minnesota: The D.A.M.N. – by Greg Gentle

September 9, 2021 Gomez 2
We left St. Paul, Minnesota in the blistering heat of Friday rush hour. Rows of cars stacked on top of […]
B-Fat (27.5 Fat)

Otso Voytek – New Fork and Colors

August 10, 2021 Gomez 1
The Otso Voytek will be getting its first frameset update since it was launched in 2016, as well as a […]
Contests

Wallpaper Wednesday

July 7, 2021 Gomez Comments Off on Wallpaper Wednesday
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from the newest member of the Bike Black Ribbon Society, Joe Roy. Joe […]
Gallery

Wallpaper Wednesday – Robin’s Huevo Azul Miércoles

October 21, 2020 Gomez Comments Off on Wallpaper Wednesday – Robin’s Huevo Azul Miércoles
Today’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Adam Schreiner. Adam sent us this shot with this description “Dan’s Surly Wednesday […]
Events

Event Spotlight – Fat Bike Blitz – 2/22/20 (MN)

February 10, 2020 Gomez Comments Off on Event Spotlight – Fat Bike Blitz – 2/22/20 (MN)
Location : Pebble Creek Golf Club 14000 Clubhouse Lane, Becker MN 55308 Date: February 22nd 2020 Time: Venue opens at 9am […]
Events

Upcoming Events – JAN-FEB ’19

January 21, 2019 Gomez Comments Off on Upcoming Events – JAN-FEB ’19
  Looks like everyone got the memo to run their Fat-Bike event on February 2nd this winter. I don’t know how […]
Events

Event Spotlight – I AM FAT (IA) – Freezer Burn (MN) – Frozen Gnome (WI)

December 24, 2018 Gomez Comments Off on Event Spotlight – I AM FAT (IA) – Freezer Burn (MN) – Frozen Gnome (WI)
I AM FAT January 6th, 2019 – Iowa City, Iowa My homies out in Iowa City throw down an old school […]
Gallery

Wallpaper Wednesday – Chaska Blues

November 21, 2018 Gomez Comments Off on Wallpaper Wednesday – Chaska Blues
  This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from Paul Niebuhr in Chaska, Minnesota. This is what Paul shared about […]
Bike Culture

Event Spotlight – Portland Design Works 10 Year Anniversary Party – Fat Bike Swap Meet (MN)

November 13, 2018 Gomez Comments Off on Event Spotlight – Portland Design Works 10 Year Anniversary Party – Fat Bike Swap Meet (MN)
How can you go wrong with free beer, tacos & vodka drinks? Michael’s Cycles in Prior Lake Minnesota is having a […]
Events

Event Spotlight – The Pie Burner – MN – 11/24/18

November 5, 2018 Gomez Comments Off on Event Spotlight – The Pie Burner – MN – 11/24/18
  Back for the sixth year, the Pie Burner Fat Bike Ride will help ensure Northeastern Minnesota children have a […]
Bike Black Ribbon

First Look – Otso Voytek – Plus/Fat – By Seth Bell

August 9, 2018 Gomez Comments Off on First Look – Otso Voytek – Plus/Fat – By Seth Bell
Otso Cycles hails from Burnsville, MN., which is a long ways from where the brand’s identity is rooted.  In Finnish […]
FatBikes

Framed LTD Bruh! by DosRenshos

August 3, 2018 Gomez 1
I had just hooked my daughter up with a brand new 29er, and was feeling some serious bike envy, when […]
Gallery

Wallpaper Wednesday – Jay Petervary & Ben Doom at the Arrowhead 135

February 7, 2018 Gomez 1
  This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from professional photographer David Markman. I met David at this year’s Arrowhead […]
Bike Culture

Event Spotlight – Surly Masher – MPLS – 2/3/18

December 11, 2017 Gomez Comments Off on Event Spotlight – Surly Masher – MPLS – 2/3/18
When the bike world and the beer world align under a banner that reads SURLY, you know that unlike most […]
Events

Event Spotlight – Pie Burner – November 25th 2017 – Iron Range MN

November 6, 2017 Gomez 1
Get your holidays started out on the right foot at the Pie Burner Fat Bike Ride and Toys for Tots […]
FFF

Foto Gordo – Dan’s Black Sheep

May 31, 2017 Gomez 1
According to Flickr, this is the most interesting photo that I’ve ever posted over there. I don’t know how that […]
FatBikes

Framed Wolftrax Carbon Custom Review

April 13, 2017 Julio 1
Back in January, a Framed Wolftrax Carbon Custom landed in the Fat-Bike.com Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot hanger bay.  You […]
Site News

First Look – Otso Voytek

January 5, 2017 Ken Blakey-Shell 6
It is kind of funny, last year/season we saw a flood of similar “me-to” fat bikes from manufacturers trying to […]
FatBikes

The Surly Big Fat Dummy

December 5, 2016 Gomez 4
  Back in September, I visited the QBP corporate campus in sunny Bloomington MN, for an opportunity to meet and […]
Events

Event Spotlight – The Freewheel Winter Bike Expo – MPLS MN

November 30, 2016 Gomez Comments Off on 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 […]
Accessories

Wolftooth Components Singletrack Pogies Review

February 22, 2016 Gomez 3
  We spotlighted the new Wolftooth Components Singletrack Pogies (WCSP) back in November. That story featured a really nice video […]
Bike Culture

Cuyuna Yurt Adventuring: Year-Round Fat-Bike Fun

February 11, 2016 Aaron Hautala 2
It was four years ago. I was in my first meeting as the newly elected volunteer president of the Cuyuna […]
Events

Freewheel’s Winter Bike Expo Sit/Rep by Deathrider

December 9, 2015 Gomez 2
The Freewheel Winter Bike Expo, located on the Midtown Greenway in the heart of Minneapolis recently concluded. The Expo, in […]
27+

Carbon beauty meets a single-track beast — Get to know the Trek Farley 9.8

December 8, 2015 Aaron Hautala 3
The long-term red dirt review Having reviewed the original baby blue Farley and now it’s cousin, the 9.8, I’d like […]
FatBikes

The Cake Bike Launch – By Lilah

December 7, 2015 Gomez 4
Editor’s Note :  We interviewed Erik Noren about his new venture, Cake Bikes, on the Weekly Dose of Fat – […]
Apparel

Tread Threads: Canari in the Moonlight, a review

November 9, 2015 giantmendez Comments Off on Tread Threads: Canari in the Moonlight, a review
A while back I assigned Buddy Ted the task of riding his bike withe some Canari gear. I’m glad to […]
27+

Product Spotlight: Farley 9.8 by Trek

October 22, 2015 Aaron Hautala 8
Walking into my studio last week I noticed two ginormous boxes. Immediately I thought to myself, “now what did we […]
Pedals

Salsa Beargrease X01 en Fuego

August 20, 2015 Aaron Hautala 4
So you get a new fat bike as winter 2015 comes to a close and the thought is, “O well, […]
FatBikes

Introducing the Watchman from Advocate Cycles

June 27, 2015 Gomez Comments Off on Introducing the Watchman from Advocate Cycles
Advocate Cycles, the first Benefit corporation in the cycling industry to pledge 100% of profits to making cycling better, has […]
Events

Duluth Winter Enduro Gets Rad At Spirit Mountain

March 12, 2015 Tim Krueger Comments Off on Duluth Winter Enduro Gets Rad At Spirit Mountain
Duluth is the new epicenter of getting rad in the upper Midwest, and the upper Midwest is the epicenter of […]
FatBikes

Otis turns One ♦ Fatback Long Term Review

December 25, 2014 Gomez 1
On or about, one earth year ago, I took possession of a Raw Aluminum 190mm Fatback that I spec’d out with […]
Events

Event Spotlight ♦ Cuyuna Lakes Whiteout – MN – 2/7/15

December 15, 2014 Gomez Comments Off on Event Spotlight ♦ Cuyuna Lakes Whiteout – MN – 2/7/15
  Fat-Bike Events! You can list your event on our calendar by clicking right here! If you’d like to see your race or festival […]
FatBikes

Framed Minnesota 2.0 Womens Full Review

December 15, 2014 Jenny Scott 5
My goal for this holiday season is to make sure more women get Fat…seriously, we need more women riding Fatbikes, […]
FatBikes

First Look ♦ Framed Alaskan Alloy

December 4, 2014 Gomez 1
  By Michael McColgan When I found out I was going to be testing the new Framed Alaskan, I was […]
Site News

Ride Impressions – Framed Minnesota 26×4 Fat-bike Tire

December 2, 2014 Greg Smith 6
  Derrick, Ross and I have been riding the Framed Minnesota 26×4 Fat-bike Tire for several weeks now with various races, […]

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