On our trip up to Minneapolis last month we spied this Ti Fatback with it’s carbon fork and the signature twisted downtube of a Lynsky fab’d frame and we knew that we wanted to talk to it’s owner. This sweet scooter is owned by elite racer and ex motocross pro, Jeff Colbert of North Branch […]
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Shop Profile ~ Angry Catfish Bicycles & Coffee ~ MPLS/MN
Just two years young, Angry Catfish Bicycles and Coffee in South Minneapolis has made quite a splash on the Twin Cities Fat-Bike scene. Several of our MPLS amigos told me that Ben (General Manager) and Josh (Owner) are king-pins of the fat-bike scene thereabouts….and MPLS is nigh a small pond of fat-bikes. Josh and Ben […]
Fat (Video) Tuesday ~ Cold Bear Challenge
One of our long lost gnome-family – Joe Grinnel – put together this triptastic video from the Cold Bear Challenge that we featured in a story last week from MPLS.
Carver Cold Catfish Cup – Race Report
Written by Reed Smidt – Race Director The Carver Lake Cold Catfish Cup – Race # 3 was held on Sunday, February 19 at Carver Lake Park in Woodbury, MN. The temperature peaked at 45 degrees making almost all the single-track trail off limits for racing and riding in general. Fortunately, Carver Lake Park […]
Cold Bear Challenge ~ Race Report
The first order of business on my trip to MPLS was to get out and cover the Cold Bear Challenge Fat Bike Fest in Elk River. The Cold Bear is the grand daddy of all mid-west fat-bike races. When I first read about it, years ago, it was called Pugfest. I remember seeing pictures of […]
Sewer Tour
Josh (Death Rider), the winner of our November Newsletter Sign Up contest and the fyxation Mesa pedals, sent us a brief note and a couple of SWEET shots of his Sewer Tour in the Twin Cities. A bit from his blog: I thought of the title for this adventure way before I ever convinced a […]
Cold Bear Challenge ~ 3 Race Series ~ Elk River, MN
The Cold Bear Challenge Race Series is one of the most established winter bike competitions in the lower 48. There’s 3 races in the series with a fat-bike festival on February 12th, complete with shennanigans, according to long time race director Rich Omdahl. Rich is the man behind the grandaddy of all winter race series up […]
Shop Profile ~ Milltown Cycles Expose
Our old friend Soupboy cooked this up for us… Milltown Cycles Expose: by Hugh Jwang, Phd., Womens’ Studies, University of Bangkok, Samut Prakan Campus Truth be told, I am a prolific bike whore. Not, as in never, necessarily in the sense that I’m fit, ride a ton, or sport sweetly ironic facial hair ever just so, […]
Fat (Video) Tuesday – Hillside Park in Elk River, Minnesota
This is a video shot by Rich Omdahl. Rich is the man behind the grandaddy of all winter race series’ up at Hillside Park in Elk River, Minnesota; The Cold Bear Challenge. Hillside is home to many unique technical trail features. This video was put together to show what some of these features look like in […]