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 credit to Marty as the photographer and the rider is his own bad self…..Andy Oleson; aka – Angry Andy. He’s riding his […]
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 […]
Uncle Gomez asked me if I’d like my own portal to fat dash bike dot com and this is my first solo flight. If this were one of Gomez’s posts, he might say – “This weeks video is posted by Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot Jeff ‘Summittoppler’ Price out there on the coast in […]
Fat-Bike.com European Bureau Chief, Jeff Price, shares an August ride in Snowdonia. Snowdonia….it just sounds lovely doesn’t it? Click the play button and take a look for yourself. Then go for a ride and stuff…..because you deserve it! OMG! The Fat-Bike Bubble Burst! We invite you to call in and tell us what you […]
The Outer Hebrides are a formation of islands off the North West coast of Scotland which are joined by causeways and ferries. Since Bruce (Coastkid) put the idea in my head to go there on the fat bikes, I bought the maps which meant I was going! Unfortunately, Bruce couldn’t make it in the […]
It’s always a special moment when I’m awaiting the arrival of a new product to review for our readers and this postal drop was no exception. I’ve taken delivery of Apidura’s half frame bag and two of their new food pouches for a few weeks. The half frame bag is Apidura’s small Road Frame Bag […]
Wade Whitmire has been inviting Sven and I out to come and ride the Washington coast for the last few years, so I decided to extend my Interbike (September 2015) trip and join-in, on the festivities, at the 5th Annual Northwest Fatbike Beach Meetup in Long Beach, Washington. Long Beach is just north of Oregon, at […]
Fat-Bike.com’s, UK correspondent, Jeff Price, combined two of my favorite things in this week’s look at the gorgeous coastline of Wales. Jeff shared his Monday night ride with us, in what he calls “a quick edit of his local beach and singletrack”. How can you go wrong with a ride that has both fat-bikes and […]
By Jeff Price My local favourite loop this one. There’s nothing better than leaving the house in the early evening, riding some of the hills and dropping down onto the beach for the last few miles home. This ride takes me along the causeway to the medieval town of Conwy and up into the hills […]
Our newest Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot and long time amigo, Jeff Price sent us another in long line of killer video’s from the UK. Jeff is awaiting the arrival of a MAXX Haraxdax that he’ll be reviewing for us, after he gets back from holiday with the fam. Here’s what JP had to say […]
Our amigo Nathan Long from over there in the Chippewa River Valley of Wisconsin sent us this psychedelic spring explosion of color that he entitled ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’. Nathan shot this at Northwest Park in Eau Claire, WI and you can see more of his work at www.longphotoandvideo.com Have a Great Weekend! Give me your […]
Barney took this shot of his Mukluk a few days back as the weather in Gray, Maine starts to turn towards Spring. He says: It was nice to get on the last of the snow in a t-shirt with the birds chirping and the ducks quacking. Download the appropriate size and use it as your […]
By Olov Stenlund My daily commute on my fat-bike gives me time to unclutter my mind. Riding along through the rainy darkness, gives me time to think clearly and I’m here to tell you – 2014 has been one hell of a year! I guess the fat bike officially celebrated its 10th birthday. The Pugsly did […]
Dave Clark sent us this great shot of his Lab, Cholo and his Mukluk from Canmore Alberta! This is what Dave shared about his shot. This is my riding buddy Cholo and my Muk Luk. I have ridden winters, for over thirty years and have never enjoyed it as much as with this bike. […]
Our man Jeff Price is back to show us another slice of why the UK is such a hot-bed of fat-bike fun! You may remember that Jeff made a promise to himself to get out once a month for an overnight bivvy. This is what Jeff shared about this trip. Yes it was getting to […]
Here’s a clip of local wonder, Pat Smage, showing off some bike handling skillz on his old school Salsa Mukluk. Pat’s a six-time AMA/NATC Trials National Champion and in 2007, he was named AMA Sports Athlete of the Year – the youngest rider to ever receive that title. It’s little wonder that Pat called this […]
I met Pat Smage at this year’s Mountain Bike Prom back in June. I seem to remember that he hopped his Mukluk with the skill and grace of a bicycle ninja. He sent me some great shots of he and his amiga on their fat-bikes, but this one really captured my imagination. The scores of rock […]
We´re leaving an epic summer behind. Temperatures has been the highest in 50 years. Riding has been amazing, from archipelago beach riding to big mountain fat bike adventures. And all of a sudden fall hits you in the head like a sledge hammer. Work, school for the kids, everything piles up and the weeks just […]
Jeff Price started out the year by promising himself a bivvy every month for this year of the gnome (2014). Jeff emailed me and asked, “why not check out my fat-bike videos?” So I did just that and found fat gold in the hilly countryside of Wales! I asked Jeff to tell us a bit about […]
We’d like to introduce Olov Stenlund – Swedish fat biker, and the newest columnist at fat dash bike dot com. Olov lives and rides, Swedish Lapland and is an established blogger, podcast’r and adventurer! We look forward to Olov sharing his fatventures with all of us! ~gomez~ Sweden. The fifth largest country in Europe by area. Located […]
Josh was another of the fat-bike.com faithful who heed the call to exchange words for Interbike Sticker Packs! Take it away, Josh! My Salsa Mukluk might look like an ordinary Salsa Mukluk, but to me, it’s a little different. It wasn’t always MY mukluk, and in fact, at one point, I even looked DOWN on […]
(click to enlarge) “There is no dark side of the beach really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.” Fat-Bikes and Fun are like peas and carrots… Send us a shot of your fat-bike having some fun! Our email address is still info@fat-bike.com. Please make a note of it.
Written By Andy Oleson About 2 months ago, I built up a set of 29+ wheels to run on my Ti Mukluk for the summer, I did some side by side comparisons between the 29+ and my fat tires, you can read the review here: (http://fat-bike.com/2013/05/ride-reflections-rabbit-holes-in-my-mukluk/) The outcome was a bit like what I […]
Our man, Sven has already touched on this subject in his excellent fat-bike 101 series. In his episode about weight $having, Sven mentions both tires and wheels as targets to put your fat-bike on a diet. We’ve combined those two elements together on an extra small 9:Zero:7 that belongs to Bethany Raven. Bethany’s Dom’L’Orange fatty […]
Written by : Andy Oleson I’ve been able to log some decent single track mileage on my 29+ wheelset up at the Southern Kettle trail system, and have done some side by side comparison testing, swapping wheelsets between laps, and one thing is for sure, the 29+ Rabbit Hole/Knards are faster than the 26” Darryl/HuskerDu […]
Erik Ross, from Port Elgin, Ontario, compiled a video recollection of a year in the life of his Mukluk, in and around Grey and Bruce Counties. This one gave me goose-bumps, when the images and music got revved up! You have to appreciate the amount of time and effort that it had to take, to edit […]
We’ve got big plans for the 29r+ platform this summer! The Spinner Ryerson is currently testing the hell out of his Krampus. We’re just about ready to start building up a Krampus with all sorts of shiney bits for ‘yours truely’, while Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot, Angry Andy has already been testing a set of […]
(click to enlarge) Our amigo, Josh Spice captured this beautiful shot of his Mukluk, 60 miles deep in the White Mountains National Recreation Area, northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. Josh was out riding the 100 mile loop in preparation for the White Mountains 100 Race, where he placed 3rd out of a very fast field of racers. […]
That’s the photo that led me to come in contact with our new amigo from the Netherlands, Tommy. I learned that Tommy is a guide at Lola Bikes and Coffee and that the shop runs Fat-Bike Tours in The Hague, the capitol city, of the Netherlands, nestled on the sandy shores of the North Sea. Every […]
Birthday Ride Written and Photographed by – Andy Oleson So about 10 years ago I made a pact with myself to go out every year on my birthday and do a 100 mile ride regardless of the miles I had or had not put on prior, maybe as a way to hold on to my […]
Sven has been here before, but today was my first time in the maze called Interbike. We popped my interbike cherry today, to bring you all of the fat…all of the time! Just like we promised! Phil Wood fat-bike design exercise! Custom Fork crowns on the Manitou Fork. 185mm Cassette Hub. Also available in lower […]
‘Renaissance Man’ – Steve Meurett snapped this shot at what he calls “the most photographed spot at Levis” at the end of August of this year. Feel free to download it and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the image to open the full-sized version which you can right-click to save. Got your […]
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 get a test ride on their new Beargrease race fatty on their way down to the (fat-bike supermercado de amor) […]
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 ago). Andy was always a pain in the ass to go riding with, because he was so f’ing fast and […]
It seems in some ways like I’ve had this bike forever, but yet, the first time it hit the trail was early December, just six months ago. The Mukluk 2 somehow has become my defacto mountain bike. I’ve come to believe that this fat bike is what all other mountain bikes, really want to be […]
Freewheel Bike has 3 locations in MPLS and last month I sat down at the West Bank store with Freewheel Bike, General Manager, Jake Helmbrecht, to talk fat-bikes and share a guess at what might be new and exciting at Frostbike. Jake talked to us about Freewheel’s Winter Bike Expo that was held, last December, at […]
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 […]
Rob, the Michigan-area Salsa/Surly rep is hitting the road with a fleet of demo bikes and will be hitting several events/demos over the next week. Here is what he sent as a schedule. Farm Team Fat Bike Race – Grand Rapids, MI Jan 14 Kinetic Systems Mukluk Demo – Waterford, MI Jan 15 Island Lake […]
With each passing ride, I discover why I’m loving this bike so much…it takes me places I normally couldn’t explore. The lack of snow this “winter” has been a blessing and curse in many ways. I am a cross country skier and if a snow-less December had happened in previous years (it has) I’d be […]
Alex sent in this ride report from New York, Thanks, Alex! Commence report now: Hit the great 909 Pleasant Valley, NY on the Mukluk 2 Sunday. It was my first real ride on her. The trails are looking great! Super effort by everyone involved in the clean up. We had bad snow damage early October. […]
As luck (and Mother Nature) would have it, nearly all the beautiful snow we had a week ago, had withered away from three days of incessant rain. Not that I really needed snow to ride the Mukluk, now named Fatty Bo Batty, but it’s at least a feature of enjoying these fat bikes. Instead, and […]
Fatbikes: 2 Mukluks 1 ti’ Fatback 1 9:Zero:7 2 Pugsleys: the Fugsley, and Don’s DUC32 Pugs Stats: December 11, 2011 19.34 miles 2:23 ride time (8.1 mph average pace) 2270ft vertical You’d think it would be a singletrack traffic jam on a day like this: sunny, cold—but not too cold, with the saturated ground nicely […]
According to the creator of this clip “this trail was built by volunteers from the Central Iowa Trails Association (www.centraliowatrails.org) using napalm, mace, and nitros oxide balloons”. Matt further explained that during the shooting of the video – ” TJ (aka T-Rex) proves that a Fat Bike is as tossable as Sasquatch’s salad” .
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday photo comes from Northern Illinois correspondent xrsmith. He says “This is the old (1920’s) concrete bridge in Hononegah Forest Preserve, Rockton Illinois. I loved the fresh snow stacked up on the concrete rainbow.” Feel free to download it and use it as your own wallpaper. Just click on the image to […]
