Dave Speaker is the man behind the camera for this Week’s Atlantic variant of Wallpaper Wednesday. Dave shot this after enjoying some time in Surf City and Top Sail Island, North Carolina. The beaches of North Carolina are calling! Spring Break? I vote YES (followed by another yes). #skyblue Feel free to download this image and […]
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US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship Returns to NC March 18-20
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C., Feb. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Following a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship rolls into Wrightsville Beach, March 18-20. The biggest race of its type on the East Coast, all the action will be oceanfront at Blockade Runner Beach Resort. “The US Open Fat Bike Beach […]
Happy Fat 2017 from the Beaches of North Carolina by Amy “Beach Belle” Mossman
Ed – This is the first chapter in a series of articles about life at the beach, written by an old friend. What would you do with the freedom to roam? Amy moved to the beach along with her fat-bike. The series will explore the endless smiles of beach and yes….tomfoolery….along the gorgeous Atlantic coast of […]
Asheville, NC Fat Bike Trip Report
By : Ian Buggey It was a week after Dirt Rag’s Dirtfest and all that separated me and epic riding in Pisgah National Forest was an 8 hour car ride from my home in the D.C. Metro area armed with a Krampus and an Ice Cream Truck. I managed to get to Asheville just in […]
Irish Cycles Out of North Carolina Introduces the Sullivan Fat-bike
Attention fat-bike fanatics! We just received the info below from Joe at Irish Cycles in Fayetteville, North Carolina about their new Sullivan fat-bike and 100mm Carolina fat-bike wheels. Take it away Joe! For 2015, Irish has added the “Sullivan” to our line up in order to answer the question of “how do I ride in […]
Beach Slacker Rodeo – Part Three– The Core Banks
This is part three of a three part series about beach riding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. You can check out part one here and part two here. We Pick up the story with two ferry rides to get from Ocracoke Island to Cedar Island and then out to South Core Bank. Have you ever heard […]
Beach Slacker Rodeo – Part Two – Ocracoke Island
This is part two of a three part series about beach riding in the outer banks of North Carolina. You can check out part one here – Part One – Beach Slacker Rodeo …We pick up the story on the ferry that goes to Ocracoke Island… The weather forecast cleared and I jumped at the chance […]
Beach Slacker Rodeo – Part One – The Outer Banks
Somewhere back on the third or fourth oldest hard drive in my computer graveyard, I have a bucket list of destinations that I wanted to visit sometime during my life. The Outer Banks of North Carolina is on there, along with many other stops, that you would recognise. With the great and powerful winter we just […]
Fating the Smokies
A little fat-bike southern cooking for you from our Asheville, Norte del Carolina correspondant ~ Katy Snaks! While it’s fantastic that some cyclists enjoy hacking through the wilderness or tackling long races on their fat-bikes, that’s not quite my natural inclination. When charged with writing an article for fat-bike.com, it took a few minutes to […]