I know the frost is barely on the pumpkin, but that isn’t putting a dent is the enthusiasm for fat-bike racing here in America’s Dairyland. Our friends over at Wheel and Sprocket just announced their 2017/18 schedule for the the Hugh Jass Fat Bike Race Seiries. The First race is on October 7th, 2017 and […]
If you haven’t already heard, the Skull 120/60 gravel race is taking place this month in Eastern Oregon’s Malheur National Forest. There are still registration spots available for each category. 120 mile individual / 60 mile individual / 120 mile team relay / 60 mile team relay The Skull races are being promoted by the USFS […]
I think that they purposfully set up trade shows and expo’s in a maze to confuse and delight the folks that attend and Sea Otter is no exception. So I set out to cover all of the things that I might have missed in part one of this year’s Sea Otter coverage. You can view part […]
The 5th Annual Talkeetna Trio Fat Bike World Championships were held on Saturday March 11th, 2017 in the cozy Alaskan hamlet of Talkeetna, AK. Talkeetna is a 2.5 hour drive north of Anchorage. The town was formed in 1916 as a district headquarters for the Alaska Railroad. It’s an amazingly scenic small town that sits […]
The 2017 Pugsley World Championship :aka PWC, went off without a hitch once again this year. unfortunately we can’t say the same for the recap ! I was sure I had sent this to Gomez weeks ago only to get it returned several weeks later. So with all of the excuses out of the way, […]
Every March we say that we’d really like to go down to the Outer Banks in North Carolina to attend 2017 US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship, but it seems like it’s always in conflict with both NAHBS and the Fat Bike Birkie. So this year we contacted the race director, Shawn Spencer and asked […]
Today Sherman, we set the way-back machine to: March 17th of Two Thousand and Twelve – Destination: Gaylord Michigan! Yes – St Fattys Day returns to the fat-bike event radar screen to punctuate the end of the winter (that wasn’t) of sixteen/seventeen. Coming Next Week – It’s Spring!
Here’s a race that we’d be honored to sponsor! A race that has the reputation as the best race and party in the great state of Alaska! Our amigos at Speedway Cycles and Fatback Bikes are in their fifth year sponsoring the Trio and this year is looking like the best event yet. Click the race […]
Hinton is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada and they’re hosting the first annual Hinton Growler Fat Bike Endurance Race is presented by the Hinton Mountain Bike Association. It is a family friendly event that is held during Hinton’s Winter Magic Festival. THREE ADULT CATEGORIES (AGES 13+, MIXED) : Growler (Expert Class): 3 hours to […]
Bicycle Beachracing: Two of These Things Were Not Like the Others The 1st European Championship Bicycle Beachrace Was recently held in my new home country of The Netherlands. I’ve done my share of sand riding on fat bikes with a group of amigos on both the Washington coast and the dunes East of the […]
This week’s Event Spotlight is the Frozen Fat Fondo Festival out along the shores of the mighty Mississippi River. I promised our old friend, Bobby Parker, the full royale with cheese treatment, so we’re sending our best man out there. The Spinner Ryerson, along with Mitch from Revolution Cycles are headed out there to see what, […]
We worked with our amigos at Borealis Fat Bikes and Dirt Components to make sure that we shared the unmistakable beauty of the Fat-Bike World Championships in Colorado. Let’s take a quick look at all of the fat-bike fun that took place out there in the Grand Valley in Colorado! If you want to learn […]
Race the best groomed fat-bike trails in Wisconsin, Levis Mounds! According to the race flyer, this is the Premier Midwest Fatbike Race (even though they misspelled Fat-Bike). You can click the race flyer to go to the event web page or visit Bike Reg to go directly to register for the event and, possibly, star in […]
Congratulations to all of the new Fat-Bike National Champions! Both the men’s and women’s Pro/Elite Champions, Amy Stuart and Cole House will be guests on Fat-Bike Radio and….you can check out all of the results and all of the new National Champions here – https://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?year=2017&id=3
Up North in the Chequamegon National Forest, there’s a race coming up that sez it’s a different kind of race. You can click the race flyer to go to the event web page or click HERE to go directly to register for the event. If you go, let us know what was different and stuff. The Event Calendar […]
This is the longest running and highest (elevation) Fat-Bike Race series in this great land! Just click on the flyer (above) and you’ll be transferred to the Cloud City Wheelers web page, where you can track down all the essential information to attend one of these fine races. You may even run into samsquantch! The […]
Check out the 2nd Annual Badger State Games – Hammer in the Hills Fat Bike Race. I think thats the freak’n longest race name that we’ve ever spotlighted! If you’re a cliff notes, sort of person, you can click the race flyer to go to the event web page or click HERE to go directly to register […]
The California State Fat Bike Championships were held on December 10th, 2016 at the Rim Nordic Bike Park in Running Springs, Calif., just west of Big Bear Lake. It is the home of Rim Nordic Ski Area which is a cross country ski area in the winter season. The weather was cool & crisp, […]
There are not many fat bike races in the world that involve complicated logistics, dedicated support crews, 3000miles of driving, and a whopping 300 miles of multi-day, one-way stage racing. But if this type of event takes your fancy, then welcome to the Australian Simpson Desert Bike Challenge. Following on, from our race reports published […]
Our Fatbassador to the Alaskan Wilderness and Anchorage, Mr Travis (T-bone) Hubbard recommends this clip, for your viewing pleasure. This is some footage from the 2016 Merry Marmot downhill race, from the Arctic Valley Ski Resort. Leave your featherweight carbon sled in the shed and grab the old trusty…..then Slip on your body armour and a full […]
Mother Nature did not play fair with the inaugural edition of the Chugach Fat Bike Bash March 18 – 20 in Valdez, AK. Here’s a couple videos from the crit and the finale of the rodeo, the Big Air, Big Splash. We had a great time during the Ursa Major Northern Lights Criterium that kicked […]
The White Mountains 100 starts Sunday north of Fairbanks and boasts perhaps the strongest field in its six-year history. “The competitiveness is incredible in almost all categories this year,” race director Joel Homan said in an email. “Of the three categories (ski, bike and run) for both male and female racers, all but one winner from last […]
The Iditarod Trail Invitational is coming up at the end of February. With options of 130 miles to Finger Lake, 350 miles to McGrath, or 1000 miles to Nome. I was lucky enough to ride to McGrath the past three years. Since im not racing it this year, I thought I’d write up a little […]
The Rovanemi 150 Arctic Winter Race is Europe’s ITI Qualifier and is in it’s fifth year! Check out the action from this year’s competition in this video that the event shared today. More than 100 racers signed up this year. There are three different distances (66k, 150k and 300k) and three different categories (on foot, by fatbike or […]
There are a few changes this year. The race organizers have added an indoor expo for registration/packet pick up that also includes a consumer show. It will be held at the Courtyard Marriott on Friday, February 26th from 12-6pm. There will also be a community ride at the Ogden Amphitheater beginning at 5:00pm that night. The […]
What goes up,…..Just seemed to keep going up. So it’s been awhile since I’ve contributed to Fat-Bike.Com, I had made a conscious decision to take a little break from hardcore cycling and racing this past year, to take care of bigger issues going on in my life. It was a tough decision earlier […]
(click the flyer to go to the event web-page) The Big Fat Ride is coming this February and the entire fat biking community is invited to participate and celebrate fat biking in The Last Frontier! Whether you are a racer, fat biker or commute on your fat bike. Anchorage Alaska is where people fat bike […]
Para obtener más información sobre este evento, visite – http://www.bikezona.com/formulario/formulario-fat.asp
Jeff MacFarlane sent us some great shots of him racing his fat-bike from this Summer and we thought that since the summer of fifteen is winding down, that we’d share one, to provide the daily recommended, dose of stoke, to get everyone’s weekend started out right. This is what Jeff shared about today’s Foto Gordo! Here’s […]
We’re stoked to sponsor the second Fatbike Sandy race this Oct 11, 2016! The inaugural Fatbike Sandy race was TX’s first ever fatbike race. We’re excited to be part of the growing community of TX fatbikers! The folks at Chumba will have a demo fleet of their new fat-bike, the URSA Major, available the day before […]
Last weekend, I sidled my way into an invitation to this year’s edition of Singlespeed USA (SSUSA) up at one of my favorite trail systems, Levis-Trow. It wasn’t too hard to do, since our amigos and gnome-fest cousins, Brett, Spinner & Chewey were running the show. It was a perfect opportunity to hang out with […]
Another Sugar Cayne Bike Fest is going down this weekend and this year it’ll be up at Billerica BMX Track, in Massachusettes! The fest will host competitions for BMX, MTB, Cyclocross, Fat-Bikes, Strider/Balance Bikes (my favorite) for all ages and skill levels. The Billerica BMX Track is newly designed with fresh new features. Registration is from 9-11am. SCBF competitions start at […]
Scott and Aileen Frey are old friends of the site and Aileen has shared quite a few of her video’s, with us, from the great state of Idaho! This clip was submitted by Aileen’s husband, Scott, a few weeks back and when I saw that it was from one of my favorite places on earth, I saved it […]
By Steve Meurett and Evan Larsson The rookie and the race director. Two essential partners to make any race a success. You can’t have one without the other. The race boss dictates keeping the ducks in a row, “i’s” dotted and “t’s” crossed while the rookie brings unbounded enthusiasm to a race that could be […]
Frank Janssens shot my amigo Morris during the ITI this year, with spectacular results! We kept this week’s image in the original format to preserve the photographer’s vision! Just click on the image above to open the full-sized version which you can right-click to save. Got your own Wallpaper Worthy Photo? We’d like to feature fat-bikes from around the […]
Duluth is the new epicenter of getting rad in the upper Midwest, and the upper Midwest is the epicenter of progressive fatbike use. So naturally, the first downhill/enduro specifically for fatbikes took place at the city-owned Spirit Mountain, side by side on the ski hill with the regular crowd of knee droppers and knuckle draggers. […]
Last week was the Pugsley Fat-Bike World Championships, so in the year that we enjoyed two US National Fat-Bike Championships, it only makes perfectly logical sense that we should also enjoy two World Championships! This one is run by our amigos at Speedway Cycles and is Sponsored by Denali Brewing, so get ready for some […]
Our Amigos from Chumba USA are hosting the first fat-bike race Texas has ever seen! Benefiting: Sam Houston Trails Coalition and Erik’s Ride: Racing the Tour Divide for the Gift of Hearing Event details can be found on the Facebook Event Page (facebook.com/events/855121037873871/?fref=ts) or contact us at fatbikesandy@gmail.com for more info. To sign up visit: bikereg.com/the-fatbike-sandy […]
Wanna know where Sven and I might rather be this weekend? PWC in Decorah is where all the action is… Click the flyer to find out all of the details that can be explained and then get ready for some old school, fat-bike FUN! Send us a race Flyer! Register your Race. Festival, Demo or Group […]
Written by Kathi Merchant, Race Director, Iditarod Trail Invitational The Iditarod Trail Invitational race, the qualifiers to get into this by invitation only race and the annual ITI winter training camps in Alaska. When I moved to Alaska in 2002 from Germany I did not know that a decade later fat biking as well as […]
We have a little radio show that we record on Wednesday nights called the Weekly Dose of Fat. Every episode, we have a Special Guest on the show. We’ve had incredible guests like Ned Overend, Rebecca Rusch, Heather Best and Travis Brown from the racing side of things and Greg Matyas, Bill Fleming and Eric […]
Our Reader’s Ride(s) articles are always more than just a story about a bicycle. There’s always a back story about the people and the places that the bikes gets ridden. Today we get to introduce you to a pretty spectacular bike with any equally interesting story about the rider and the race series that the bike […]
When USA Cycling announced the first sanctioned Fat Bike National Championship, Sven and I decided that we would send someone there to cover the event, because it’s a significant milestone for fat-bike racing. We try to bring the coolest and most interesting fat-bike news, reviews, culture and events to our readers and both […]
The original Wisconsin team snowbike race is back for yet another year!! Click on the flyer above to go to the FaceBook page or see below (or both!!) for more details. You don’t want to miss the good times that are – the Team SnowBike Enduro!! The Team SnowBike Enduro –The first and always […]
