Fat (video) Tuesday – Fairbanks Alaska
Our amigo Jeff Gillmore shared a clip, shot by his buddy Clint on his first snow ride up in Fairbanks. Fairbanks is home to a who’s who of Fat-Bike celebrities, like Tupper Becker and Jeff Oatley....
View ArticleFat (video) Tuesday – Two Bothy Tour – by Illya Rudkin
We had a week at Ballater in the highlands of Scotland. It was an opportunity to complete a route intended for the bikepacking weekend trip up Glen Tilt earlier in the year. We were to go north from...
View ArticleWallpaper Wednesday – Winter is Here!
The calendar says that Winter doesn’t officially start until next week but in the French Alps…and here in Wisconsin, Jacque Frost is painting the landscape with ice and snow! Our Wallpaper features...
View ArticleJayP’s Fat Pursuit 60K Summary – by Smithhammer
Racer’s Meeting It is the evening before the start of JayP’s “Fat Pursuit” 60k race. The tribe is trickling into the pub at the Pond’s Lodge in Island Park, Idaho. Many of us know each other from the...
View ArticleFat (video) Tuesday – Heli-Fat Iceland
My new amigo Magne Kvam sent us this week’s video all the way from Iceland. You’ve probably seen Heli-Ski adventure in a Warren Miller film, so it’s only natural that Heli-Fat-Biking would be next,...
View ArticleProduct Spotlight – 2018 Kona WoZo – By Aristotle Peters
Happy Winter to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere! I am especially happy this year because I have the pleasure of reviewing the 2018 Kona Wozo. This bike checks all the boxes on my holiday wish...
View ArticleThe Bonus Bivvy
Well, it’s our last post of 2017 and instead of looking back on a pretty crazy year, let’s talk about what the plan is for the New Year! Our amigo, Jeff Price, over in the UK suggested that he’d like...
View ArticleEvent Spotlight Badger State Games (WI) 1/20/18
Click the Badger on the Nose to go to the event webpage. Wausau Wisconsin hosts the 2018 Badger State Games and the Fat-Bike Race in on January 20th. Details on how to get registered are up on the...
View ArticleFat (video) Tuesday – One Day Off
A longtime reader, Robert Krügel, dropped us a line with some hot, low-rise, mesh, european pixels from a recent trip to the Ore Mountains. Here’s what he shared about this week’s video clip. Hey...
View ArticleWallpaper Wednesday – Big M by KBS
This week’s WW really ties the whole room together, man…..if you’re into what we have coming up later this week. Our longtime Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot and the C0-Host of the Fat Camp Podcast,...
View ArticleEvent Spotlight – Fat Forest Fourteen – 2/17/2018 – MI
The Triple F Fourteen, two-thousand eighteen is happening on February seventeen. Just click the flyer to be whisked directly to the grimba.org webpage. You can tell by the look in the eye of the...
View ArticleFat (video) Tuesday – Skrzyczne
I don’t speak Polish, so I hope there’s nothing subversive contained in the banter during parts of this week’s video, but I guess it can’t be any worse than what we’ve said on some of our podcasts....
View ArticleWallpaper Wednesday – Fort Monroe
James Gipson sent us this week’s Wallpaper image. Ya’know the reason that we call this series “Wallpaper Wednesday”, is to provide our readers, with a steady stream of free bike porn* to adorn their...
View ArticleWallpaper Wednesday – Halton Agreement Forest
Paulo LaBerge sent us this week’s Wallpaper image all the way from Ontario, Canada! Here’s what he shared about his scenic capture. Firstly, awesome website! I’ve enjoyed following your news feed,...
View Article2018 Kona Wozo Review – by Aristotle Peters
I’ve spent the past few months aboard the 2018 Kona Wozo, a bike that is designed as an all-season, aggressive, hardtail that happens to have fat tires. This bike hasn’t seen much change from its...
View ArticleEvent Spotlight – Sweaty Yeti – Levis Mound Trail Center – Feb. 23-25, 2018
Click the Flyer for more event information If you’re looking for an event that has retained it’s ‘old-school’ vibe from the golden age of Wisconsin Fat-Bike Racing, you’ve found your event with...
View Article906 POLAR ROLL RACE REPORT – by Leia Schneeberger
The 906 Polar Roll is the final race of the Great Lakes Fat Bike Series. It’s advertised as a 35 Mile race (Actually 41, Thanks Todd) which starts on the main street of Marquette Michigan. This has...
View ArticleSurly Big Fat Dummy Long Term Review – by Seth Bell
Editors Note: Seth Bell is an eighteen year veteran of the bike industry and makes his home in Mason City Iowa. He currently owns six or seven fat-bikes and he spends his days working on the...
View ArticleEvent Spotlight – Lake MacBride Fat Tire Classic – March 3rd, 2018
Click the Flyer for more info This is a first-year event out in Iowa that looks like a real hoot! We used to have a Bike Black Ribbon Chapter out in Iowa, but they’re all in jail old farts now. The...
View ArticleWallpaper Wednesday – #fatbackbikes #denali #tonightsthenight #Iditarodtrail
Our longtime amigo and contributor Kevin Breitenbach sent me a few shots under the heading “gnome hunting near the Alaska Range”. Kevin took this amazing shot of fellow Fatback riders, Tim Berntson...
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