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Wallpaper Wednesday – Clarence with Sug’ah Melon
photo by ~gomez~ This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday is a shot of our Rocky Mountain Blizzard Carbon 50 demo bike at the Clarence overlook on Levis Mound. It’s dangerous to name a bike that you only get...
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2022 Australian Fat Bike National Championships – Race Report by Simon Rimmer
Fat Bikes might have been crafted for the snowfields of the northern hemisphere, but they’re as equally at home on loose trails, muddy tracks and sandy beaches……….and that’s where they’ve captured the...
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Danger Gnome Podcast – How to Summerize your Fat Bike
Tio Gomez talks with a few of the crew that contributes to the site. We ask them (and anybody else that would listen), “What Modifications do you make to your fat bike for summer?” The options...
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Superior Vistas Bike Tour (WI) adds new Fat Bike Routes – June 25th, 2022
https://www.superiorvistas.org/ Bayfield County is on my list of places to return to this summer and thanks to mi amigo, Gary Crandall, I’m headed up to ride the Superior Vistas Bike Tour in Washburn,...
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Field Trip – Way Up Nort – Bayfield County – Superior Vistas
You can’t get any further north in Wisconsin than Bayfield County (without a boat). A bit further north, the Apostle Islands are offshore out in Lake Superior and probably worth a whole ‘nuther...
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FatFOD
Last weekend I met up with some of the fat bike guys from the south of England for FatFOD. FatFOD is an annual met up run by Graham Foot of Smokestone bikes. A couple of social days riding the natural...
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The Danger Gnome Podcast – Fat Bike 48 States & The Crusher
Tio Gomez talks with William Martin about his bikepacking trip to all of the lower 48 states and then a chat with Greg Gentle about the Crusher, SSUSA, and GNOMES! LINKS William Martin and his bike...
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Wallpaper Wednesday – Fat Bikes are Mountain Bikes Perfected
Bobby Vachon sent us a shot of his Salsa Bucksaw at the Elm Creek singletrack dance studio in Champlin, Minnesota. Do you ever wonder if Salsa will ever bring back the Bucksaw? They mentioned that...
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2022 Fat Biker’s Holiday Gift Guide
It’s the Fat-Bike.com Holiday Gift Guide with something for everyone that has a fat bike enthusiast on their holiday shopping list. This year, we surveyed our Bike Black Ribbon Society brain-trust for...
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Wallpaper Wednesday – Rock River Delta Bridge Club
¡ Feliz Año Nuevo! Here’s a little slice of homemade apple pie from south-central Wisconsin. The sky just lit up at sunset on the solstice, so I thought that I’d share a little glimpse of life behind...
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Shelltrack ’23 Race Report
The Snow Crown Race Series kicked off its first race last weekend in Manitowoc. The Shelltrack race goes back to the beginning of fat bike racing in Wisconsin. It’s one of my favorite spots that host...
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Rutland Cold Rolled 2023 (VT)
Rutland Cold Rolled Fatbike Festival is back! Presented by Sram and Fiddlehead Brewing, and hosted by Mountain Bike Vermont and Pine Hill Partnership in Rutland, Vermont, Cold Rolled offers a day of...
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Hugh Jass Grande Finale at Blackhawk (WI)
The Hugh Jass Fat Bike Race Series wraps up its season at Blackhawk Ski Area near Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday 2/25/23. The trails at Blackhawk are a nice mix of XC and machine-built flow trails....
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Why Cycles Joins Revel Bikes in 2023
Revel Bikes is announcing that they’re unifying their brands. For fans of fat bikes, that means the Why Cycles Big Iron is now the Revel Big Iron. The Big Iron is one of my top five fat bikes that...
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Esker Cycles: Walden Ti GX – by Greg Gentle
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I...
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2024 Salsa Cycles Fat-Bike Announcement
The marketing department at Salsa Cycles HQ have just released details of their 2024 Fat-Bike line up and if you didn’t know, there’s some big news… We’ve got new spec, new colors, and a new name!...
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