Wallpaper Wednesday – Moonlander (BAMF)
Is it too early to be thinking about Fall? Well, here’s a shot from Ray Walker out in Arizona to get you in the mood for nice cool fall fat-biking. Here’s what Ray shared about his shot. Howdy there,...
View ArticleSpotlight: Surly Petite Porteur House Bag – By Smithhammer
Last year Surly released their full-size “Porteur House” rack bag, designed for their 24-Pack Rack and other platforms of similar ilk. A beast of a bag, you could easily pack a full litter of...
View ArticleWallpaper Wednesday ♦ OG Pug & the Maah Daah Hey
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes straight out of the high plains of North Dakota from Barb Curtis. This is Barb’s OG Purple Pugsley out on the Maah Daah Hey Trail. Her sweet steel pug is leaned...
View ArticleWallpaper Wednesday – Jasper National Park
This is Mike Mahony’s third photo feature and keeps our current string of international fat-bike funski’s alive and kick’n! We keep a pretty steady stream of groovy fat-bike fotos on our instagram...
View ArticleFirst (& Second) Look – Surly Edna 26 x 4.3 Tire
Our amigos at Surly recently added a new fat-bike tire to a legendary list of names like Bud & Lou – Nate – Larry and now……Edna! I’m a fan of the name, because of my bat-shit crazy, Great Aunt...
View ArticleBikes, a Boat & maybe a Goat – A Traveling Fat-Bike Side Show
A couple decades back, my friend Cale and I started a bike gang called the Bike Black Ribbon Society and over the years BBR established chapters all over the US. When we started to need help with...
View ArticleThe Dose of Fat Podcast – Show #129
Show #129! The new crew, Leia,Gomez & Spinner, are back in the posh Midwest Family Marketing Studios in beautiful Madison Wisconsin, for about an hour of conversation that revolves around plus and...
View ArticleEvent Spotlight – Surly Masher – MPLS – 2/3/18
click the flyer to go to the event webpage When the bike world and the beer world align under a banner that reads SURLY, you know that unlike most watered down, new school, fat-bike events that go...
View ArticleSurly Edna 26 x 4.3 Review by Ron Stawicki
Getting Dirty With Edna Few bike parts can affect a bikes fun factor like tires. You can roll with a generic stem or hubs and I doubt it’ll ruin your day but mount up some cheap, heavy tires to...
View ArticleSurly Unveils the Next Generation Pugsley
From the moment that the original Pugsley was phased out of production, fat-bikers and surly-philes have asked the question “when will Surly bring the Pugsley back?” We asked Sov at our 100th Weekly...
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 ArticleThe First 60 Days with a Surly Midnight Special – By Ron Stawicki
60 Days of a Midnight Special (Disclaimer: This is my personal bike I purchased from my local bike shop. Since it’s a “fat road” bike I offered to write up my take on it for fat-bike.com. I changed...
View ArticleWallpaper Wednesday – July 4th, 2018 – Independence Day!
First things first…Happy Birthday to Sven Hammer! and Happy 4th of July! aka Independence Day in the United States of America. This is a shot taken up in Port Washington, Wisconsin from a ride I did...
View ArticleFirst look at Surly’s New Plutonium Sparkle Green Machine AKA the 2019 Ice...
So, there I was, in the middle of a serious negotiation for a new camper. The wife and I were working the salesman over, trying to better our trade-in when I happened to look at my phone and see a...
View Article2019 Surly Ice Cream Truck Review – By Tony Grande
Sometimes I’m not sure of who I am. A father, a husband, a surveyor, or just Kato’s roadie who drinks for free (even if it means stealing L7’s beer, but that’s a story for another time). We all...
View ArticleSurly Terminal Bar – By Spinner
Surly puts a lot of time and thought into packaging Let’s be honest here, Surly is trying a few new things that you might not have expected. Sure, they’re usually one of the first to get weird when...
View ArticleSurly SunRise Bar
A little over a year ago, I switched the bars on my 29+ Surly Krampus from a low riser mountain bike handlebar to a set of Jones Loop Bars. The long-term net result was that I grew to marginally...
View ArticleFoto Gordo – (you) Big Fat Dummy!
Don’t get sore! I’m just quoting Fred Sanford and describing the star of this month’s Foto Gordo supermodel. Straight outta North Dakota with a fresh beer on deck this gnu blue (la luna nueva) BFD is...
View ArticleNiche Bike News – The Moment – Sram AXS – Terevail Tires – Surly Home...
Red Bull created a documentary film about the origins of Freeride MTB with interviews with Wade Simmons, Richie Schley, and Brett Tippe. The trailer is above and a link to the full-length film is...
View ArticleWallpaper Wednesday – Giddy Up Ice Cream Truck
This week’s Wallpaper Wednesday comes to us from our Fatbassador to New York, Roberto Rainville! Bob calls this one “Giddy Up Ice Cream Truck”. It was shot on an abandoned wood-planked bridge that...
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