Weekly Dose of Fat – Borealis News – E-Fatbikes – Fatbike History – Full Spectrum 299

Fat-bike News You Can Use

Greetings from the Fat-bike.com News Room! It is Friday, April 4th and we’ve had some intense rain. Most trails are closed here due to mud and most of the groomed trails in the North and, and even Canada,, are shutting down to protect the trails. Please follow local trail announcements!

Borealis Fat Bikes suspends bike purchases due to tariffs – https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2025/04/03/borealis-fat-bikes-paused-purchases-due-tariffs

This has been up for 7 years on Pinterest – 620 Fat Bike Ideas – https://www.pinterest.com/jnisatars/fatbike/

Fatbike Dat Tour in Rovaniemi Finland – https://www.safartica.com/activity/fatbike-day-tour-fatbike-retki/

Electric Fatbike News

Northern Lights Hunting on Electric Fatbike in Lapland! – https://blissadventure.fi/activity/northern-lights-chase-on-electric-fatbike/

The HOVSCO™ HovAlpha 26″ Fat Tire Electric Bike is on sale at $1299 – https://www.hovsco.com/products/hovalpha-electric-fat-bike

What’s the Haps at Fat-bike.com?

It was a busy week for posts here at Fat-bike.com World HQ and our satellite office Seeley, WI. Here is what you might have missed:

• Allroy’s Report on the Fat-bike Festival at Mansfield Outdoor Centre in Mulmur, Ontario
• Cpl. Jeff MacFarlane’s great pictures of the Kimberley Nordic Center’s groomed fatbike trails in beautiful Kimberley, BC.
• A powerful video on a 721km Winter Bikepacking Expedition On The Worlds Longest Winter Road

Sven’s Chumba Ursa Major Titanium Fat-bike Frame is for Sale

Sven is selling his Chumba Ursa Major Titanium Fat-bike Frame! – https://everydaycycles.com/products/ursa-major-titanium-fatbike-frame

Hi all, Sven here. While we ramp the fat-bike.com machine back up we could use a few shekels in the ol’ coffers to keep the servers running and the lights on etc. The following are some items I have on eBay that, if sold, will help keep the wheels rolling true! Thanks.

This Week in Fat Bike History

The following links are from the Weekly Dose of Fat published on 4-6-12! Yes, they all still work. Amazing to see what was happening back then and that many posts from 13 years ago are still available on the web!

We had a great time in Michigan last weekend for the St Fattys Day event. You can read a recap here.

http://coastkid.blogspot.com/2012/03/uk-fatbike-gathering-2-28th29th-april.html – UK Fatbike Gathering scheduled and we’re proud to announce, Fat-Bike.com is helping to support the event!

http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/2012/03/fade-to-white-part-two.html – Part 2 of Jill’s White Mountains 100 experience.

http://gearjunkie.com/fat-bike-trend – Calling it a fat in 2012?? Overview of Fat. Trend, fad???

http://deathrideradventure.blogspot.com/2012/04/exploring.html – Exploring on a Pug.

http://fattiremn.blogspot.com/2012/03/green-up.html – Fat front Fargo and a ride in MN.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gasmith/sets/72157629724031477/ – Pix from St Fattys Day.

http://joecruz.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/white-mountains-100/ – White Mountains 100 report.

http://joecruz.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/white-mountains-100-snapshots/ – Photos from the White Mountains 100.

http://alaskabikeblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/gettin-high-on-chugach.html – Still on snow in AK.

http://imaginegnat.com/2012/04/05/up-north-on-film/ – Pix from snow a month ago on FILM no less!

Still looking for feedback on this! I’ve been thinking of making the Fat Bike History bit into a Throwback Thursday thing. I don’t know about you but I like checking in on stuff that happened at the beginning of the fat-bike craze! Leave a comment if you think this is a good idea!

Full Spectrum Cycling 299 – Brett Joins Us to Talk The Green Mile and MMI – Mayday Mayhem – Uptowner Beard Comp

Have you checked out the Fat-bike.com Event Calendar? There are still fat-bike events happening into May! Fat-bike.com Event Calendar. Don’t see an event listed that you know about click on over to our “Submit an Event” page and get it posted for others to see.

Do you have fatbike news we all can use? Help us spread the word that fatbikes and fatbiking are here to stay! Shoot me a note to [email protected].