Fat-bike News You Can Use
Greetings from the Fat-bike.com News Room! It is Friday, May 23rd. Here is what’s up in fat-bike news this week!
- The Simpson Desert Bike Challenge Is coming up!
- Race Dates: 30 Sept to 4 Oct 2025
- A 5-day event staged across the Australian Simpson Desert
- Each September, competitors, support crew and officials gather in the Australian Simpson Desert for the annual Simpson Desert Bike Challenge.
- SDBC is a 5-day MTB event covering 300km or 500km. Each race day has two stages – approximately 80km morning and a 50km afternoon stage. Riders have the option to compete solo or in a relay team.
- Riders are required to bring a dedicated support crew or they have the option to join a support crew.
- The course traverses some 700 sand dunes, salt lakes, vast cattle stations and gibber plains. Riders and crews will experience all the diversity of this rugged and beautiful desert.
- SDBC2021 introduced an E-Bike Category.
- This category will not be entitled to win the overall event however it will give E-Bike riders an opportunity to participate in the Simpson Desert Bike Challenge.
Looking for a new fatbike?
- REI has its Co-op Cycles DRT 4.1 Fat-Tire Mountain Bike on sale.
- Canyon is selling its Dude CF 8 on Amazon in the US. (if you click the link and buy one, we will get a small commission and you won’t pay any extra! Carbon Fiber, Shimano Deore, Raceface, Maxxis. Good stuff! You will be able to find them at REI too which means you should be able to get it serviced there. Pretty standard fat-bike fare and your local bike shop can handle it too!
- We do love the Schwalbe Jumbo Jim! One of the best available fat-bike tires for a variety of conditions. If you buy it from this link we will get a small commission and you won’t pay any extra! It is like supporting the site for free!
What’s the Buzz at Fat-bike.com?
It was a busy week for posts here at Fat-bike.com World HQ in Milwaukee and our satellite office in Seeley, WI. Here is what you might have missed.
- Puck is back with a story about his Deep Woods Designs Wheel Holder for Fat-bike Wheels and a Handlebar Display Mount.
- Seeley Dave posted a story about his Bikepacking Trip on a Panorama Cycles Chic Chocs 3 fatbike.
- Fat (Video) Tuesday – This week’s video was of Gary Fisher talking fatbikes at Interbike! What a response!!
- Wallpaper Wednesday – Seeley Dave’s Yuba Gravel Grocery Getter.
- Throwback Thursday – This Week in Fat Bike History from 5-25-12.
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You can check out Full Spectrum Cycling 306 here this week. Sven and JK bring you show 306, probably not the last recorded in Studio One at PodcastMKE in Milwaukee. We had a minor setback in the building of Studio Two. Lots of action in the Full Spectrum Cycling Show Notes. Have a gander! Get listening!
I’m still working on moving the Full Spectrum Cycling to its own page soon. Probably on a Saturday or Sunday. You can still find it at https://fullspectrumcycling.com too though.
If you’ve been around a while you may remember that we posted a bunch of shows on this site from 2018 to 2021 when Full Spectrum got it’s own site but we figure you fine folks would like to keep up with what Sven and JK have been up to.
Do you already know of fat-bike events coming next winter? Are they on the Fat-bike.com Event Calendar? Don’t see yours? Click on over to our “Submit an Event” page and get it posted for others to see and plan for.
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