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Welcome to the heart of fat-bike.com — where it all began back in 2011. Since day one, we’ve been the web’s original home for all things fatbike. From the snowy trails of the northwoods to sun-baked beach sand, we’ve tested, reviewed, and celebrated fatbikes in every condition imaginable.

This category is where you’ll find fat-bike news, product launches, deep-dive reviews, and insights into the ever-evolving world of fatbike riding.

Thirteen years strong and still rolling fat — dig in and explore!

FatBikes

Framed Bikes – Marquette 27.5+ Bike Review – By Aristotle Peters

September 5, 2017 Gomez Comments Off on Framed Bikes – Marquette 27.5+ Bike Review – By Aristotle Peters
I’ve been very lucky to have spent the summer with this beautiful Framed Marquette Carbon. The bike came well packed […]
FatBikes

Reader’s Ride(s) – Custom BTR Roamer by Olov Stenlund

September 4, 2017 Gomez 4
I don’t know for how long, but getting a custom built frame, has been a dream since long before I […]
Destinations

Fat Bike Iceland

August 8, 2017 summittoppler 6
For years I’ve always had a dream of riding somewhere desolate and remote on my bike. I thought that dream […]
FatBikes

Saddledrive News – 2018 Salsa Mukluk & 27.5 Fat Beargrease

August 2, 2017 Gomez 1
It’s your uncle Gomez here at Saddledrive at beautiful Northstar Village in Truckee, California. It’s Media Day at Saddledrive and […]
FatBikes

Fatback Corvus Review

July 17, 2017 Gomez 5
I’ve been riding a Fatback Corvus for the last few months and it’s ‘high time’ for me to put into […]
Components

Smokestone Henderson short term review

July 6, 2017 summittoppler 1
The Smokestone Henderson fat bike is the brainchild of Graham Foot from Slam69 Cycles in Gloucester in the UK. I […]
FatBikes

Framed Mini-Sota Kid’s Fat-Bike Review – by Andy Amstutz

May 22, 2017 Gomez 1
  Notice that the swings are empty and not moving?  That’s because my kids have been on these two FRAMED […]
FatBikes

2017 Jamis Roughneck Review – By Ward Whitmire

April 18, 2017 Gomez 1
The six weeks that I tested the Roughneck, just happened, to fall at the tail end of the best Winter […]
FatBikes

Framed Wolftrax Carbon Custom Review

April 13, 2017 Julio 1
Back in January, a Framed Wolftrax Carbon Custom landed in the Fat-Bike.com Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot hanger bay.  You […]
FatBikes

Product Spotlight – 2017 Fatback Corvus

April 3, 2017 Gomez 1
  We have a brand new 2017 Fatback Corvus in the shop for testing. Two of our Black Ribbon Test […]
Bike Culture

A Parable about a Viking and the Big Fat Dummy

March 22, 2017 Spinner 7
In the fat-bike marketplace, we’ve seen a lot of gimmicks in the past couple of years.  For example: carbon, full […]
FatBikes

2017 Fatback Rhino FLT Review – By Travis Hubbard

March 16, 2017 Gomez 4
After a thorough 2 month shakedown of the 2017 Fatback Rhino FLT during a very snowy Alaskan winter I came […]
FatBikes

RSD Ti Mayor Mid Term Review

March 9, 2017 Gomez 3
People love to complain about the weather and the last couple of winter’s around the midsection of the Great Lakes […]
FatBikes

First Look – 2017 Jamis Roughneck – By Ward Whitmire

February 27, 2017 Gomez 1
    Coincidentally, a week or so before being asked if I wanted to test & review the Jamis Roughneck, […]
FatBikes

Product Spotlight – Framed Wolftrax Carbon

February 20, 2017 Julio Comments Off on Product Spotlight – Framed Wolftrax Carbon
The testing lab at Fat-Bike.com was recently offered up a Framed Wolftrax Carbon fatbike to put through its paces.  Gomez reached […]
FatBikes

Borealis Flume Review by Dustin Carlson

February 6, 2017 Gomez 6
Borealis Flume Review By Dustin Carlson Do you ever find yourself looking out the kitchen window at a barren wasteland […]
FatBikes

Rocky Mountain’s New Suzi Q Fat-bike Takes Aim at Trail Rippin’

December 31, 2016 Greg Smith Comments Off on Rocky Mountain’s New Suzi Q Fat-bike Takes Aim at Trail Rippin’
Photo: Margus Riga – Location: Pemberton, BC The new Rocky Mountain Suzi Q is a step in the trail riding direction […]
FatBikes

The Surly Big Fat Dummy

December 5, 2016 Gomez 4
  Back in September, I visited the QBP corporate campus in sunny Bloomington MN, for an opportunity to meet and […]
FatBikes

Quick Review of the Bearclaw Balthazar as a 29+ Bike

November 24, 2016 Ken Blakey-Shell 5
Bearclaw Bike Co. is a name that many people may not be familiar with but I am guessing if you […]
FatBikes

Product Spotlight – RSD Ti Mayor

November 17, 2016 Gomez 3
  I voted for the RSD Ti Mayor Part of my responsibilities as Payload Specialist on the USS Faterprise is to […]
FatBikes

Kona WoZo Review ~Fat Bikes Gone Wild~ by Dustin Carlson

October 31, 2016 Gomez 8
    Two months ago, my take on fat biking was this: I love it! It is a great way […]
FatBikes

Tumbleweed’s New Fat-bike Looks VERY Interesting!

October 24, 2016 Greg Smith Comments Off on Tumbleweed’s New Fat-bike Looks VERY Interesting!
The folks at the Tumbleweed Bicycle Company have developed the Prospector with bikepacking in mind and have built in some […]
FatBikes

2016 Trek Farley EX 8 by Tupper Becker

October 3, 2016 Gomez 4
  Bag Maker and Beer Dranker Señior Tupper Becker went out and bought himself a dual suspension fat-bike up there […]
FatBikes

Otso Cycles is Born!

August 23, 2016 Gomez 7
The same crew that founded Wolf Tooth Components are launching Otso Cycles, which is a new bike company focused on bringing innovative bikes […]
FatBikes

Diamant F1-LTD Review – By Euan Pennington

June 6, 2016 Gomez 3
    I’m old enough to remember the 90’s, when mountain bike brands would occasionally build a bike for a […]
FatBikes

The Borealis Crestone Review

May 30, 2016 Gomez 2
  At the end of February, I shared my first impressions of the Borealis Fat Bikes, Crestone and now I’m […]
FatBikes

Initial Impression – Diamant F1-LTD by Euan Pennington

May 23, 2016 Gomez Comments Off on Initial Impression – Diamant F1-LTD by Euan Pennington
    Porn.  It’s all over the Interweb.  If those on the moral high ground are to be believed, it […]
FatBikes

Review – 2016 RSD Mayor Fat-bike

April 25, 2016 Greg Smith 10
RSD Mayor out in the snow. It’s quite orange but hard to get the true color in a photo! This […]
FatBikes

2016 Framed Alaskan Alloy Review – by Andy Amstutz

April 18, 2016 Gomez 8
Winter came late to the land of the hand (Michigan, sorry Wisconsin), lasted for about 6 weeks and headed on […]
FatBikes

Product Preview – Felt DD30 – By Ernesto Martinez-Ordaz

April 4, 2016 Gomez Comments Off on Product Preview – Felt DD30 – By Ernesto Martinez-Ordaz
The day was sunny and beautiful – the screams of the mud and dirt were yelling from afar, so Heather […]
FatBikes

Reader’s Ride(s) – Jon’s Sarma/Surly Hybrid

March 14, 2016 Greg Smith 2
I bought my Surly Moonlander a few years back. I knew I wanted a designated fat bike to ride on […]
FatBikes

Borealis Crestone – First Impressions

February 29, 2016 Gomez 2
Way back in July – I got the opportunity to ride one of the early samples of the new Borealis Crestone […]
FatBikes

Sarma Vortex Review

February 8, 2016 Julio 3
Sarma first came onto the scene with the carbon Shaman, a fat-bike (as seen right here on FatdashBikedotCom)  followed by […]
FatBikes

Product Preview – Specialized Hellga by Kim Thomas

February 1, 2016 Gomez 1
Leave it to Specialized to be among the first to market with a women’s specific fat bike. Thanks Specialized! Of […]
FatBikes

Reader’s Ride(s) – Kris’s Custom-built Kona WO

January 28, 2016 Greg Smith 5
Two years ago, we posted some pictures of Kris’s first Kona WO that he built up from a frame into […]
FatBikes

Heller Bloodhound Review by Evan LarSSon

January 25, 2016 Gomez 7
  I arrived at the Fat-Bike.com fortress of solitude to take possession of the new Heller Bloodhound.  Heller is the […]
Components

Otis Turns Two – Fatback Review – The extended club version

January 21, 2016 Gomez 5
 Otis’s Story Timeline 12/25/2013 – Otis’s Introduction and Naming – https://archive.fat-bike.com/2013/12/fatback-190-product-test-episode-1/ 12/25/2014 – Otis Turns One – https://archive.fat-bike.com/2014/12/otis-turns-one-%E2%99%A6-fatback-long-term-review/ 2/5/2015 – Otis Gets […]
FatBikes

Framed Alaskan Alloy Product Preview by Andy Amstutz

January 20, 2016 Gomez 1
    Just when you start doubting the inevitables as inevitables, they inevitably happen.  Winter did finally arrive to northwest […]
FatBikes

Reid Zeus Review by Euan Pennington

January 19, 2016 Gomez 4
Reid Zeus – Godly or Ghastly? For the last couple of months I have had the Reid Zeus fatbike lurking […]
FatBikes

Fatback Rhino Review by David Glover

January 11, 2016 Gomez 5
Back in August, 2015, Fatback announced a new fat-bike aimed to be a “Do it all” bike. A fat-bike that […]
FatBikes

Ritchey Commando Review

January 9, 2016 Gomez 2
I’ve bee riding a Ritchey Commando for the last 6 weeks. During that time the Commando was the only mountain bike […]
FatBikes

Product Preview – SURLY – Ice Cream Truck Ops

December 29, 2015 Spinner Comments Off on Product Preview – SURLY – Ice Cream Truck Ops
We’re going on a bender with Surly’s Ice Cream Truck Ops, or Iceratops for short. What I’ve always liked about […]
eFat

First Impressions – Surface 604 Boar E350, Yep, It Is An Electric Fat-bike

December 15, 2015 Greg Smith 7
Our time with the Surface 604 Boar E350, the first eBike we’ve had in for testing here at fat-bike.com, began […]
FatBikes

Carbon beauty meets a single-track beast — Get to know the Trek Farley 9.8

December 8, 2015 Aaron Hautala 3
The long-term red dirt review Having reviewed the original baby blue Farley and now it’s cousin, the 9.8, I’d like […]

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