Daily fatbike pic thread

[Outsider]

A first glimpse of snow:







Unfortunately, the snow will be gone within a week according to the weather forecast.

[dirtyjack]

Raising the next generation of fatbikers.

Jackassing in the woods next to my house.

[Drew Diller]

dirtyjack: You're a hell of a dad, in my book.

Heh, I didn't see the entire height of the first pic right away, my reaction was "Why is it that teenagers can always wheelie better than I?"

Then I remembered, I've always sucked at wheelies. I can prop up the front end, but I can't keep it there.

[Borgschulze]

Don't feel bad, I'm 21 and can't hold a wheelie more than a couple pedal strokes. But I can ride bike trials...

[scottybinwv]

Having the first taste of Pugsley Ale, oh yeah!

[donu]

Boy howdy, does that ever look good! That's a sweet ride.

[scottybinwv]

With several inches of snow on the ground, I spent last weekend roaming around the Nome area on the fatback checking on trail conditions. Not too many slednecks or dog mushers out yet, but trails are slowly emerging. Did some walking and pushing, too. All in all a great weekend on the bike. vb

Ever take your skis with you when your ride up that way?

[~gomez~]

[mangoman]

Outstanding, man.

[Elvis @ Dirt Works]

Simpson Desert Bike Challenge 2010.

Elvis.

[dirtyjack]

pug in sage

nicely done!

[Velobike]

Oz has got to be the perfect place for a fatbike - loads of loose dirt (bulldust) out west.

[coastkid71]

Scotlands coastline aint too bad aswell
this morning at Yellowcraig,East Lothian,S.E corner
1st beachride with F&R Larry`s and there ace, this bike is twice as good now!

[sean salach]

Don't feel bad, I'm 21 and can't hold a wheelie more than a couple pedal strokes. But I can ride bike trials...

I'm in the same boat. I can (or at least used to be able to) hop on the back wheel all day long, but suck monkey balls at riding a wheelie.

[Drew Diller]

First snow in Minnesota today. Wet, wet, very wet. So wet that it took down a lot of branches and knocked out power here and there. I was lucky that my home did not lose power, nor was my roof damaged, after a large branch fell.

I was kinda lamenting not having studded my Larry tires yet, but, with the layer of slush at the bottom, they wouldn't have reached through anyway.

Learned a valuable lesson: if you can't walk on it well, you can't ride it well. Very slow and wobbly ride. Time to wait for some powder.

Also learned that Power Grips aren't going to do it for me.

[sryanak]

Drew, In my somewhat limited experience if there is any snow at all the studs won't reach through. You only need them on glare ice or totally iced over snow. But when you need them you really need them. In AK it is seldom we need them so most go without, but there are times ..... I just wish Nokian would make some bike tires out of the rubber they make their studless car tires out of!

[Drew Diller]

Good to know. I'm in the process of adding Ugigrip studs to my Larrys, they're pretty similar in outward appearance to what Nokian uses.

[cozz]

A little local blast this morning, got stopped by 2 people wanting to know about the bike

lots of wet and also crunchy leaves to cycle through

clocked up 40 mph on a downhill section on road, sterring is proper weird at that speed with endos on !!

heres a pic

[Velobike]

Today's efforts were no-track stuff. Trying to ride cross country where there are no tracks or just deer tracks. Did more than my share of pushing. The trash left after forestry operations makes life difficult.



Came down the hill in the background. The lower section is fairly deep bog, hike a bike stuff.

[icecreamjay]

Took the Fatback to Greenville Maine, on Moosehead lake. Nothing but logging roads and ATV trails up here, no singletrack.

[Velobike]

It's cooling down here now. Not long before the snow (-5ºC here today)



Tried a bit more no-track riding. A bit easier when the boggy bits are frozen, but the bits of branch etc still makes it difficult, and it's mainly hike-a-bike still.

[rockraptor5]

Sunday everything was nice and frozen for her second ride on "pinky". the baseball boogie trails were rad! at least i think that's what they're called. they start above speedway and shoot down toward elmore where there are a bunch of boardwalks.

[Borgschulze]

Is there a reason so many people from Alaska use GripShifts?

[rockraptor5]

Is there a reason so many people from Alaska use GripShifts?

I think the tought is that they work better with winter gloves. Although akgreeff has grips on his mtb and trigger on his snow bike.

i'm sure there are other reasons.

[JordyB]

Is there a reason so many people from Alaska use GripShifts?

They do work better with winter gloves/mittens. Not everyone likes poggies.

And it's a personal pref for me, I have GS on all my bikes.