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Weekly Dose of Fat for SATURDAY – May 31st, 2014 – Show #6

Gomez and Sven Intro

Our Show this week is sponsored by the kind and helpful boys and girls of Surly.Check them out at Surlybikes dot com – http://surlybikes.com

Show line up

  • Tim Moore from REEB Cycles is our special guest
  • Colin Ford is back as our color announcer
  • G – We share some fat-bike events where you might just run into us
  • We’ll let you know what’s cook’n in da’Test Kitchen
  • Plus BEER!

This week the show’s beer-buzz is provided by Dale’s Old Chub Scotch Ale

Dale’s is a craft brew that comes in cans. What’s up with cans and Micro Brew?

Ad – Grundle Butter

Special guest – Tim Moore from Reeb Cycles talks about Reeb, Oskar Blues and his personal rig.

Fat-Bike Calendar

Events are being listed at Our Fat-Bike.com Events Calendar page.

Our Event Calendar is set up so Event Promoters can post their fat-bike events for everyone to see.

We share some events that we’re actually going to attend this summer!

June 14th – Fat Tire Tour of Milwaukee – Movie theme Napolean Dynamite – https://www.facebook.com/groups/18368462414/

Puck is working with Mike from ZuZu Pedalson a party at the 50th Celebration of Port Fish Day! on July 19, 2014 in Port Washington, WI – http://www.portfishday.com/.

He’s dubbed the event SandBurger - https://www.facebook.com/events/708215979243466/

The Riverwest 24 is happening the last Friday in July. That’s the  25-26th – Zito – Fleet of Krampi? http://www.riverwest24.com/

Fat Camp – Our friends over at Zion Cyclery are hosting a fat-bike festival dubbed Fat Camp with riding and camping out at Illinois Beach State Park. Saturday and Sunday, September 13th and 14th.
https://www.facebook.com/events/407921669347210/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Gnome-Fest Eleven – The Burning Bike, will take place at Hirsh Farms out in Plattville, Wisconsin over Labor Day Weekend September 5th thru the 7th. https://www.facebook.com/events/609196459173133/

Global Fat-Bike Day is Saturday, December 6th 2014. Get planning early, this is going to be a big one!

We have the Fat-bike.com Store open again for limited run products - http://store.fat-bike.com/

 Test Kitchen

Sven is working on an ongoing Rohloff chain vs belt test in nearly identical bikes.

Tthe Cycle Monkeys used Rohloffed up Krampi on a bikepacking trip on Mount Diablo in Cali.
http://cyclemonkeytales.blogspot.com/2014/05/mount-diablo-bikepacking-trip.html

Colin continues to shred the Ice CreamTruck. His bud Luke shot some great pix on a local trail that we will work into a story and one will be next week’s Wallpaper Wednesday!

Borealis Echoi 80-mile race report

Thanks to our show sponsor Surly Bikes – go to surly bikes dot com and check out the new Ice Cream Truck

If you’d like to be a guest on fat-bike radio let us know and we’ll try to make it happen. Email gomez@fat-bike.com

We have Paul Ellis from Hed and  Eric Sovern from the Surly Intergalactic World Headquarters as special guests for the the next two shows

Bye!