Weekly Dose of Fat – 5-10-14 – Show #3

We are going to move the Weekly Dose of Fat to Saturday's for a while to give us a chance to spend a bit more time putting together the radio show. Weekly Dose of Fat, Show #3 for May 10th, 2014 Intro - Gomez and Sven We changed it up a bit this week to feature commentary on news that we’ve read or heard about over the past week that relates t0 fat-bikes. This week is brought to you by Surly Bikes - Surly makes bikes and parts that don't suck Congrats to a couple of Amigos Jon Severson has taken over as the US Distributor for Singular Cycles. They are the maker of the Puffin and the Rooster 29+ as well as. Fattie Lumpkin, AKA Adam Blake has been named the new General Manager of Boo Bicycles in Fort Collins, CO. Boo has a bus full of demo bikes on it's way out to California to demo bikes at the Tour of California - Check out the web-page for this month's Boo Bus Stop Schedule. Fattie Lumpkin Testimonial News from the interwebs and readers just like you. Bike Radar recently had a story about a 20lb fat-bike. http://www.bikeradar.com/us/mtb/gear/article/fairwheel-bikes-builds-a-20lb-fat-bike-40947/ Jade Cycles helped sponsor this show. We got to thinking about the relevance of the oldest fat-bikes still manufactured the Surly Pugsley and whether it is still relevant in the era of light weight carbon bikes and suspension equipped fatties. Speaking of Rohloff equipped fat-bikes Cycle Monkey had a story on their blog about a recently built Rohloff/Belt Drive Pug. http://cyclemonkeylab.blogspot.com/2014/05/surly-pugsley-with-rohloff-speedhub.html Joe, JoBoo, Sacco from the Iron Range in Minnesota reminds us that the future of fat-biking really has a human face! http://joboo1967-joboo.blogspot.com/2014/05/fatbike-friday-tomfoolery.html http://joboo1967-joboo.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-future-of-biking.html Test kitchen A pair of RaceFace Atlas pedals just arrived and are going into the testing rotation. I mentioned last week that I’ve been riding Club Ride gear -A RECENT beach ride with a 2 foot deep stream crossing showed how quickly the Rale pants dry as it probably wasn’t 3 minutes before wet legs were a memory. We are going to be testing some new bags from a UK company called Apidura. And Adam from Broealis has promised us a new Bluto equipped Echo quiver killer fat-bike for testing. Thanks again to our show sponsor, Surly, check them out at SURLYBIKES.COM Talk to you next week!