Weekly Dose of Fat – 6-14-14 – with Eric Sovern – Show #8

Weekly Dose of Fat for SATURDAY - June 14th, 2014 - Show #8 Intro The sponsor of today’s radio show is the ubiquitous Surly Bikes. http://surlybikes.com Positive vibrations to long time amigo Ricky DeLayos. He’s waiting for the final tests to come back to see if he has Lyme Disease. Welcome to show #8! We’ve got one hell of a show for you boys and girls! Sven and I are joined in the studio - by our amigo, Colin! S - We’ve have Eric Sovern as our special guest this week G - He’s so dreammy S - Sov will be sharing all the secrets of one of his fat-bikes with us G - I wonder which fatty he’ll choose to bring to the table S - We’ll bring you all into the test kitchen and share a fat bowl of what’s cook’n G - We’re bringing back some links to share with our readers C - and this week, I brought the beer, so stand back! What’s in the fat-bike radio cooler this week? Lakefront IPA - http://www.lakefrontbrewery.com Beer Talk Check out 1 Up USA for the best car rack solutions - www.1upusa.com Special Guest Eric Sovern from Surly talks about Decorah, Dirt Burger and Ice Cream Trucks. Texas Pete Hot Sauce - http://texaspete.com Test Link Kitchen Check out the new Battle Axe Fatbike from the folks at Soma Fabrications. http://somafab.blogspot.com/2014/06/soma-battleaxe-fatbike-frameset.html Telephone Interview with Wade Whitmire about thee 4th rendition of the Ocean Shores Gathering by clicking the event link in the show notes. https://www.facebook.com/events/295748610585174/ Ventana is working on a Fat Tandem and a Ventana Mountain Bikes Dual Suspension fatty that hasn’t quite made it out of his head and onto drawings quite yet. http://www.ventanausa.com/ Jim Degracia at Jade Cycles and he told me that He’s in production with a full Carbon Fat-bike frame and fork that will sell under his Whisper cycles brand. He’s currently making a batch of 17 and 19 inch frames that should be on shore in time for this winter. Jim said the 19” frame should weigh about 1200 grams. - http://jadecycles.com/index.php Thanks to our sponsor - Surly Bikes! Thanks again to our Special Guest, Eric Sovern and be sure to tune in next week, when we welcome Bill Fleming from 9:Zero:7 to the radio program. See, yah!