Weekly Dose of Fat – 6-21-14 – with Kevin Breitenbach – Radio Show #9

Weekly Dose of Fat for SATURDAY - June 21st, 2014 - Show # 9 Why is Surly Bikes our show sponsor?  - because we said so! - http://surlybikes.com Give it up for the fat-bike radio band and their leader - Chris Daisy! He also runs Zion Cyclery. - http://zioncyclery.com We have a t-shirt in the pipe-line that Chris did the art for! We’re donating a portion of every order to KORBA (which is) a local trail group that’s building 14 miles of singletrack with groomed fat-bike trails. We’re going to take pre-orders on this shirt design soon. Beer Segment I’m drink’n Bell’s Oberon from the dorm-sized fridge in my motel room. I’m drinking Ayinger Celebrator - it comes with a little plastic goat Beer Talk This week’s special guest isWorld Record Holder and The Winner of this year’s 350 mile Iditarod Trail Invitational, Kevin Breitenbach Sponsor Borealis Bikes - http://borealisbikes.com Kevin Breitenbach Interview Test Kitchen Sarma has got a set of wheels coming for us to test with their Naran 100 mm Carbon Rims laced to their Sarma 190/135 hubs - that’s on the heels of their announcement about the first Carbon 29+ rim earlier this week. http://sarmanbikes.com Stan’s came out with their Hugo rim this week that we saw way back at Interbike - Bob from Stan’s sent us some info that they just released at Press Camp that we put up on the site yesterday! They are rumored to be available in October. http://fat-bike.com/2014/06/stans-introduces-tubless-hugo-52-rims-and-complete-wheelsets-for-fat-bikes-27-5-and-29-plus/ Niner introduced a Steel 29+ bike called the ROS 9+ Does anyone else think that we need a wider variety of 29+ tires??   Well... they’re coming. Our lead story next week (on the site) is an Introduction to Moonmen from Fort Collins, Colorado - Colin reviews the Ice Cream truck and the Andy provides his two cents on the Borealis Echo. The show this week was sponsored by Surly Bikes. Available at better bicycle retailers across america Thanks to everyone for listening and a thanks to Kevin Brietenbach for being our guest More Weekly Dose Links http://www.fatbikespitsbergen.com/ http://www.sport1.no/sykkel/rad-og-tips/fra-fjell-til-fjord/