Weekly Dose of Fat – 9-5-14 – with Amy Rowley – Show #20

Weekly Dose of Fat -  Friday, September 5thth 2014 - Show #20 Now in over 50 countries! Sven, Gomez and J.K. Livin are in the studio. This show is sponsored by the Surly Ice Cream Truck - Learn more at http://surlybikes.com On this week’s show A live call in from Amy Rowley of the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation to talk about the 2015 Fat Bike Birkie. We discuss a bit about our upcoming trip to Sin City to cover the Outdoor Dirt Demo and Interlake Time is running out to enter our dog days of summer contest We take a look at fat-bike news from around the web on the Weekly Dose of Fat and, of course, we will talk a bit about beer Gomez went to Mad Town and so we are Drinking Hopalicious from Ale Asylum brewed right there in our state capitol. Amy Rowley Interview of the American Birkebeiner Foundation and the Fat-bike Birkie http://www.birkie.com/bike/events/fat-bike-birkie/  Weekly Dose of Internet Fat It’s Gnome-Fest Eve! Richard from over UK way sent us news of a link on Singletrack World that has fat-bike news from Eurobike. http://singletrackworld.com/2014/08/eurobike-demo-day-fatbike-edition/ On the Bicycle Retailer website there is a cross section picture of Kenda’s new Juggernaut Fat-bike Tire. http://www.bicycleretailer.com/international/2014/08/28/top-taiwanese-manufacturers-launch-new-products-eurobike MTBR collected their best fat bikes of Euro Bike http://reviews.mtbr.com/eurobike-ten-head-turning-fatbikes-and-one-crank-from-eurobike Pinkbike had a photo of a fat-bike for kids. The Scool 20-inch XXFat apparently won a Eurobike Award. http://www.pinkbike.com/news/eurobike-2014-hey-you-gotta-see-this.html JoBoo has a story about the Legion Trails in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. He’s also written a post that supports a young lady who has Juvenile Diabetes with a plea for donations. http://joboo1967-joboo.blogspot.com/2014/08/legion-trails-grand-rapids-mn.html Last call to enter the contest! It ends September 15th http://fat-bike.com/2014/08/dog-days-of-summer-photovideosecret-word-contest/ If you write about fat-biking on the web and would like us to check out what you’ve got going, shoot me an email to [email protected] and we might just mention your stories on the show! Thanks again to Surly for sponsoring the radio portion of today’s broadcast. That’s what we have for this week! See you next time