Weekly Dose of Fat Show # 84 – Surly Reveals New Fat-bike Pricing!

Weekly Dose of Fat - Show Number 84 - Friday, December 11th 2015 This week we have a special announcement on incredible, new lower prices on Surly Moonlanders, Ice Cream Trucks and Pugsleys! Join us as John Fleck from Surly tells Sven, Gomez and JK all about it! Fat-Bike Radio, and The Weekly Dose of Fat, is sponsored by Surly Bikes. Learn more at http://surlybikes.com On the show this week. We start the show with the Event of the Week Next week’s Becker Sewing and design Bag Contest will be revealed. We award the prizes for the Global Fat-bike Day Contest. We take calls from our listeners and talk about Who your favorite Bike Black Ribbon Test Pilot might be or maybe even talk about how you celebrated GFBD. We explore the Fatty Farm Field Report brought to by The Winter RUSH Fat-Bike Series, The Michigan State Fat-Bike Championships and the 2017 USA Cycling - Fat-Bike National Championships The Event of the week is the polartec winter fat bike race series A six Race Series held in New Hampshire. Arlon chaffee calls in to tell us all about some hot east coast fat-bike racing! Get more info and register at www.fatbikenh.com Fatty Farm Field Report This week’s Fatty Farm Field Report is presented by ….The Winter RUSH Fat-Bike Series. Winter Rush is the home of The Michigan State Fat-Bike Championships and will be your hosts of the 2017 USA Cycling Fat-Bike National Championships. For more information click the winter rush banner in the show notes or visit Winter Rush dot com - http://winterrush.com/ We call Bike Black Ribbon Test Aaron Hautala Weekly Contest! Wanna win a Becker 40 Below Bag? For the next 3 shows we’ll be awarding one lucky winner a week one fabulous becker sewing 40 below down tube bag. The first week we’re going to award the bag to the best photo from GFBD 2015. Send your photo to gomez@ fat-bike.com with Becker Bag Contest Global Fat-bike Day Toys for Tots contest prize awards 1st - Jordan Blackson - Anchorage - 140 riders 79 Toys 2nd - Rickey deLeyos - DC Area - 60 toys 3rd - Shawne Camp - NY - 70 riders 54 Toys GFBD = over 300 toys donated! Fat-bike Links Check out mi amigo Bjorn and the Homer Cycling club working to establish the world’s first fat-bike and packraft route, but first we need to help convince the AK State park to end their prohibition on cycling. Here's the link to the KBAT blogspot: http://kb-at.blogspot.com/ Global Fat-bike Day in Newfoundland https://theslowbiker.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/global-fatbike-day-2015-2/ Bruce’s Global Fat-bike Day http://coastkid.blogspot.com/2015/12/gbfd-2015-east-lothian-midget-subs.html Wisconsin Trail Alert and Call To Action for Blue Mound State Park https://www.change.org/p/paul-zajackowski-wisconsin-department-of-natural-resources-blue-mound-state-park-save-blue-mound-state-park-singletrack-mtb-trails-due-12-16-2015?recruiter=20311467&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink Dave Weins is a laughing fat-biker! http://www.summitdaily.com/news/sports/19458479-113/inaugural-fat-bike-open-draws-mtb-pro-dave Fat-biking in Vilas County, WI http://salsacycles.com/culture/proceed_to_the_good_life_vilas_county_wisconsin Beat gets another Curiak fat-bike http://www.jilloutside.com/2015/12/beats-new-bike.html JooBoo on a morning ride https://joboo1967.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/a-day-off-morning-pedal/   Randy & Shawn's Iron Horse/John Wayne Trail tour in October. Filmed by Shawn's buddy Chris Wojcik to raise awareness of serious issues facing a large portion of this route. https://vimeo.com/146162508 Sin-City-Natty - Solo GFBD Goodness http://www.outsidecincy.com/news/2015/12/7/global-fat-bike-day-2015 Winnipeg Global Fat-bike Day (Hola Tom!) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-winter-cyclists-head-out-for-a-spin-on-global-fat-bike-day-1.3352869 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/big-wheels-keep-on-turning-360707661.html Say, Bye!