Turpin Meadow Ranch has 12 miles of groomed Nordic trails open to fat bikes (conditions permitting) and six miles of fat-bike-only single-track trails. All trails are groomed daily.

Turpin Meadow Ranch has 12 miles of groomed Nordic trails open to fat bikes (conditions permitting) and six miles of fat-bike-only single-track trails. All trails are groomed daily.

He guesstimates 15,000 fat bikes are sold annually in Canada, with ridership “in the hundreds of thousands.” Well-groomed trails are essential for fat biking, since deep snow is difficult to ...

Mountain bikes with fat tires hold promise as a winter recreation option as climate change brings on winters that sometimes lack snow for skiers and snowboarders. June 20, 2025 contribute now ...

SPOKANE — The first thing people notice: The tires, wider than the forearms of most grown men. Then, the inevitable first question: Where’s the motor? The fat bike — a seemingly typical ...

By 2010, three bike companies, Surly, Salsa and Fatback Bikes, were selling complete, ready-to-ride fat bikes to shops. Meiser expects that the 5,000 fat bikes in circulation in 2012 will grow to ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Gone are the days when cyclists had to put away their bikes for the winter. These days, hard-core riders are staying outdoors year round thanks to “fat bikes” th… ...

Fat bikes remain expensive, retailing from $2,000 to $5,000, so we rented ours from Hutch's Bicycle Store in Bend for $45 each per day.

A fat e-bike may be most at home in the slush or sand, but Defiant's idea was to build a bike that could excel all year, in all types of conditions, not just in the winter or on the sand.

John Hartley of Durango rides his Reeb fat tire bike in Overend Mountain Park on Feb. 24 on the snow-packed trails. Hartley wishes there were more areas to ride fat tire bikes near Durango.

The bikes, with comically large tires, have come into the mainstream in the past couple of years, after being introduced about a decade ago. John Grondin, 48, of Scarborough, got his fat bike to ...