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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Where and how to fat bike . A fat bike is a bike with really wide tires, somewhere in the 3.8- to 5-inch range, which can be twice the width of a mountain bike tire. But that burly rubber allows ...

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… ...

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 ...

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.

Basically a mountain bike with oversized tires, fat bikes can conquer previously unrideable surfaces including snow, sand and mud. They've become a legitimate force in the Bend area — almost all ...

First, if you’re thinking about fat bikes — those burly tires plowing through powder-packed trails — we are not talking about those. We are talking about snow bikes. Or snowbikes.