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.

If the tracks are 3 to 4 inches wide, you can bet a fat tire bike, aka “fattie,” or fat bike, is on the prowl, pedaled by someone who won’t take snow for an answer.

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 ...

Cape Town - There is still time to add an activity to your 2016 New Year's resolution, and I urge you to make it cycling in the snow on a fat wheel bike. You might have seen these bikes making their ...

Fat bikes weren't invented in Minnesota, but Bloomington-based Surly Bikes is generally credited with jump-starting the industry with the introduction of its Pugsley model in 2005. Today, most ...

So just like normal mountain biking, the state of the trail matters. If tire treads are leaving tracks, it is time to turn back. But instead of mud, what worries a fat biker is powder, said Overlock.

While we wait (and wait) for spring to arrive, Seattleites head east for blue vistas and shimmering snowfields; plunging into all that mood-lifting whiteness on sleds, snowshoes, skis and, now, on ...