Check this Bivy A Month (BAM) video from South Snowdon, UK that I picked up from Fat-Bike.com’s MAM Challenge:
https://fat-bike.com/2018/07/bivvy-a-month-challenge-7/
Here’s a few photos from the Fat-Bike.com BAM post:
There you go, more motivation to get out and adventure with your fatbike!
Cheers, Fat Tom K
Here a very Colorado looking Photo for the Month from a Fat-Bike.com “Wallpaper Wednesday” post – check it out here:
https://fat-bike.com/2018/07/wallpaper-wednesday-%E2%99%A6-7-25-18/
There some motivation to load up your Fatty and get adventuring!
Cheers, Fat Tom K
Here a few drone view pictures shared by Wayne Bishop of 2 Wheel Revolution showing some of the recent development at Bison Butte (located at Fort Whyte Alive in Winnipeg) that he has been helping Alex Man and others accomplish recently.
Check it out:
If you see Wayne, Alex or any of the volunteers; make sure you say a huge thanks!
For those not familiar with Bison Butte, check out this TrailForks weblink:
https://www.trailforks.com/region/bison-butte-recreational-trails-23081/map/
Cheers, Fat Tom K
Alrighty then … it’s confirmed that Dave Cushnie loves riding his fatbike – everywhere! He is single-handedly schooling us on exactly where we should also be riding our fatbikes – right now!
That’s three months in a row … our “Fat Photo of the Month” goes to Dave as he’s back Rolling Fat on the Beach – Grand Beach that is!
Thanks for sharing Dave!
Cheers, Fat Tom K
I spotted this video thanks to Fat-Bike.com and their recent ‘Fat (video) Tuesday‘ post and it got me thinking of our very own Wayne Bishop and his super trail riding/stunts skills!
Check out this expert fatbiker (Pat Smudge) shredding some challenging MTB trail on this YouTube video “Exploring NEW Bentonville, AR Area MTB Trails!!“:
Cheers, Fat Tom K
Well now, it appears Dave Cushnie is our Manitoba ‘Poster Fat Boy’ for really riding his fatbike all year! This recent picture he shared of him ‘Rolling His Fatty on the Beach” near Grand Marais gets the honours this month (again) for “Fat Photo of the Month“:
Btw, check out the mini ‘icebergs’ still remaining in Lake Winnipeg!
Cheers, Fat Tom K
Check out Fat-Bike.com’s recent review of Apidura’s Bikepacking Backcountry Bags that work great on fatbikes.
Article HERE: https://fat-bike.com/2018/04/apidura-bikepacking-bag-review/
and here a few pics of the bags:
Cheers, Fat Tom K
* So it’s been quite a while since I posted a Fat Photo of the “Week” and it’s been a busy winter; I believe it’s time to move to a new sustainable posting category – the Fat Photo of the “Month”.
So here you are … the “Fat Photo of the Month“: ‘Rider and his Dog‘ – Our very own prolific Grand Marais area fatbiker Dave Cushnie with his dog on Lake Winnipeg – beauty!
Terrific picture Dave! Thanks for the motivation to keep Rolling our Fatties! 🙂
Cheers, Fat Tom K
So Dave Cushnie (local fatbiker and avid fatbike single-track groomer – we appreciate his efforts at Grand Beach especially) has been posting some saweet pictures online as he continues to ride in the Grand Marais, Manitoba area including on still frozen Lake Winnipeg …
Thanks for sharing your rides Dave – looks pretty inviting to me!
Keep rolling your Fatties! 🙂
Check out the ‘Bicycling Magazine‘ article by Polar Explorer Eric Larson, who I met in our local MEC store a few months ago and chatted out fatbiking and possible future adventures …
Eric was in town to pick up some gear and then head out onto Lake Winnipeg to be Lead Instructor on his 2018 “Polar Travel Training Course” (which included our American fatbiking friend Bradley D. Paul, who took part in our “2017 Lake Winnipeg Fatbike Crossing & Campover” adventure).
Check out Eric’s video of that training course:
Back to the Bicycling Magazine article – check it out online HERE and below:
So the our friends at the Blind Creek Bike Club were riding out in Sandilands today and report that conditions were good and shared some vids and this picture:
All those smiles confirm the report! Thanks for sharing guys!
Keep ‘Rolling yer Fatties’! 🙂
Cheers, Fat Tom K
The Winnipeg Free Press newspaper on 31 Mar 2018 included an article called “A Reason to Ride” using some of Blake Anderson‘s excellent pictures he took during our “2018 ‘Alfred Barr’ Lake Winnipeg Fatbike Crossing & Campover“.
Here the link to the digital version of the article: WFP 31 Mar 2018 – A Reason to Ride
The 17 Wing Winnipeg Air Base “Voxair” Newspaper 21 Mar 18 Edition has an article called “Fatbikers Ride to Remember SAR Tech MCpl Alfred Barr” based on the reporter Martin Zeilig interviewing me and using a few of my pictures.
Among the quotes he used were references to our excellent Leaders Team (including our British friend Patrick Stevens from Sweden) and key supporters Robert Paige of Xtreme Sports Medics and Dave MacDonald of ICSOS.
He did not quote my mentioning of how important was Kevin Champagne‘s snowmobile and sled support for transporting key supplies out to our camp and back! He also mentioned our American friend Thomas Woods who joined us, but obviously misplaced your specifics Thomas).
The Voxair also included a colour picture with a double line of fatbikers riding across the lake.
They mistakenly mention in the caption that “Major Tom Kolesnik ‘leads’ the fatbikers …”, when in fact at the lead of the line of riders is Kurt Lehmann and Rick Shone.
Here’s the direct link to the Voxair article in Pdf format:
http://www.thevoxair.ca/…/Web%20Voxair%20Issue%2006%202018.…
Editing this video was a labour of love capturing all of the adventure, amazing winter vistas, the team work, the fun and the tribute to Alfred that our weekend adventure was – enjoy:
Super casual group Fatty Fun Times were had out at one of our favourite group ride locations … Grand Beach Prov Park, Manitoba! Now that we have experienced a full winter of Fatbike-specific groomed singletrack trails at GBPP (thanks to Dave Cushnie, Marty Roy, Erich Enns, Kurt Lehmann, Wayne Bishop and many more), we are full of enthusiasm for the future!
So today we rode, posed for pictures (and drone views), BBQ’ed and had fun socializing as a community of fatbike lovers! 🙂
Enjoy these pics (a bunch are Gregory ‘GMac’ McNeill’s of course):
Great times indeed!
Cheers, Fat Tom K
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