Weekly Dose of Fat Show #102 – Special Guest Ron “Chewey” Moffit and More

The Imaginary Dose of Fat – Show Number 102 – May 6 2016

You’ve got Sven, Gomez and JK back on the air! We’ve got Chewey, Dan Fuhrman and Chris Daisy on the show as well.Good to be back ladies and gentlemen.

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On the show this week:

We chat the bike fat chat with Chewey
We check in with the Fatty Farm Field Report
We’ll take calls from our listener
Sven reveals the summer schedule
And finally…..We’ll visit with Dan Fuhrman to talk about Dan’s innovative approach to fat-bikes and trail building.

Cheers!

Special Guest – Chewey!

Fatty Farm Field Report

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We start the FFFR with a question from one of our readers Jared Kaber from Colorado…

Last week we had a Gnarly photo of a large puncture a procedure from Michael A who left a comment on last week’s post.

Thoroughly stitch the hole closed with dual duty nylon thread for buttons and upholstery. Rubber cement over the stitches. Glue a large radial tire patch in place and let it cure completely. Re-mount, add Stans fluid, and ride it. This technique has worked for me on about 8 different repairs to large sidewall cuts. When sewing the hole/cut closed, you can also glue and stitch a small piece of an old sidewall for reinforcement, but it needs to be very thin so it does not interfere with gluing the radial tire patch over the repair. Its worked great for me and those tires still live today!

Fat-bike Links

An all-in-one, fully-mechanical hub that allows one to regulate the tire pressure on the go, as many times as you want.
http://whitecrow-tech.com/

A petition to urge Chris King to manufacture fat-bike hubs
https://www.change.org/p/chris-king-we-need-chris-king-fatbike-hubs-let-s-show-mr-king-we-need-him

Brother Bjorn made the AK Dispatch
http://www.adn.com/slideshow/fat-bike-touring-northwest-alaska-march

The registration for the Fat-bike Birkie opened last Monday. The actual event date is Saturday, March 11th, 2017
http://www.birkie.com/2016/05/2017-event-registration/

Pix and words from a Scottish, Sunday ride
http://coastkid.blogspot.com/2016/05/sunday-cycle-to-some-ww2-relics.html

Ridin’ with the youth
https://joboo1967.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/the-best-ride-yet-of-2016/

We continue to learn that Fat Bike use is on the rise
http://www.grandforksherald.com/accent/health/4022697-fattening-fun-factor-fat-bike-popularity-rise

68-year Old pedaling a fat-bike on the Great Divide trail
http://theadvocate.com/features/people/15546084-65/the-age-divide

Plus Bike Links

Santa Cruz is going Plus Sized
http://www.bicycleretailer.com/new-products/2016/04/26/santa-cruz-takes-wrap-new-tallboy#.VypJzmNUrw8

ROTWILD R.X2 used three wheel size options: 27.5 (Trail), 27.5+ (Traction) and 29 (Transalp)
http://www.rotwild.com/community-news/news-blog/single/news/rotwild-rx2-das-all-mountain-bike-der-naechsten-generation/

In Plus Bike News — Wolverines are still the the future of Backcountry Search and Rescue
http://www.outsideonline.com/2067281/wolverines-future-search-and-rescue

The Boss – aka: {bear 122} is one bad ass, facebooker
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/calgary/grizzly-bear-122-banff-national-park-1.3530580

E-Bikes in the pro peloton
http://fittish.deadspin.com/secret-thermal-camera-footage-allegedly-shows-seven-pro-1771492666

Special Segment – Dan Furman from Route 66 Bikes in Rolla, Missouri

http://route66bicycles.com
Fund a feature link:
http://www.route66bicycles.com/about/lets-get-new-features-at-forest-city-trail-pg168.htm
Forest City MTB Trails
https://www.facebook.com/MTBFCT/