Weekly Dose of Fat Show #85

Weekly Dose of Fat – Show Number 85 – Friday, December 18th 2015

The Welcoming to the Weekly Dose of Fat with Sven, Gomez and JK.

Fat-Bike Radio, and The Weekly Dose of Fat, is sponsored by Surly Bikes. I like them there Surly Pants. Learn more at http://surlybikes.com

On the show this week.

  • We start the show with the Event of the Week
  • We award the first prize in our Becker Sewing and Design Bag Contest.
  • We take calls from our listeners
  • We check in with the Fatty Farm Field Report brought to by The Winter RUSH Fat-Bike Series, The Michigan State Fat-Bike Championships and the 2017 USA Cycling – Fat-Bike National Championships
  • and finally – – –

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The Event of the week is…Fatter by The Lake in Zion, Illinois

We have the host of Fatter by the Lake on the phone, who also happens to be our Musical Director, the Host of the Bike Black Death Metal Office Party and Owner/Operator of Zion Cyclery, Mr. Chris Daisy!

F’Real?

Top-O-The-Hill

Fatty Farm Field Report

This week’s Fatty Farm Field Report is presented by ….The Winter RUSH Fat-Bike Series. Winter Rush is the home of The Michigan State Fat-Bike Championships and will be your hosts of the 2017 USA Cycling Fat-Bike National Championships. For more information click the winter rush banner in the show notes or visit Winter Rush dot com – http://winterrush.com/

Weekly Contest!

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This week we awarded the bag to the best photo from GFBD 2015. Colby Wright from Salt Lake – is our winner! 

Wanna win your very own Becker 40 Below Bag? When we get back from our Winter Hiatus along about January 8th in the 2016  We’ll be awarding one lucky winner a fabulous Becker Sewing 40 below down tube bag. How’s that going to work this time?

We talk to Tupper Becker from Becker Sewing and Design about the Video Contest to award the above prize! 

Fat Camp Show 9 will drop on Saturday December 26th so, during our hiatus we’ll have fresh content for y’all!

We’ve got two encore shows to look forward to with interviews from several men’s and women’s fat-bike race champions.

Fat-bike Links

Ibis is getting into the fat-bike game!
http://www.ibiscycles.com/bikes/trans-fat

BigWood Sports Park, located on the Bigwood Golf Club property in Ketchum, ID has fat-bike trails!
http://www.bigwoodsportspark.com

Berrien County Parks in Michigan is planning to groom fat-bike trails this season.
http://www.heraldpalladium.com/news/local/fat-is-where-it-s-at-at-love-creek/article_5890e14d-725e-5858-8ee7-05ce02b95a0a.html

In Alberta, CA Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park has designated single-track trails for the emerging sport of fat biking.

Say, Bye!