[Closed] Global Fat Bike Day 2020

Hoping for a bit more of this at the weekend. Feldberg, Germany. The bumpy bits on the horizon are the Swiss Alps: Eiger, Jungfrau etc etc.

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I was hoping for some snow but it looks like I’ll be disappointed.

Depends on which forecast you look at - I'm up the road from Glenlivet and it's showing snow for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

My own trouble is my fat bike's in storage and this will be the first GFBD since 2013 I've missed....might have to go and get it.

Going to run a small, North Norfolk beach ride, unfortunately not knowing where we stood on group size, means i've only really broadcast it today, but going to be 2-3 of us riding along the coast

I'll be going around solo at my local woods. There was a planned ride but local covid restrictions have made that difficult.....

sorry to hijack
anyone got a crankset for my oof, id like to ride saturday

Be rude not to.
I'll be reprazentin for the Warwickshire fatbike massive.. (just me then as usual... 😐)

Oooh, I'd forgotten about GFBD!  But I'd already arranged a ride on the "brown snow" in Cheshire.

I'll be out fatbiking, somewhere.

Hoping for suitable fatbike weather. If not, I'll find a bog to play in...

Edit: Just saw Esme's "brown snow", that's it! 🙂

On East Lothian beaches....where else? :o)

^^^ Ah the spiritual home of the uk fatbike scene. (It's , it's you Isn't It). 😀 You sttill in the north sea bud , might drop the pressure on Slash and head out to the subs to stick two fingers up to the East Lothian fat bike clique.

I guess I'll have to take Fatty out for a sausage roll somewhere in the Surrey Hills.

Do my 2.8 'plus' tyres count?

will have to be the day after as in work on the 5th 🙁

Ten years ago it was like this.

I live in hope. 🙂

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Do my 2.8 ‘plus’ tyres count?

Side by side maybe? 😉

My fatty is on a 29x3 diet, but will be out in Friston along with a full fat buddy

Will have to take the studded tyres off my wife's bike before Saturday 😊

^^^ Ah the spiritual home of the uk fatbike scene. (It’s , it’s you Isn’t It). 😀 You sttill in the north sea bud , might drop the pressure on Slash and head out to the subs to stick two fingers up to the East Lothian fat bike clique.

I'll message you gadge. Dinnae be taking your bike on the beach. Bomber Command will drop incendiaries on yer hoose :o) @stanfree

There'll be 6 of us (conveniently) doing a tier two ride into the woods for a socially distanced brew up on Saturday

I’ll be reprazentin for the Warwickshire fatbike massive.. (just me then as usual… 😐)

I've been riding mine to work in Warwick so don't feel lonely

Vulcan or drone for the incendiaries?

I’ll be reprazentin for the Warwickshire fatbike massive.. (just me then as usual… 😐)

I’ve been riding mine to work in Warwick so don’t feel lonely

There is a dude I see now and again riding the roads on an orange coloured fattie in Warwick.
No helmet, no beard, so I don't think it's you.

The New Forest superwide six-pack will be in effect, sloshing through the slop and sipping cider in the sunshine*

Sadly missing meeting up with the Swanage crew this year, we'll make up for it next time.

*Unlikely

Beautiful sunny day here in Cheshire, perfect for slithering around in the mud.
Two of us, riding a Spesh Fatgirl (aka Hellga) and a Charge Cooker.
Hope you all had as much fun?

Overnight rain has made all the remaining snow very soft and mushy. Massive puddles everywhere and you can never be sure what you're riding on.

Undaunted, Ross and I made a beeline for the Duke of Gordon monument. The climb up was interspersed with much swearing and I had to stop to let some air out of the tyres I think I ended up with about 6 psi in the front and 3 in the rear. A it of footwork got us there and then it was a very sketchy, but also hilarious, descent and return home. A whole 22km in something over 2 hours 🙂

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Does it count if I grab my Wazoo out of the garage and ride around the block with just the left pedal (because the driveside crank sheared through the pedal axle in summer)? 😆

Snowmaggeddon in the Cotswolds!

Massive drifts that only a fatbike can navigate!

We had snow yesterday but by this morning it had all gone. I took a guess that up at Ribblehead there might be some left. We struck lucky! 😀

Heading up to Cam Head from Ribblehead

Now into the snowline

There was quite a bit of drifting so some bits were rideable ...

Others weren't!

We had intended to head over to Hawes then back by Widdale to the top of Arten Gill and the Pennine Bridleway but we weren't progressing that fast, nearly two hours to get to the top of Cam Head, so decided to cut down to Newby Head via the PBW.

Most of the first kilometre or so was pushing, we were knee deep in snow at times.

Eventually we managed to start riding more and more but the depth of the soft snow often meant hard pedalling even going downhill.

We then took a BW to get back to Ribblehead but this was well below the thaw line so a mixture of wet snow and mud.

Not far, just 18km but pretty hard work.

Was going to post pics from today but can't compete with the snow ones above, looks fab!

Global FatBike Day, so it's compulsory to go out even though the weather was biblical. All the snow on the higher ground had gone. I was contemplating building an ark.

The sky was so dark it was like twilight in the middle of the day, but there was hope. Some lucky person was under that tiny blue patch in the sky over in the distance.

All the melted snow was rushing down the mountain.

Every little burn was showing its ambitions to become a river.

The trails were a trifle damp...

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But the fun was awesome.

(Sorry about the pic. It was so dark every pic was a long exposure,)

Mud fest here by Bodensee / Lindau. Left the snow and dropped down to meet a friend for the ride. Wet, mud, wet with wet mud. But hey, we are out had a great trail expresso, Jagermeister, Brotchen with cheese and slices of cold but exquisite pizza..

He was riding an e-fat so that was interesting and on the flat we were doing 19 - 22kmh... and he monstered the uphills, I took a little longer....

I think for bio bike riding with an e-bikerist, setting a max speed before we start is the way to go. Constantly playing catch up isn't that much fun.