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Weekly Dose of Fat – 9-26-14 – with Paul Price – Show #23 · Full Spectrum Cycling

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  Weekly Dose of Fat, show number 23 for Friday, September 26, 2014.
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  [upbeat music] From thefatbike.com, Mutt Factory Studios in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, welcome to the Weekly Dose of Fat with your hosts, Sven and Gomez.
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  Greetings, earthlings. This is Uncle Gomez and Fat Bike Radio. [laughs] Yeah. Yep, and joining us in the studio today for his Milwaukee swan song, Colin Ford, ladies and gentlemen. Colin!
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  [snaps fingers] What do you got to say for yourself, Colin? Everything is awesome except all this work I have to do to move to Denver. Wah. Wah. [laughs] What was rule number five? Harden the fuck up.
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  [laughs] Also in the studio today is super cool jet-set playboy, JK Riddick. Hello, everybody. [laughs] [whistles] He has a bath robot, in case you're wondering. [laughs] With, with grommets in the...
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  [laughs] Grommets in the armpits for extra ventilation. Grommets. And providing the music this morning for us, the grooviest cat from Sheboygan to Hammond, Indiana, Chris Daisy with Zion Cyclery. Hey, guys.
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  [siren blares] Our show is sponsored by the pink Surly 1x1. Surly would like to kindly remind you to take your bike for a ride and have some fun today. Yeah, Colin, have some fun. What the heck? Yeah. Geez.
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  And you can learn more. I mean, when you learn more, when you're having fun, you know, positivity just emanates from life all around you. Whoosh.
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  [laughs] How can, how can you be against a company that just wants you to have fun? [laughs] I mean, come on. Where can you learn more about that company? You can learn more at surlybikes.com. Dot com.
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  Hey, did you know that the Weekly Dose of Fat is coming up on its third anniversary? That's like 156 weeks of fat.
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  So it was like end of October 2011 we did our first print version, and I think it was th- that was Sven's idea. His Weekly Dose of Fat. Right after, right after I- [laughs]...
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  kinda joined the, uh, joined the, the company. It's been three years already, huh? Yeah. So this is like aboot week 152 then this week, eh? Mm-hmm. [laughs] Uh, you know, nobody really told me the numbers or the math or
• 2:32
  ... It's aboot 152. [laughs] So, about a month. What size boot is that? [laughs] It's, it's an A boot. So, in a month, what are we gonna do to celebrate? What are we gonna, are we gonna get like, uh, I don't know, what?
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  We could give away stickers. [laughs] A big, a big sticker giveaway. Maybe we'll have a big anniversary show around Halloween this year. Like pole dancers, cage dancers? That's a whole nother kind of dancer.
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  Dancers- In the studio... dancers on fire. [laughs] The only difference between me and you is that I'm not on fire. [laughs] En fuego. So, uh, guess who had a link on our very first Weekly Dose of Fat? Bruce Matheson?
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  Yep, the Coast Kid. Sounds like- I'm sure he'll come on our anniversary radio program now. Yeah. [laughs] You know, we invite him a lot- Yeah... but he never seems to, uh, never seems to come on the show.
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  He's across the pond, yeah? Yeah, it's six hours difference maybe, which is- Yeah, you know, when you invite him, he's probably fucking sleeping...
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  so he's like- It's already, it's already old news by the time it gets here. That's right. [laughs] All that happened six hours ago, it's d- um, it's out of my feed, bro.
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  [laughs] So, yeah, so we'll have Bruce on that show, or not. Maybe. [laughs] So [laughs] this is gonna happen every week. What do we have going on on today's radio program, Jet Set? On this week's show, Mr.
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  Paul Price from Paul Comp is our special guest. Beer and kamikaze, links, hijinks, and boobies. Boobies. Ooh, Paul. Is that kamikaze like the shot? 'Cause that would be pretty cool. Oh.
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  [laughs] A gallon jug of kamikaze. [laughs] No, it's, uh, it's the Kamikaze Downhill- Right, right... at American Lakes. Yep, that's right. We're going out for that one.
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  With, uh, Eric Hunter, Colin, and, uh, we talk about that. So- What are, what are we talking about before that? I think we're beerin'. So, uh, this is Colin, Colin Forde.
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  This is his last beer stop with us on the radio program, and to commemorate that, dun, dun-dun-dun. Dun. Dun. This is a growler of Colin's My Turn Dunkelweizen, which is a dark wheat beer. Dunkelweizen. Nice.
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  So, so y- y- you, the, the My Turn program at Lakefront, what's that all about?
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  Uh, basically, um, about three years ago, same time as your Weekly Dose of Fat, around there, we had a meeting, which is a rare thing at Lakefront Brewery. In that meeting, Russ said,
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  "I have a goal to have every full-time employee have a chance to make a beer of their choice." That Russ, he's a forward-thinking guy, isn't he? Yeah, he is.
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  You know, and so about, you know, a year and a half later we got started and we've been making My Turns starting with, uh, the, the most senior employee, Dan, he was the first one. Then, uh- The-...
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  my friend Brad, who's worked there the second longest, and then Luther. They finally got to Colin's turn. Yeah.
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  It took a, took a little while, but I picked the style of dunkelweizen 'cause it's one of my favorite styles, and when I first got into drinking craft beer,
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  we used to go to this bar called Hooligans on Milwaukee's east side, and buy boots of Franziskaner dunkelweizen and drink the shit out of it. [laughs] And barely walk home.
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  Um- It was a great time Did you have a Huli Burger to go with it? I probably did. [laughs] Really. Are they... You know what else I like there? They're, um, better butter burger.
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  I, I, I- It's, like, full of garlic and goodness... I walk in there and I say, "Don't give me a menu, I'll have a Huli Burger, medium fries, and beer, please." And it's awesome every time.
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  So without further ado- Let's crack that growler open. Yeah. And sh- sh- ooh. Oh. [laughs] Either Colin's mom just farted or that was the growler opening. [laughs] Gluggity glug. How does it pour? Mm.
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  Eddie, this is a brown beer. [laughs] It's brown. It's a brown. It's a beer. It's unfiltered. That wort sure did look chunky when I saw the picture on the internet. Thank you, DJ. Pass that around.
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  By the way, if I know, you can follow your friend's beer making. Well, most of your friends that brew beer probably don't brew it in 1,500 or 2,500 gallon batches like Colin. Nope.
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  I get the privilege to do that every day. All right, boys. Cheers, boys. Cheers to Colin. Cheers. Colin's new future in Colorado. Fuck, I do make a fine product. Yeah, that's good. All right, so I usually- Spicy.
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  There's a lot of spiciness in there... All right. I'll give you two words, and then you guys gotta go with the rest of it. You got banana and clove. What else do you taste? Corriander. There's no corriander in it.
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  I flunked out. I flunked out of beer school. [laughs] Chinese five spice. No. Okay, well that took care of five spice since I just kept shaking it. [laughs] I can... The banana's in there, for sure.
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  Yeah, way to take the two good ones, dick. [laughs] Well, this, this, this beer is brewed with, uh, it's... The recipe is almost 50% wheat, which is German Weiss beer standard.
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  It's a lot of wheat, some two-row barley, um, Munich and Vienna malts, some chocolate malt, and some darkening malt.
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  But mostly the, the character of this beer comes from the yeast, which, uh, is pulled from the oldest continuing, continuously operating brewery in the world, Weihenstephan, in Germany.
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  I think they've been open since 1040 or something. That's awesome. Have we had this mark since 1040 [laughs] since 1040? This morning? [laughs] Newsflash, it's not even 10:40 yet.
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  Well, we had some of their beer in a previous show. Weihenstephan, yeah. Mm. I'm go- I wanna go to that 1,000th year anniversary party, 2040. You guys gonna be around? [laughs] Um, probably not. I don't know.
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  I'll live that long. [laughs] Yeah, you say that now till you're hooked up to a bed full of knick-knacks, and doodads, and puffs, and wheels, and beer.
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  [laughs] Thanks for that bright and cheery view of the guy's future there, Colin. The future is a dark and lonely place. Get used to it. [laughs] So this is good. How much alcohol-hoozy in this?
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  Oh, it's like 4.7, nothing- So let's just drink that whole growler. Yeah, let's be a whole growler. [laughs] Let's drink that whole growler and really be somebody out there today. Yep. Well, cheers, boys. Cheers.
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  Uh, we'll be, uh, we'll be right back with Paul Price from Paul Component Engineering right after this word from Grip Studs. Cold weather is on its way.
• 9:38
  [fake snorts] Stud your own tires this winter with the best studs on the market. Oh, yeah. Grip Studs wide auger car [laughs] studs deliver awesome traction and stay put all season long. Check them out at gripstuds.com.
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  They also work in boots. Yeah, I put some in my boots. That's what I, I used last year in my boots. Just not good on a hardwood floors. Oh. I'm still anti fat bike studs. You're tuned to Fat Bike Radio.
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  Hi, this is Eric from Surly. Uh, every time I'm looking for the preferred nomenclature, I listen in to Gomez and Sven on Fat Bike Radio. Nomenclature. All right. Well, we have Mr.
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  Paul Price from Paul Component Engineering on the line for our special guest segment. Welcome to the show, Paul. Congratulations to you and your new bride, by the way. Yeah, we just saw you at Interbike. Uh.
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  You gave us beer and fresh pixels. [laughs] Thank you very much. Thanks a lot. Uh, yeah, that was a great day and, uh, this is almost as great a day, I get to be interviewed by you guys. [laughs] Yes.
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  We are the charming ones, aren't we? Yeah. When we were at the show, you showed us the, uh, bad-ass brake calipers that you guys are coming out with. We, uh, put that video up on the, up on the internets.
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  Did you get any, uh, do you get any feedback from that? Um, I haven't. I haven't, yeah. Um, I did a post on my, on our Facebook page, but there was no picture. Um, it was kind of lame, so, uh,
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  uh, next Friday, uh, I'm gonna, uh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna spruce it up and, and, uh, see what happens then. Then bust it back out. Some, one of our listeners, please call Paul or email Paul- Yeah...
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  and say, "Hey- One of our three listeners, please email Paul... you're a, you're a handsome man," or something like that. So are, are they officially available yet? Or what's the timeline on them?
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  No, uh, we are, we're, uh, we have one more part that we're tweaking a little bit, one, the back plate of the brake, the, the part that's next to the spokes.
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  Uh, the, the version that we're using right now is a little bit flexible, so, uh, uh, we're gonna stiffen that up and, uh, get a lit- just a little bit more power out of the thing, and then we're hoping to have them ready, uh, January or February.
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  So are you settled in? You, uh, y'all, y'all back to normal, your normal schedule from Interbike? Uh, yes. Yes. Uh, that happened, uh, last night. Uh, my, uh, wife and I, we had a date night.
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  We barbecued some steaks, and it was, uh, sort of the first day that I hadn't thought about getting ready for Interbike, doing Interbike, uh, what happened at Interbike, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, it was great.
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  Trust me, Billy, it was great. Steaks were good too. Yeah, your, your booth was packed every time we went by. So whatever you're doing, you're doing something right.
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  So this segment that we, uh, that we have folks like yourself come on is about their personal fat bike. So we're going to, uh, give you a pop quiz about your fat bike. You have a, uh... You built up a Ventana, right?
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  That's actually not built yet. No, it's not. It's still hanging in the shop. It's got a fork on it, but that's about it. You gotta get on that, Paul. [laughs] Uh, well, we're, we need to make the rear hub. Oh, cool.
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  So are you gonna run a geared rear hub or a single rear hub? Uh, it'll be geared. It'll be geared. Nice. Well, maybe we can talk hypothetically then about your build. Um, 'cause- Uh, well, sure.
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  I have a lot of fat bikes. Tons of them. You know, a lot of them. Oh, really? No kidding. Well, let's talk about the fat bike that you actually ride then, bro. Uh, first fa- the first one I bought was a, was a Mukluk.
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  That got me started. Uh, my then girlfriend, now wife sort of took that over, so I bought a, uh, Moonlander. Also, I wanted to try the, the next size up tire.
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  Uh, then the Krampus thing happened, so we had to buy his and hers Krampus. Nice. [laughs] And, uh, those are... Those bikes may be the funnest mountain bikes I've ever been on in my entire life. Very cool.
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  Um, and then I have a custom Engine, uh, titanium 29+ bike that should get built, uh, next week.
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  Um, and then of course the, uh, the El Gordo, uh, which we're waiting on a hub, which probably we're gonna do, uh, next month. Very cool. Man, you are the international jet set playboy of fat bikes, my friend.
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  I mean, that's... You have two bikes that, that I have ridden, which is the Moonlander and the, uh... Actually, three. I've ridden the El Gordo as well.
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  But, uh, the Engine, man, that guy has won some awards at Handbuilt Bicycle Show. That should be a, that should be a showstopper. It's absolutely, absolutely beautiful. Yeah.
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  And he is just so enthusiastic, and we're both, uh, uh, machine tool dorks. Yeah, we, we have a, we have a really strong connection, and I think we're going to get that one going.
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  That's gonna be single speed with the Salsa, um, the drop bar flare out. The, uh, Woodchippers. Woodchipper. Woodchipper. Sounds very cool. That sounds like a fun build. What, what's the riding like around, uh, Chico?
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  Well, we have a local park that's really large, uh, but it's all, uh, lava flow and river rock. And, uh, very funny and very fast and very exposed and, um, very super technical.
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  So it's actually really fun on that on some really big tires, 'cause you don't need to worry about the rocks so much. And, uh...
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  But at this time of year, after a long, hot, exposed summer and super rocky conditions, uh, we're all kind of sick of it. It's super awesome in the spring and summer, but right about now it's, it's just some time evils.
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  [laughs] Do you ever get your bikes, your fat bikes out to the beach there in NorCal? Uh, never been to the beach, but we're at the base of the Sierra Nevadas, so I've been to the snow- Okay... uh, quite a few times.
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  Very cool. You gotta try that beach riding. It's, uh... I'm telling you, it, it, it's... It brings you back to that core of exploration on your bike. You never know what you're gonna find out there. Yeah.
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  Yeah, I wanna come out and do that. Yeah. I wanna come out and do that Lost Coast section there by Petroleum Shelter Cove and that. There's some really good, uh, beaches that are pretty uninhabited. Just looks super.
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  I've been out there before, but not on a bike. So in my, uh, in- Been out there as well. That, that is... That's a fantastic area. When, when is that gonna happen? Uh, possibly next summer. I'm working on it.
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  [laughs] We'll let you know well in advance. We'll be out there. Sounds like a date. Cool. You guys are making dates. [laughs] And all I can think about is this El Gordo and how you would put your, your parts on there.
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  Like, I'm, I'm interested to see what Paul Component Engineering parts are gonna go on that El Gordo. Like, you're gonna u- Are you gonna use your cranks, your hubs, your brakes? Well, we'll use the new disc brakes.
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  Um, there'll be a, uh, uh, we'll, we'll build the hubs for it. Um, we've already got the 150 thru axle front hub. Uh, that's ready to go. Uh, the rear hub, uh, we, we use Industry Nine, uh, freehub, yeah. Mm-hmm.
• 17:22
  And then, uh, our, our hub's channeling axle and bearing adjusters and all that stuff. So that's gonna be a fun project.
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  Then the, uh, the next, the next thing to challenge, and I don't know if it'll happen with the El Gordo, is we're gonna do a, um, a 30 millimeter spindle crank. That sounds stiff. Cool, man. Yeah.
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  And maybe it'll become a fat bike product, a 100 millimeter bottom bracket shell type of fat bike product. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. We're... I, I, I love these bikes.
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  And, uh, so yeah, we're, we're on board for that, um, no matter what. Well, cool, man. Well, we appreciate you coming on the show and telling us, uh... Man, the litany. I had no idea you had that many fat bikes, bro.
• 18:05
  Yeah. Yeah, I, I got the bug. And, uh, yeah, the other day I just, I rode up a dry creek bed, and just there was, there was air, and I thought, "Well, hmm." And, uh, I c- I could not believe the stuff the-... boulders.
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  I was a riding helper. It was on my Moonlander. It was so fun. All right, Paul. Thanks for being on the show. Great. Thanks for having me, and, uh, we'll talk soon. All right. Take care, Paul. Bye. You are listening to
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  Fat Bike Radio. Hi. This is Jordan Langley. When I'm not winning races, I'm listening to Sven and Gomez on Fat Bike Radio. All right.
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  Well, we're going to call out to Mammoth Lakes, California, where our amigo, Eric Hunter, he works out there, rides out there. We're gonna talk about last weekend's Kamikaze Downhill with fat bikes. Kamika-man!
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  So we have Eric Hunter out there in Mammoth Lakes, California, on the phone, and, uh, he lives and works out there and raced his Sox, uh, Mukluk in the Kamikaze Downhill last weekend.
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  He's here to talk to us about all of that, all that fat out there in Mammoth Lakes, California. Welcome to the show, Eric. How's it going, dude? Hey. Thank you guys. Yeah, it's going well.
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  [sniffs] Nice and windy, the wind's starting to come in, clouds are flowing. Yeah. Well, sweet. So I saw, I saw quite a bit of chatter about fat bikes doing the Kamikaze this weekend.
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  I saw a bunch of stuff from Turner Bikes and, uh, I know I saw a Foes Racing post too. Did you see any of those dual suspension fat bikes out there? I sure did.
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  I saw Wooly out there riding a Turner full suspension doing wheelies. Wooly's the mascot for, for the Kamikaze Games. Oh, cool. And I saw Foes, saw Foes out there. And I saw Left of Nine with some,
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  a full downhill rig, and couple- [laughs]... full suspension style cross country bikes. Uh, JK just showed us a picture of, of [laughs] Wooly riding, riding the, uh, Turner.
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  [laughs] That's the information age right there. You can pull that right up on your phone. So you were racing your Mukluk with an 11 nine fork of many names, right? That's right.
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  And how did- It was, uh, it was pretty fun. Where'd you place? Oh, I placed second. Awesome. I was to represent Mammoth. Damn right. I wanted the win, but I end up second.
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  End up losing to the, to the full suspension bike. Ooh. Ooh. Well, uh- I know... I saw some pictures of you in your red skin suit there on the internets looking, uh- Yep... looking very- How do you pee?
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  [laughs] Through his, through his penis like everybody. Oh. [laughs] It doesn't take that long to get down that run, does it Eric? How long, how long is the, uh, the course? It took me...
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  It, the course is about almost four miles and it took me five minutes and 45 seconds. Holy mackerel. What? [laughs] Wow. That's moving. Five minutes? Awesome. You, uh, so you- Yeah, it's pretty fast on a fat bike.
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  Are you pretty familiar with the course? Yeah, I've done it, uh, about once a day. It's a fun course. It's fun to go fast. So to say, do you think fat bikes are more suited to it than a traditional mountain bike?
• 21:43
  Um, yeah, I feel a lot more stable on it. Probably not as aerodynamic, but it's, it's a lot more fun I thought. So the overall winner, how, how big of a difference was there between a guy riding a
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  eight inch travel downhill bike? The guy that won in the pro category, how much faster was he than your time? I think he was about 40, uh, 50 seconds faster, the pros. That's kind of, that's kind of a big gap, huh?
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  I think it was fast as the guy, Brylo, so- It'd be really- His bike was 4:54... It'd be really interesting to get one of those top level downhillers on the best of what was there. I wanna see that Turner full suspension.
• 22:32
  I bet that thing is bitching. Yeah. And the Foes Racing one- Yeah, uh-... looks, looks badass too. I mean, we know those guys make great bikes for a long time, so I'd be surprised if they were anything but spectacular.
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  Yeah, it was pretty stellar and, and it rode well. The full suspension definitely would've been fun for Kamikaze 'cause you can hold that rear edge. The hard tail's a little loose- Yeah...
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  on those going down, sometimes fly off the side. How, uh, I- In these, in suit... I got, I got one, a one quick or a couple quick technical bike questions for you. What size rotors were you running?
• 23:10
  I had a two o, I believe it's a 208 in the front and a little 160 in the back. [laughs] All right. Uh, and what kind of tires were you running? I was running the Vee Rubber Snowshoe. And they, they do good?
• 23:27
  Do you like them? Yes. [laughs] I, the Snowshoe, the, uh, for downhilling, tire wall is a little thin. Yeah. I use- I would want a STR duty or tire. You running tubeless at all? You're running tubes? It was...
• 23:44
  No, I do need to go tubeless 'cause I spend much of, uh, hauling my fat bike in the bike park a lot, so I'm used to getting flat tires. Right.
• 23:54
  Yeah, I, I switched my fat bike over to tubeless a couple years ago and I've, you know, zero flats. I also don't ride Mammoth, Mammoth downhill though, so [laughs] But.
• 24:05
  But I'm, I'm just a new current tubeless guy and I, I think there's something to the whole way it rolls. Yeah. That non-friction between the tube and the, and the liquid.
• 24:16
  My trail bike's been tubeless for a year and a half. Just like Colin, no flats in a year and a half of riding that thing, so. Well, thanks for calling in and, uh, talking to us about the Mammoth, uh, downhill.
• 24:27
  We appreciate it. Keep on, uh, keep on smiling, and we'll talk to you again soon, my man. All right, thank you, guys. Good talking to you. See you next time. Cheers. You're tuned to Fat Bike Radio.
• 24:44
  [whistles] This is your weekly dose of fat. Welcome back to the radio program.
• 24:53
  Site supporter and killer bag maker Wanderlust and our new amigos from Chumba USA, who we met out in Las Vegas at Interbike, teamed up with Joey Parent and Brett Davis for an Icelandic adventure.
• 25:05
  Our bud Dirty from drunk cyclists just came back from Iceland. Yeah, he gave us a slug out there at Interbike of some indescribably horrid Icelandic booze.
• 25:15
  [laughs] It tasted like a, a combo of Vicks 44 and Robitussin mixed together. I mean, why didn't you think of that sooner? Uh- Mixing them together? Yeah.
• 25:23
  [laughs] It's, it's like when you're in jail, that's all you can do. [laughs] Like you said, Ultrotussin and- Yeah... and then, then, then- Ultra Robitussin. [laughs] He said they heat that up and drink it in Iceland.
• 25:37
  Whoa. I can't imagine that. What... It was not quite air temperature out there when we drank it. Brr. [laughs] Ugh. But anyway- I know...
• 25:45
  click those two links in the show notes and, uh, you shall see spectacular pictures of, uh, dudes riding 29+s with Wanderlust bags and those sweet steel Texas Chumba 29+ers. Chumbas. Chumbas. The Chumba- Get jealous...
• 26:02
  the Chumba Ursa. Get jealous with your wage slave job. Whoa. [laughs] There's some color commentary. [laughs] The Great Lakes Bike Fat Bike [laughs] Race. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. JK's, JK's furculating.
• 26:22
  [laughs] What'd you put in this beer? The, uh- Laughing gas... apparently. It's carbon laughing gas. Speaking of, speaking of laughing gas, my s- my son, eight-year-old son, he's getting five teeth yanked today. Oh.
• 26:35
  [laughs] They're gonna, they're gonna gas the shit out of him. Adult... Wait, no, kid teeth? Uh, n- I think two of them are permanent 'cause they're coming in weird, and the rest are baby teeth. Not wisdom teeth?
• 26:45
  Nah, he's not that wise yet. [laughs] Good luck, little buddy. Hope it doesn't hurt that much. Yeah, really. That sucks. The Great Lakes Fat Bike Race Series announced their 2015 schedule.
• 26:54
  Three states, eight races, with a cash payout at the end of the season, equal for both men and the ladies. Equality. Yeah. Goes- The season finale of the series taking place at the Fat Bike Birkie. Yeah?
• 27:08
  That's a good place. You can check it out at greatlakesfatbikiseries.com..com. Nothing to say about those lady racers now, Sven? [laughs] What lady racers? [laughs] Oh, oh, oh, oh.
• 27:23
  How many are gonna show up do you think? Now that it's equal payout, we should get an equal number. More women should be racing. We should just Shanghai women off the street. [laughs] Get on a bike.
• 27:33
  Well, y- if you're gonna get an equal payout, you got a lot better chance to win if you're a woman- It's true... 'cause there's just not that many chalas. I mean, not, who knows? I'll just show up in cross-dress.
• 27:41
  There you go. [laughs] Just like every Friday night. [laughs] Whoa, whoa. Hey, there's more fat bike racing for Midwesterners too with the announcement of the return of the Northern Michigan Fat Bike Series.
• 27:53
  That's up there in, uh- North... Tra- Traverse City area. Traverse City. Yeah. North. Our, our pals, uh, from Einstein Bikes, and it's a, it's in a pretty cool RV park. There's just trails all around that thing, man.
• 28:05
  Sunnyvale Trailer Park? [laughs] Ah, they know. So how about the 17 most unusual beaches in the world? We're not just talking about the skanks that Colin- I'm pretty sure I've met about 13 of them.
• 28:20
  [laughs] We're not just talking about Colin's exes here. So we all looked at this link. The Glass Beach in California and the Cathedral Beach in Spain are my favorites.
• 28:29
  This is one of those links that, uh, that makes- You jealous of your wage slave job... ah. [laughs] I, where was that purple one? That one's one I'd like to go check out.
• 28:39
  I don't know, but look at these pictures, dudes, and say otherwise. I'm telling you, why has, why haven't we said Cale? I'll do my Cale imitation. Cale, go to that, go to that Glass Beach and get me some pictures.
• 28:50
  [laughs] Th- th- this one's in California, the purple one, the Pfeiffer Purple Sand Beach. I think I'd like to get purple sand all over my big, fat larries.
• 29:00
  All I've been able to think about for the last, about, oh, I don't know, 20 s- 22 years, Michelle Pfeiffer from Batman Returns and Catwoman, as Catwoman. That's all I can think about. Pfeiffer Beach, Michelle Pfeiffer.
• 29:12
  Or Batman Returns- Works, works for me... as Catwoman. That's all I can think about. [laughs] The, there'll be a, there- [laughs] There- All right...
• 29:21
  there'll, there'll be a link in the show notes to that, [laughs] to those beaches. As well as on- Who doesn't wanna ride their bike through a giant sequence of stone giants?
• 29:30
  [laughs] That's a direct quote from me to the road. You stealing my stuff now. [laughs] Stealing, stealing my s- Stealing... material. And there's a couple other links in there for the rest of the fat for the week.
• 29:43
  Cool stuff. Cool stuff. Read it, click it. Check out the links. Slap it. Click, click, click, click. Thanks again to Surly for sponsoring the radio portion of today's broadcast and for making the Pynch one by one.
• 29:53
  I covet thy two-wheeled radness from the Missouri wilderness to the shores of Gitche Gumee. Probably in Japan too. And Scotland. [laughs] That's- Horrible weather... about what we have for you this week, folks.
• 30:06
  See you next time. Surly bikes. And don't forget, #fatbike.com if you're on the Instagram. Pound sign. Hashtag. [laughs] Pound sign zero. Pound sign- Adios, amigos. [laughs] Bye.
• 30:22
  [laughs] How do you say bye to someone? You've been listening to Fat Bike Radio's weekly dose of fat. Find us on the web at fat-bike.com/radio. We'll see you next time.
• 30:40
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