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Weekly Dose of Fat – 5-10-14 – Show #3 · Full Spectrum Cycling

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  Weekly dose of fat for Saturday, May 10th, 2014, show number three.
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  [upbeat rock music] Fatbike.com, the world's number one resource for information on fat bike products, event and race coverage, interviews, and living the fat bike lifestyle presents Fat Bike Radio with your hosts, Sven and Gomez.
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  [upbeat rock music] [laughs] Buenos dias, amigos. This is Tio Gomez. And I'm Sven, and this is your weekly dose of fat.
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  We're gonna change it up a little bit this week and feature commentary on news that we've read or heard about over the past week that relates to your favorite subject and mine, fat bikes.
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  Before we get the show started, we'd just like to mention that our show this week is brought to you by Surly Bikes. Surly makes bikes and parts that don't suck.
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  You can always find the Weekly Dose show page at fat-bike.com/radio. And look for us on Facebook and Twitter.
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  Let's start this week's show with extending some congratulations to a couple of amigos that have also been friends of the site by contributing articles here and there.
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  Do, do you wanna do yours first, Sven, or do you wanna do mine or, and I'll do yours? [laughs] Yeah, I'll, I'll do yours, all right. Uh, go ahead and tell us about the news from Singular.
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  John Severson, our friend Sevo, has taken over as the US distributor for Singular Cycles. Singular is from over in the UK via Taiwan. They're the maker of the Puffin fat bike.
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  That's the, that has that eccentric bottom bracket on the Puffin, isn't that right? Yep, I think that's the only fat bike that has an EBB. They also make the Rooster 29+ as well. Great news.
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  Be cool if we could get John on the show, along with Sam from Singular, and maybe they could tell us all about that. Congratulations to John.
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  John wanted to, uh, let y'all know that he'd like to thank the little people for making his awesomeness available. Awesome. We also heard some news from our friends at Boo Bicycle. Uh, this is me now, right?
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  Yeah, it's your turn. Yep. You may know him as Fatty Lumpkin, but his mama named him Adam. Mi hermano de otra mamacita, Adam Blake, has been named the new general manager of Boo Bicycles out in Fort Fun, Colorado.
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  Boo has a demo bus that travels around the country, and they're on their way out to the tour of California. You can check out their bus schedule on this week's show notes. Congrats to both Adam and John.
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  You guys both rock. And or roll. All right. We've got a first for Fat Bike Radio. Our newest contest is for listeners of the show only, and we'll let you know about that right after this from 1UP USA.
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  [upbeat music] Hey, this is Adam Blake, AKA Fatty Lumpkin from Boo Bicycles, and I listen to Gomez and Sven on Fat Bike Radio. Radio contest.
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  [echoing] So you just heard Adam's Fat Bike Radio promo, and now, drum roll, [drumming] we have our first Fat Bike Radio contest.
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  To enter, record your own Fat Bike Radio promo on your smartphone or whatever you have available that will make an MP3 or the like. Be creative. Do celebrity impersonations. Write a script.
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  Fire some of your writers and hire new ones. Then rehire those original hacks. Well, you get the idea. We're only gonna allow one entry per person, so make it a good one.
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  Email the file to gomez@fat-bike.com, and the best one will get played on next week's show.
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  And win a cool handmade by Flying Monkeys fat-bike.com cycling cap and one of our new black ops embroidered patches to sew on your merit badge sash. Sash sold separately. All right.
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  Well, we like to be the first to bring you the newest in fat bike news, and we work hard with manufacturers to help make that happen. The truth is, a lot of our news comes from the interwebs and readers just like you.
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  For instance, Bike Radar recently had a story about a 20-pound fat bike made with the most exotic materials on the planet.
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  We've seen a couple of 22-pound production carbon fat bikes lately from the likes of Borealis and 907. Those bikes go for roughly $7,000.
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  The first thing that I thought when I read this article was I wondered how much those last two pounds cost to reduce.
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  Well, the price listed in the story was 9,000 bucks, so it looks like about $1,000 a pound in this rarefied atmosphere.
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  You can check out the link in the show notes for more on the parts that are on this bike and why it even exists. All of these new lightweight fat bikes make me wonder about the relevance of the venerable Pugsley.
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  We'll explore that a bit more right after this from Jade Cycles. [upbeat rock music] It doesn't matter what your pleasure is, fat or 29+.
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  Check out the Boss Titanium fat bike at jadecycles.com. Visit the boss at Jade Cycles and stay tuned for the release of their new 100-millimeter carbon wheel set.
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  [upbeat rock music] Before the break, we talked a bit about 28-pound fat bikes, which got us to thinking about the relevance of the oldest fat bike still manufactured, the Surly Pugsley, and whether it's still relevant in the era of lightweight carbon bikes and suspension-equipped fatties.
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  I can attest to the versatility of the Pug. My first bike was a Pugsley, and started out as a single speed, and then became one of the very first Rohloff-equipped fat bikes of its day.
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  Speaking of Rohloff-equipped fat bikes, Cycle Monkey had a story on their blog recently about a belt drive Rohloff Pug that they just completed.
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  Hey, did you know that, uh, Cycle Monkey is the only US service center for Rohloff speed hubs? I think I did know that. That's good to know. Good to remind people about that.
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  I think that still shows that the Pug is a fat bike to consider, and one of the few remaining options for an internally-geared fatty. We love the Pug. We love the Pug.
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  When we think about the future of fat biking, it's often about the tech and the equipment, but Joe, you may know him as Joe Boo Sacco from the Iron Range up in Minnesota, reminds us that the future of fat biking really has a much more human face.
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  Check out a couple of links in the show notes for stories on his blog. Little kids on fat bikes. Little kids- Yeah... on fat bikes. So now we're, uh- Spoiler alert... we're going to, uh- Little kids [laughs] Fat bikes.
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  Mm. That's what- So now, uh, we're gonna take a stroll into the test kitchen, see what's cookin'. Mm-hmm. Mm, goodness. Cookin' in the kitchen. This week, a pair of Race Face Atlas platform pedals came in.
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  We're gonna be testing the hell out of those. Testing 'em. Tell you that. Testing 'em. I mentioned last week that I've been riding Club Ride gear quite a bit when I'm out on my fat bike.
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  Uh, was reminded on a recent beach ride about how great the Rail pants are. I've really come to like those pants. They're basically my go-to pair every time I ride.
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  And, uh, there was, like, a two-foot-deep stream crossing that we had to go through, and it probably wasn't three minutes before my wet legs were a memory. Nice. Memory.
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  We're gonna be testing some new bags from a UK company called Apidura, or it could be Apidura. Yeah. It's, uh, kind of like a bee thing, isn't it? I- Well, they have a- Apidura...
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  hive pattern on some of the bags, and there's a bee in their logo, so, uh, like bee good or- Bee stuff.
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  Probably one of our listeners can inform us in the, uh, comments section of the [laughs] show notes page what an Apiderry or Apiderry- Apidura... or Dura is. Or an epidural. Epidural. Ugh.
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  [laughs] We also, uh, heard from Adam at Borealis. He's promised to send us a new Bluto-equipped Quiver Killer fat bike for testing. Look for that soon. Thanks for spending time with us this week.
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  Thanks again to our show sponsor, Surly. Look for them at surlybikes.com. And here's another reminder that you can always find the Weekly Dose show page at fat-bike.com/radio.
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  If you'd like to help fat-bike.com with its mission to spread fat biking all over the universe, consider helping us by underwriting this show. Contact Gomez at gomez@fat-bike.com to discuss all of the opportunities.
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  Is that it? That's it. Are we done? Talk to you next week, kids. All right, talk to you next week, folks. Bye. Bye. [upbeat rock music] You've been listening to Fat Bike Radio's Weekly Dose of Fat.
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  Find us on the web at fat-bike.com/radio. We'll see you next time.
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