Latest / Full Spectrum Cycling / Weekly Dose of Fat – 7-19-14 – SSWC & Skirts in the Dirt – Show #13

Transcript

Weekly Dose of Fat – 7-19-14 – SSWC & Skirts in the Dirt – Show #13 · Full Spectrum Cycling

• 0:00
  This is the Weekly Dose of Fat for Saturday, July 19th, 2014, show number 13.
• 0:07
  [upbeat music] From the city that made Pabst, Schlitz, and Liberace famous, it's Fat Bike Radio with Sven, Colin, and Gomez.
• 0:37
  What's up, y'all? This is Colin. This is Uncle Gomez. Colin and I are knee-deep in Beer City, while our amigo Sven is coming to us from Fort Collins, Colorado.
• 0:48
  Yep, from deep in the heart of a 25-foot Shasta travel trailer, a pleasant mountain welcome to you all. And as always, we have the best band in all of the land, and their leader, the amazing Chris Daisy. Hey, guys.
• 1:06
  [upbeat music] The theme for this show is chaos and mayhem. That probably has something to do with Dirty and Chewy's upcoming live report from the Single Speed World Championships in Anchorage, Alaska.
• 1:21
  Meanwhile, I've been dodging raindrops and taking in rainbows, as well as sucking down some tasty beverages out here in Colorado.
• 1:28
  And on top of that, later in the show, we have the ladies behind Skirts in the Dirt checking in with us. This show is frigging rad. This week's show is sponsored by Surly Bikes. Surly Bikes are rad as sh-
• 1:44
  Check out Surly's all-steel, built like a brick bleep house line of bicicletas at surlybikes.com. You can find the Weekly Dose, along with all Fat Bike Radio programming, on iTunes.
• 1:57
  Look for us on the Facebook and Twitter. What's up with Twitter? And- What is up with Twitter? Well, let the chaos begin with our regularly scheduled beer segment. What fine Colorado beers are you drinking, Sven?
• 2:15
  Uh, this morning, from Odell Brewing Company right here in Fort Collins, I have a Loose Leaf American session ale. What are you guys drinking?
• 2:23
  Straight out of Spring Green, Wisconsin, we got Furthermore Brewing's Fatty Boom Blatty Belgian pale ale. Can you believe I found a beer called Fatty Boom Blatty? That's a good one.
• 2:34
  It's got 7.2% alcohoozy, and the label warns that this is a dangerously drinkable Belgian, not unlike my Uncle Jean-Claude Van Damme. [laughs] Note- You wanna pop 'em? Here we go. We're popping it. Boom.
• 2:52
  Yeah. Co- One of, one of Jim Huber's favorite beers... Colin got us little, little tasting glasses 'cause we're fancy- Yeah... over here. Fancy, fancy. Oh. You want me to play mother? He usually uses that with the girls.
• 3:05
  Oh, f- uh- Colin, Colin can't scroll and pour beer at the same time. No. I just, yeah, I didn't spill anything. Nice. [laughs] Well, cheers. Cheers. Cheers, boys. Cheers. All right, Greg, you go first.
• 3:21
  What does your beer taste like? Um, it's a, it's a pleasant beer. It's crisp. Uh, it's a pretty low alcohol content. Being a session ale, it's kinda made for all day long drinking.
• 3:33
  And, uh, you know, it's a little hoppy, but not overly, uh, in your face. So it's j- basically an all-day drinking beer. Yeah. Uh, the guys from Odell's do really awesome stuff. I'm personally a fan of
• 3:48
  most of their beers. 90 Shilling, I like that beer. 90 Shilling.
• 3:52
  Uh, their wild ale I had when I was out there like two or three years ago that was made with their own local cultured yeast, or locally isolated yeast from their brewery, was awesome. [burps] Very good. Yeah.
• 4:09
  What's that, uh, Fatty Boom Blatty like? I taste banana right off the, right off the bat, right on the front end of this thing. Yeah. It's, uh, it's definitely got that Belgian ale yeast character to it.
• 4:23
  The banana is very present. Yeah, there are lots of phenols going on. Um- It's fizzy... the, yeah, it's- [laughs]... it's bottle conditioned, I think, so it's gonna, like, generate a lot of foam, generate a lot of head.
• 4:39
  Um- Head. [laughs] Head. It's a very pleasantly fruity, you know, drinkable. There's not much, you know, too much malt character. It's just very... It's all the yeast.
• 4:52
  It's what you're tasting is, it's showing off the yeast. It's showing off the Belgian yeast characteristics, which are unique- Yeast... to that style.
• 5:02
  And at 7.2%, it's gonna, it's gonna make you, uh- Yeah, it's gonna make you loopy... loopy in the loop. Loopy... which is- Well, luckily you guys have at least a couple of them there. [laughs] Yeah.
• 5:14
  We got about two more. We have three. We've been d- Three? We've been drinking them like true Belgians. Yeah. Right on. Out of glasses.
• 5:22
  Well, uh, speaking of beer, as we are now, I just had one of the first cans of Little Red Cap from Grim Brothers. That's an alt style ale. Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, Colin, but, uh- Yeah, alt is a-...
• 5:34
  they're do- they're do- yeah. Yeah. Alt's good. They're down in Loveland, and they've been making good beer for some time, and they're just starting to get into canning.
• 5:42
  So, uh, one of the guys I met yesterday had picked up a six-pack of some of the first of the canned version of the beer, and that was a tasty thing, too.
• 5:51
  And, uh, keeping in with the beer theme for a moment, I wanna give a shout-out to Lindsay Cornish. She's the head brewer at Horse and Dragon Brewing Company here in Fort Collins.
• 5:59
  Hey, Lindsay, fun doing the radio show last night. Hope we can do another down the trail. And coming up next is something completely different.
• 6:09
  Worlds collide as we check in with Dirty, Chewy, and all that other shit storm from up at the Single Speed World Championships in Alaska. You're listening to the Weekly Dose of Fat on the Fat Bike Radio Network.
• 6:24
  [rock music] Up in the great white north, they make bikes for every trail and every season. RSD guarantees you'll have a smoking good time carving lines with their fatty mayor.
• 6:38
  Next season, the big guy gets new builds with an optional Bluto fork up front, one by 11 setups, and new colors, too.
• 6:45
  The most playful fatty on the market still clocks in under 30 pounds for less than two grand, or talk to your RSD bike dealer about any of the trick new options. And always keep the rubber side down.
• 7:00
  Welcome back to the show. I got the chance to do a phone interview with a bunch of lunatics out at the Single Speed Worlds in Anchorage, Alaska.
• 7:08
  Please welcome Dirty from Drunk Cyclist, old friends Spinner and Chewy, special guests Barry and the Scandinavian Jesus, and the man at the helm of the Single Speed Worlds, Mr. DJ Birch.
• 7:24
  We got the guys from Single Speed World, uh, Championships on the line. Introduce yourselves, guys. Hey, this is Spinner. Chewy. This is Barry. Scandinavian Jesus. Barry, we're gonna crack some beers. Yeah.
• 7:38
  [laughs] All right. Uncle Gomez, how did you find time to fuck everybody's aunt? And then you say... His dick is small enough to fuck my aunt. [laughs] The way I did it is I used skim man milk.
• 7:57
  It's like no fat. [laughs] That's why I'm so fat. So, uh- If you need more material, we could probably sober up by 6:00 PM. Yeah. [laughs] Oh, no. I, I- We don't want you sober...
• 8:11
  October 3rd, 2015, we should be able to do something for you. Oh, yeah. [laughs] Tell us about registration again, Chewy.
• 8:21
  So registration goes like this: You walk in the door to a strip mall that, there's this vacant building, and that's where we're, we're bringing registration from, out of. You walk in.
• 8:31
  [laughs] We got this cute little blonde, blonde that stands there and tells you to grab a beer, and you take out an Oskar Blues of whatever happens to be floating around.
• 8:40
  You grab that beer, you walk to the wall, and you grab a six-pack. So you get a six-pack of beer, and it's all Oskar Blues, also.
• 8:48
  They, they produce like 2,000 cans of beer and, and then you, from there you go to registration table, and you sign the waiver, and then you come to me.
• 8:58
  And when you come to me you get this, you know, the, the, I don't know what you wanna call them, the carny bands, the, uh, going with- Wristbands...
• 9:06
  wristbands when you go to, when you go to a, a concert or something, you know, the, the fluorescent green, fluorescent orange things? Yeah, yeah. You- I like, I like carny band. That's a good name for it.
• 9:15
  I like carny band, too, yeah. So you get one of those g- those guys. We put that on you, and you put that, so that's open for registration for a drawing.
• 9:23
  And then we also give you a pub crawl ticket that goes to seven bars, and there's seven bars in the town that, that you go to that give you, when you get punched there, that gives you, um, the, uh, what's the study?
• 9:38
  The, the, like, give you a helicopter ride to like up here. [laughs] Really? So the- I thought it would be like a time bonus for the race or something. What's that? It should be like a time bonus for the race. Oh, yeah.
• 9:50
  It, no, it's, it's, it's like, it is, whenever a lot of people up there like going, "Hey, there's, you know, like 100 of us in this." And they're all going, "Can we use this in the winter?"
• 9:59
  We're like, "We don't care where you use it, as you've seen in those other guys." So anyway, so then you get that, and then, and then we register that.
• 10:07
  Then you walk next door to Donna, and Donna gives you a dog tag, and the dog tag has on it your name. And if you put down an alias, you get the alias.
• 10:18
  If you, if you registered after the 23rd, your alias was, well, it wasn't really an alias, but what your name was is you put down as Fucking Slacker. Fucking Slacker? Yeah. [laughs] Yeah.
• 10:29
  Fucking, Fucking Slacker is what was given to you after you didn't register when you should have registered. Yeah. So then after that, then you got, and you could get Dumb Shit, Drunk, whatever.
• 10:39
  You know, whatever those other ones are. So then after that you got the swag. We have huge swag table. I mean, you got T-shirts, hats, whatever. And by the way, if you wanna know what's going on right now- Yeah, I do...
• 10:48
  all the guys from Tucson are just fucking showing up now. You got, you got Matt, Matt Putman and, and, uh, and, uh, Shannon from, uh, Endless Cycles.
• 11:02
  They're all just fucking showing up here now, drunk, hammered and everything. They can't keep them out the room, so. Dude, let me, Gomez. You wanna talk to DJ? What's up? Yeah, sure. Hold on here a second.
• 11:14
  Gomez, what's up? Yo. Hey. Hey, people. Hello? Hey, DJ. It's Gomez from Fat Bike. How's it going, man" It's okay. The sun is shining.
• 11:28
  [laughs] Just give our listeners, uh, a few words about, uh, Single Speed World Championships right now. All right. Well, standing here in beautiful central Anchorage, Alaska.
• 11:40
  The mountains are slightly covered by some lovely clouds, and the ocean is at high tide, uh, 36 inch, or 36 foot tidal. Um, second largest in the world, so that's pretty cool to watch.
• 11:56
  There's a bunch of spilled beer everywhere, and it smells like rotten people [laughs]. [laughs] Um, yeah. The-... has been very supportive of, of us. No one, uh, that I'm aware of is in jail yet. Very good.
• 12:14
  Uh, so yeah, all, all things are going according to the plan that wasn't made. [laughs] Sweet, man. Well, thanks for checking in with us. Have a great race, and we'll look forward to seeing tons of pictures and video.
• 12:26
  Sounds good. All right, peace out. See ya. Ciao, ciao for now. And the boneheads sucks with your own. You're tuned to Fat Bike Radio.
• 12:37
  Please welcome to the radio program the ladies behind the Skirts and Dirt Mountain Bike Race, Jill, Julie, and maybe Danielle Mustoe. Aloha, ladies.
• 12:52
  Welcome to Fantasy Island, or as we like to call it, Fat Bike Radio. [laughs] Thank you. Thank you. We're excited to be here. So maybe introduce yourself. I know we have Jill and Julie here.
• 13:05
  Uh, yeah, so my name's Jill, and I am one of the co-founders of Skirts and the Dirt. I've been mountain biking for a couple of years now, and racing for just one year. Cool.
• 13:18
  Uh, I race fat bikes and, um, mountain bikes- Right on... in Grand Rapids, so. And Julie? This is Julie. I've probably been riding for maybe three or four years, too. Love riding regular mountain bike or fat bike, too.
• 13:33
  I didn't race as much as Jill. [laughs] She's a super racer. Really excited to be here today. Cool.
• 13:39
  Well, that's, uh, that's kind of the core of, of what I know about Skirts and Dirt, is that it's an event for people of varying experiences to embrace the race, uh, culture or the race day or racing. Race fun.
• 13:54
  There you go. Racing fun. Racing is fun. There you go. Yeah. Well, that's- [laughs] It says that on your website.
• 14:00
  So we thought you, we'd invite you on the show so you could tell us about the Skirts and Dirt mountain bike event that you're hosting. So tell our listeners all about, all about the all about.
• 14:11
  So, um, we, we wanted to put together a women's only race. Um, being a, a female in the mountain biking scene, sometimes it's a little bit intimidating to, to start racing.
• 14:21
  Um, and when you do get out there and you start racing, sometimes it's super intimidating 'cause a lot of guys will fly past you or clip you with their handlebars when they try to pass you or something, and it's scary.
• 14:32
  So a lot of people hesitate when signing up for races because they're just a little bit more timid. They're unsure of themselves. They might be a little bit afraid to sign up.
• 14:42
  So we wanted to organize a race for beginners to kind of get excited about racing, to just kind of get out there and have a good time, to see that it's not really, you know, super intimidating.
• 14:52
  It's not, it's not something that's going to hurt you a whole lot. Um, and it should be, you know, it should be about having fun. So that's kind of the idea that we had. We love fun here at Fat Bike Radio.
• 15:03
  [laughs] It's one of our core values, duh, fun. [laughs] Well, cool. And you guys are gonna have a fat bike category, right? Called Fabulously Fat, if I'm correct? [laughs] It is. That's funny. That's too cool, man.
• 15:21
  Literally. I like the way that you guys have set up your categories as, you know, categories, not cat one, cat two, expert, whatever else they come up with. It's, uh...
• 15:32
  E- explain your categories, the way it says on the website. So we wanted our categories to be fun, too. So for those women who are new to mountain biking, never raced before, we have a Never, Ever category.
• 15:46
  [laughs] Um, for those that have raced a little bit but aren't really super serious mountain bikers, we have the Weekend Warrior category. Probably what would be equivalent to expert is the Dirt Diva category.
• 16:00
  And for y- the fat bikes, it's Fabulously Fat. [laughs] That's, that's awesome. Because fat bikes are fabulous. [laughs] Well, cool. They are. Um- Those are awesome categories.
• 16:12
  [laughs] We also have a Girls on Wheels category for, um, kids under 12. Um- Oh, cool... just because, you know, I wish I would've started mountain biking when I was 12. That would've been really, really awesome.
• 16:25
  Um- Yeah... but we wanted to encourage women of all ages to sign up for the race. That's very cool. Well, maybe we... We just found out that we're getting a kids' fat bike, a 24-inch wheel fat bike. No way.
• 16:37
  Maybe we'll bring that out and, uh, let some of your younger lady riders ride this new- Are you seriously? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that would be so cool. That would be- Isn't that cool? That would be incredible.
• 16:48
  We need to know where the race is and what date it is and, uh, and how to get there. So why don't you fill us in on, on where your race is? Yeah. It's, um, Sunday, August 24th.
• 16:59
  Uh, race starts at 10:00 AM for the first category. Uh, it's at Cannonburg Ski Tow. It's a little bit outside of Grand Rapids. Oh, cool. It's not too far. Nice. Well, muchísimas gracias para nos.
• 17:12
  Buenos suerte with your race. We really appreciate you coming by and telling us and adding all this positive energy to our show. And you know, you brought fun to our show. We love that. Yeah.
• 17:23
  [laughs] Pues muchísimas gracias a ustedes también. [laughs] Ah. You don't wanna hear his voicemail. [laughs] You do wanna hear this. [laughs] Well, buenos suerte, chicas. Have a good day.
• 17:41
  [laughs] Thank you. Thank you so much. You're tuned to Fat Bike Radio. Hi, this is Eric from Surly. Beanbag chairs, lava lamps, pintos.
• 17:56
  Those things and more on Fat Bike Radio with Gomez instead. If you've been listening to the show, you know Sven is out west spreading the Fat Bike Radio love. So Sven, how's the trip so far? Are you, like, tripping?
• 18:09
  I'm tripping, getting a Rocky Mountain high going here.
• 18:13
  Uh, I spent most of the past week in Colorado, but before I got here, I stopped in Cheyenne, Wyoming to take the pulse of fat biking in the state with the least people in our fine union, and found out that fat biking is alive and well in the Cowboy State.
• 18:26
  What'd you learn there, partner? Partner. [laughs] Partner. I checked in at the Bike Station. That's a specialized concept store there in Cheyenne. Concept.
• 18:35
  As you'd guess, they've sold numerous Fat Boys, but a bunch of Pugs and Salsa Mukluks as well.
• 18:41
  I talked to Kenny, one of the wrenches there, for a while about the trail systems in the area, including the, uh, IMBA Epic up at Curt Gowdy State Park, and he informed me that they've got some new groomed-only-for-fat-bike trails coming this winter about 30 miles west of Cheyenne on national park land that's already heavily used by cross-country skiers and snowshoers, who are gonna get to keep all those different user groups happy.
• 19:05
  And then over at Rock on Wheels, I met up with sh- the owner, George, and service manager, Travis. Wait, this is all in Cheyenne? This is all in Cheyenne. I didn't think there was that much in Cheyenne.
• 19:18
  Sorry, that was ice. I'm getting another beer. [laughs] Well, yeah, Cheyenne.
• 19:24
  Over at Rock on Wheels in Cheyenne, I met up with, uh, George, the owner, and service manager, Travis, where I learned that they have an active rental business in the snowy season, as well as some cool custom powder-coated shop rigs that were basking out in the July sun when I stopped by.
• 19:39
  They've had several Farleys go through, as well as numerous Pugs, Moonlanders, and Mukluks, and they're telling me that riders are using them for everything from around-town trips to major mountain expeditions.
• 19:49
  If you're in the area, check in with one or the other or both of those shops for more information on the local fat bike scene.
• 19:55
  Just like in a lot of oth- other areas of the country, it seems like it's, uh, changing by the year as to what's available, so local knowledge is always the best thing. There'll be links in the show notes.
• 20:06
  So how are they, uh, how are they getting on national park land with bikes? Good question. I don't know the answer to that, but, uh- They're probably just riding them...
• 20:16
  well, they are specifically having some groomed trails, so they've got some interaction with the local groups.
• 20:21
  I mean, they had the, uh, the, uh, summit out there in Ogden, Utah last year, and some of these guys were over there, so- Oh, cool... uh, this is, this is a lot of heavy, uh, in, in...
• 20:31
  Out west here, there's a lot of national park land, a lot of BLM land, so a lot of local- BLM land rules. BLM. Yeah. Well, we'll have to, uh, we'll have to follow up on that and just see how that goes.
• 20:40
  That sounds awesome, man. Yeah, absolutely. So anything, anything happen on your Colorado trip yet? Have you tried out- Well-... the local flora or fauna- [laughs]... as it were? Can you get a, can you- Yeah, it's-...
• 20:52
  can you get-... actually legal out here... a decent bratwurst? [laughs] Can you get a decent bratwurst in Fort Collins? Riddle me this. I haven't even seen a decent sausage out here yet, let alone a bratwurst.
• 21:02
  Uh- If anybody can do it, it's you. [laughs] It's you, my brother. Sausage. [laughs] Rainbows and sausage, that's what happens out here in Colorado. [laughs] Oh, man.
• 21:16
  So anyway, day one, I, uh, I headed down to Boulder to pick up a new lens for my camera. I took that up into Rocky Mountain National Park to do some shooting. I found a few elk up there willing to cooperate.
• 21:28
  [laughs] [snorts] Did you bring along a stepladder? Those things are tall. [laughs] Yeah, they're, they're tall. [laughs] Well, I meant anything bike-related, yo. Or this is a, it's a, it's called Fat Bike Radio.
• 21:41
  It's like, this seems worse- We just heard about, I just heard about more stuff in Cheyenne than I thought was possible, though. No way. Yeah. Wyoming rules, dude. I, I thought it w- [laughs]
• 21:48
  I thought it was Fat Elk Radio. That's why I was kinda looking at those guys. But, uh- [laughs] Fat elk... if you wanna go ride with Dick Cheney and George Bush- Oh. [laughs]... Wyoming's the place to go.
• 21:59
  Wait, is this- Those guys are on the other side of Wyoming. We, it doesn't really count here in Cheyenne area. But, uh, anyway, I did get to meet up with Ryan from Moon Men.
• 22:07
  I met him at New Belgium Brewing, where he- Uh-oh... still holds down a, quote, unquote, "day job" in their creative department. After that, we headed over to the Moon Men shop.
• 22:17
  Things were in full swing there as Todd and Paul were getting the finishing touches on a couple of frames that they're taking up to the Single Speed Worlds in Alaska.
• 22:25
  The consensus was that they'd be working till about 3:00 AM last night, right up to the time when they had to catch the shuttle to Denver International for the flight to Alaska. So good luck, guys.
• 22:34
  I hope you get everything done. Yeah, that's cool. And, uh- We're gonna, uh- Well, I-... meet up with those guys at Single Speed USA in August. Yeah. [burps] Yeah, yeah.
• 22:42
  Ryan specifically said they were gonna be there and to look them up, because they wanted to talk with y'all. Badass.
• 22:47
  So while I was at Moon Men, uh, Fort Collins is kinda interesting in that a lot of these, uh, smaller businesses share space with other businesses. In the same building as, uh, Moon Men is a place called Yendra Built.
• 23:00
  A guy named Zack Yendra owns it, and he's got a couple of projects going that involve fat bike parts.
• 23:06
  One of them is a 10-person pedal-powered school bus that the City of Fort Collins has commissioned so that, uh, they can use it to promote cycling and have a couple of responsible adults on the front and eight radical kids on the back of it.
• 23:19
  It's using 80-millimeter rims and five-inch fat bike tires. And then he's working on a modification to their half-barrel hauler, which is already out there. I think Colin's seen it at Great American Beer Festival. Fact.
• 23:33
  Yeah. True. And, uh, i- it's got a 36-inch rear wheel and 29er fronts at the present time, but he's working on a modification for a 29er, or a 29-plus rear, and fat bike wheels in the front.
• 23:44
  So we're gonna keep- There you go-... an eye on that... that'd be sweet. Instead of putting your kid on Ritalin, make him pedal the 10-person bus to school. That'll calm him down for a little bit.
• 23:53
  Yeah, it's better- Calm down for a little bit... than Ritalin. Just a little bit. Better than Ritalin. And then- Just a little... take him out to lunch, go get a couple of cold ones, and come back, do social studies.
• 24:01
  Your kid will be drunk. [laughs] Hey. It's Colorado, man. Yeah, and even- It's the new frontier.
• 24:07
  See, it's crazy to me that they need to promote bicycling culture in Fort Collins, which is, like, number three bike city in the USA or something. But- Well, it's-... really, it- Well, it's, yeah... you gotta-...
• 24:19
  gotta promote it... promote it... gotta keep, gotta keep on it... maybe, maybe it's just- Get some-...
• 24:22
  you know, a product of, of- Of the bike culture that- No, I- Could you imagine having a- Somebody who's like, "We should do this," and then Yendra Built's like, "Yeah."
• 24:31
  But like, if we had one of those here, that'd be like, people would freak out. Totally. Freak out. It, it's gonna have a Jeep front end. It's really cool looking. Nice. Cool.
• 24:41
  Um, so aft- after we talked about all that stuff at his shop, he convinced me to do a guest spot on KRFC's Bikes and Beer radio show. That beamed out live to all of Fort Collins area Wednesday evening.
• 24:52
  One of the things I learned about there is even though the bike culture here is pretty established, they're doing their first, um, the first deal where they actually close off the streets.
• 25:01
  They've been doing it in Madison for a while. It's really big down in South America. I forget what they call it, but they close off the streets to car- They'll call it, is it, is it critical mass? No, no, no.
• 25:09
  This is more of a close the streets off to cars and let everybody, you know, rollerblade and walk and have party and bicycle, and there's two of them in Madison already that have happened.
• 25:18
  I thought that was like what it was like all the time in Fort Collins.
• 25:21
  Yeah, this is more of a, they gotta get, you know, they gotta keep people on top of it, otherwise, you know, these places slip if you don't, uh, keep it in front of them, you know? Uh, that's what they're trying to do.
• 25:33
  Like one of these. Yeah. He's, he's- Yeah. I mean, is he [laughs]... he's flipping off our microphone. [laughs] Yep. He's gone off the deep end. [laughs] Bring us back from crazy world.
• 25:44
  So it's pretty good start to the trip. Nice. So what else you got, bro? That's a start. Yeah. Well, Thursday was a whirl- What are you doing, what are you doing later?
• 25:54
  Thursday was a whirlwind with stops at Boo Bicycles, Black Sheep, Oddity Cycles. I'll have more on that later.
• 26:01
  Yeah, you gotta say hi to and give a long, lingering, uncomfortable man hug to all of our friends at Boo Bicycles. Make, make it as uncomfortable as possible. Exactly. Uh, yeah.
• 26:13
  So, uh, what's coming up later in the week, bro?
• 26:16
  Well, after the show, I'm off to Colorado Springs to visit Steve-O at Singular and the guys at Borealis Bikes, as well as check out the new urban single track project they have going there.
• 26:26
  And we're gonna catch a race on Saturday where the Borealis guys are gonna be racing fat bikes. After that, I'm heading to SaddleDrive, and, uh, that'll kinda wrap up the trip next week. Yee-haw, SaddleDrive. Yeah.
• 26:36
  Whip it out. So many, so, so many long, lingering man hugs to give out at SaddleDrive. You know who you are. Our line is our line. [laughs] So is it nap time yet?
• 26:52
  [sighs] Well, it's already time to say adios. But first, let's say thanks to our sponsor, Surly Bikes. Surly Bikes are a logical choice. Sven? [laughs] Visit them at surlybikes.com.
• 27:07
  Thanks, everyone, for listening, and thanks to our special guests, Dirty from DC, Chewy, Spinner Paddlefoot, the ladies from Behind Skirts and Dirt Race, maybe the ladies in the skirts from Dirt Race.
• 27:23
  [laughs] Tune in next week when we'll have our special guest and pirate, bike pirate, Greg Angus- Argh... from Fatback, Puck's Radio Edition, along with all the hottest news, products, and events from the fat bike world.
• 27:39
  All right, see you next week. Adios, amigos. Take it easy, y'all. Man, wait. [bird squawks] Oh, wow. You've been listening to Fat Bike Radio's weekly dose of fat.
• 27:53
  Find us on the web at fat-bike.com/radio. We'll see you next time.
• 28:02
  [upbeat music]