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Review: 45NRTH 26×4.0 Vanhelga Fat Bike Tires
The folks at 45NRTH live and breath cold weather riding and are focused on keeping us comfortable and safe when riding in the winter. 45NRTH focuses heavily on tires, gloves, footwear, and other cold-weather accessories. I’ve recently had the pleasure of pedaling snow on the Vanhelga 26×4.0 tires, which are one of 45NRTH’s loose snow …
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4 Tips for Converting Your Fat Bike Tires to Tubeless
In case you haven’t noticed, fat biking is now “a thing.“ It is arguably the most explosive niche of modern mountain biking at the moment, and new technologies are being developed faster than ever before. There are several things anyone can do to any fat bike to improve performance, but one thing that people consistently ask …
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Frostbike Roundup: Garmin Watch w/ Color Screen, WTB High Tail Saddle, and Non-Fat Bike Stuff
In this post I’ll try to round up everything mentioned in the title… plus more fat bike stuff. While Frostbike may not be as big as Sea Otter or Interbike, there was plenty of exciting new stuff to see. I tested and reviewed the Garmin Fenix 2 wristwatch and I found it to be super …
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The Benefits of Mountain Biking with Frame Bags
In our modern, technical world there seems to be a need to hyper-specialize everything, to focus on the slightest nuances, treating them like chasms of difference. The cycling world is not immune to this compulsion. If cycle-touring is traveling on a heavy-duty road bike laden with over-stuffed panniers for romantic adventures across the roads of …
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27.5+ Tires: These Are for Your 29er
At Frostbike I mentioned to Chris from Loose Nuts Cycles that I didn’t get why companies were producing 27.5+ mountain bike tires given the dearth of production 27.5+ bike frames. His response: 27.5+ tires are for your 29er. At that moment scales fell from my eyes and I saw the future. Ok, so maybe I …
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