The Rise of "Fat Bikes" Big Wheels for the Snow
Fat Bike: Words We're Watching
Fat bikes are bicycles with tires that are wide, sometimes twice the width of the tires on a typical mountain bike, and underinflated, making them ideal for riding over soft surfaces like snow, sand, and mud. At first they were called fat tire bikes because they were, you know, bikes with fat tires. Today the term is fat bike (also styled as fatbike), and it comes with several companion terms: you can fat bike (verb) on a fat bike and you may enjoy fat biking (gerund) as an activity. You won't win the Tour de France, but at least you’ll be going a lot faster than the snowshoers.
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