Fat Free: Gulevich, Simmons, and Tippie Try out the Rocky Mountain Blizzard Fat Bike

Written by Zach Overholt Dec 23, 2014 9:44 a.m. ET

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In what’s starting to become a common story line, within the Rocky Mountain Bicycle office they were a little skeptical about the incoming storm of fat bikes. That skepticism continued as the design for Blizzard fat bike started to appear around the office. Apparently Wade Simmons was on board immediately saying, “everyone thinks they’re so f*cking cool and serious, but it’s really just about having fun on your bike.”

After more of their test riders started to enjoy their testing of the Blizzard more and more, they came up with the concept for Fat Free. Can you freeride a fat bike? After doing some experimenting in British Columbia’s coastal mountains, the answer was clear.

“If it was ever even a question, the answer is yes. You can and should freeride a fat bike.”

You’re gonna want to see the results next…

From Rocky Mountain:

Riders: Geoff Gulevich, Wade Simmons, & Brett Tippie, with appearances by Andreas Hestler & Fraser Vaage.
Filmed by: Liam Mullany, Connor Macleod, Chris Fisher, Brian Park, Fraser Vaage, & Andreas Hestler
Music (Main): “Outta Mind” by Night Beats, courtesy of The Reverberation Appreciation Society
Thanks to: Black Tusk Snowmobile Club, Tony Cailes, & Dylan Auld
Photography: Fraser Vaage & Brian Park

Visit bikes.com/blizzard to check out the Rocky Mountain Blizzard. We built it for aggressive, trail-style riding on snow, sand, and other soft terrain.

Zach Overholt

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Zach Overholt is the Editor in Chief of Bikerumor. He has been writing about what’s new in the bicycle world for 12+ years. Prior to that, Zach spent many years in the back of a bicycle shop building and repairing nearly every type of bike, while figuring out how to (occasionally) ride them.

Based in Ohio, Zach is now slowly introducing a new generation to cycling and still trying to figure out how to fit the most rides into a busy schedule as a new dad.

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CeeJay

9 years ago

Meh… anyone could do that on a normal bike.

carbonfodder

9 years ago

With the exception of the sled shuttles and the final 10s, this looks to me like what we have been doing for 30 years – “mountain biking”. As with CeeJay, meh seems appropriate.

disclaimer – i am not denigrating the insane flip in the last 10s. I cannot and will not ever be able to pull something like that on any bike. I know my betters.

KJR

9 years ago

@carbonfodder: You’ve been riding your mountain bike on groomers and fresh powder for 30 years? That’s pretty cool, bro. Where do you live that it’s that snowy all the time?

lazydave

9 years ago

That would have been a lot more fun on skis/snowboard… Fatbikes are great-wonderful and amazing but you still need to know when to put the bike away and grab the skis/snowboard.

CeeJay

9 years ago

@lazydave: I must disagree with you on that point. Tarmac, dirt, mud, sand, snow,… they all are good and so damn fun to ride on a bike. Nothing beats riding a bike, whatever the terrain is (except water of course).

groghunter

9 years ago

@lazydave NEVAR! I’m going to pioneer fatbike mountaineering out of spite! YEEEHAWWWW

Roy

9 years ago

I did not see any ‘mountain biking’. walking with bike and coasting until crashing for the camera is like a low budget Jackass movie.

hooby

9 years ago

that looks like so much fun! awesome

carbonfodder

9 years ago

@KJR – Western Canadian Rocky Mountains. We get snow all year. We have had to find ways through and around snowpack too soft to ride in both July and August. We also get bone-dry in January.