Daily Travails | Fat Biking

Crashing Out…

by FatManBiking | Sep 7, 2015 | Daily Travails

As a kid growing up in the rural Northwest of England I was, like all the other kids, pretty much inseparable from my bike. We rode our bikes everywhere, almost all of the time. It was the only way to get efficiently from A to B around the small neighborhood. Longer...

Ride Report – Overnight Trip to Stockbridge WI.

by FatManBiking | Jun 8, 2015 | Daily Travails

I think my trip-planning is becoming more and more half-hearted, and it’s a concern. Let me explain: I started this whole cycling thang primarily to break loose from the vice-like grip of the couch and to shed some flab going into the latter stages of a long and...

Anniversary Bash

by FatManBiking | May 22, 2015 | Daily Travails

I started this cycling nonsense on May 5th 2014. It really started in earnest when I bought a new iPhone (my first ever ‘smart’ phone) and downloaded the ‘MapMyRide’ app. My first recorded activity on the app was on Sunday May 4th when I took a...

Friday The 13th.

by FatManBiking | Mar 16, 2015 | Above and Beyond, Daily Travails

How does that old joke go? – The woman is lying down on the psychiatrist’s couch and the shrink asks: “Do any of your family members suffer from mental illness?” To which she replies: “No, they all seem to enjoy it”. Though...

One Last Hoorah?

by FatManBiking | Mar 6, 2015 | Daily Travails

It is with great sadness that I must report that Spring has reared its ugly head in these here parts, and my precious snow-trails are looking rather precarious, from an existence point of view. It doesn’t seem to be fair to suffer the excruciating hardship of a...