Fatbikes To Take You Well Off The Beaten Path

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When you travel well off the beaten path, you may require any and all methods of transportation at your disposal to get you to your final destination. For the bulk of the mileage, we’re likely to depend on our trusty fossil fuel–powered vehicles to get us to the region that we’d like to explore. Once there, however, our manner of conveyance can vary greatly depending on our intended destination and its environmental conditions. We may choose to hike, bike or even ski or climb our way to our intended goal.

Depending on distance and terrain considerations, biking can be an efficient and fun way to get to where you want to go. While riding a bike off road can conjure up images of mountain bikes in your mind, there’s another type of bicycle that might be the better choice to ride over difficult to tread terrain, such as sand, snow and coarse gravel. This type of bike is often called a fatbike, or fat-tire bike.