{"id":112659,"date":"2015-11-25T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=112659"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:33:36","slug":"mt-bike-video-fat-bike-freeriding-on-a-blizzard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=112659","title":{"rendered":"Mt Bike Video &#8211; Fat Bike Freeriding on a Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have to admit, we were hesitant about the fat bike trend that&#8217;s taking the bike industry by storm (pun intended). There were definitely a few raised eyebrows in the office when we started designing and testing one.<\/p>\n<p>Wade Simmons was an instant convert though; &#8220;everyone thinks they&#8217;re so f@#&amp;ing cool and serious, but it&#8217;s really just about having fun on your bike anyway.&#8221; And soon enough, the other guys stopped returning their test bikes on time.<\/p>\n<p>FAT FREE came out of a few days of experimenting and shredding the Blizzard in BC&#8217;s coastal mountains. It opened all our eyes to the spectacular terrain that&#8217;s available for fat biking, and it proved to us that the only limitations for these bikes are our own preconceived notions.<\/p>\n<p>If it was ever even a question, the answer is yes. You can and should freeride a fat bike.<\/p>\n<p>Riders: Geoff Gulevich, Wade Simmons, &amp; Brett Tippie, with appearances by Andreas Hestler &amp; Fraser Vaage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/114532272?title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to admit, we were hesitant about the fat bike trend that&#8217;s taking the bike industry by storm (pun intended). There were definitely a few raised eyebrows in the office when we started designing and testing one. Wade Simmons was an instant convert though; &#8220;everyone thinks they&#8217;re so f@#&amp;ing cool and serious, but it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112660,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112659\/revisions\/112660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}