Colorado Kid

Found this little story about cycling in Fargo, N.D. https://www.bicycling.com/rides/comm...m-the-hardcore

Korina

I love that little "how to layer" video; it's about 10* higher than what I do. At 55* I'm wearing my long pants and a couple of shirts, and I'm just fine. It rarely gets really warm here, so my body has adjusted.

cbike

I don't get the fat tire bike craze. The guy I bought my first set of studded tires (schwalbe ice spiker) from switched to a non studded fat tire bike. I just don't see how that's any good for slippery roads.

Love the studded tires though. Even my kids now have them to ride to school all winter long.

canklecat

I've been to Fargo and Bismarck ND and throughout that area in winter on business trips back in the 1980s-'90s. It was unbelievably cold compared with New York where I'd spent several years as a kid. Takes time to get acclimated to that kind of cold. Respect to anyone who exercises or works outdoors in those winters.

Craptacular8

It's loads of fun...sarcasm aside. Living in the area has certainly altered my perception of what "cold" is, and prompts me to take a vacation day when the temps are mid 30's in January to take advantage of "good riding weather," lol. I'm probably really cracked that I look forward to taking a bike with me to Sioux Falls so that I can take advantage of their tropical weather....it's all relative, lol. I do keep a bike at the office to commute to lunch on, but I tend to chicken out when it's much below 20.

FargoRider

I rode that race on January 28th. It was the 3rd BBBRRR ride I've done. The first time I used a FS mountain bike, but now I have a fatty. Way safer riding now.

The course is around six miles total and it's fairly challenging too. There are some decent climbs; tight corners around trees, and you even go down a river bank for about 1/4 mile stretch and climb back up again. There are all kinds of levels and ages that ride. It's really a blast. After the race, we go down to the LBS for keg beer and brats - really a fun day.

The first year I rode there were maybe 40% fat tire riders. This year I bet 90% were fatties. I love mine, and it's also my winter commuter. The damn thing can go just about anywhere.

We have several groomed winter trails in Fargo/Moorhead going through the woods. It's really fun zipping through the trees with all the other night riders with their lights on. It's truly a unique experience.

FargoRider

Non-studded fat tires work great on ice as long as you don't turn sharp. You can run these with as little as 5lbs of pressure, so you have a huge flat surface. When I hit icey patches on my way to work, I don't even flinch or notice. I have spilled a few times on corners but never when going fast. No big deal.

I usually run around 11 lbs of pressure when commuting, but around 6lbs when snow trail riding. Mountain bikes just sink in the groomed snow trails.

FargoRider

Here are a couple of pics from that ride. It was about 2° above the donut, but not too windy. Pretty nice day, and the course was in great shape. The fist pic shows riders on the frozen Red River approaching the bank going back up. That's me going on to the river, and then in a wooded area.

Dan Burkhart 

Through much of the 90s, I had a regular west coast run that took me through Fargo. It was one of the places I used to take the bike out of the truck and go riding.
I remember riding around the neighborhoods near the river in the aftermath of the 1997 red river flood.
Piles of rotten wallboard stacked in the front yard of houses that had been gutted. Water can be as devastating as fire, and the cleanup is worse.