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  • The evolution of the fat-tire mountain bike

    Bjarne Holm Board Member, Sisters Trails Alliance|Updated Jan 20, 2015

    Fat-tired bicycles have cropped up all over Sisters Country. Where did these all-weather, all-terrain bikes come from? Reports of bicycles traveling over the surface of frozen rivers during the gold rush in Alaska date back to the late 1800s, but when bicycles were invited to race on trails groomed for the Iditarod sled dog race, a revolution in fat-tire bicycle design took off. The trail for the Iditarod sled-dog race covers a distance of over 1,000 miles from Anchorage to No... Full story