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1.	Fatbikes: Woven into Winter 05:11	info	download
2.	Fatbikes 4 MS - Feb 5 2017 25:00	info	download
3.	Silver Skating to the Fatbike Fest 15:37	info	download

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Woven into Winter (radio show #20170126)

Just a couple of years ago fatbikes were the new bike in town. Few had heard of them, fewer still had ever ridden one. Now, in 2017, you can't go into the river valley trail systems without coming across a pack of cyclists on fatbikes. Today on Bike Bits, with CJSR's bicycle traffic reporter Karly Coleman and Full English Breakfast host Peter Chapman, we looked at some of the ways the fatbike phenomenon has become embedded in Edmonton's winter wonderland.

Michael MacFynn and Molly MacDougall told us about the second annual Fatbikes 4 MS event, presented with the support of Revolution Cycle and organised by SG Front Forks. Supporting the MS Society, the event hosted at Capilano park on 5 Feb 2017, will bring fatbikers and families affected by MS together. We heard about some of the advances in MS treatments since last year, the personal story of how MacFynn's family has been affected by MS (his wife was diagnosed with MS two years ago), and how the event is about showcasing the community that exists for those affected by the auto-immune impacting diagnosis that some call "Canada's disease."
Register to ride: www.fatbikes4ms.com

Trevor Soll from Multi-Sport Canada told us how, after a number of years of feelers, the city's long-running Silver Skate Festival is expanding this year to include a Fatbike Fest on 12 Feb 2017. Comprised of bike demos, and a chip-timed loop race ranging in length from 10-40km that can be raced as a team relay. He told us how fatbiking has joined the pantheon of canadian sporting, and doesn't expect it to be going away anytime soon, especially, he tells us, as fatbiking is also being embraced by coastal, sand communities, where the bikes wider tires also excel.
Find out more details: fatbikefest.ca

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released January 26, 2017

Interview conducted by Karly Coleman and Peter Chapman on CJSR, 88.5fm in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 26 Jan 2017.

Image: "A fatty sunset" - Dustin Gaffke, flic.kr/p/CUMMVG
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