Cycling in Canada: The season-defying joy of Global Fat Bike Day 2015 in Thunder Bay, Ontario
This film gives a glowing, free-rolling testament to just how much fat bikers love their preferred winter discipline in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Recently, Canadian Cycling Magazine gave you a glimpse of what Global Fat Bike Day—that one day out of the calendar year when all things wide-treaded, trail-busting and two-wheelingly awesome are celebrated—looked like for 2015 in social media form.
Today, in our latest look at cycling’s many faces across the country, we’ll up the ante on that.
This video, posted to YouTube this month by filmmaker Michael McKenzie, encapsulates from the outset exactly what the thrill, the joy and the cold-weather bravado of fat biking in Canada is all about. They’re steeds made to ride equally as well amid the obstacles of winter as on sand, something that obviously resonates a bit more among Canadians. Their pure, simple, season-defying joy is in the snow, something that can trip up even the hardiest rider with other gear—unless that rider has a certain set of wheels, or has prepared.
In the depths of December, as the snow starts to accumulate, that freedom from what can keep other cyclists from cranking their cranksets is worth its weight in gold, and nowhere, it seems, is that more apparent than in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
On Dec. 5, fatbikers in Thunder Bay celebrates that along with everyone else. Take a moving, musical look at what drives their passions.
