BIKING 08495 "Late afternoon winter shadows on the trail... mine and the Ice Cream Truck's" February 13, 2016 - You may have noticed that I have not been posting very many sunrise or sunset landscape photos this winter. The reason for this is that I have had "fat bike fever" for a good chunk of the winter, in addition to the normal "ski fever". I've been wanting a fat bike for several years and this year I finally bit the bullet and got one. During my free time if I haven't been skiing, I've been out riding my bike, which is loads of fun! I've been taking a lot of pictures this winter, they've just mostly been trail pictures while out skiing or biking. Here is one such photo taken a couple of days ago. I was making my way home as the sun was setting and on this particular section of trail the long shadows combined with the receding trail meant that I just had to stop and make a photo. FYI - In case you're wondering about the title of this image, my bike is called the Ice Cream Truck, it's one of the models made by Surly Bikes.

BIKING 08509 "Fat Bike Sunset" February 14, 2016 - Since I shared a shadow picture of me and my bike yesterday, I figured I better show a picture of the actual bike too! So, here is my Surly "Ice Cream Truck", admiring the setting sun on a clear, cold day. For those that don't know, fat bikes allow you to ride on packed trails in the winter. They have tires that are at least twice as wide as a typical mountain bike tire, and you run very low pressures in them (5 to 10 psi compared to at least 30 to 35 psi in a mountain bike and probably twice that in a road bike tire). The large tire footprint and the low pressure gives you tremendous flotation for a bike, allowing you to ride on snow as long as you have a reasonably firm trail to ride on.

BIKING 6935 "Long Summer Ride" Grand Portage, MN