The Omelenchuks had quite an influence on athletics in the midwest. From handlebar stems to hubs to pedals, the Omelenchuk shop made their own equipment, and they made it well. The spokes, having been soldered at the rim, are adjusted with little turnbuckles halfway down their length. Built with a specially extruded rod rim, with a tubeless tire casing glued directly to the aluminum. Up front we have a custom front hub and fork, built as wide as the rear end of the bike, a design that must have been quite a bit more rigid laterally when ridden on banked velodromes. Looks like the rider is headed for the beach, not snow… Now I have to admit that neither of these bikes were even close to being the first fat bikes.Ĭheck out this photo that Jeff unearthed from the 1940’s. Surly and some QBP employees must have come to the same conclusion too, as Surly was pretty blatant in copying many of Erik’s design elements for the first Surly Pugsley.
That Peacock Groove bike was a hoot to ride around through the Minneapolis autumn leaves, and I understood what a game changer a bike like that would be for a cyclist who had to endure a midwest winter. I had the chance to ride the first snow bike that Erik ever made. It felt slow to me, but on top of hard-packed snow it just cruised.Įrik Noren, the gifted artisan behind Peacock Groove custom bicycles once worked at QBP (the bicycle wholesaler behind Surly bikes) in Minneapolis. My friend Mike Madden raced the Iditabike a number of times, and he had a Fat Chance mountain bike fitted with double rims (two regular mountain bike rims, welded together so that a 26 x 2” tire would spread out and provide a bigger footprint in the snow).
I thought that I had seen, and maybe even ridden, two of the very first bikes designed for riding on snow (that are now referred to as “Fat Bikes”. I also have a couple of friends that used to do the Alaskan Iditarod bike event back in the early 1990’s. Over Sized High Tensile Steel Cruiser BicycleĬantilever Frame with Large Top Tube & 49" Wheelbase, stand over height 31.5" inchesġ" Threaded Headset with Locking Nuts (will not loosen through usage)Ģ6" x 2.I’m a Minnesotan and have competed in winter bike races.
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