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Third annual Aspen Fat Bike Race returns to Nordic Center on Saturday morning

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Third annual Aspen Fats Bike Race returns to Nordic Heart on Saturday morning

  • The Aspen Fats Bike Race returns Saturday to the Aspen Nordic Heart trails.
    Sheila Babbie/courtesy

    The Aspen Fat Bike Race returns Saturday to the Aspen Nordic Center trails.
  • The Aspen Fats Bike Race returns Saturday to the Aspen Nordic Heart trails.
    Sheila Babbie/courtesy

    The Aspen Fat Bike Race returns Saturday to the Aspen Nordic Center trails.
  • The Aspen Fats Bike Race returns Saturday to the Aspen Nordic Heart trails.
    Sheila Babbie/courtesy

    The Aspen Fat Bike Race returns Saturday to the Aspen Nordic Center trails.

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Not many individuals have a ardour for fats bikes like Aspen’s Erik Skarvan. The proprietor of Sun Dog Athletics, an area journey sports activities faculty within the Roaring Fork Valley, Skarvan is at all times up for spreading the stoke of the rising sport.

“You are feeling like a child on a motorbike once more, and that’s actually on the core of the enjoyable of fats biking. It’s actually release-your-inner-child-type biking, as a result of it’s so ridiculous,” Skarvan stated. “That’s actually on the coronary heart of it, that childlike enjoyable with fats biking that I actually like to share. And this race will clearly be an instance and a chance to expertise that on Saturday.”

The area of interest winter sport will take heart stage Saturday with the annual Aspen Fat Bike Race, placed on by the Particular Occasions division via town of Aspen. Fats bikes, which have a wider tire that permits them to be ridden on snow and sand, have been discovered right here in Aspen for a number of a long time, though they’ve solely change into considerably mainstream over the previous decade.

Varied entities have held fats bike races right here in Aspen through the years, however Saturday’s race on the Aspen Golf Course/Aspen Nordic Heart is just in its third winter.

“From what I’ve skilled, it’s a tangible method to create the thrill and create the vibe. That’s an enormous a part of the tradition,” Brian Lengthy, the path system supervisor for town of Aspen, stated about internet hosting a fats bike race. “I attempt to hold my finger on the heartbeat of fats bike racing, and they’re popping up throughout.”

Skarvan, whose firm gives fats bike excursions within the winter, has competed in most of the native fats bike races, together with in final 12 months’s Aspen Fats Bike Race. It’s a special type of race in comparison with a mountain bike race in the summertime, because the tempo is way slower and the spectating rather more “comical,” Skarvan claims.

“You see a number of the prime riders in our space flipping over their bikes, and it’s simply hilarious,” Skarvan stated. “Even when you do a ahead Superman fall, you might be falling in snow and also you simply form of stand up and watch a bunch of fellows go you and you might be annoyed, however you stand up and you recognize they’re in all probability going to crash in 5 minutes and also you’ll go them. It’s nearly comedy-type of racing. Guys nonetheless take it severely, however it’s somewhat extra lighthearted and enjoyable as a result of it’s such a ridiculous sport by its nature.”

Racing will get underway Saturday at 9 a.m. with the boys’s and girls’s open division, adopted by the boys’s and girls’s leisure division at 10 a.m. The open division has riders full as many laps as they’ll in 50 minutes, whereas the leisure division is proscribed to solely half-hour.

Lengthy stated the course is just like the previous two years, however will characteristic extra of a mixture of huge and single monitor.

“The primary 12 months I had it simply fairly slim single monitor after which the second 12 months I attempted to make use of a wider groomer,” he stated. “Now this 12 months I’m doing a mixture of these two, the place there might be parts of the loop which can be wider and parts which can be slim.”

Value to race is $20, and that features a race T-shirt and lunch from the Crimson Mountain Grill, which can host the post-race social. There’s a $150 prize for the highest female and male finisher within the open division.

Ute Metropolis Cycles in Aspen can even supply up free fats bikes to demo from 8:45 to 11:15 a.m. on Saturday on the course. Demo bikes can’t be used for racing, though race bikes can be found for hire via the Aspen Nordic Heart.

“This is a bit more festive, it’s somewhat extra fun-spirited,” Skarvan stated. “The game remains to be being found. It’s an ideal praise to the powder sports activities.”

Pre-registration is offered at http://www.aspenspecialevents.com. Day-of registration might be obtainable on the Aspen Nordic Heart starting at 8 a.m. Saturday.

Darron Cheek gained the boys’s open division final 12 months, ending eight laps in 50 minutes, whereas Colleen Farnum gained the ladies’s open division, finishing seven laps. Cheek additionally gained the inaugural race in 2018, whereas Courtney Boyd took the ladies’s crown that 12 months.

“It’s rising,” Lengthy stated of fats biking. “I feel it was rising somewhat quicker 4 years in the past, however you continue to really feel the expansion and also you see a variety of new individuals on the bikes. And there are such a lot of locations to trip within the winter that it’s a pretty factor to do right here, and it’s solely going to increase.”

acolbert@aspentimes.com

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