We are proud to announce the immediate availability of the Northpaw-29er 47mm Fatbike Rim!

Designed for fatbike riders who ride year ’round, the new breed of 29-plus bikes as well as any 29er rider looking for a wider rim to use with 2.3″ and wider 29er tires, Schlick Cycles developed the 47mm Northpaw-29er rim for you!

Running a 29er wheelset on your symmetrical fat-bike in the summer is a great way to get a whole new experience without having to buy a whole new bike. Get the best of both worlds with your fat-bike and ride it year ’round!

The Northpaw-29er rim is made for Symmetrical wheel builds whether using the 170mm rear and 135mm front for fat-bikes, traditional 135mm/100mm MTB hubs or the new breed of thru axle hubs, the Northpaw-29er can do it.

Available in Black, Gunmetal and Silver plus the option of custom powder coating if that’s what you want to do!

Rim Specs:

• Hub Drilling: 32
• Wheel Size: 29er/700c
• Tire Type: Fat Clincher
• Color: Anodized Black, Gunmetal or Silver
• Brake Compatibility: Disc Only
• Width: 47 mm
• Rim Material: Alloy
• Valve: Presta
• ISO Diameter: 622 / 29er mtn
• Weight: 640.0 g

We offer complete wheel builds using hubs from Hope, Paul Component Engineering, Salsa, Surly and more. Let us know what you need and we will get you set up!

Available Now at $149 per rim. Shoot us an email to info@schlickcycles.com to get your order started and look for these in the store soon!

Our pro-shooter friend, Rafal from Seville Media, and I met up with local dirt jump wunderkind, Aristotle Peters, for a fat-bike photo shoot at Ray’s Indoor Mountain Bike Park recently. (If you are a fat-bike.com reader you may have noticed this story over there!) Anyway, Aris had been wondering how a fat-bike would fare at the park so we hooked him up with a Schlick Tatanka to test. He noted that the only other time he’d ridden a fat-bike was a brief test to see how they wheelie out in front of a local pub so this was an all new experience. I think from the shots you can see that he got comfortable with flying a fat-bike pretty quickly! (Yeah, I shot a few of the pix as well!)

After the session Aris was so excited about the potential for a purpose-built fat-bike for Ray’s, dirt jumping and other aggressive riding that he and I started talking about the APe, our new fat-bike developed specifically for this type of rising. With larger diameter and increased wall thickness the main triangle is built to withstand repeated flight, the super short 16.9″ chain stays are beefed up while a slightly slacker head tube angle than the Tatanka lend stability while landing but still allow the APe to carve the berms like it is on rails. look for more on the APe very soon as we work to update our website!

Aris is an avid biker and just about any excuse to ride will get him going! He not only works at Ray’s part time but also works at the Milwaukee Dreambikes store and attends the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.

We will have the 47mm 29-Plus sized version of the Popular Northpaw-S rim available in about 30 days! Available in Black, Gunmetal, Silver at $149. Custom powder coating is available for an additional cost.

While the development of the Northpaw-29+ was spurred by the inevitable availability of a 29×3.0 tire, this rim also works great with wider 29′er tires that are already available. We’ve tested Schwalbe Racing Ralphs, Schwalbe Hans Dampfs and Weirwolves in sizes 2.35 and up with great results and are looking forward to more tires choices and sizes!

Mounted Tire Widths:

• Surly Knard 29 x 3.0 – 74mm at the Carcass, 76mm outer knobs.
• Mountain King 2.4 – 58mm at the Carcass, 61mm outer knobs.
• Hans Dampf 2.35 – 63mm at the Carcass, 60mm outer knobs.
• Racing Ralph 2.35 – 63mm at the Carcass, 58mm outer knobs.

We  just delivered a pair of identical, custom-painted, IGH, Belt-drive Northpaw goodness to Jason and Chris at Trail Genius. The builds were identical except for the frame size:

• Schlick Northpaw Frame/Fork with Paragon Sliding Dropouts
• Alfine 8 IGH
• Hope FatSno 135mm Front Hub
• Gates CarbonDrive Belt System
• Marge Lite Rims
• Thomson Seatpost, Stem and Seat Collar
• Avid BB7 Brakes
• 45NRTH Husker Du Tires
• Miscellaneous other goodies.

If you are not familiar with Trail Genius, here is a bit about what they do.

Trail Documentation
The Genius Crew shows up onsite and rides the trail system while capturing video and gps data.

Map Creation
Trail Genius creates a custom printable electronic map file with embedded trial profiles, stats, legend, and header with graphics.

Video/GPS Sync & Encoding
Trail Genius does all post processing required for interface integration. This includes: file in/out point cleanup, video encoding, GPS data file formatting, video/GPS synchronizing, and map interface linking.

Interactive Online Map Interface
This is the creation of the interactive map using the actual trails of the system. The trails will become hyperlinks to display stats and other trail information. Clicking a trail will activate the dashboard which plays the trail video, elevation profile, and global location.

Look for the twin Northpaws lurking and working on a trail near you!

Hey folks! Just a quick note that I updated the build queue with the most recent info I have as of 10-10-12.

Note that the chronology of builds after the queue is still being worked on!

We built this fatbike tandem frame and fork, based on our Tatanka fatbike with some changes made to accommodate the tandem lifestyle, for our friend Ron in Minnesota and his wife to ride on surfaces as varied as single track and crushed limestone to sand and snow.

The build is pretty straight forward with a 3×9 drivetrain, Kawa Green Rolling Darryls currently shod with Black Floyds, and an assortment of parts Ron had found comfortable on his other tandem, a Comotion Mocha.

The custom paint and pin striping was done by Ron’s son who works on custom Hot Rods.

Ron says “it handles like it is on rails with enormous traction!” We will have more info on the bike as Ron gets more time on it!

This is our race bike for the Riverwest 24. A 24 hour bike race through the streets of the Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee. Custom designed for the event it will be ridden by our team of 6 riders in the Team A category (all riders must use the same bike). The bike is a combination of ideas from our Northpaw and Tatanka models.

If you’ve followed us on this site for any amount of time, or visit us over on Facebook, you’ll know what big fans of fat-biking we are. Riding fat-bikes is one of our favorite things to do! With that in mind Greg has teamed up with experienced fat-biker, Team Fat-Bike Snow Enduro originator and original Gnomefest mayor, Gomez Lake, to promote the fat-biking lifestyle through a new website dedicated to all things fat-bike. Check it out at fat-bike.com and like fat-bike.com at Facebook! Good wishes, Guys and Feel the Fat!

7 fat-bike riders from Wisconsin and Illinois met at Kohler-Andre park a bit south of Sheboygan, WI for the Harvest Beech Ride. A nice mix of fat-bikes were in attendance with 2 Schlick Northpaws, 4 Pugsleys and a Mukluk. Fat-bikes are certainly becoming more popular!

We headed north out of Kohler-Andre State Park to discover how far we could go in that direction knowing we had 22 miles going south if we were feeling spunky. Turns out it is about 3.5 miles to the mouth of Weeden Creek and then the Sheboygan power plan looms up with rip-rap barricading the shoreline so we turned about and headed south past the park for a couple hour ride on a beautiful fall day in Wisconsin. Sweet day of fat-biking!

Over the October 1st weekend we had a great time at the Bear Paw Resort near Langlade/White Lake, WI for the LAMBA (Langlade Area Mountain Bike Association) fund raiser and general fun biking event.

I arrived Friday and checked in with enough time to settle in a bit before the Friday evening night ride along the Wolf River that set out right from the front door of the pub at Bear Paw. We did an out and back along the trail which meanders along the river and cuts through the area that was ravaged by the F4 tornado that tore through the resort in 2007. The path of destruction was awe inspiring! Chilling out in the almost total darkness at the turnaround spot near rapids on the Wolf was excellent.

Saturday AM I hit Bob and Joni’s Fun Spot just up the road for some breakfast to fuel up for the days ride on the Nicolet Roche trail system. The ride was a poker run with envelopes containing cards at various spots along the trails of the Nicolet Roche trail system. Best of 5. There were 7 total cards available if you rode all the available trails for the day. Our group did a goodly portion of the trails and gathered 6 cards. The trails are very nice. Lots of “features” like car-sized rocks to ride over, berms, jumps, swoopy sections, baby heads and roots. All in all the trails have a super variety and a big shout out to Charlie and the rest of the LAMBA crew for all their work on these trails over the last 7 years!

Saturday evening/night was spent bench racing, eating chow at the Bear Paw, watching MTB movies (including the winning entry on the video on test) and participating in the raffle and door prize fest. There were something like $2000 of prizes including a Shiner Bock bike, a GoPro camera, numerous handlebars, grips and biking apparel. Very nice! Oh, yeah, there was a fire or something too!

Sunday a group of riders did a Boot to Boulder ride that sounded really great but with family obligations at home I had to depart early and missed the ride. Rest assured that we will be back the the Nicolet Roche system! It is only about 2-1/2 to 3 hours from Milwaukee and really is worth the drive!

In the end I’m not sure how much was raised for LAMBA but it was substantial!

Some pix of the weekend:

Greg’s - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gasmith/sets/72157627680043005/