Skiing Sucks. Let's Go Fat Biking.

[@ddangerousddave]

Get your Insta360 X3 here: www.insta360.com/sal/x3?insrc=INRPMA2

[@arminh8564]

Hey Dave! What's the mountain biking like in BC in early March? A few friends and I are visiting and wanted to do light trails, is March too wet/too cold? Any recommendations in the Whistler to Vancouver area?

[@FoxTheLord32]

i do so much biking on hiking trails and stuff, but i dont trust myself to not hit something in small spaces like weaving in-between trees

[@trailjockeytj6160]

You need to put this video as an ASMR video! The sound of the wheels breaking through the snow is so mesmerizing, as well as the white out video looks awesome! And once again as always great riding!

[@zteir]

YESSS FOR REAL. IT IS SATISFYING

[@McJorgan]

lolol it'd be really hard to be quiet the whole time but worth the challenge

[@baronnashor158]

what a great idea.... an ASMR mic mounted at the bottom of the frame or something..would be amazing

[@rickb.1656]

I'll admit that my expectations for a winter mountain bike video were low, but that was really good.

[@Robyamdam]

This actually seems like so much fun.

[@jefferson9428]

It is

[@Alex-xt9hn]

snowboarding's funner

[@thescapegoatclub]

"If you're not prepared for a type 2 adventure, you're going to have a bad time". Perfect life philosophy, right there.

[@thescapegoatclub]

I'm just here for Dave's giggles.... (well, ok, and the vicarious bike riding experience). Love it! Thanks Dave!

[@erinb4919]

Fun 😀. Fun to see you riding our local trails... Canmore nordic has such fun trails for fat biking. Great grooming! Night fat biking is also so fun. All glittery snow and light

[@zteir]

I literally love skiing so much. I’m from Colorado and I ski all the time!!!

[@1luckyleppy]

Just finished my ride and came home to watch yours. Nothing beats a perfectly groomed trail on a fatty. 👍🇨🇦

[@nealdmiller]

What do they use to groom the bike trail? Thanks!

[@1luckyleppy]

The brand name is Snowdog.

[@1luckyleppy]

@@nealdmiller they use a machine called a Snowdog.

[@nealdmiller]

@@1luckyleppy Thank you very much!!

[@nealdmiller]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWS5lpt5obN-d9U is a genius!!!

[@kendrickcarroll680]

As far as grip goes, I've taken my old 26er out a few times running the DHF and DHR combo on the groomed trails around here. Definitely way more careful then summer riding, but its amazing how much grip you have on snow at the right temperatures.

[@louis-philippecorriveau4725]

Wow those are some pristine trails!!! The scenery is a major plus! Our summer riding season is so short in the east that fat bike is a great way to get extra days on a bike!!

[@petedog9581]

I ride a rigid fat too. Mine is hanging in garage... hardly any snow in OH this year. Still rockin my trail bike. Great ride. Something satisfying about the crunch of the snow under those balloons and the silence of the woods on a calm, crisp winter day.

[@bunyan4.20]

Right like no snow at all here in Ohio bro

[@houckstar]

@@bunyan4.20 None in south central PA either!

[@randomviking8676]

👍 to the folks who create these great trails and 👎 to the riders who stop in the middle of the path. Great ride!

[@avva4090]

C'mon man, I've already got too many bikes and now I want another!! Fat tire bikes in the snow look mad fun, thanks for sharing! 🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@Stef-Ethier]

Awesome video! I love fatbiking and ripping a good fatbike trail. Its fun how tech trail turn into flow trail during the winter so much fun.

[@M1978-p8j]

Agree with you. Didn’t think I’d like it as much after buying one two yrs ago. Awesome conditions here in the west as opposed to milder winters they get back east with sloppy , wet , deep snow. You can fly with studded tires in the right conditions. Makes a long winter shorter…. Especially when you make $36 an hr and still can’t afford to ski

[@ivanmtb00]

Awesome!!! Always great to see more snow mtb videos

[@kilasracingfactory]

Crazy how little snow gets stuck in the tire tread! Looks like good fun!

[@chrismartin1448]

My friends and I road in the snow back in the 90's. Our rim brakes became useless as they are dependent on heat. Amazing you find grip in the corners. I'd like a better look at the snow tires. Looks way more fun than skiing.

[@CalgaryDynastar]

CNC is a super scenic place to ride, pretty mellow trails in summer but they make you feel like you’re in great shape as the grade is pretty gradual climbing. There’s some fun gems out there though for a fun cruiser day.

[@jarmyvicious]

Salut, Dang.... That looks sooo awesome! Glad you had fun! Cheers!

[@mrvwbug4423]

Fatbiking is a lot of fun. I'm actually going to be racing in a fatbike enduro in a few weeks, my first enduro of any sort

[@nicks2716]

Ha ha, love the click-bait title! That said, like you I’m guessing, I wish I enjoyed skiing, but I don’t. But I love the mountains in the winter time. This is an option to enjoy the tranquility of snowy trails that, frankly, I hadn’t considered before! And yes, the ASMR on this one was real!

[@ddangerousddave]

I like to ski, snowboard, xc ski, snowshoe and play hockey, but fat biking has become my go to winter activity. At least for the one week a year I spend in Calgary around the holidays. I pretty much stopped all winter activities when i moved to Vancouver and just mtb year round 😂.

[@nicks2716]

@@ddangerousddave🤣 year round mountain biking here in Vancouver is definitely (well, mostly) possible!

[@ggabfletch]

I love your videos!! They’re so hypnotic and relaxing to watch! :)

[@MichaelsAlaskanAdventures]

I live in Alaska. It is no longer a question, I'm getting one of these bikes now.

[@bimmerfan729]

Man! More fatbike content please! Those trails are amazing to the fatbike trails I ride lol

[@northwestmountainbikeaddic6874]

This look like so much fun, I am definitely looking into buying a fat bike this year for riding my local trails in the snow

[@gabandkisheeemp7600]

That was really fun dave!i just started mountain biking on the snow here in halifax last night.sick riding skills by the way even in snow covered dh trail

[@MidwestMTBAdventures]

how do you chin mount the insta360? Please tell me. haha. I dont understand what people mount them too on the chin. Love my X3 for skiing, snowboarding, and of course MTB!

[@ddangerousddave]

One of my videos from a few weeks ago should have a link to the chin mount i use on my full face 👍

[@MidwestMTBAdventures]

@@ddangerousddave thanks I will look for it! 👍

[@henryleydon2775]

0:32 the civilian way of saying "bikers, no trespassing"

[@chunkyantmtb]

Great vid! The view is just insane, love it in conditions like this! 👍

[@mikebird19]

Just moved out west in the US..picking up a fat bike for next years winter...looks super fun

[@src248]

Dave rides EKG faster in the winter than I do in the summer 😭

[@jackpittens796]

At my local favourite trails in Ontario, HAFTA, the speeds in winter can be much faster than in the summer since the snow buries all the technical rocks and stuff and smooths it all out. Then again, after a fresh dump of snow, things can go pretty slow and be challenging. I was down to 1 psi tire pressure last night trying to find just a bit of traction. Every winter ride is different, so it keeps it interesting.

[@noahshad09]

He isn’t called Dangerous Dave for nothin’!

[@grahamkey8496]

I quite like skiing. I used to think cycling was safer until I found this channel.

[@felixajorg]

Amazing control, and magnificent ride. Need to try Fat Bikes, looks like fun...

[@kailmarks4968]

On packed trails, all you need is 2.5-2.6 tires. Just got back from a ride and had a blast on my normal bike. People look at me in disbelief, but the grip and braking control are much better than you’d expect. I passed skiers going both up and down today.🤣

[@mrvwbug4423]

Try that on most fatbike trails and you're going to piss off a lot of people, it's groomed to be just a hair softer than super packed in snow so that fatbike tires and snowshoes can dig in and get grip, you will rut that same trail out on standard tires. Shallow packed snow is definitely grippy on normal tires, still get plenty of that riding lower elevation trails with snow in the shadows

[@kailmarks4968]

The only groomed for fat bike trails we have are flat, boring trails around ponds and streams. No thanks. I’m talking about regular trails that you’d normally ride in the summer. They get so much foot and ski traffic, they’re packed hard. No problem on a normal bike; you can barely tell I’ve been there.

[@garretteverett2613]

I ride 2.35s and even those do pretty well in most winter conditions. Haven't had the energy to take them to the trails after commuting on them all winter though, but I have gone uphill in a blizzard...

[@BushmanCanuck]

Are these trails packed/groomed with a snow bike or something?

[@trents2781]

This video is truly amazing. ❤I love the snow and the awesome quality. I just bought a GoPro hero 10 and I want to start making videos like you, what editing software do you recommend.

[@jaredrobinson7071]

somehow these videos are hypnotizing once he gets going.

[@solaradam7470]

Thanks for sharing, looks fantastic

[@namedLia]

What a nice video. Good energy from the human, extremely beautiful place, very fun ride e top video quality. Cheers!

[@ericsmtbadventures9]

Awesome stuff Dave 👍🏼

[@houckstar]

Well done, @dangerousdave. What brand and size tires are you running that grip so nicely? I'm a fan of 45NRTH Vanhelgas, myself.

[@the_boonies]

Gotta love a bit of fatbiking! You also need to try skibiking too 🍻🥳

[@guardian_ironworks]

I have been writing my surly ice cream truck on 5" wide tires with 100mm rims for 2 months now, but not a single flake of snow yet.

[@ernest_on2wheels]

Here in Italy we say: " che figata! " ✌🏻😁

[@gabriel_trindade]

the possibilities of the 360 cam are unbounded!

[@genec9560]

I clicked for the 360, this video sold it

[@VanCan]

Gnar brah

[@denesk2794]

I am confused. Is that trail cleared, or pushed down, or someone rode it on a snowboard? Or does that well you ride in occur naturally with the snow? Maybe just enough people riding it even during the winter? Seriously, it looks like a consistent width that was man-made.... weird .... We used to ride during the winter back in Europe in the late 90s ... and it is a lot of fun (or a pain in the arse at times) .... No snow in Costa Rica now .... I think I kind of prefer that ...

[@CalgaryDynastar]

They might use a rokon to pack the fat one trails out there I’m not quite sure

[@Chubacca838]

The trails are definitely groomed somehow. It's a very narrow path so a snowmobile is out of the question. Perhaps the Rokon like Calgary mentionned. Where I used to work we had wider trails so we used a fat-track snowmobile with an attachment in the back on which we added weights. Groomed at night when the moisture in the air would drop onto the snow so it'd pack nice and hard.

[@ddangerousddave]

This article from the local trail association talks about their groomer setup: camba.ca/blog/2021/03/winter-grooming-update

[@denesk2794]

​@@ddangerousddave cool that this exists and that they do this. Here in Costa Rica there is no public trail system. You cannot ride national parks. It is either bad/abandoned roads (that become trails), or bike parks, with mostly no shuttle...... I usually go for bike parks, there is a variety of natural trails and groomed/shaped berms/jumps too. So it's good. There are some odd trails here and there, but you end up sharing it with horses, atvs and some hardcore offroaders in lifted trucks. I remember good old Europe, where we had public trails everywhere..... but nothing like that with winter grooming :) .. that is some extreme love for your citizens I haven't experienced anywhere yet :)

[@denesk2794]

@@ddangerousddave That said... I don't whine, a bike park opened 8km (15 min) from my house, so I can put a lap in even on weekdays - before work ... or more if I take the ebike :) ... But yeah .. that trail grooming is mega cool. I remember riding powder snow in Europe. Super dangerous as you have no idea what's under that ... branch, rock, hole, ice, zombies ... anything ...

[@andreturnerjr8950]

Hey Dave what shoes do you wear to fatbike?

[@ddangerousddave]

I wear my regular riding shoes (5ten freerider pro shoes) with wool socks whenever possible, but when it gets really cold, I have some insulated winter hiking boots. It sucks because they're bulky and you get zero pedal feel, but when it's -20c, then you need it. The winter boots are also helpful because they have more substantial tread on the bottom for when you're pushing up a slippery slope.

[@DarkDramon]

We need more fat biking videos! and I hope you keep going west to Moose Mountain, I'd love to see you ride there!

[@BigOlFellaMTB]

What settings do you use with the X3? My vids looks good raw, but once uploaded to KZbin they are very grainy.

[@diegovillacrez8349]

If you french fry when you're supposed to pizza, you're gonna have a bad time.

[@mothratemporalradio517]

Hi there, I'm having technical problems but was wondering if you might be the same person who had experienced an injury maybe sometime last year. Unfortunately my phone slightly is rooted, i just want to wish you good luck if it's you getting back to what you love. And if not, take care and be safe riding,

[@ZillaYT]

You definitely make it look and sound like fun

[@viperdemonz-jenkins]

that looks like a blast.

[@spicycoco1]

Wow I wish I could get that kind of grip! And it's good to see some interesting Fatty trails. Thanks!

[@mrvwbug4423]

The fatbike trails in my area are that grippy too, well groomed fatbike trails are a joy to ride.

[@dalegreenaway]

You say Trail, man I dont even see the trail half the time! :)

[@jank330]

so are those trails groomed or is riders cutting grooves.

[@GSPIzzy1665]

Beautiful part of the world!

[@null_bite]

oo this is sooo tight! .. scary af tho XD ... i'd be worried about rocketing off the trail

[@mrvwbug4423]

Groomed fatbike trail grips pretty well, and you're going about half the speed you'd be going in summer. But if your front tire finds powder, you'll know it haha.

[@LimeymanZero]

No thanks, I choose life! This really does look like a lot of fun, but having no experience of it really gives me anxiety seeing you hit those corner so fast! The tree round the corner at 4:19 did someone hit that?

[@lanlin8267]

This looks like so so much fun. She's lit 😁

[@McJorgan]

It makes you wonder.. Who MADE the trail!?!

[@Diabl0pl]

Man, you're crazy! xD

[@JuanWay2Rock]

I Mountain Bike, Ski, Snowboard and Surf...Skiing DOES NOT SUCK! I like your videos Dave, but because of your headline title "Skiing Sucks. Let's Go Fat Biking" - I'm giving you for the first time, 'a Thumbs Down' for your video.

[@ddangerousddave]

Don't read too much into the title 😉. I could have used something more accurate like "I actually love to ski but lift tickets cost $165-200/day, it's a two hour drive each way to the mountains, early season conditions aren't great, lineups during the holidays are insane, I have to be back early to parent but ski resorts don't offer half day tickets, and if they do, they cost 95% of a full day ticket, so I took up fat biking" but it just doesn't have the same ring to it 😂.

[@andymiller3889]

@@ddangerousddave Then how about this: "Lift tickets are outrageous, so let's go fat biking!"

[@alexanderselivanov3323]

No insta360 will get me to that place( but I like what I see 😊

[@mickilkr]

Awesome video

[@vjn5270]

Looks fun af

[@Lumi1269]

what gloves????

[@ddangerousddave]

Endura Singletrack windproof gloves. Been using them since the temperature started dropping in the fall and won't be taking them off until the spring.

[@Lumi1269]

@@ddangerousddave thank you, i'm going to buy a pair to try. I bought the fox defend thermo gloves and they're still quite cold

[@gilserranito951]

Love it.

[@alexisonbike3652]

I mean downhill ski (especially in glades) is extremely fun but ok

[@ddangerousddave]

Don't read too much into the title 😉. I downhill ski, and occasionally snowboard and xc ski too.

[@zteir]

@@ddangerousddave niiiice!!!

[@alexisonbike3652]

@@ddangerousddave show us :o

[@ddangerousddave]

Definitely not video worthy 😂

[@zteir]

@@ddangerousddave 😂 😂. I’d watch it man. I love just seeing skis and the snow.

[@nenumtb]

Buaaa como mola!!

[@bigslacker666]

Fun vid! Nothing against fatbiking, but if you live in BC and visit AB and think skiing sucks you don't like skiing. ;)

[@grizzlyrunfast]

I hope canyon provides you with a fat bike to do more content. I heard they're your new sponsor

[@YFZriderdude15]

This is 100x sketchier than 99% of people watching this think it is. Every corner is terrifying. You can't brake. You slide everywhere. You're always worried you're going to slip and slam into a tree. But by far, what I hate the most (and why Dangerous Dave is so good at it) is that you feel like you're riding an endless 2-foot-wide bridge. If your tire goes off the little snow path and catches the powder, you come to a stop real quick. Concentration is at an all-time high, all the time.

[@I_THE_ME]

You can absolutely brake, especially since the trail is packed snow. Packed snow can be very grippy especially when the temperature is just few degrees below freezing. If there is ice on the trails then studded tires will provide good amounts of grip. Only situation where there is zero grip is when an icy trail is covered in fresh snow.

[@YFZriderdude15]

@@I_THE_ME Any time I have been biking on my plus-tire bike with studs it's absolutely terrifying. No condition of the snow makes it grippy and I slide every time I make a corner at high speed! I just don't have the grip I do in the summer and downhill riding becomes butthole-clenching and downright scary. What this guy is doing in the video is nothing short of a miracle. PS it is worth noting that I also have a true fat bike (not just plus) with 4 inch tires and that admittedly makes riding a little more fun. The winter temperatures are also rarely right around freezing; 90% of winter in Alaska is in the teens and below (farenheit). I don't know how that affects traction. Snowmachining is a much better winter sport up here anyway. Though I guess if you live in BC with tons of people and no riding areas.. not so much.

[@aLboOGieZ]

And that's how he got his first name 😅

[@DoomNerd67200]

Fat biking huh. Let’s walk straight up to a 12000ft mountain!

[@tygastfield613]

Well…. Now I want a fat bike…

[@ESKJC]

Now I want a fat bike....

[@rakantdarrath4264]

How many times riding trails have you cracked your knuckles on a tree?

[@gabriel_trindade]

it seems to be so 🆒 🤘

[@marklambert8111]

Skiing sucks as a beginner. Take the time to learn and get good and you’ll like it more than mtb

[@ramonbingen2441]

Nice pictures

[@Hanitcal69]

Ok how in the hell do they groom these trails

[@2yt4u.14.]

Skiing does not suck.

[@cberg9480]

Fatty’s don’t get enough credit. I swap wheels out for the summer. Around me is mostly rake and ride not perfect trials and the fat tires just eat up all of the bumps.

[@jnstroik]

Booo! Skiing is great as well 😉

[@voidinvader7966]

skiing's way better

[@Littleweenaman]

snowboarding sucks

[@thefrogggy100]

its fine until you start dissing on other sports - skiing just isn't for you :/

[@ItzPatrickShorts]

unsubscribed because of bias.