![]() I can’t find another bike frame so I will take the winter to search and wait and use the Fargo for everything. Let’s find some studded tires and take the Fargo on the ice for ice fishing on Lake Monona. Then winter hit, the snow started flying and I thought hey, winter project. Why? Because it is extremely hard to find one in a small! (you may be thinking “when do we get to hear the part about fat-bikes?” Hang in there sports fans.) I will just buy a small ti Salsa Fargo frame, swap them out, and re- sell the medium frame. I needed a smaller size to be more nimble. Where I discovered I am only 5’9” with a 29 inch inseam. 43ish miles each way of flat boring gravel. Then I loaded her up and took her on a bike-packing trip to Dodgeville, Wi from Madison, WI. I bought almost all USA made parts, which I love. Added bonus, I had my truck in my garage for the first time ever. So I built her up, and rode her and she was grand. The best part was I had a bunch of cash and could start purchasing parts. So I bought my beloved Medium Salsa Fargo frame, and since I had more than I though I would, I bought a titanium frameset with a Black Fargo fork. I ended up with about $3200 when I was all finished. So I sold and sold and bartered for parts I knew I wanted for my dream bike. I ended up parting out all of my bikes and selling the good parts I knew I could get money for and donating the rest to Dream Bikes and to friends who needed parts for their projects. Every single part I would hand pick for it. So I decided to sell all six bikes, buy a Fargo Frame and build it up 100% myself. After all, every one loves it for the Tour Divide race. Load it down with soft Revelate bags and go forever. Take it to Levis and run single track with it. Commute me to work, take it on long gravel rides. For me, and my style of riding, it was a Salsa Fargo. After hours of deliberation, and a few Dale’s Pale Ale to help the process go along, I discovered the answer. If I could only have one bike, which would it be? No N+1 for me. This was due to the fact that I had 6 bikes taking up all the room. I haven’t been able to park my truck in the garage for years. I started with my clothes and ended up in the garage. I wanted to live more intentionally and deliberate. (after you read this story, ….you’ll probably think that it wasn’t that easy) I was going through a time in my life when I was down sizing and minimizing my life to the essentials. People often ask me how I got into Fat-biking. The list of bikes that he’s owned is a rather long one, so why don’t we let JP tell it, in his own words. JP only keeps one bike at a time, but he’s installed, a revolving door, when it comes to the bikes he rides. It’s not that JP has a huge stable of bikes, there are many others that have more bikes in the shed than JP. ![]() We’ve published a series of articles about the bikes that our reader’s ride, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone that has quite the list of bikes that JP shared with us. ![]() By Gomez on Januin FatBikes, Reader’s Rides
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