..or at least it feels like Summer! Get out there and ride!

Our Fat Bike Expo Raffle was a big fat success! Thanks to everyone who supported Bike Anchorage through this awesome raffle. The sponsors pulled together some amazing prizes and it was a lot of fun. Thanks to 9:ZERO:7 Bikes, Fatback Bikes, Surly Bikes, Revelate Designs, Becker Sewing and Design, Bar Mitts, Vee Rubber, Wolf Tooth Components, LLC, ColdAvenger Face Masks, Darn Tough Vermont Socks, PenAir, Westmark Anchorage Hotel, BarYak LLC, Trailside Discovery Camp, Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance, and a chandelier made from a fat bike rim donated by the artist Keri Gronewald.

If you were not present at the drawing, you can pick up your prizes at Trek Store Anchorage, located at 530 E. Benson Blvd., next to Modern Dwellers, anytime during the hours they are open.

Please be prepared to present your ticket stub, or an ID matching your name to the winning ticket. If you have further questions or comments about the raffle please contact Wes Hoskins at wes.hoskins@gmail.com.

Without further ado, here are our winners!

Our first Fat Bike Expo is coming to Anchorage thanks to Alaska Ultra Sport, and to support the event Bike Anchorage is selling raffle tickets for some amazing prizes! For the low, low price of $20 a raffle ticket you have a chance to win a Carbon Fatback fat bike (worth $4,500!!), a 9:zero:7 fat bike, and nearly 60 other amazing prizes!

Buy your ticket from Bike Anchorage Board Members at our Winter Bike Fest events, or at our booth at the Fat Bike Expo.

Winners will be chosen on February 27th at 5:30pm at the expo (but you don't need to be present to win).

Proceeds will benefit Bike Anchorage and the Alaska Ultra Sport.

It's been a long time coming but the northern portion of the Spenard Road is close to being redone! However, there's still a long way to go to make the roadway safe for people on bikes, on foot, and in cars. Right now the proposed "bikeway" disappears after just a couple blocks, leaving people on bikes out of luck.

Bike Anchorage is excited to announce our 7th Annual Winter Bike Fest!

We have tons of fun events to celebrate Anchorage as the best Winter City. This year we're celebrating the explosion of the fatbike scene with the first Fat Bike Expo put on by Alaska Ultra Sport--we'll have raffle tickets at our events for some amazing prizes (benefits for Bike Anchorage!). And don't miss Winter Bike to Work Day and more! Check out your opportunities to celebrate all things bike!

It's hard to think of our city's strongest bicycle advocates without thinking of Brian Litmans. Brian became a strong voice for making Anchorage more bicycle-friendly nearly a decade ago and has helped create even more bike advocates through Bike Anchorage.

Brian has been the Bike Anchorage board president from the start, and this year he has passed the torch.