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L’automne Tourer: Marc’s Fall Fat Bike By Victoire Cycles

L'automne Tourer: Marc's Fall Fat Bike By Victoire Cycles

Not many would choose a fatbike as a first choice of vehicle to take on a long distance tour, but it depends on what type of terrain you intend to tackle. Marc traversed a good chunk of Europe to realize a fatbike was his ideal carriage.

L'automne Tourer: Marc's Fall Fat Bike By Victoire Cycles

Marc’s list of conquered countries include France, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Iceland, Sri-Lanka, Morocco, Mauritania and half of Africa.

L'automne Tourer: Marc's Fall Fat Bike By Victoire Cycles

All of his travels had been aboard a touring bicycle, but a new cheap fat bike changed the game, awarding the ability to float over everything from fesh-fesh to deep snow.

L'automne Tourer: Marc's Fall Fat Bike By Victoire Cycles

He destroyed that cheap fat bike, but he was working as a mechanic and, subsequently, frame builder at a Parisian travel bike brand before accepting the same role at Victoire.

L'automne Tourer: Marc's Fall Fat Bike By Victoire Cycles

He’s been working at the Auvergne workshop for two years now, developing his dream bike that’s now a reality. It’s stout enough to handle Marc’s 120kg frame and 5″ tires.

L'automne Tourer: Marc's Fall Fat Bike By Victoire Cycles

Orange HOPE components flash like autumn leaves against the camouflage paint, which took thirty hours of sanding, priming, painting and clear-coating to apply.

L'automne Tourer: Marc's Fall Fat Bike By Victoire Cycles

Marc intends to ride the 2021 Grande Traversée du Massif Central à VTT aboard his new Victoire before returning to Iceland to ride from Akureyri to Reykjavik. But meanwhile he’s carousing around the Puy-de-Dôme region that surrounds the Victoire workshop.

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L'automne Tourer: Marc's Fall Fat Bike By Victoire Cycles