Now, 3,800 kilometres away, students with Algonquin College's outdoor adventure program think they've come up with a way of touring the small island country without leaving such a deep footprint. The students travelled to Iceland to study how fat bikes could potentially help ease the strain tourists place on Iceland's fragile environment. Hamilton said the locals they talked to were intrigued with the bikes, and with what the students were doing there. Fat bikes haven't caught on in the country, but Melmoth and his students are hoping they might soon. And while turning heads, he said, they were also planting seeds, getting more people to think about fat bikes as a means of transportation.

Source: CBC News December 17, 2017 09:56 UTC