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2006 Moab Ho-Down
2007 Moab Ho-Down
2008 Moab Ho-Down
Past Ho-Downs
The Chile Fest became
Chile Ho-Down...
...which became the
Moab Ho-Down...
...keeping the Fat Tire
Festival alive in Moab.
Pepper eating contest at the Ho-Down in Moab
The Shindaggers
Costume Party At The Elks Lodge In Moab
Hot pepper eating contest -
great prizes for the winner
Live entertainment at the Elks
Lodge in Moab at the...
...best Halloween costume party
Moab has ever known!
KEEPING A 23-YEAR TRADITION ALIVE

The Moab Ho-Down is the reborn bike festival held annually for 23 years in Moab on
Halloween weekend. It is best known & remembered as the following: "Moab Fat Tire
Festival", "Canyonlands Fat Tire Festival" and the "Moab Halloween Bike Fest".

In the beginning, a variety of entities managed and promoted this Halloween
tradition that was first born in 1986. The versions of this festival coincided with the rise
of mountain biking worldwide, and from 1987 to 1992, the festival saw major coverage
from all the major bike magazines, as well as regular attendance by industry bigwigs like
Gary Fisher and Tom Ritchey.

In the mid-'90s, as the whole bike festival novelty was beginning to age across the
country, new promoters in Moab added some fresh angles with bigger and better
events, and more racing.

From 2001 to 2004, the local Moab bike shops all got together with some bike
industry sponsors and ran their version of things, including adding the famous
"Test Of Metal" freeride contest at Bartlett Wash.

2005 saw the festival in danger of not returning in 2006...and that is when the
Chile Pepper Bike Shop jumped in and decided to keep the tradition alive by putting
together a last minute "Same, Same...But Different Ho-Down" (see flyer at right). This
was refined in 2007 and 2008 to become the Moab Ho-Down that we know and love
today!

Help Chile Pepper keep the Moab Ho-Down affordable! So help us out by being
a sponsor or a volunteer. Please contact us for more information.

Thanks for reading...now come to Moab!