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Price: $150 (front and rear) Weight: 1.8 pounds per pair (no levers) Shimano: 949-951-5003; www.shimano.com It was only a matter of time before the Big Blue S came down from […]

Price: $199.90 (front and rear) Weight: 1.5 pounds per pair (no levers) Avid: 303-762-9353; www.avidbike.com The initial buzz surrounding the new Avid mechanical disc late last year was one of […]

BIKE SEEKING RIDER MORE CUSHION FOR THE PUSHIN'. Comfy, but athletic. Long legs and exquisite manners. Total package seeks refined relationship with platinum card-bearing disciple who knows how to dance. […]

I RIDE BIKES FOR A LIVING. I RIDE bikes, then write about riding them. It's a hard job to defend. Here in the U.S., bikes are toys best left behind […]

OK, WE LIED. THIS FILM IS ALL about bikes. No disguised metaphors here. Jurgen Leth's art-documentary about the 1976 Paris-Roubaix, known affectionately as "The Hell of the North," is, despite […]

GOT THE PRESS RELEASE THIS MORNING, TELLING A TALE OF FURTHER scarring upon the body of Thomas Frischknecht, the retirement of his sidekick Hank, and this: "For the first time […]

Price: $20 to $44 Let's assume that I will never get new tires again and that whatever I yank out of the shop is what I will have the rest […]

Price: S100 Come the end of the world, I have a hunch that candy-ass short rides or easy shuttles will be no more. And if you want to ride, be […]

Price: $68 Following the logic that all shops, mail-order and factories will be vaporized by the sword of Damocles as it scythes across Earth, I'm taking a long look at […]

Coming to Grips with Racing's Coming of Age "IS RACING DEAD?" A QUESTION NO ONE PONDERED WHEN racing a clock down Repack 24 years ago, but one that is whispered […]

WE ARE SURROUNDED BY THE extreme. Joke all you want, but life on the leading edge has become so safe and predictable that there's no end to new ways for […]

BIKE SEEKING RIDER EXOTIC BEAUTY seeking adventurer. I'm spontaneous and some claim that I can be unpredictable. I say, whatever it takes to have a good time, Interested? If you […]

WE ARE SURROUNDED BY CONSEQUENCES. Everything we do has a consequence. By breathing, we go on living. Should we stop breathing, we stop living. These are basic consequences resulting from […]

THERE'S THE OLD CHINESE ADAGE THAT A "picture is worth more than 10,000 words." Which probably chafes at the grain of writers everywhere because it automatically places photography and painting […]

Starring James Caan and John Houseman in perhaps their best roles, this 1975 film produced and directed by Norman Jewison is a brutal social struggle played out between the executive […]

WELL, LOOKY HERE. THIS ISSUE IS one of those "buyer's guides," pages full of shiny new products aimed at boosting the ever-spreading flag of consumerism further up the flagpole of […]

HERE WE ARE AGAIN, ANOTHER February issue, with tests on 'cross bikes. Ideally, we should write about them in October or November--a time of year when the weather is crisp, […]

MORE THAN 80 PERCENT OF ALL HOUSEHOLD dust is actually dead human skin. I read that somewhere, so it must be true. Right? We go through life slowly and discreetly […]

NICK NEWMAN FOUND HIMSELF swinging from a Park City, Utah, chairlift at 5:30 p.m., a perfectly happy place for a downhiller to be--sitting on a lift, the last one of […]

After bitching last month about how the cyclocross-dom schedule makers were sitting around with their thumbs up their collective butts, it seems like they all woke up and got organized. […]

I GOT MY ASS KICKED BY AMBER RAMOS, up at the Downieville Classic this year. The 13-year-old terror in sequined shorts put such a beat down that she crushed the […]

SHIELDS SPORT FLYTES ARE SO RETRO THEY'RE almost space age. Almost. A Lexan polycarbonate lens is paired with a semi-elastic strap that cinches tight around the head. The Flytes are […]

FOR AGGRESSIVE RIDERS, the Psylo is a fork with a solid foundation and enough tuning adjustments and options to make it a serious player in the action-sports fork market. The […]

KENDA'S HIGH-END KHARISMA L3R TIRES SPORT a clear-tread compound called L3R Crystal. The color is an underlay beneath the clear rubber. Kenda claims its clear compound lasts longer and delivers […]

One hub, 14 gears, all internal. Unlike past attempts at internally geared hubs, this one works and it works very well. Hot damn! Good: The Rohloff has 14 gears spread […]

THIS J.R. CARRI CREATION IS STILL IN THE PROTO-type stage, and it isn't your everyday saddle. While most saddle's noses can put pressure on sensitive areas of the male anatomy, […]

IT'S TOUGH TO THINK OF THE TIME-HONORED Pop-Tart as high tech, but consider the following: they come in a foil package that matches a space station solar panel. And when […]

Out Of The Box When Salsa pulled up stakes and left Northern California for Minnesota last year, former employees Sean Walling and Matt Nyiri were left wondering what to do. […]

MIKE PERRENTINO MOUNTAIN BIKERS BELONG The Wilderness Act's wording rings with gentle but firm authority. And then goes on to declare "...there shall be no temporary road, no use of […]

Marc Gullickson is a fixture in competitive mountain biking. He was racing cross-country and cyclocross before Britney Spears could walk--an admirable accomplishment in the world of racing where most competitive […]

BY AND LARGE I DON'T CONSIDER myself a superstitious kind of guy. Not in the traditional sense. I owned a black cat most of my formative years and can't say […]

29-Inch Wheels: What's all the hype about? "WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IN CRESTED Butte is different," explains Wes Williams from behind one of his immaculate frame jigs, a re-fashioned food […]

RIDING TO THE TRAILHEAD FOUR DAYS AGO TO PICK UP COURSE MARKERS LEFT over from an impromptu race, the bumper stickers got me: Fear This...Cowboy Up...McCain 2000...Earth First--We'll Log The […]

Late Braking News DO YOU NEED TO BUY A SET OF DISC brakes? Maybe. Maybe not. If you're a cross-country rider living in a part of the nation where low-flow […]

Four bikes connected by circumstance SOME GUY BECAME THE MEDIA STAR of the moment with his variation of that whole six degrees of separation theory. You know the one, how […]

Long live the queen THERE'S A SMALL, MODESTLY FRAMED PHOTOGRAPH hanging on the wall upstairs in Juli Furtado's house. In the photo, there's a wolf and Juli. She is kneeling […]

BEEN THINKING ABOUT BIKE FIT A LOT lately. I took that old Leonardo da Vinci "guy in a circle" paradigm of human ergonomics and subjected it to all forms of […]

the athletes that defined the decade when you think about it, mountain biking actually has very little to do with mountain bike is merely a candy coated lump of metal […]

LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER INADVERTENTLY spewing a computer virus to everybody in my email address book, prompting a rash of "Goddamn you, I thought you said I was the […]

Four steel bikes that stand the test of time THE THREE-TOED TIDEWATER GOBY, THE LONGHORN Fairy Shrimp, the Red-Crested Carolina Cuckoo -- our world is home to a multitude of […]

Flogging Time: Two years A few years ago, KMC debuted with their zinc-plated Rustbuster line of chains -- claiming 300 percent longer life in inclement conditions than non-coated chains. I […]

THE VULTURES HAVE COME FOR CYCLING again. They wheel in the sky and wait for the next sign of death. Glumly predicting, via the dolorous chorusing of the trade publications, […]

Alan vs. New School Cyclocross is making visible headway in the United States. Last year, season-opening races on both the East and West coasts saw close to 400 participants per […]

Six days in the jungles of Borneo The Passengers Are Meat "In the event of a water landing, your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device." Right. No […]

"mountainbiking uk have commissioned an article about hill-climbing first instance of millennium madness? best stop putting pedaling effort in before it becomes fashionable. world full of demons here. how you? […]

Sound the alarms. Late this year, the California Wilderness Coalition, a Davis-based organization, nominated several areas in California as deserving of a wilderness designation. The areas range from San Diego […]

Sitting in the Downieville Diner back in August on the morning of IMBA's epic ride. Sitting among the Clampers: grizzle-handed, gray-bearded, flannel-clad, tough old coots who've carved out a living […]

THREE FOR THE ROAD Putting trip companions through their paces In the spirit of adventure, we took three bikes on three road trips to see how well they'd withstand weeks […]

SEATTLE'S KING STREET station is a yellowed cardboard-looking ramble of partition walls and hazy fluorescent lighting. The intricate stonework and sweeping pillars of the depot's original construction lie hidden beneath […]

Trendiness, the desire to conform to a new and suddenly vogue look or behavior, is a peculiar human trait. You never see nouveau leopards with the latest rectangular spots, or […]