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I TEND TO THINK OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO KEEP dogs on leashes, off beaches and away from trails in the same way that I regard people who don't […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT'S LATE IN THE AFTERNOON ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2009, JUST OUTSIDE OF Canberra, Australia. The weeklong mountain bike World Championships have just drawn to a close. The […]

"WHEN SIGNING ON AT RACE Control, competitors must produce a whistle and an orange polythene survival bag (78 x 36") as recommended by the British Mountaineering Council, which must be […]

FIRST, AN INTRODUCTION, IT IS EASY TO speculate what we would do if we were in Paul Turner's shoes. And, during the heady days prior to and just following RockShox's […]

SPECIALIZED S-WORKS TRICROSS ($1,100, frame with fork, seatpost and headset) Lighter and tighter than its Freeroad sibling (Specialized's attempt to market versatile road/off-road machinery), the S-Works Tricross, only available as […]

Shimano's XTR has just gone through the fourth evolutionary revision in its 14-year lifespan. Some of the changes have been hugely successful, some less so. In the following pages we […]

Ellsworth Epiphany /// $2,395 (frame and rear shock) 760-788-7500; ellsworthbikes.com If first impressions mattered, the Epiphany probably would have been kicked to the curb before our first ride. It took […]

Twenty-nine-inch wheels are gaining an evangelical following. Three inches--roughly a 10 percent change in diameter--hardly seems like the foundation for a revolution, but that's what some pundits are hailing the […]

THERE ARE ASSUMPTIONS MADE ABOUT 29-INCH-WHEEL BIKES, BOTH POSITIVE and negative: The wheels carry momentum better; they work great in mud; bigger wheels are "just like suspension"; they are slow […]

LYNDA WALLENFELS WAS GLOWING. It was an hour after the finish of the 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo, and she was still in the same pair of riding shorts […]

Once upon a time, it was expected that a son would follow in his father's footsteps. In some places, in some cultures, within certain families, that edict still applies. But, […]

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN hard pressed to find a bicycle made from anything other than a collection of uniformly round tubes. Daring was a Yeti, with a […]

IT'S A BIG WORLD THESE DAYS. Fat is where it's at. Frame tubing is getting chunkier, handlebars are swelling in diameter, fork stanchions and steerer tubes are pumping up faster […]

IT'S LIKE BEING ABLE TO SEE the donut, but not the hole. That's how 26-year-old Brian McKeever describes his condition, a macular degeneration known as Stargardt disease. For Brian, it […]

THE SOUTH YUBA TRAIL IS A BEAUTY. A sinuous rollercoaster of singletrack that laces its way up and down the steep canyons on the north side of the river, it […]

IF YOU WERE TO CRUISE THROUGH A BIKE SHOP, you would find the sales floor stocked with four distinct designs of full-suspension bikes. You might also encounter a few completely […]

OUR FIRST INSTALLMENT OF PIERRE Bouchard and Janick Lemieux's attempt to circumnavigate the Ring of Fire by mountain bike-an ambitious journey of more than 30,000 miles running from Canada to […]

IT SEEMS THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TURNED ITS BACK ON THE JACKSONS. THEY DID SO MUCH, CHARMING us with number-one hits like "ABC" and "I Want You Back," only to […]

THE RIM BRAKE IS DEAD. ANYBODY WHO CLINGS TO THE NOTION that rim brakes are somehow still viable alternatives to disc brakes, as far as mountain biking is concerned, is […]

THERE IS AN ALMOST REFLEXIVE TWITCH among the homegrown bike-geek cognoscenti whenever someone mentions Taiwanese bikes. "Ohhh, Taiwan? It's probably not very good, is it?" they ask in the downward […]

DAMPING--the manner in which a spring's motion is controlled--is a key function of any suspension system. The tried and true method of damping suspension has always been hydraulic, where the […]

ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ENGINE ROOM of the fantasy factory. Riders and photographers working together produce images that get slapped up on bedroom and garage walls and stuck inside daydreaming […]

I GREW UP IN A GHOST-FILLED FORMER GOLD MINING TOWN called Waihi. People had gone to dairy farming a long time ago, when the gold ran out. This was down […]

"RUMORS OF MY DEMISE have been greatly exaggerated," Mark Twain said, upon reading his own obituary in a newspaper while living in Europe. It has become increasingly fashionable over the […]

I AM RIDING UP A PAVED ROAD somewhere in the final 10 miles of last year's Transrockies Challenge. My teammate, John Gibson, is riding beside me, hand planted firmly on […]

THE SECOND MORNING HAD STARTED OUT WITH PROMISE, cool and lush. We'd thrown up tents the night before in a green field on the bank of a rowdy, flowing and […]

LONG BEFORE THE ALCHEMISTS OF THE MIDDLE. AGES tried turning lead into gold before the periodic table of elements was burned by rote into schoolkids' heads, before our big brains […]

WANDERLUST IS A STRANGE THING. It induces one to travel, usually through some romantic notion, but the more one indulges in said wanderlust, the less enticing the travel becomes. For […]

THERE IS THIS THING ABOUT MOAB THAT COMES up when well-traveled mountain bike riders get together and start bending elbow and ear. Moab, being one of the more iconic bumps […]

THE HOUSE, A LOW-SLUNG WOODEN BUNGALOW SURROUNDED BY A WARMLY OUT-OF-CONTROL garden not far from downtown Durango, does not look like the kind of place where $60 titanium water-bottle cages […]

SWEET STEVE'S POSTCARD ARRIVED TWO DAYS after the USGP cyclocross race at Golden Gate Park. By then, the pictures of spectators in orange jumpsuits committing widespread mayhem-leaning over barriers with […]

Ka wa akahi O ke au i kahuli wela ka honua O ke au i kahuli lole ka lani O ke au i kuka iaka ka la E ho omalamalama […]

PIERRE BOUCHARD STARTED LIVING HIS NOMADIC CYCLING life in 1990. At that time, "I was 24 and money wasn't ranking high on my list of worries.... I was studying philosophy […]

I MOVED HOUSE AGAIN last fall. And, like all the moves in the past (which now number about 17 since 1984-any more and I'll just pack it in and buy […]

Byline: Ferrentino, Mike Why I Ride (reason no. 25) Along time ago, when I was more evangelical about my riding, a noncycling friend interrogated me about my compulsive need to [...]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of bike trails in Park City, Utah.

The article offers review of several bicycles including Occam by Orbea; Juliana Maverick by the Santa Cruz; and Fuel EX by the Trek.

In 2015, Semenuk partnered up with Rupert Walker to form Revel Co., and with the release of Revel In The Chaos, signaled to the world that he had made his choice. Semenuk's riding is the reason these builds take place. PHOTO (COLOR): LEFT: RYAN HOWARD AND SEMENUK IN "PARALLEL" | PHOTO: IAN COLLINS RIGHT: PHOTO: TOBY COWLEY PHOTO (COLOR): LEFT AND BOTTOM PHOTOS: IAN COLLINS TOP PHOTO: TOBY COWLEY. [Extracted from the article]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the experience of Colin Meagher, photographer of being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), neurodegenerative disease that effects the nerve cells.

On a lighter note, or maybe not, some of the 'cross calendars are up and running. Looks to be a doozy of a season. Surf City is happening in Santa […]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, to coin the old Jaws tagline, this little piece of innuendo comes along. Seems that some new […]

TOKING THE HIGH ROAD TO GLASSY-EYED ENLIGHTENMENT To me, terms like freeride, cross-country, hardtail and single-speed are synonymous with words like herb, chronic, joint, sinsemilla, and Irie. How, one may […]

A Zen roshi and a Hindu guru were walking together along a riverbank and decided to visit an adjacent island. "Let's walk to the island," said the guru. "Why not […]

Frabjous Day, Calloo, Callayl The voices have informed me that Braille Trail, a previously illicit trail in the Sequel Demonstration Forest behind Aptos, has been worked on some and finally […]

One man's struggle to put the pieces of himself back together A Way of Life The New Inn is an aged fixture in the village of Appletreewick. Appletreewick, in turn, […]

I HAVE A LAPTOP COMPUTER. IT'S MY third one. The first one died a plastic death when it got accidentally dropkicked across my living room while I scrambled to get […]

In this, our final review of movies about bikes that are not about bikes, we have chosen one of the modern cinematic greats: the brothers Cohens epic saga of slacker […]

THE PILOT HAD TO BE A MOUNTAIN bike rider. There was no other explanation for it. When we were in Borneo a couple years ago, our chaperone, Agnes Chung, had […]

THIS MONTH: CONAN THE BARBARIAN This month we're back to reviewing movies that have nothing to do with bikes. We will still force some unneeded metaphoric parallel down your throat. […]

THERE'S A TRAIL IN THE MARIN HEADLANDS called S.C.A. trail. It's a picturesque couple of miles of ridge-hugging singletrack and fire road. It rises from just north of the Golden […]