The Bike I’d Actually Buy A break from the big money.
My job is funny. I hold two contrasting worlds of mountain biking in each hand, and have to reconcile them in my head. Professionally, I exist in an...
Original Features
Northern British Columbia Travel Guide
As vast as it is varied, northern British Columbia is an area of untapped potential. Historically, value was placed on the seemingly endless natural...
The 237 acres of waterfront property adjacent to downtown Bellingham, Washington, sat in heavily-contaminated uncertainty when Brandon Watts and Eric...
On a rare rainy week in the Sonoran Desert, Kate Van Roekel juts out her tongue in concentration as she confidently navigates an upper section of the...
By the turn of the 1980s, it was evident that repurposed cruisers were not reliable enough for the rapidly increasing demands of off-road riding....
Reviews
A few weeks ago Santa Cruz dropped the latest—its seventh—edition of the long-running Nomad series. I started getting time on that bike on launch day...
Ever since SRAM acquired Ochain last year, inquiring minds have wondered how it would affect the brand’s products. Now, we finally have an...
Smith makes a lot of mountain bike helmet models (9 by my rough count) with small variations in feature sets and intended use cases. But the story...
Welcome to Issue 17.1
As a mountain biker, reasons to visit Arizona are nearly endless: the scenery, the terrain, the underlying hum of a perfectly still desert. This is a state confident enough in its supremely beautiful sunsets to slap one on its flag. But it’s also brutal. Momentum is hard to come by, rocks are aplenty, and the heat is suffocating. This dichotomy lies at the heart of what makes Arizona riding completely unlike anywhere else. Now, after decades of work in communities including Sedona, Flagstaff, Prescott, Phoenix, and Tucson, the Grand Canyon State has earned a spot among North America’s premiere fat-tire destinations. This edition of Freehub documents Arizona’s range of riding scenes, from vast interconnected urban networks to the loneliest stretches of the famed AZT.
