Searching for Connection Tucson's Tight-Knit Trail Scene Shines
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...
Original Features
1981 Ritchey MountainBikes Evolution of Freeride
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....
Usha Khanal is breaking barriers both as a racer and a guide.
Paige Stuart and Andi Zolton, the only two U.S.-based women working on the professional mountain bike race circuit, pave the way for women mechanics.
In the mid-1970s, when Dale Shewalter began mulling the idea of a trail that would traverse the entire state of Arizona from Mexico to Utah, mountain...
Reviews
Today, RockShox is launching a whole bouquet of new suspension options. And, while the new Zeb and Lyrik will (deservedly) get a lot of the fanfare,...
If you’ve been paying attention to product releases this winter, you’ll remember that RockShox cooked up a whole bunch of updates to its...
Orbea’s latest Rallon might just have been the hottest bike of 2025. It checks all the boxes: swappable between downhill and enduro modes,...
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.
