Altitude as a Teacher Reflections on Riding in Arizona's High Country
I’ve always been drawn to landscapes that don’t announce themselves in overt ways. Places that resist spectacle and require presence...
Original Features
Painful Truths The Shifting Paradigm of Injury and Setback
As more athletes open up about their experience with injuries and rehab it moves the sport forward for all of us.
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....
Within days, the image had been shared worldwide. Standing with a fully rigid Surly Ogre, equipped for an endurance event with cross-country tires, a...
Caroline Buchanan reflects on her genre-bending career.
Reviews
Ever since SRAM acquired Ochain last year, inquiring minds have wondered how it would affect the brand’s products. Now, we finally have an...
Some might argue that mountain bike innovation comes in cycles—predictable if you read the ancient Mayan calendars correctly. After all, it’s...
Last year I reviewed POC’s Cularis helmet, and now the brand has a new “Pure” version. What makes it pure? Well, it’s $30...
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.
