22W04 — Sespe Trail Uncovering a Lost Gem of Singletrack
The trills from the creek are incessant. Goldfinch and Kinglets chirp songs across resonances that I cannot spell using the alphabets I know. It’s...
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Low-hanging bushes whip me in the eyes as I lay my bike over into the next turn. The sun set at least 30 minutes ago behind the high plain on which...
When Tom Stuessy took the job as executive director of the Vermont Mountain Bike Association (VMBA), the organization’s bank account had only $...
The laws of physics are immutable. In Newtonian mechanics, momentum is the product of an object’s mass and velocity. This could explain why...
Adventure Features
The Ride of Your Life Eight Friends, 11 Days and 1,600 Miles
In the late afternoon during the 10th consecutive day of riding, about 60 miles north of the British Columbia/Northwest Territories border somewhere...
This place feels like the last wild piece of Europe, and we are the only ones lucky enough to witness it.
Upper Eagle Lake is at the base of Horsehead Pass, a short detour off the trail and just one of the five lakes along the Angel’s Staircase Loop...
If mountain biking can be a unifying force, then this remote community on BC’s Sunshine Coast is living the truth.
Culture Features
Sketch Comedy Victor Brousseaud's Funny Take on the Familiar
Being funny isn’t always easy. But drawing funny is downright difficult. Combining humor and art walks a fine line in which both must be...
Mert Lawwill never really rode mountain bikes. Perhaps this is because he was more used to doing 100 miles per hour on his motorcycle while racing...
“When you look at Midwest mountain biking pre-Hansi, there was decent riding to be had, but as far as reaching its potential it wasn’t much better...
Volcanos are insane. As in, incomprehensible—for me at least. The amount of sheer energy that lies dormant below is something I’ve only...
Awareness Features
Racing the Climate Canadian Event Organizers Feel the Heat
Climate change is impacting mountain bike races in British Columbia, leading to trail degradation, race cancellations, and adaptive solutions.
Mountain bikers have long promoted the socioeconomic benefits of trails, but rising housing costs in trail towns are pushing many locals out of their...
Having grown up during the formative years of Quebec’s mountain bike scene, Les Sentiers du Moulin (SDM) holds a special place in my heart....
Thanks to a stroke of genius, a triumph of reverse psychology and a leap of faith, Teton Pass survived its unsanctioned roots to become a prodigious...
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Bellingham Travel Guide Explore Bellingham, WA
Explore the best of Bellingham, Washington with our travel guide.
In the beginning, a do-it-yourself ethic pervaded mountain biking. Now Bentonville's success provides an inspiration and a road map for other...
As vast as it is varied, northern British Columbia is an area of untapped potential. Historically, value was placed on the seemingly endless natural...
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Tucked throughout its leafy forests, undulating hills and mountains, and bodies of water are expansive networks of singletrack that reinterpret its...
