Learning on the Fly Keeping the Spirit of Enduro Alive at Trans Madeira
After six days of blind racing, only a handful of minutes separated ABUS teammates Kirsten Van Horne and Georgia Astle at this year’s Trans...
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Everything you’ve heard about Colorado is true: the Saturday morning traffic congestion, the singletrack that looks like a strand of spaghetti...
Getting a Lift The Legacy of Gravity Logic
Trail Building
A deep look back at the history of one of mountain biking's most prolific trail building companies, with an eye to the future.
Brice Minnigh shares a waterlogged account of the world-first mountain bike circumnavigation of Russia’s Mount Elbrus. Unforgiving terrain and lung-...
Adventure Features
Fine Line Silence and Solitude in the North Cascades
On a multi-day bikepacking mission in Washington’s rugged North Cascades, a team tests themselves against the unpredictable nature of the elements.
There is an awful lot of pride among mountain bikers along the eastern seaboard of the United States in relation to the word “jank”...
Caroline Buchanan reflects on her genre-bending career.
Usha Khanal is breaking barriers both as a racer and a guide.
Culture Features
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...
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....
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.
Awareness Features
Pedal to the People A New Wave of Americans Discover Mountain Biking
The growth of mountain biking is leading swarms of newcomers to rush to their local trail systems amid calls to build more places to ride closer to home.
When Tom Stuessy took the job as executive director of the Vermont Mountain Bike Association (VMBA), the organization’s bank account had only $...
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...
Travel Features
Origin Story Crested Butte and the Genesis of Singletrack
As the location of the genesis of modern mountain biking, Crested Butte and Gunnison have a storied history worth telling.
Phil Kincheloe unfolds his Sedona trail map and spreads it across the trailhead picnic table in front of us. His hand sweeps across the entirety of...
BC Bike Parks Travel Guide
Travel
Across British Columbia, lift-access riding has become a defining part of mountain bike culture, shaping trail design and rider progression with as...
Kamloops Travel Guide
Travel
It’s rare when trails built during the formative years of mountain biking still hold up to today’s standards. And, rightly so, it was a...
