NAHBS 2015 showcased more than just handmade bikes, with component makers like Reynolds, Industry Nine, and Rohloff displaying innovative wheels, hubs, and drivetrains.
Cape Cod offers surprisingly diverse intermediate mountain biking with accessible trails, mild weather, strong community support, and year-round riding from beaches to technical singletrack.
SUGOI offers a bold 60-day money-back guarantee on 2015 cycling shorts—ride them hard, return them if unsatisfied, no questions asked.
Fox announces a 27.5+ specific fork with 110-150mm travel, suggesting purpose-built trail/enduro bikes are coming soon rather than just 29er conversions.
After spending summer 2014 shredding on a set of wheels that--while they survived and did the job--were less than ideal, I wanted to install a pair of hoops that would take my…
Minneapolis's Theodore Wirth Park offers surprisingly fun, machine-cut flow trails that transform into perfect snow-flow singletrack for fat bikers during winter months.
Under a banner of thunderheads, Endo and I hitched our wagon to a post outside Absolute Bikes in Salida, Colorado. our drive from Crested Butte had just taken us up and over…
This $25 "5000 lumen" Chinese bike light delivers closer to 800 lumens with safety concerns including exposed battery contacts and potential fire hazards.
The NiteRider Lumina 700 mountain bike light is a high-quality, dependable choice for riding at night.
Custom mountain bike builders showcased steel, titanium, bamboo, and wood frames at NAHBS 2015 in Louisville, with fat bikes dominating the floor.
Nothing is more exciting, outside the physical act of riding your bike, than dreaming of where you'll ride it. Whether it's a week in Whistler or a day at Duthie, from backcountry epics…
PRO Components' new Tharsis XC line features integrated channels and creative battery placement solutions for clean Shimano Di2 electronic shifting wire routing.
Will Ross edges out defending champion Ned Overend by 20 seconds to win the US National Fat Bike Championships at Wisconsin's 2015 Fat Bike Birkie.
Portland's River View Natural Area is banning bikes from 146 acres, ignoring stakeholder input and offering only a cramped interstate-side "bike haven" as compensation.
Do you mountain bike? Do you have a significant other? Did you try to meld both worlds only to have them implode? Why would joining the two things you love the most…
Eagle, Colorado is emerging as a serious mountain biking destination with buff singletrack, innovative trail design, and a grassroots vibe that locals hope to preserve.
Whenever the name Ritchey comes to my mind, I always think back to the 80s when I first started mountain biking. In fact, Tom Ritchey started out producing components and frames in…
I grew up in central Pennsylvania, but I always envisioned myself leaving and moving either out west somewhere or to northern New England---two places that I thought had more to offer for…
The Scott Genius 930 is a capable 130mm trail bike with Fox suspension, adjustable geometry, and quality XT components at an attainable $3,500 price point.
Recently someone asked me what trails in Colorado I would recommend if they had a week in the late summer to see/ride as much as they possibly could. This is a difficult…
Desert Trails Park in Mesa, Arizona offers flow trails, pump tracks, and skills areas perfect for after-work sessions and building confidence on berms and drops.
We’re almost two months into 2015 now and trails will be drying out sooner than you think. So, between work, family, and skiing, my thoughts turn to where to ride in 2015. …
Here in central Pennsylvania, we’ve been in a deep freeze lately, with temps regularly dipping below zero at night and barely creeping out of the single digits during the day. While the…
From multi-day Incan trails to 10,000-foot descents in the Andes, South America offers affordable, accessible adventure riding that's still off the beaten path.
Faster Mustache celebrates 10 years with an urban mountain bike stage race through muddy Atlanta trails at the abandoned Old Atlanta Prison Farm.
French enduro rider Bryan Regnier scrapes his forearms through berms at impossible angles in this wild welcome video for team Sôk.
Idaho's Boulder-White Clouds protection agreement preserved mountain bike access, but subsequent legislation changes threaten to close iconic trails that should remain open.
Singletracks unveils a crowd-sourced algorithm ranking the world's best mountain bike destinations based on 15 years of user reviews and trail data.
The Singletracks MTB Destinations ranking algorithm weighs trail quality, quantity, diversity, lift access, and town size to objectively rank the world's best mountain biking destinations.
The folks at 45NRTH live and breath cold weather riding and are focused on keeping us comfortable and safe when riding in the winter. 45NRTH focuses heavily on tires, gloves, footwear, and…
Mountain biking with dogs brings pure joy and undeniable smiles to both rider and canine companions on Santa Fe's abundant singletrack trails.
In case you haven't noticed, fat biking is now "a thing." It is arguably the most explosive niche of modern mountain biking at the moment, and new technologies are being developed faster than…
The Ladies AllRide Tour has recently announced that they are expanding their women's skills clinics to destinations across the U.S. in order to reach more women mountain bikers. Coupled with their new…
Frostbike delivered fresh gear for mountain bikers, from Garmin's color-screen epix watch to innovative fat bike rims and E*thirteen's extended-range cassette cogs.
In our modern, technical world there seems to be a need to hyper-specialize everything, to focus on the slightest nuances, treating them like chasms of difference. The cycling world is not immune…
Tire companies are producing 27.5+ tires not for dedicated plus bikes, but to convert 29ers into fat-bike-like trail rippers on a budget.
The Flowbeist and Dunderbeist are two new fat bike tires from 45NRTH.
The Lauf Carbonara fat bike fork uses flexible carbon fiber "springstacks" to offer 60mm of progressive suspension travel at just 2.31 pounds.
The original Saris Bones. The Saris Bones bike rack is perhaps the best selling rack of all time with more than 1 million units sold. The distinctive and…
You can learn a lot from random noises you hear out on the bike trail. Most of these noises can't be heard if you've got ear buds in blasting the Red Hot…
Setting up your mountain bike's suspension forks correctly for you is important. A good fork set up not only gives a a comfy ride and a get-out-of-trouble clause on technical descents, it…
Every Tuesday night, a group of mountain bikers meet up for one of the most dangerous rides in America. The trails can be technical for sure--just think broken glass, exposed rebar, and…
Salsa teased a tandem mountain bike way back in 2010 and on Saturday, the Powderkeg tandem was officially released at Frostbike. The bike is a 29er which uses the El Mariachi geometry…
Even if you aren't into the whole fatbike thing, you have to admit: Surly is one of the most irreverent brands in the bike industry today. Never ones to take themselves too…
As I sit here in front of the fire on a cold January evening, my wife is scouring the weather forecast and, due to the potential snow storm headed our way, is…
Motobecane is known for selling affordable mountain bikes, but it turns out affordable doesn't have to mean "low end," as the Fly Team Ti 29er clearly demonstrates. This race bike is built…
When the alarm woke me Saturday morning at o-dark-thirty, I felt like I got hit by a train. My head was pounding, my stomach was queasy, and my muscles hurt. Coffee helped,…
This is my trail. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My trail is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master…
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