Video: Steve Peat on the new Santa Cruz Solo
27.5 inch wheels, 125mm of travel, 68 deg head angle. Santa Cruz got it right.
Video: BRIAN LOPES AND JOHN HAUER - RACING ENDURO IN PUNTA ALA - EWS#1
Enduro-fluenza... Got the bug? The guys at X-Fusion Shox caught it... What better way to find a cure than attending the Enduro World Series opener and let it all soak in.
Scenes from the Original Growler - An Epic Mountain Bike Event in Gunnison, Colo.
A Photo Journal by Matt Burt
Project Roam: Simple Session
sim*ple adj 1: free from dishonesty, vanity, or pretense 2: of humble origin or modest position 3: not complex.
Sometimes you just get caught up in the complexities and happenings of life.
A Secret No More: A Weekend in the Desert at Devo's Top Secret Training Camp
This is How It's Done Foks. Every year, in a remote location deep in the New Mexican desert, dozens of riders, coaches, and special guests return to Durango Devo's Top Secret Training Camp. They come to train, to build, to teach -- to shred.
Whiskey Business - Numero Uno
First Timers Hitting the Whiskey Offroad Next Weekend - A Few Tips for You:
If you’ve never raced the Whiskey Off-Road, and even if you’ve done it every year since its inception, getting acquainted (and re-acquainted) with the ins and outs of the race certainly won’t hurt your cause.
Video: Mike Curiak's Idita Tour: Part 2
1000 Miles across the Alaskan Wild via Bike
Part 2 of An up-close look in to Mike Curiak's Amazing winter bikepacking Trek across Alaska.
Video: Mike Curiak's IditaTour: Part 1
1000 Miles across the Alaskan Wild via Bike
An up-close look in to Mike Curiak's Amazing winter bikepacking Trek across Alaska.
PROJEKT ROAM: Chasing Gravity-Episode 5
Bike parks...feet dangling, the gentle swaying of the lift as it carries you upward. There is just something about being sky high, surveying the runs below from a bird's eye view that gives my heart a little extra flutter. It's almost as if my senses are heightened with anticipation, just knowing the moment I hop off the lift, it's time to shred.
Video: Jay Petervary's Tour Divide Record by Fisher Creative
An inspiring look into the mental and physical preparation and effort that lead to Jay Petervary's successful bid at breaking the Tour Divide Record.
Forest Service Approves Iconic Hangover Trail in Sedona, AZ
A Big Step for the Sedona Mountain Bike Community
The Hangover trail has quickly become a very popular trail for Sedona residents and tourists alike, a lung busting climb, technical granny gear traverses, and amazing scenery make it a must ride for those riders looking to challenge their perception of where a mountain bike trail can be built.
Community Passion Transcends Challenges of Turnover in Collegiate Racing
Durango, Colo.—Every sport has its legends, the faces and personalities that capture our hearts and minds. We track a star's rise to success, an underdog pulling through against the odds, the talented hero's unstoppable dominance.
Georgia Gould - Crappy Starts, Road Shoes, and the Satisfaction of Having it All Pay Off
When Georgia Gould received her bronze medal at the Olympics this summer, she took it off, ready to put it in her bag like any other medal. Then, she stopped. “When you get on the podium at a lot of different races, you get a medal,” said Gould. “Oh, I have this little medal, and I take it off, and I put it in my bag. It wasn’t until after the podium ceremony and I realized, like, that was the Olympic medal.”
What’s Inside The Pro’s Closet
From a Backyard Bus to Bustling Business Rare Colnago La Carrera Futura Master Pista Frame 54cm. Only 33 ever made for Colnago by world-famous graffiti artist Futura 2000.
Video: Sam Pensler Shredding with Serfas
Serfas athlete Sam Pensler killing it out on the trails. The 19-year-old from Chevy Chase, Maryland, had a tremendous year in 2012 with a Top 20 finish in August at the USA Cycling Mountain Bike Gravity Nationals.
First Annual West Elk Bicycle Classic Gran Fondo
The West Elk Bicycle Classic is an unsanctioned local race and fun ride to raise funds for the Western State Colorado University Cycling Team.
Projekt Roam: An Unforgiving Landscape
VIRGIN UTAH
Pulling the RV in late on a moonless night, it wasn't until morning that we took in the gargantuan masses of striated dirt and rock, compressed and shaped by eons of time, looming against the horizon.
Mountain Biking Santa Fe
With the IMBA World Summit heading to the Land of Enchantment in October, here’s your chance to gain some priceless local knowledge.
Words and Images by Bob Ward
The four corners region is made up of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. You may have heard of the actual four corners where you can lie down and put your hands and feet in four different states at the same time. In the realm of mountain biking, New Mexico is usually the redheaded stepchild to the other three states.
Video: Norco 650b Development
When it comes to mountain bike wheel size it is difficult to see the big picture and how it all fits together. The world has been using 26″ wheels for so long that the adoption of 29? took much longer than expected; and there are still nay-sayers on any alternative to 26″.
Going Balls Out at Carbondale's Porcupine Race
(CARBONDALE, Colo.) — If you arrive at the Bacon Station of the Carbondale, Colo., ninth annual Porcupine Loop Bike Race—where volunteer marshals hand out mandatory bacon and donuts—and ask what your time and position are, you might be at the wrong race.
Rusching to Race: 'Queen of Pain' an Inspiration to Others
The decision rested on my shoulders. Only five women—all amateur—had signed up to race the new Master of the Mass enduro-style event in Snowmass Village, Colo., and race director Dave Elkan invited us to run the pro NORBA downhill course instead of the amateur women’s course they lined out a little further down the mountain.
Fat Tires and the Spirit of the Grom
Sun Valley, Idaho — Zoe Dunn’s long blonde ponytail flows from under her helmet and over her right shoulder. She is still wearing her blue, black and white kit (Team Giant-Martial Arts of Tucson) as she stands on the race course sidelines of the USA Cycling Cross Country National Championships at the base of Bald Mountain. As racers pass, she shakes a cow bell and chimes out encouraging words, but her ice-green eyes are focused uphill on riders yet to come. Her crunched brow and parted lips indicate she might be a little concerned; she hasn’t seen her little sister, racer 324, make a lap yet.
CharlyBar seeks to be Community Funded
Local nutrition bar maker plans expansion with community support.
Fort Collins, Colo. - Many of us work day jobs to pay the bills while cultivating our own big ideas - but rarely do we act on them. For Charly Clifford, Fort Collins long time resident, barista and entrepreneur, action has come in small steps.
Not Another Link in the Chain: Gates Carbon Drive System
Advancing the science of motion performance.
(June 20, 2012) DENVER, Colo.—Just over 100 years ago Charles Gates Sr. purchased the Colorado Tire and Leather Company in Denver, Colorado, and over time the Gates Rubber Company grew to become a leader for producing tires, belts and hoses that have powered cars and industries across the world.
First Look: Sram XX1 1x11 Mountain Bike Drivetrain
Srams XX1 sets to up the standard for a simplified drivetrain.
Designed as a compliment to the increasingly popular enduro/all-mountain segment, Srams new 1x11 drivetrain pairs with their newly released Type 2 clutch derailleur system to create a simple yet effective drivetrain for technical trail abuse.
Video: A Taste of Flagstaff
Flagstaffs blossoming cycling community offers up all types of trails for cycling enthusiasts.
Flagstaff, Arizona is a great vacation spot for cyclists with its lush pine forests and rock filled trails, mountain biker and road bikers alike will enjoy the diversity of terrain and low key lifestyle Flagstaff has to offer.
Anti-Production: The Philosophical Evolution of Black Sheep Bikes
Unique and custom hand built bikes that put the craft in craftsmanship.
(April 4, 2012) FORT COLLINS, Colo. - "What if we were to just practice our craft?, If instead of building more bikes we build the same amount of bikes, each one better and better."
Going to Ireland: Singlespeed World Championships 2011
Eszter Takes a Trip: SSWC 2011
By: Eszter Horanyi
I have very few regrets in my life. I've always taken a life approach of 'You regret the things you don't do more than the things you do' and thus, have found myself in many situations where I wonder what I was thinking when I hatched a certain plan. But, I always emerge with a good story and with the clarity of 20/20 hindsight, am generally glad I partook in various activities and events. In 2009, Single Speed World Championships were held in Durango, CO, a 6 hour drive from my home. I didn't attend. After a summer of traveling and racing bikes, I couldn't bring myself to pack up the car and make the drive across the state. I have never kicked myself so hard for missing what sounded like the event of a lifetime.
Opinion: The Best Thing at Eurobike Americans Can Actually Buy
It’s gotta be the Ibis Riply 29er
By Steve Domahidy
(September 8, 2011) FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Ger. - As a Eurobike review, you would have to be expecting a lengthy piece on all things new and sparkly at Eurobike. On almost every single bike forum and chatter site, you’ll find editors expounding on the 2012 product of the second accompanied by ‘show’ pictures with said product being upstaged by the gawking crowds in the background.
Cateye's new Inou GPS Video camera
Helmet cams are all the rage, giving viewers a first hand look at cool trails and locations around the globe.
Cateye has taken this technology one step further, adding a GPS system to its new Inou camera. This technology allows users to map rides and embed video and still shots into particular segments. Sharing your adventure has never been easier. Bill Peck gives us a quick look at the Inou and the interactive website designed for the camera.
Club Ride Apparel
Mike Herlinger, Owner and Designer of Club Ride Apparel gives Mountain Flyer Magazine a look at some of the companies 2011 clothing line. For more info check them out at www.clubrideapparel.com
Scott Bike Week - All About The Ride
Scott Launches New 26-inch and 29-inch Sparks in Idaho Style
by Berne Broudy
(July 11, 2011) Sun Valley Idaho is abuzz. Rolling into town a neon sign flashes: “Welcome Mountain Bikers…Ride Sun Valley…Get Stoked.” It’s a few days before Mountain Bike Nationals here in the heart of Idaho, also home to Scott Bicycles.
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