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I got doored by an oblivious driver. Thankfully I just bruised my leg, but it busted my bike pretty badly. Anyways, I鈥檓 about to receive some cash from the driver鈥檚 insurance company that鈥檒l cover the x-ray bills and then some. Do I have to pay taxes on it?
Bell鈥檚 new enduro-oriented Super is the latest in a quickly expanding market of all-mountain helmets. But are these new, bigger lids really safer?
A quick glance at the app's stats on the best-known segments of the upcoming Paris-Roubaix reveals a fascinating mix of professionals and amateurs
Endurance athletes are skipping established races to stage their own raucous events. Going toe-to-toe has never been this much fun.
At 17, Keegan Swirbul has already beaten cycling's former despot at his own game
The Idaho-based ultra-endurance mountain biker talks about his record-setting ride on the Iditarod Trail Invitational, which he completed sleepless and with a broken ankle
As Shimano unveils its second-generation Dura-Ace Di2 groupo, it鈥檚 a good time to ask: Is electronic shifting an essential upgrade or a gratuitous and overpriced accessory?
Behind the customization revolution that's changing the way we buy everything from candy bars to sea kayaks
The American-made brand launches its watch sales with a brass-plated bike
Even if you鈥檙e not in the market for a $10,000 frameset (and who is, really?), here鈥檚 why this cutting-edge road bike could matter to you
Gravel riding has exploded over the past few years. Frank Bures tries to figure out where it's going鈥攁nd if that even matters.
A conversation with 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo winner Jonathan Davis.
Will some Hollywood-style drama (and production values) and a jingoistic focus on bygone French figures help potential viewers to get past all of this past year's drug scandals and small-minded politics?
Body fat is just an inert layer of blubber, right? If only. New research shows that it's more like a toxic parasite that doesn't want to let go. The good news: if you exercise and eat right, you can force it to.
Of the more than 200 small bicycle manufacturers that gathered to show off their designs at the 9th annual North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Denver last week, these seven stood out
Raising money for World Bicycle Relief
One of the finest teams in pro cycling is partnering with Rapha Racing Ltd. for the upcoming season
Even though it has reached people in more than 30 countries, bike polo is still relatively unknown in the United States. But a group of players is doing everything they can to change that.
The famous racetrack was shut down to cars for an hour so Aaron Gulley and a handful of other reporters could log some laps on the new Pro 4 Comp and Pro 4 Grip tires developed by Michelin's bike division
I鈥檝e read that road cycling is bad for your bones, but how does mountain biking stack up?
To fulfill a longtime dream and honor the memory of a fallen hero, a Turkish-American software engineer decides to circle the earth by bike and rowboat, powered solely by his own muscle, lungs, and heart. A little obsessive? Maybe, but look closely at the journey of Erden Eruc and you鈥檒l see something else: one of the most incredible adventure stories of our ti
Recapping last weekend's big race, which was held for the first time in its history on North American soil
A conversation with Dr. Stacy Sims, endurance runner, Ironman triathlete, and pro-elite road racer who has been studying the science of performance and nutrition for two decades
Is it just me, or have there been a lot of bike accidents in the news lately? I know it鈥檚 impossible to steer clear of all possible dangers, but what are some ways I can stay safe while sharing the road with cars?
Do you have a healthy social-fitness life? It all depends on your motivation.
Earlier this week on a side street in Santa Fe, I passed a guy bike commuting the opposite direction from me. He was riding a fat bike. Like any good cyclist, I'll often crane my neck to see what a passing rider is pedaling or what pretty frame is adorning…
The Big Easy. Photo:聽Robertson/VeloDramatic In Morgan Hill, California, last Saturday morning, a small peloton riding a phalanx of Roubaix SL4s, Tarmacs, and Venges rolled out on a loop that Specialized CEO Mike Sinyard calls The Big Easy. The 60-mile circuit,…
It's Seven Cups of Deceit time. Read all about it here.
John Davis paddling in Congaree National Park. Photo: Susan Baycot Climate change, development, ranching, and oil and gas exploration tend to get a lot of ink when it comes to threats to wildlife in the Western United States. But wildlife corridors are another vital factor,…
The Outdoor Retailer show is just around the corner. And new product announcements are rolling in fast. Here's a quick look at some of the most promising bags we'll see in outdoor stores this summer and fall. BOREAS BOOTLEGGER:聽This 3-in-1 adventure bag, the “Russian Dolls” of day…
https://www.oprah.com/common/omplayer_embed.html?article_id=41522 On Thursday, Sports Illustrated鈥檚 David Epstein published an interview with former Armstrong bike mechanic Mike Anderson. Anderson was fired after he found steroids while cleaning his boss鈥 apartment. Anderson said that Armstrong promised to…
Though I told myself I wouldn't do it, I watched the Lance Armstrong interview last night. It was like a bad pile-up on the highway or billows of black smoke from a distant fire鈥攜ou know you shouldn't look, but it's tough not to get sucked in.聽I had a two-hour…
Surveying the road bike spread at Gates Pass. Reviewed. I鈥檓 always amazed how different magazines and blogs interpret that word. Some publications call in a product, use it a time or two, and then print their opinions鈥攚hich yields a pretty cursory and…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gyD-em6jp_0 Extending its already formidable lead in the category, Garmin has launched two new powerful GPS cycling computers that will eventually replace the Edge 500 and Edge 800 units.聽The new Garmin Edge 810 and Edge 510 look to…
A new social-media app for cycling has more than a million riders racing, cheating, and even dying for virtual supremacy over the world鈥檚 roads and trails. A recent convert to the cult explains how Strava is changing the way we ride.
A recent study in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology found that EPO doesn't better performance in elite athletes, but it made a few critical errors in coming to that conclusion
Hydration packs aren鈥檛 always the most exciting subject. They have a reservoir to hold your drink, they stash your tools and food and your gear. They often have straps that, sure, can draw your load in toward your body, but they sometimes flap and snap and…
We test bike gear year-round at 国产吃瓜黑料, from our desert test trip in January and endurance races like the Arizona Trail Race, Breck Epic, and Triple Bypass, to daily road and…
Which is a serious problem when you鈥檙e the most famous stunt rider on the Internet. But as Nick Heil finds out, the oft-injured Scot is roaring out of rehab to dazzle the world once again.
The Colorado-based road-race champion logs much of his winter mileage indoors. Here's how he makes trainer time count.
There are a lot of firsts nowadays, and Erden Eruc's voyage was the first thing to inspire Jonah Ogles in a while
Bryan Pap茅 believes that a bike is more than just a frame, two wheels, and a bunch of components. He sees the bicycle as an instrument of social change. 鈥淎fter clean water and sanitation, one of the biggest impediments to economic development in Africa is transportation,鈥 Pap茅…
Christian Vande Velde atop the USAPC podium. Photo: Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda In a recent press conference at Aspen's Little Nell Hotel, organizers of the USA Pro Challenge announced the host cities and overall race course for the 2013…
Haven’t done your holiday shopping yet? (Shame on you.) Picky cyclist in your life whom you’re never sure what to get? (Aren’t we all?)聽Relax. You still have some time, and we’ve got you covered. Presenting 11 gifts that any reasonable cyclist would love to receive, from inexpensive stocking-stuffers to big-ticket…
The Moonlander's bulbous doughnuts soak up bumps like suspension and blast over sand dunes and through mud with monster-truck ease.
Does the cyclist in your life stump you when it鈥檚 gift-giving time? Are you a rider who geeks out on trying the latest and greatest bike-related anything as soon as it becomes available? Schwagbox, started by the guys who run Bikerumor.com, ships a selection…
Component manufacturer SRAM gathered some of its biggest sponsored riders during the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross earlier this month and proved, once and for all, that cross racers are indeed more fun than roadies. The dancing is terrible, but that's…
Downtown Chicago. Photo: Transitized/Flickr Late at night on Friday November 30, Chicago’s Department of Transportation began construction on the city’s first protected two-way bike path with dedicated bike signals. They started on Dearborn…
Do you wish you could take your dog for a spin, but aren鈥檛 sure how to manage the mechanics? Love to take your Lab for a lap on the local singletrack, but don鈥檛 have a way to roll with him safely to the trailhead? Biking with a dog can be…
Jason Fenton owns Halter's Cycles in Monmouth, New Jersey, a bike shop that opened in 1987 and admittedly stocks way more rigs than they need to so that customers have plenty of options. Since 2004, Fenton has been building and maintaining the trails at…
“One must always go back to the fundamentals. And get your face out of the computer.” So said Alex Moulton, an engineer and the designer of a handmade, small-wheeled steel bike with rubber suspension, who died this past Sunday. He was 92. The Brit…
Holiday gift guides abound this time of year. But they're mostly filled with gifts that you hope you'll get, not gifts you'll give. Stumped as to what to buy your lady this season? This guide is for you. 1. NAU DOWN LOOPNER SCARFShe'll wear it as a scarf, and…
In the 1990s, Dan Coyle started making wooden helmets for himself and his buddies for whitewater kayaking, as well as wooden eyeglass frames and paddles. It was a hobby, a use for Coyle鈥檚 chainsaw and grinder. Coyle noticed that, structurally, wood is similar to rigid, closed-cell…
Jon Kennedy shows off his Diamondback at White Mesa. Photo: @portermtb. Review season is upon us here in Santa Fe, with stacks of bikes arriving on the UPS truck each day, daily rides underway, and聽国产吃瓜黑料's annual Tucson…
Greg LeMond at Interbike. Photo: Interbike/Flickr Former Tour de France champion Greg LeMond said he plans to take on Pat McQuaid for…
The next revolution in POV cameras and viewing software allows the watcher to control the view. Red Bull has teamed up with the tech company Making View to release a series of action sports videos captured with the…
When it comes to holiday giving, you should never have to choose. This year, our editors have pulled together 68 perfect ideas鈥攑riced from $4 to $50,000鈥攇uaranteed to make anyone on your list feel like a million bucks.
The Amgen Tour of California has released details of its 2013 course, and for the first time in its eight year history the race will follow a south-to-north route through the state. Not only will the direction be different than in years past, but every stage is also brand new.
Adam Bradley's view of the Yukon River. Photo: Adam Bradley If you follow notable (read: crazy) solo expeditions, you likely recognize the name Adam Bradley鈥攐r Krudmeister, as his friends call him. In 2009, Bradley set a record for the fastest unsupported through-hike of…
Fat bike slednecking: A sport is born. Photo: Ian Anderson This photo popped up on my Facebook feed last week. It was taken by Ian Anderson, an outdoor industry public relations professional, accomplished outdoor athlete, and father of two kids (ages two and five). Ian lives…
In recent years, GT Bicycles has been the Rodney Dangerfield of bike brands鈥攖hey don鈥檛 get enough respect. The company continues to roll out hard-working, high-value bikes that are too often overshadowed by marquee brands. Case in point: the Zaskar 100 9r Carbon…
Bicycling is the best way to see a city. If you agree with that statement, you'll want to sign up with liquid.com. It's a new worldwide network of bike owners and would-be bike renters that seeks to connect the two groups with an ease never before…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AZRwlcz0pxU Like much of New York City, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, best known in cycling communites as the host to an eccentric, annual urban criterium in October, is still reeling in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In light of the damage, Red…
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As Dave Vanderveen recovered from a car accident that could have killed him, he decided to return to mountain biking. The only problem was that the bones in his foot were shattered, and at least one of those bones looked like a bag of marbles. He needed something special for…
David Walsh/Twitter. Photo: Screenshot When journalist David Walsh, the chief sports writer for the Sunday Times and the author of From Lance to Landis and…
Photo: Lance Armstrong on Mobli Lance Armstrong grabbed headlines for two reasons this past weekend. News broke that he resigned from the board of the Livestrong Foundation.
Practicing. Photo: Eric Larsen In the spring of 2002, when Eric Larsen was living in Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shore of Lake Superior and near the Boundary Waters Canoe area, he started watching the lake ice very carefully. He was waiting for some incredibly…
In a time of corruption and coercion, courage was not in short supply. A hidden cadre of men resisted doping, and they paid a heavy price. Here are their stories.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Kate Rawles on her Mexico-to-Canada tour. Photo: Chris Loynes Kate Rawles is an outdoor philosopher. That is a title she coined herself, and it is accurate in more than one way. She spends her professional life thinking about, talking about,…
This year's Red Bull Rampage may have been overshadowed by Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking free fall, but the fact that it takes a 128,098-foot sky dive to upstage this event should tell you just how severe downhill mountain biking has…
You don鈥檛 have to give up the amenities of a large urban environment just because you prefer traveling on two wheels over four
At first glance, the Santa Cruz TRc (as in Trail Carbon) seems to fit neatly between the California company's venerable Blur XC model, a nimble, fast race platform with four inches of travel, and its more enduro oriented 5.5-inch Blur LT. Indeed, looking at the TRc stats on paper (five…
Originally created for epic winter races like the Iditabike, fat bikes lately have gotten as big as 鈥 well, their oversize tires. In addition to dedicated snow events鈥攁nd the list of those is ballooning鈥攚e鈥檝e seen these beefy bad boys at 24-hour races, on tour in the desert, and, most recently, at the Leadville 100.
You鈥檙e late getting home from work, and your buddy will be over in 10 to pick you up for the epic mountain bike ride you鈥檝e been scheming all summer. You still need to get dressed, but you also need to find your wrenches, chain tool, patch kit,…