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ArchiveAt the Tour de France route presentation in Paris yesterday, reigning champ Bradley Wiggins surprised the pundits when he said he would likely forgo his title defense at the Grand Boucle next year and instead aim…
Urban bike commuters might want to study this graphic. It鈥檚 taken from a recent paper published in the American Journal of Public Health and it shows injury risk based on the type of urban bike route taken by commuters. The further to…
Aaron Gulley reviews the best utility bikes for the value-minded buyer
Still can't wrap your head around all the doping escapades detailed in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's Reasoned Decision? Tonight's nationwide debut of The Levi Effect, a documentary about American cyclist Levi Leipheimer, should lend more insight. Leipheimer's testimony about his own and Armstrong's…
Whether you鈥檙e night riding, hiking, skiing, cooking or just rummaging around your tent, a bright and long-lasting lamp can make a big difference between loving the great outdoors and cursing it. Light and Motion鈥檚 new USB-rechargeable Solite 250 will help you choose the former.
Lance Armstrong. Photo: Oddne Rasmussenn/Flickr The International Cycling Union has accepted the findings in the USADA report on…
Brian Blickenstaff celebrates Germany's "Enjoyment Day" by drinking a lot of wine and then riding his bike home鈥攁ll within the letter of the law
Nike Lance Armstrong sign. Photo: Bump/Flickr Bicycling's Joe Lindsey has written two detailed articles on the business of being Lance Armstrong. Right now, business is not…
Photo: Phil Beckman/PB Creative Last week the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) brought its biannual World Summit to Santa Fe. In addition to test-riding some sweet 29er bikes from Specialized, Yeti, and Santa Cruz, I got to sit in on a bunch of brainstorming sessions…
Velopresso, the ultimate caf茅 cruiser. With the crush of bad news about EPO and testosterone and blood doping in the last week, we're thrilled to bring you an uplifting story about bikes and everybody's favorite performance-enhancing substance: caffeine. Amos Reid and Lasse Oiva, design students…
Lance Armstrong. Photo: Andersbjorkhaug/Flickr On Tuesday, the Livestrong Foundation announced Lance Armstrong鈥檚 decision to step down as chairman. “I have had the great honor of…
Rwandan cyclist Adrien Niyonshuti lost 60 of his relatives to genocide in the '90s. This year, he competed in the mountain biking event at the 2012 Olympics in London.
Tens of thousands of people are hurt while riding their bikes every year in the United States alone. Follow these 10 basic guidelines to make sure you avoid injury and stay safe.
There鈥檚 a common misperception that kids younger than five are too little to learn to ride a bike. The other day at our local playground, a couple of parents stopped to ask how old my daughter is. She was tearing around the outer loop, standing up to pump her pedals,…
We asked three hard-charging 国产吃瓜黑料 readers how they manage to stay supremely fit while balancing work and family. The secrets to their success are easier than you think.
Lance Armstrong. Photo: PoweriPics/Flickr “Twenty of the 21 podium finishers in the Tour de France from 1999 through 2005 have been directly tied to likely doping through admissions, sanctions, public investigations or exceeding the UCI hematocrit threshold. Of the 45 podium finishes during…
Closing the book (we hope) on bike racing鈥檚 drug-fueled era of excess
Looking for which candidate's economic beliefs are best suited to the present day? Wondering who's better suited to take office should the next president become incapacitated? Well, you've come to the wrong place.
Lance Armstrong's “zip the lips” gesture to cyclist Filippo Simeoni, who testified against Dr. Michele Ferrari. The United States Anti-Doping Agency's report on Lance Armstrong doesn鈥檛 just say he that doped. It says he was the ringleader…
Eric Presley shot this clip using his iPhone while standing just 20 feet from the landing area for the canyon gap jump at the Red Bull Rampage practice day in Virgin, Utah.
Tires have been a major headache for me this season. Early on, every time I went out I had a flat tire of some manner鈥攐ften a sidewall slash from our desert Southwest rocks. I spent a lot of time whinging about the state of bike tires, and the more I…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eIOsL8tumMU Or maybe that should be Danny MacAskill vs. Remington. Look, I'm not criticizing the Scottish trials prodigy for selling out鈥攎ountain biking's a tough way to earn a buck, and you gotta make a living where you can. I am, however, laughing uncontrollably at the copywriters and creatives at Remington.
Rememberances at the Dempsey Challenge. Courtesy of Rousseau Photography. With all the controversy swirling around Lance Armstrong, it's tempting to turn your back on it all, including LiveStrong. I'm as disgusted with the drama as anyone鈥攖he lying, the cover-ups, the…
Andrew Badenoch raised nearly $10,500 via Kickstarter to fund his zero-fuel Arctic adventure, but he abandoned his trip and left his backers in the dark. Andrew Badenoch. Photo: Joe Bell Back in February, I wrote about Andrew Badenoch, an ambitious…
We’re still digging through our notes from Interbike. In addition to our聽Gear of the Show聽picks, a flurry of cool new bikes, and stacks of interesting-looking…
Though the complete聽bikes聽are the lowest hanging fruit at Interbike, the show floor is full of parts and components bling. Here's a collection of small bits and pieces that we're most psyched to try out in the coming months.
King of the streets? Photo: Steve Rhodes/Flickr On a September afternoon in 1992, roughly 50 San Francisco cyclists pedaled together down the middle of Market Street, leaving congestion in the wake of…
Bold, fun, functional, hot. That鈥檚 what聽Shredly聽is all about: performance sports shorts鈥攁nd tops鈥攖hat women will reach for first when they're heading for their bike, skateboard, paddleboard or backpack. Good looks and functionality are the anchors of the Shredly brand. Each Shredly fabric is painstaking created for athletic women. Designs are…
A new online bike-rental service provides an alternative to other bike-share programs
We're back from the festival in the desert and still swimming through the flood of new bike gear. There's tons of interesting new products on the horizon, including a rash of 650B mountain bikes and more than a few disc-brake road bikes. Check here for our…
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear from Interbike 2012, the largest bicycle trade show in North America, including the Torch T1 Helmet.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear from Interbike 2012, the largest bicycle trade show in North America, including the Electra Townie Go!
The Secret Race. Photo: Courtesy of Bantam Dell During the two years Daniel Coyle spent reporting and writing The Secret Race, he interviewed…
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear from Interbike 2012, the largest bicycle trade show in North America, including the Scott Genius 700.
国产吃瓜黑料 reviews the best gear from Interbike 2012, the largest bicycle trade show in North America, including the Ultralight Sports Cirrus Ti and Nimbus Steel Pedal.
The Cascade Flyer. Photo: Erin Berzel My work commute consists of 10 steps through my house, to my home office. Plus, I do not have children. Still, I find myself jonesing for the Cascade Flyer, a bike that is a commuter-cargo-tandem-kid-carrying hybrid and…
This might be the longest series of unnecessary honks in the history of driver-versus-cyclist confrontations. An older male driver in a Ford SUV, license plate Colorado 893 EKG, slowed behind two bikers out for a Sunday ride near Longmont, Colorado, and laid on his horn for an awfully long…
Josh Tostado overtakes an unsuspecting rider in the early morning Vapor hours. Last weekend, I rode the Vapor Trail 125, an unsanctioned bike ride out of Salida, Colorado. It was my third time at the…
Downhill mountain bikers, moto riders, extreme skateboarders and anyone else who is likely to have a rib-crushing crash: take a look at this. POC鈥檚 new low-profile VPD 2.0 Jacket is a non-restrictive compression shirtthat will protect your back as well as…
Contador wasn't as dominant as ever, but it was still enough to win his second Vuelta. Photo:聽BrakeThrough Media It's tough to be a cycling fan in this country. Case in point: Over the weekend, the Vuelta a Espa帽a finished with…
Kickstarter has been the source of many outdoor gadgets and gizmos. We've written about several here on The Gear Shed, from seatpost bottle openers to sidecountry ski carriers to 360-degree video cameras and cases that convert your iPhone into a helmet cam.
Photo: Egan Snow/Flickr As summer wanes and garden harvests start to dwindle, this news lands with a thud: a recent study performed at Stanford University indicated that eating organic produce doesn鈥檛 necessarily mean eating more nutritious produce. If you figured this would…
Gould at the 2012 World Cup in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Photo: Colin Meagher When Georgia Gould, 32, won bronze in mountain biking at the London Olympics…
Grizzly print, and a notebook. Photo: 国产吃瓜黑料rs and Scientists for Conservation Rachel Carson earned a master's degree in zoology from John Hopkins University and spent most of her career working as a marine biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…
Finishing 12th overall, Damiano Caruso was Liquigas-Cannondale's top finisher. Photo: Liquigas A quick look at the final standings of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge reveal a race that was largely dominated by American racers. Though half of the 16 teams in the race were…
With the release of his new tell-all about the doping culture of professional cycling, The Secret Race, Tyler Hamilton has been blamed for cashing in on the celebrity of one-time teammate and brother-like figure Lance Armstrong. But what he's really saying鈥攖o Armstrong and everyone else鈥攊s this: Come clean with me. You'll feel better, and it's not too la
In the Napa Valley, Clif Bar CEOs Gary Erickson and Kit Crawford have built a wine-tasting room that doubles a a refuge for cyclists. To really understand the concept, I figured I had to join Erickson for a ride. I should have known better.
Tejay Van Garderen takes time out for the next generation of youth cyclists. Photo: Jen Charrette By Jennifer Charrette When the USA Pro Cycling Challenge wrapped up in Colorado, one million spectators had lined the streets from Durango to Denver. It went down…
Lance Armstrong has always denied Mike Anderson鈥檚 claim that he broke his word on a business deal, and that Anderson saw and heard evidence indicating that Armstrong was using performance-enhancing drugs. His lawyer, Mark Fabiani, sent this response to Anderson's allegations.
Our best writing on doping in sports, USADA, and Lance Armstrong's battle against his accusers
Photo:聽Peter Morning/Mammoth Mountain Before Southern California downhiller Aaron Gwin won the World Cup Overall last year, no American mountain biker had ever earned that title. Then 23 and racing in only his third season…
Sunday's downtown Denver time trial saw George Hincapie race his bike for the final time as a professional cyclist. And judging by the warm reception he received throughout the Colorado tour, with his name scrawled on the pavement all across the state and some of the biggest…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_oy0GFjC5v4 On Tuesday, Lance Armstrong sent out a tweet inviting anyone to join him for a Wednesday morning run in Montreal. “Hey Montreal – anyone want to run tomorrow? Meet me at the Monument to Sir George – Etiene Cartier. 6pm! 7.5km loop. http://www.runningmap.com/?id=219916.” Hundreds…
Vande Velde soaks up victory. Photo: Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda The second annual USA Pro Challenge, which I'll forever call the Tour of Colorado, wrapped up on Sunday, and I defy you to find anyone who said it wasn't better than the first edition. Not only was…
She sold her SUV for a six-kid cargo bike. Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland It鈥檚 that time of the year again. Time to buy the kids new shoes, despair over what to pack in the lunch box, and fantasize about a different kind of future, one in which…
In the final stage of this year’s tour, Christian Vande Velde edges out Tejay Van Garderen and Levi Leipheimer to take home the yellow jersey.
Tejay Van Garderen retains the yellow jersey on the relatively flat Stage 5.
Last year’s overall winner Levi Leipheimer claims the yellow jersey from Tejay Van Garderen on a blistering climb outside of Boulder, Colorado.
Garmin's Christian Vande Velde prepares for the fight. Photo: Rcrhee/Flickr. They may not be fully in the pole position going into the sixth of seven stages in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, but Team…
Increasingly, race organizers are testing non-elite athletes for performance-enhancing drugs. But is it fair, or even possible, to hold amateurs to the same stringent standards as the pros?
Lance Armstrong released the following statement on his website on Thursday, August 23. In it, he explains his decision not to go to arbitration and fight charges brought by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Austin, Texas鈥擳here comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, “Enough is…
Lance Armstrong. Photo: Oddne Rasmussen/Flickr On Thursday night, Lance Armstrong chose not to enter into an arbitration process that would pit him against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying he's grown…
Jens Voigt wins a rainy Stage 4 while the yellow jersey trades hands yet again.
The fitness industry is packed with more mythology than the Odyssey and Iliad combined. Most of them鈥攖hink millions of sit ups will flatten a belly鈥攁re as real as the Cyclops. But a few are actually grounded in reality. Here are three oft-debunked fitness myths that are more fact than fiction.
Joe Dombrowski. Photo: Shawn Lortie All the talk at this year鈥檚 USA Pro Cycling Challenge is the American contenders: Levi Leipheimer, Tejay Van Garderen, Christian Vande Velde, Tom Danielson.
Tom Danielson crashes the party on Stage 3. Photo: Jen Judge. Much has been made about the oversize, fanatical crowds at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. To wit, over one million spectators came out to watch the inaugural race…
“Bikes are the simplest form of transportation. Posters are the simplest form of art.” That was the聽inspiration for ARTCRANK, a bike-themed poster festival started by creative director Charles Youel in Minneapolis in 2007 to highlight local artists, the goodness of bikes, and community. Every ARTCRANK show鈥攁nd there are now a…
The race heads over the biggest climb of the tour, the 12,000-foot Independence Pass, and the yellow jersey trades hands in a sprint finish.
Courtesy of CyclingSoul Here's an opportunity for anyone who read 国产吃瓜黑料's interview with Davis Phinney and wondered, “How can I help?” BMC Racing Team will be chasing a top finish at Sunday's time trial finale to…
American Tejay Van Garderen wins Stage 2 with a strong sprint finish up to Mt. Crested Butte. See more USAPCC聽coverage on our 2012 Bike Special page.
Got a few unwanted pounds to shed? Hop aboard the first 鈥渆xercise machine鈥 you ever owned鈥攁 bike.
In a sprint finish on a course with more than 11,000 feet of climbing, American Tyler Farrar wins Stage 1 of the USA Pro Challenge. See more USAPCC聽coverage on our 2012 Bike Special page.
There is something about a bicycle that stirs the soul. In some souls, the act of riding also inspires the act of writing and, naturally, as one wheel follows another, there are books about bicycles. These are our favorites.
Leipheimer won the 2011 USAPCC with a TT win, and he could do the same this year. Photo: Alex Kehr/Flickr. The hottest race on the American cycling circuit begins today in Durango, Colorado, and the event is even more…
Breck Epic Stage 4. Photo: Courtesy of Daniel Dunn Photo This week, several hundred mountain bike racers are depriving themselves of oxygen and beating themselves silly in the fourth annual Breck Epic. In the…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9-GVpIaPEGM When a Portland man had his $2,000 Fuji bike stolen, he took matters into his own hands. The man, who gave himself the alias Simon Jackson, watched Craigslist and Reddit until he found his bike for sale in Seattle. He…
Fall is here, and the temps are dropping鈥攖ime to pick a fresh new adventure in the American Southwest
Two design students spent seven years crafting a new cycling safety device that's been dubbed the invisible bike helmet. They raised $10 million and spent years studying crash data in order to make their dream a reality. I won't ruin the surprise. Watch the video above to see the result…
Mountain bikers tend to get short shrift when it comes to high-quality apparel, especially shorts. While many companies make solid outers, the accompanying chamois is often thin and insufficient. We used to lament baggies that don't ship with pads but have recently changed our tune: Not only are they cheaper…