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ArchiveOne of the most hyped-up mountain bike races of the season takes place on Saturday, and we're not talking about the Olympics. (After all, according to Phil Liggett, dirt riding doesn't even deserve a place at the London…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nRZeh4KEz9s The International Olympic Committee formally stripped cyclist Tyler Hamilton of the gold medal he won in the 2004 Olympic Games just days before the eight year time limit for changing medals expires. Hamilton…
The Wiggins-Froome show on the Champs 脡lys茅es. Photo: Wyll Photographie/Flickr Bradley Wiggins can seem to do no wrong. First came his ridiculously successful season, with wins at Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie, and the Dauphin茅 Lib茅r茅…
Unlike with road jerseys, where trim and minimal is ideal, mountain biking tops are generally looser and burlier, for coping with errant branches and the occasional trip over the bars. There's a lot more variety in styles and applications as well, so gear up according to your locale, needs, and…
The more we hear from Bradley Wiggins, the more we like him.聽At a press conference following聽his historic gold medal in the Olympic time trial yesterday, the 32-year-old Brit downplayed his achievements and vowed that newfound notoriety won't go to his head. Since July, the 32-year-old cyclist has become the…
Vino (third from left) made all the right moves in London. Photo: Greenwich Photography. The road portion of the Olympic cycling events have wrapped with the conclusion of both the men's and women's time trials. And though results were unsurprising,…
There are probably very few cycling ideas that seem more suited for the scrapheap than a cardboard bike. Naysayers told designer Izhar Gafni of Israel to forget about such a dream. He took their incredulous responses and used them as motivation to craft a bike that is strong and durable…
I just used Paris鈥檚 V茅lib bikeshare and thought it was awesome. Do any U.S. cities have programs like that?
Red Bull and Freeride Entertainment have released the full trailer for the freeride mountain-biking movie Where the Trail Ends. In June, the production duo announced they would reveal…
Your body is 98 percent water. Keep your cells happy and hydrated with these new water-replenishing packs for cyclists and runners that will debut at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City. GEIGERRIG BIKE RIG Geigerrig聽Hydration聽Packs made a splash last year with the introduction of their air pressure-powered…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V0roSxMKeBM The men's road race is one of the first events following Friday night's Olympic Opening Ceremony, and it presents Great Britain with one of its best chances at a medal. Four of the five racers on the British team racked up a total of seven stage wins at this…
This might be the ultimate, unsanctioned, impromptu charity ride. This Saturday, July 28, for the second year running, Liquigas-Cannondale racer Ted King and 2009 U.S. Cyclocross National Champ Tim Johnson聽will undertake a low-key fundraiser ride. The event will raise money for the Colorado Red Cross in the wake of the…
Photo: Shimano/Cor Vos The Tour de France fizzled to a finish on Sunday, and for the first time in a decade I scarcely cared. That's because watching this Tour was as interesting as watching Lance Armstrong's U.S. Postal/Discovery machine dismantle the race for seven straight years.
Pushing the new Genius hard in Sun Valley, Idaho. We've been saying for awhile that one of the big stories in cycling for 2013 will be the rise of the 650B wheel in mountain bikes. Of course this 'tweener wheel size that splits the difference between…
This year's Tour de France has been anemic, at best. I mean, the most fascinating story line was the rivalry between Sky's leader Bradley Wiggins and his first lieutenant鈥攁nd likely the stronger rider鈥擟hris Froome, and in the end it was a drama…
Wiggins has been road testing the new Shimano Dura-Ace 9000鈥攕eems to work okay. Photo. Cor Vos One of the best things about this year's Tour has been all the new toys the teams have been showing off. But while $10,000 bikes are great eye candy, given…
By Jen Charrette As we look out the window at our friend鈥檚 house in Golden, Colorado, Kalden鈥檚 eyes fix on Lookout Mountain. 鈥淚 want to ride up that,鈥 he says as he gets ready for his second road bike ride ever. Is he a wannabe cyclist who has watched too…
Sagan roars to a narrow victory on Stage Six. In a Tour de France that has thus far been mostly ho-hum because of Team Sky's insipid domination, Peter Sagan, the Liquigas-Cannondale prodigy, has breathed some life into the race. In just…
Women's cycling is neglected throughout the year. But every Olympic season, our interest in most women's sports peaks鈥攐nly to quickly wane. With Americans set to compete for gold in London and new races on the horizon, is it finally women's cycling's time?
This September, Specialized Bicycles will release a limited edition Source Two WBR. It鈥檚 not a bike for winning high speed road races or for hurling yourself down rocky outcroppings. It鈥檚 a metro-styled urban cruiser that won a host of design awards in Europe last year. But the best thing…
It's hard to imagine anything looking right about a 40-year-old man riding a BMX bike in the city, but Alain Massabova looks downright graceful as he wheels around Paris while wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and various pairs of Nike Airs. To be fair, it looks…
You are, no doubt, already familiar with the mini power plants known as camp stoves. The ReadySet is a different kind of mobile energy source that generates and stores electrical power generated by the sun or pedal power. While it wasn't originally designed for outdoor recreation, it…
It's easy to make a road jersey: Just tack on three pockets and a zipper to a t-shirt, and presto. It's not easy to make a good road jersey. A good jersey has to hang right in a drop position, compress but not constrict, hold plenty of gear in back…
You could wear any old pair of glasses to ride in, but more likely than not they'll fog up, get spattered with sweat, pinch uncomfortably beneath your helmet, and, when it's all through, your eyes will likely sting anyway. I'm ambivalent about how expensive sunglasses have gotten (all cycling gear…
The folks at 718 Cyclery in Brooklyn, New York, offer the ultimate lesson in bike maintenance. They will teach you how to build your dream bike. Everything starts with an initial meeting at the shop where the customer lays out what they want and how…
A titanium bike with swooping lines and parallel triangles for added flex and greater shock absorption.
Fact: Exercising in polluted air can increase your risk of asthma, stroke, and heart failure. But is it better than the alternative鈥攁voiding a workout altogether?
Since 2011, when Specialized unveiled its Epic 29er, which became the benchmark for cross-country 29ers by notching the first big-wheeled wins on the World Cup circuit, the other major brands have been playing catch-up. To that end, this year has been a good one for consumers with the launch of…
The perfect riding jacket is tiny enough to tuck into a jersey pocket, but it's also able to stave off a chill on ripping descents or when clouds unexpectedly obscure the sun. Louis Garneau's Super Lite Jacket聽is not only packable but light as air…
Red Bull has put up a 90-second trailer to its new mountain-biking movie, Where the Trail Ends. From it, you get that the movie follows a group of mountain bikers going off trail for some pretty amazing freeriding. The movie features riders…
Since Cadel Evans won the 2011 Tour de France, BMC has unveiled a pair of pro-level bikes, including the classics-oriented GrandFondo GF01 and a yet-to-be-publicized TMR01 aero bike. And while those bikes鈥攊n addition…
By Emily Brendler Shoff It鈥檚 easy to find an outdoor adventure in the Rockies. What鈥檚 not as simple is finding an adventure base camp for the whole family. For mountain biking, there may be no better place than Boggy Draw. This camping and biking Mecca, located in southwestern Colorado鈥檚…
We start the day with a car accident. The bikes are unloaded and we are on them. It's another scorcher, so we're ready to ride by 7:30 a.m. We're filling the last waterbottle when an 84-year-old Italian man backs out of his garage and into the side of the van.
Last week in Park City, Utah, two dozen bike manufacturers rolled out their 2013 product lines to a handful of journalists. We already showed you a smattering of the coolest bikes, but there were even more interesting accessories. There were no quantifiable trends鈥攕ure, lighter, faster, and stronger,…
We spent last night at an ancient stone farmhouse. It was technically a hotel, but it felt like we were staying in someone's home. The family served all the meals, and entertained us with stories translated through the daughter. The food was exceptional: cheese from the family's flock and herd…
Biking is tiring in a really satisfying way. Hammer all day on a bike and you'll feel fulfilled and ready for food and rest. Driving in a car for four hours after hammering all day is brutal. Packed into the backseat with your teammates, your feet swell and even if…
This week, on the unseasonably dry slopes of Park City, Utah, two dozen bike manufacturers rolled out their 2013 product lines to a handful of journalists. The biggest talk in bikes was of 650B, the (re)new(ed) 鈥榯weener wheel size鈥攊t鈥檚 approximately halfway between a 26 and a 29鈥攖hat鈥檚 set to flood…
Passo dello Stelvio may be the best known stage of the Giro d'Italia, and for roadies it鈥檚 the crown jewel of climbs in the Italian Alps. Today we rode the聽ninth stage from the 2010 Giro Donne,聽Livigno to Stelvio, finishing with the classic climb and descent. A few…
Fifty-eight miles through the Alps. That's what was on the agenda for today when we rode the eighth stage of the 2012 Giro Donne. And about 50 miles of that was a climb鈥攏early 8,000 feet total鈥攐ver two significant passes. The owners of farmhouse bed and breakfast Acqua…
Bid to win this S.I.R. 9 IMBA edition and support trail advocacy with your entry. Yesterday at Bike Press Camp in Park City, Utah, Niner Bikes launched a fully revised edition of it's venerable S.I.R. 9 mountain bike. That's Steel Is Real for you acronym-impaired. This…
We arrived last night at dusk, pieced our bikes together from their boxes and hard cases, and devoured primi, secondi and dessert plates鈥攑asta with oil and garlic, roasted pork and pannacotta鈥攂efore passing out jet-lagged with exhaustion, hoping to get maximum sleep before our 6 a.m. departure. Today we rode the…
The Tour de France and the Giro de Italia are two of the best-known bike races. Even people who don't race鈥攄on't even ride bikes鈥攌now about them. There is another Grand Tour that should be just as well known: The Giro Donne.聽But it's not. The Giro Donne has two factors working…
That was cool. That was the most annoying bike trailer on the planet. He's giving bikers a bad name. A lot of people will think one of those two things after watching the trailer for Line of Sight, a new movie that chronicles…
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I bike a lot. Between my sweat and the sun, I wonder鈥攈ow long does a helmet last? Is there something I can do to extend its life? If it is time for a new lid, what do I buy?
Up this week in our series of head-to-head reviews are helmets. With more and more manufacturers jumping into the head-protection fray, the options are enormous and often overwhelming. And with top models going for $250 and up, it's easy to wonder whether you need to spend a…
If you鈥檙e like most people, your summer strategy probably looks like this: Dispatch the kids to day camp while you spend the sweetest season behind your desk. But research shows that while children may be quicker studies, adults benefit hugely from learning new things, too. Good news: Now you can…
With Andy Schleck (right) out of the Tour, there will be no repeat podium in 2012. Photo: HTO3/Flickr Last fall, when two of the biggest teams in pro cycling, Leopard-Trek and Radioshack,…
Leipheimer en route to winning the 2012 Tour de San Luis. Photo: OPQS/Tim de Waele On April 1, while training in Spain the day before the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco, American Levi Leipheimer was struck down by a car and suffered a broken fibula. Not…
Hornanyi takes a breather atop Powell Point during the 2011 Dixie 200, which she went on to win. This morning, June 8, over 100 riders will line up in Banff, Canada, to undertake what might be…
Photo: Shutterstock On Thursday, 53-year-old Polish cancer survivor and double amputee Krzyszof Jarzebski found out his $13,000 custom bike had been stolen from a San Francisco apartment entryway a day before he planned to hand pedal across…
A little air. Photo: Shutterstock What are the most common injuries for downhill mountain bikers? A new study published in…
The titanium masters prove they can do carbon just as well as they do metal. American bike manufacturer Litespeed built its reputation on high-end titanium. The company still sells plenty of metal鈥攐ver half its bikes are titanium鈥攂ut in recent years it has bowed to market pressures and launched into carbon…
Five ten makes shoes for all pursuits. It's latest and greatest are a new trail-building shoe, the Diddie, and a stunt riding shoe, the Danny. Diddie Schneider has built more than 300 bike tracks from Germany to Malaysia to Dubai, and has been a stunt rider in more than 700…
MoveShake will show two films online this Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern. One of the videos is a profile of Shannon Galpin, the founder of Mountain2Mountain. Galpin formed the non-profit in 2006 to help the women and girls of Afghanistan. Two years…
Calling all connoisseurs of fine foods. Just because you're camping, hiking, skiing, riding or otherwise adventuring doesn't mean you have to suffer terrible treats. Leave the Slim Jims behind on your next outing and snack on one of these tasty boutique jerkies instead. Slantshack Jerky, which scored…
Duggan becomes the national champion. Photo: Casey B. Gibson. Liquigas-Cannondale racer Timmy Duggan didn't enter last week's U.S. National Championship road race as a heavy favorite, but he proved that the odds don't always…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gr1vdCmxE3k If you watched the Amgen Tour of California, you might have seen a catchy advertisement from Spy Optics that pitted outgoing U.S. national road racing champ Matthew Busche against freestyle rider Mike Montgomery. The ad starts with…
Big air, bigger views kick off this weekend in Vail. Photo: Teva Mountain Games With long days and warm nights, summer is festival season. But if you want more from your weekend than sitting on your butt on a blanket, swilling beer, and listening to live…
*If you want her to run alongside you for a really, really long time. Kentucky Fried Chicken doesn't need a lot of help in China, but this is a story that sounds perfect for the company's next commercial there. After his graduation, 22-year-old…
With gran fondo season kicking off around the country and glorious spring already giving way to premature summer heat, it's time to get kitted up for riding season. We've been testing stacks of gear for the past few months and will bring you a series of head-to-head reviews in coming…
Hesjedal takes the trophy in Milan. Photo: Garmin-Barracuda On Sunday, Ryder Hesjedal won the Giro d鈥橧talia to become the first Canadian in history to stand atop a Grand Tour podium. The three-week race turned into a tense,…
Find out how your state ranks using this interactive graphic In case you haven't noticed, May is National Bike Month, and with it comes a slew of annual bike lists. Here's a…
Electric bikes are for wussies, right? They're alright for commuting but they're not for sport. That might have been true in the past, but if Audi's W枚rthersee e-bike and the Parlee-Toyota Prius X concept bike are any indication, things are changing. Audi introduced the W枚rthersee e-bike just…
Photo: thebezz/Shutterstock. Last week, the League of American Bicyclists updated its list of the most bike-friendly communities in the United States and Walk Score, an organization that rates rental properties based on the walkability of the surrounding…
A solid value from the Swiss manufacturer that presages good things to come The European market has been slow to adopt the 29er trend. Just last summer, on a mountain bike press launch in Austria, after all 30 journalists (85 percent of…
British Council Film recently posted the following 17-minute video on how a 1945 Raleigh bike was made. It's a pretty detailed period piece on the step-by-step assembly of a steel stag, complete with corny transition scenes.
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High-speed descent of Glendora. It seemed like such a good idea: Ride along in a Team SpiderTech chase car on the queen stage of the Amgen Tour of California. Day seven鈥檚 finale to the 6,500-foot parking lot on Mt. Baldy always…
Watch mountain biker Brandon Semenuk in slow motion, and check back when our August issue hits the stands. He’ll be featured doing an even more impressive trick in our Exposure section.
Jason Sikkila's fundraising page for the upcoming AIDS/LifeCycle event. On June 3, Jason Sikkila will mount his bicycle in San Francisco and start peddling south. Over the course of a week, he'll bike through Santa Cruz, Paso Robles, Ventura and a handful…
Mark your calendars for 3 p.m. EST on May 24. That's when Anthill Films will show their new mountain-biking documentary Strength in Numbers for free on Red Bull TV. The production company spent…
Tuff Shed, in conjunction with bike manufacturer Orbea, just announced that not only will they co-sponsor a mountain bike team, the Orbea-Tuff Shed Team, but also a modular shed designed for bikers and other outdoor athletes and enthusiasts. Tuff Shed's new Pro Sports Edition…
Sander Vandenbrouke has managed to make a 19-minute biking documentary that has nothing to do with the issues you might expect in a politically-motivated film about cycling. There are no mentions of climate change, or the cost of petrol, or fitness in The Brussels…
Chris Horner took control of the 2011 ATOC on Stage 4. Photo: Richard Masoner/Cyclelicious/Flickr The seventh edition of the Amgen Tour of California started yesterday in Santa Rosa with a thrilling stage that…
Photo courtesy of New York City's Mayor's Office on Flickr Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced today that Citi paid $41 million to be the main sponsor of New York City's new bike share program. 鈥淭he idea behind bike share is simple:…
Immagini 2319 Brooks England has been crafting leather bicycles saddles since 1866 for Olympians and long-distance cycle tourists alike. This year, cyclists participating in the inaugural WCR Grand Tour, a competitive circumnavigation of Earth by bicycle and possibly the ultimate highspeed tour,…
Tomorrow, May 9, is the first annual Bike to School Day. It's all part of National Bike Month, and an estimated 1,000 schools are expected to participate around the country鈥攆ar more kids than those who ride on a regular basis. According to the National Center for Safe…
What's cooler than wearing a tee from your favorite bike shop, or one with some eco, hipster or access oriented message? Having a shirt that you won't see on anybody else in the neighborhood. Twin Six, purveyor of coveted bike jerseys and tees,聽helps you achieve that exclusivity…