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ArchivePhinney in pink before Stage 2. Photo courtesy of BMC Racing Team Ever since Taylor Phinney won the Junior World Time Trial Championship in 2007, pundits have been saying that the Boulder, Colorado, native would eventually be one of the…
With Contador banned, the 2012 Giro is wide open. Photo: Petit Brun/Flickr The Giro d'Italia starts in Herning, Denmark, tomorrow, and it promises to be one of the most interesting and wide-open races…
This German race machine is plenty fast and light but still left us wanting. It’s not often that a brand new suspension design shows up, so as soon as we saw the Focus FSL, we knew we had to ride it. The German bike…
Project Transport+: We don't need no stinkin' car, even for shuttling two test bikes to the bike shop. National Bike Month began yesterday. It's an annual push by the聽League of American Bicyclists聽to celebrate and promote all things…
Critical Mass in Vancouver. Photo:聽ItzaFineDay Last week I visited a friend in the hospital, where she'd been since an SUV had hit her days before. The driver, who turned left as my friend was biking鈥攓uite legally鈥攕traight through the intersection, broke her…
Adrien Niyonshuti. Photo: Ryan Heffernan The physical measurements of Rwandan cyclist Adrien Niyonshuti suggest a world class athlete: 139 pounds, a VO2 max of around 75ml/kg/min (Lance Armstrong…
After a number of tries, Paul Basagoitia became the first mountain biker to land a double backflip on natural terrain in Page, Arizona. Teva released the below video today of their sponsored athlete pulling off the trick. 鈥淚t felt great when my wheels touch the…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zdYWyY4zuGs Shimano unveiled two new gravity-oriented groupos at Sea Otter, a completely revamped version of the existing Saint components and a new, budget-minded groupset called Zee. The overhauled Saint group was apparently developed in conjunction with Aaron Gwin, and Shimano enlisted Anthill Films for the…
Frank Quan at China Camp Village 聽Photo: Mary Catherine O'Connor I found Frank Quan at a picnic bench, just off the beach, as the waters of San Pablo Bay lapped gently on the shore. It was an unseasonably warm, windless April afternoon and…
Open Cycle debuts with just one model, the Hardtail O-1.0. The Sea Otter Classic is a launchpad for all manner of bikes and gear, and one of the most exciting projects unveiled at this year's event is a new company…
Cycling apparel manufacturer Search and State was established in 2010, built on the belief that what you wear for the ride should motivate, inspire and do everything it can to keep you moving forward.聽聽It鈥檚 a company committed to American manufacturing and original pieces handmade in small runs.聽The…
Tommeke wins Roubaix. Photographer: Courtesy of Roxanne King on Flickr. With Li猫ge-Bastogne-Li猫ge on Sunday, the 2012 Spring Classics season drew to a close, and there were two big winners this year. Tom Boonen,…
Screenshot of Mike hall from normallyaspiratedhuman.com On February 18th of this year, ten riders set off on the World Cycle Racing Grand Tour, a race built for those hoping to smash the current…
Former Oakland Raiders running back and Kansas City Royals outfielder Bo Jackson began a five-day, 300-mile bike ride across Alabama today in order to raise $1 million for tornado relief. All of the money raised will go the Governor's Emergency Relief Fund, which…
First, assume an Australian accent. It'll help when you pronounce the name of this snazzy bike trailer setup: Midget Bushtrekka.聽This pimped out bike trailer has “duallies” (kind of) and is designed to pivot and absorb shock. It can be adjusted to fit on a range of bike…
Fluorescent colors and reflective stripes certainly make you more visible to drivers when you're running at dusk or in the dark. But a new study by Brooks Running shows that low light perception is more scientific than just throwing some glare at oncoming traffic. Brooks Running product…
Eight of the biggest icons in the world 国产吃瓜黑料 offer their hard-earned tips
One of the most common questions I get about bikepacking and endurance races like the Arizona Trail 300 is how you can carry everything you need. The answer, which I've come to after…
Elephant Head at sunset on the 2010 AZTR. Tomorrow, I set out to settle a two-year-old score. At 9 a.m. on Friday, I begin my third attempt at the AZT300, a…
All aboard who's going aboard. 聽Photo courtesy聽Linx Co-op In our May issue we rounded up 12 amazing off-the-beaten path National Park adventures. Trekking into Yellowstone National Park (oh, you've heard of it?) didn't make the cut. But that doesn't mean you should avoid the聽3,472 square…
Mike Dion's first feature-length film, Ride The Divide, followed three cyclists on the inaugural Tour Divide, a 2,700-mile self-supported bikepacking race along the Continental Divide from Banff, Canada to Antelopes Wells, New Mexico, a dusty crossing on the…
Meet the men and women on the knife's edge of exploration
Levi Leipheimer in the Prologue of the 2011 USAPCC. 聽 聽 聽Photographer: Courtesy of Rcrhee on Flickr Ask, and very occasionally you receive. You might remember that though I enjoyed last year's premier USA Pro Cycling…
The wildest two-wheeled events on the planet feature both world-class racing and world-class carousing
As the winter sun starts to climb higher and the trails and roads dry out, it’s time to think about riding again. That probably means full service for bikes that have been neglected in the garage all winter. (Don’t you dare say you left them in the snow). Time to…
The only thing more epic than that monster attack or spleen-bruising crash? Reliving it all with friends over an adult recovery drink at an establishment that loves your kind.
A new book celebrates Ten Years of the Tour d'Afrique Bicycle Race and Expedition
Tom Boonen fights the cobbles at the 2011 Tour of Flanders. The Tour of Flanders, Belgium's biggest bike race, is set to go off tomorrow, and pundits and cycling fanatics have spent the last few weeks speculating who has the form to win this important spring…
With the Sea Otter Classic just around the corner, the flood of new products is on. A few of the most compelling things we've heard about are聽Shimano's interesting new Alfine Di2聽electric聽internal-hub shifting system and rumors of a gran…
Starr Pass, Tucson, Arizona As you probably already know, I'm sick of winter. Many friends are chasing snow this weekend鈥攖he Santa Fe backcountry should be glorious from the big dump earlier this week, and one buddy of mine flew to Rogers Pass in Canada for a…
The Kona Production crew heads to Oregon, and identifies why Portlanders love their bikes. Learn more about the joys of bike commuting in Tom Vanderbilt’s article Rage Against the Machine.
Yesterday was the first day of spring and, to my chagrin, Ski Santa Fe reported 10 inches of powder and it it was cold, windy, and flurrying in town. After the last few weeks of shorts and short sleeves thanks to unseasonably warm conditions, I simply couldn't bring myself to…
Photo:聽Fraunhofer IZM There was a time when the ski resort experience was not punctuated by the sound of ringtones and “hey, is my GoPro on?” But those days are gone forever. You may or may not lament this. But our desire to take technology with us…
Bike season is upon us, and we've been testing lots of 2012 product. From our test trip in Arizona to endurance races across the southwest, we've been beating up on lots of gear. Here are a few of our favorite new mountain bike products hitting the market.
Kate Kernerman on her way to a campground. Photo: Ryan Branciforte It was a brisk and sunny morning, typical for the dry winter we're having in San Francisco. As I locked my bike up to a sturdy fence and started down the escalator to the 24th…
I keep hearing talk about how exciting the beginning of the 2012 road race season has been. On Sunday, the season's biggest prize thus far, Paris-Nice, came down to the 9.6-kilometer uphill time trial on the Col d'脠ze, with Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins…
Matt Dixon of Purplepatch Fitness shows you how every cyclist can benefit from an indoor bike trainer. PLUS: How to boost cycling performance with a few easy adjustments to your form. For more triathlon training videos, go to The 国产吃瓜黑料 Challenge.
As we prepare to ship our Spring Bike Special and Summer Buyer's Guide to press, I'm finishing up last-minute test rides on the top contenders and boxing up stacks of bikes to ship back. Of course we never stop testing (bikes trickle…
Bombing singletrack in the Himalayas鈥揂nthill Films latest teaser highlights trails and travel in Nepal. The film will be released on April 20th in California.
Video by Devon Balet Photo. With the profusion of marathon mountain bike events and the growing popularity of the expanding National Ultra Endurance (NUE) Race Series, I keep hearing talk that the days…
I want to go on a road and mountain biking vacation in the tropics. What do you recommend?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=heeQnBsnx2Y%C2%A0 “It's been a funny one since becoming a so-called professional rider. I actually ride a lot less than I used to,” says trials phenom Danny MacAskill midway through this clip. The quote sums up the new video: It's more about MacAskill's personality聽and background (oh, and lots of gratuitous product…
Matt Carnal and his trusty fixie. Photo by Jake Drevs. Before you brag to your buddies about how hard you鈥檝e been training, meet Matt Carnal. Over 26 days in January, this 32-year-old cycling coach from Tulsa, Oklahoma,…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I-_pAVNwfT8%C2%A0 I was a little bit stir crazy last night, so around 9:30 I took our Salsa Mukluk 2 test bike out onto the state trust land behind my house. It’s a big swath of land, but I don’t ride out there much because…
Shred ready Camp life is good At play in the Purcells Western Spirit Cycling, www.westernspirit.com; O.A.R.S., www.oars.com; Canadian Mountain Holidays, www.canadianmountainholidays.com 鈥擪atie Arnold@raisingrippers聽 聽…
Tommy Chandler/Competitive Cyclist This week I had the chance to spend a few days at the Tucson training camp with the Competitive Cyclist racing team. One of a few notable domestic pro cycling outfits, this team leapt…
Badenoch, training. Photo: Joe Bell This spring, Andrew Badenoch plans to launch a 7,000-mile trip from Bellingham, Wash., up to the southern coast of the Arctic Ocean, before looping back. His locomotion will…
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Photo: Flickr/advencap It's the kind of story that makes conservationists hopeful. After years of staving off development and raising funds, the聽Peninsula Open Space Trust purchased 4,000 acres south of San Francisco, called…
Duct Tape Then Beer shoots epic North Shore singletrack in this short about mountain biking. Here’s how you can repeat the trip.
The Dangers of Drugs via Shutterstock, Photographer Julien Tromeur The cycling world is collectively sighing this morning, some in relief, others in disgust. If you're like me, no matter how you feel about the two big…
Riding the trainer sucks. It’s about as mindless as Fox News and as excruciating as a trip to the oral surgeon. But unless you’re a Cancellara doppelg盲nger who thrives in the cold and wet or a cycling snowbird who winters in Arizona,…
From a shave and shower to finding love, this is what a life lived on a bike looks like.聽 A film by Guillaume Blanchet.
If there鈥檚 one bike tour that鈥檚 a must-do, it鈥檚 this Colorado cruise: snowcapped peaks, open valleys, and winding blacktop through the Rocky Mountains. The best part? You don鈥檛 need to be an endurance freak to finish.
My friend, Lauren, likes to call cyclists “total DBags,” and though a big part of my life revolves around cycling I'm generally inclined to agree with her. Lauren's quibble鈥攑artly affectionate, deathly serious鈥攊sn't with biking, per se: she rides plenty, and her partner is not only blazing fast on a bike…
Gates Pass, trip number seven. Photo by Jen Judge. The 2012 国产吃瓜黑料 Bike Test ended on Saturday, and thank goodness. After seven days of straight riding, I needed a rest day. But we had plenty of fun. Between a total…
Patrick Symmes baits and tracks down bike thieves with a cherry ride and a cheesy lock for his February feature.
A few weeks ago I wrote about a handful of charities that give bicycles to those without. Now I've just learned that CrankBrothers is in the midst of a charity auction for Wheels For Life (WFL),…
Top 10 Winter Bike Commuting Essentials
When thieves stole his beloved 颅commuter bike on a busy street in broad daylight, PATRICK SYMMES snapped鈥攁nd set out on a cross-颅country plunge into the heart of 颅America鈥檚 bike-crime underbelly. What he saw will 颅rattle your frame.
The Penske, loaded with 56 bikes, en route to the 2012 testing grounds.聽 Ever wonder how we decide what bikes to cover in the magazine? The short answer: We ride the bejeezus out of a lot of bicycles. And we鈥檙e riding this week. Finding the best…
I'm not a dog person. And having been nearly taken out by overexcited pups more than once and scolded by overprotective owners thereafter, I'm definitely no proponent of dogs on the trails with bikers. (I generally think even less of overindulgent animal videos.)聽But then there's the Jack Russel terrier, the…
French mountain biker Romain Paulhan won the 2010 Downhill Mountain Biking Championships. Watch Paulhan rip up the trails in Gautier Grollemund’s short film.
If Lance Armstrong went to jail and Livestrong went away, that would be a huge setback in our war against cancer, right? Not exactly, because the 颅famous nonprofit donates almost 颅nothing to scientific research. BILL GIFFORD looks at where the money goes and finds a mix of fine ideas, millions of dollars aimed at 鈥渁wareness,鈥 and a few very blurry lines.
Velocomp, creator of the聽iBike Dash CC Cycling Computer, has just announced the first 鈥渟mart鈥 cycling computer鈥攊Bike聽POWERHOUSE. iBike POWERHOUSE works with your聽iPhone or iPod touch to help you reach specific fitness goals in the least amount of time possible. The computer comes with one exercise…
The year in cycling was one of surprises. For the first time in ages, there was no invincible patr贸n to lock up the race results before they'd even begun (though Philippe Gilbert did his darnedest, and Contador still stood…
The volume of bike gear that passes through my office is staggering. A few stats from 2011: This year I've tested 18 helmets, more than 20 pairs of cycling shoes, and over 100 bicycles (I ride at least 15 miles per bike; many more for the ones we cover). The…
国产吃瓜黑料 picks the biggest people, places, and events of the last year
Cambodian children enjoy their new bikes. Courtesy of 88Bikes. Is there any greater pleasure for a kid than receiving a bike for Christmas? I still remember racing down the stairs on Christmas day so many years ago to find a big red…
Beneath Mt. Elbert at mile 35 on the Leadville 100 MTB Race. When national health club chain Life Time Fitness, Inc. purchased the Leadville Race Series, many lamented the passing of these events…
Out for a two-hour group ride on the time trial bikes. Basso at right. For most of us, these winter months are for “cross-training,” which means lots of powder skiing, a helping of holiday gluttony, and squeezing in time on the rollers. Not so…
Your mom is right: Everybody actually does need more wool socks. So get your favorite outdoorsy type a pair or two of those, but also consider the stuff below鈥攖hey're some of our favorite gifts under $50. For the world traveler: A TSA compliant multitool? It鈥檚 true鈥攕uch a thing exists.
国产吃瓜黑料 picks the essentials for January, including the Rapha Cycle Club espresso machine.
Yesterday, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, a.k.a. the tour of Colorado, announced the 12 host cities for the second edition of the race, scheduled for August 20 to 26, 2012. Last year鈥檚 inaugural run was largely a success, attracting eight ProTour teams and a star-studded field (Levi Leipheimer, George Hincapie,…
I didn't take my first cold-weather ride of the season until last week. I'd been dodging it like a hypochondriac recoiling from a sniffling child. It happens like this every year. Autumn in Santa Fe is bright and dry and crisp and glorious, and I…
Last night, I humped a test bike (Ellsworth Evolution) up the Atalaya Trail, a steep, loose, rocky path that climbs 2,000 feet in just over three miles. I don't much care for this trail鈥攁ctually, I secretly hate it. But lately I've been riding it…