Gwin is on Fire with no Tire!
Aaron Gwin suffered a flat just seconds into his run on the UCI World Cup DH in Leogang, Austria, but that didn’t stop him from finishing. Sit back and watch Aaron take lines and somehow finishes his run unscathed!
Danny MacAskill’s Epecuen
Ride like Danny in his latest street trials film or just sit back and watch yet another amazing film. Danny and his crew shoot on location in the now abandoned Villa Epecuén on the eastern shores of Laguna Epecuén in Argentina. This once bustling tourist town could take on nearly 5,000 visitors a day, but in 1985…
Matt Hunter Getting Parallel
The weekend is here, go ride hard! If you haven’t seen this photo and the associated video of Specialized rider Matt Hunter, here you have it again. Matt squashes any skepticism if 29ers have trouble cornering. So get out there and ride this weekend and get low! (photo and video courtesy: Specialized Bicycles)
Overcoming Bike Commuting Concerns
It’s Bike to Work Week around the United States and The League of American Bicyclists has launched a great campaign to get more people riding. I’ve been an avid bike commuter for the duration of my 10 year career and certainly recommend it to everyone. While my commute right now is only 2 miles, the…
Amazing footage of John Degenkolb’s sprint in TOC stage 1
Ever wonder what it would be like to be in the middle of a field sprint to the finish of a pro tour race? Here’s some awesome footage from the Tour of California Stage 1 finish. I’m pretty sure that Versus and Eurosport need to start wiring bikes with cameras like this to get a…
Keep Singletrack Single
Singletrack is beautiful when it is single. With the warmer weather finally making its way across the nation, more and more people are digging out their bikes for the first rides of the year. In many areas of the country the trails have a very hard time staying singletrack when the climate is predictably very…
Huayhuash Film
Last winter 3 friends got together to go on an impossible mountain bike journey through the Huayhuash Mountains in the Peruvian Andes. Locals questioned their sanity, but in the end these guys nearly reached their goal of completing the trail, but most importantly they all had a journey that would go down as one of the…
Boulder’s Koppenberg Climb + Data
Every bike racer in Boulder knows where to find the Koppenberg Climb in our town. It’s part of the spring classic adopted to our local race community from the tradition of the actual spring classic in Tour of Flanders in Belgium. This term Koppenberg actually means “Heads Mountain” and “Koppen” is Dutch slang for cobblestones. In…
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