Mountain Bike

Seems the press line is flooded with openings this weekend for U.S. and Canadian mountain bike parks and downhill lifts.  Here ya goes: WHISTLER: Opens…

The Tour Divide, a single-stage 2,745 mile (4418 km) self-supported mountain bike race down the Great Divide starts Friday, June 12. Leaving from Banff, Alberta,…

The fourth stop on the USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Cross Country Tour presented by Sho-Air (Pro XCT) is set to get underway this Saturday…

  Recap provided by SRAM: This past weekend marked the fourth round of gravity racing in the mountain bike World Cup series. If you didn’t…

FROM CHARGE BIKES: UK BMX legend Toby Forte and riding partner Jess Jackman are taking on a different kind of bike riding challenge in June.…

Southpark Cycles sent us these tasty bits: Kona Mountain Bike Demo June 26th and 27th We will also be having a bike demo with Kona…

Big thanks to REI for bringing out the food, snacks and drinks, not to mention some manpower, to the trail work day this past Saturday.…

Word on the street is the Women’s Pro field is going to be very, very strong for the 8th Annual Cowbell Challenge this year, with…

  Video of the 2009 U.S. Open Downhill and Giant Slalom  from Lucent Productions.  Nicely edited, good wipeouts and furthers my curiousity as to why…

A little mountain bike birdy sent us this: “Production of the Misfit Psycles diSSent (Fe) has begun with pre-orders shipping the week of June 12, stock…

  Dr. David Batterbee, a research associate at the University of Sheffield in the UK, has won an award for his research and design of…

SRAM officially debuted their XX minisite today, with tons of photos and more details than you can read in one sitting…unless, of course, you’re like…

  The Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup will be in Fort William Scotland this weekend, June 6th and 7th. For a rundown of race…

On a list of things I would do after breaking my hip; finishing three additional stages in a downhill race doesn’t rank too high. That’s…

Click here to download individual lap times as a PDF.  And here are a few other interesting facts: – Fastest night lap was by Jeffery Bahnson,…

Solid video by High Country Video Productions of the racing and riding at the 2009 BURN 24 Hour Challenge.  Not your typical “race” footage, it’s…

Forget the pulse jets…all you need is gravity and, presumably, lots of caffeine.  (2008 highlight reel from Red Bull Rampage…not exactly new, but worth watching…

In Episode 6 of the Dr. Dew Files “edu-promotional” videos from Kona, we get an all too brief history of Scandium.  Here are the important…

NewHampshireLakesAndMountains.com writer Peter Minnich spills the beans on some secret (and authorized) trails in the Conway area of NH.  Secret trails are the pride and…

Kona’s recent contest to name their forthcoming full suspension mountain bike was won by Utah doctor Heather Gilbert, a cancer specialist.  The winning name? Cadabra.…

PRESS RELEASE: Outdoor Outreach, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing high-quality outdoor programs for at-risk youth, has partnered with ZOIC for the past two years…

Virtuous, a Swiss freeride mountain bike film from Ionate, aint’ exactly new, but somehow its trailer is popping up all over.  Shot in HD, it…

Canadian Catherine Pendrel edged out American Georgia Gould (both on LUNA team) for the win at the 15th annual BUMP ‘n’ Grind mountain bike race.…

FROM TAYLOR SULLIVAN:   Just 3 more weeks for the Cowbell Race Weekend… Some of you have been asking how far is the black top…

Ellsworth teased us with these at Sea Otter (check that post for close up detail photos), and as of yesterday, they’re officially available for sale…

Got this “rumor” from pro endurance rider Pua Sawicki’s hubby/manager/pr rep Ron, and Pua will be attempting to set the first ever record for Females. Her…

While we knew it was officially going to be released, we finally have some official pictures from SRAM of their new 2×10 “XX” mountain bike…