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New Release: ENVE Full Carbon DH Mountain Bike Rim

ENVE DH Carbon Mountain Bike Rims

ENVE Composites new release of the full carbon DH mountain bike rim should be no surprise to anyone. The writing was on the wall with riders like Steve Peat rocking a set on the World Cup DH circuit. It was then up to ENVE to bring it to the mainstream in a product that was [...]

Photo of the Week: Gear

Mountain Biking Gear

This image by Shane Matthews at JSM_photography features a set of gloves, helmet, shoes, pack and bike all thrown together after a bike ride. There is nothing quite like the feeling of a satisfying mountain bike ride. You get to the end…spent…ready to sit down and enjoy being outdoors away from the rat race. Every [...]

SRAM Brings Back Gripshift in X0 and XX Groups

SRAM XX Gripshift with XX Brake

Gripshift lovers can rejoice! The once loved shifting method is now back in 10 speed for X0 and XX groups. Arguably the single component that launched SRAM shifting in the late 80′s, the Gripshift had a cult following in the biking industry due to its cheap price, predictable performance and the ability to manually trim [...]

Vicious Path II – We seriously want to ride this trail…

trail

I came across this video from MADProductions the other day and was floored. This trail in Portugal looks incredible. Great backwoods riding with quick, tree ridden singletrack. It doesn’t get much better than that. What I love about this video is how much it just makes me want to get out and ride. You won’t [...]

Mountain Biking: How We See Ourselves and How Everyone Else Does

Mountain Biking

Yesterday afternoon, I put together one of those social meme’s on mountain biking and how the world views us and how we see ourselves in our own minds. It caught on an as of this post less than 24 hours later, it has 146 likes and 67 shares on our Facebook page, so I figured [...]

Photo of the Week: All Aboard – Winter Mountain Bike Racing

All Aboard - Winter Mountain Bike Racing

This week, we are taking a look at an image by Joe Cattoni (regularjoe on Flickr | RegularJoe Photography). It is an image of racers at the Snake Creek Time Trial that really illustrates the grind of winter mountain bike racing in my mind. Mud, cold weather and brutal trail all in the pursuit of [...]

INSANELY COOL: Riding the Shore with a prosthetic arm. Inspiring.

neighbour

Last night, I was tooling around some of my favorite sites when I clicked on one of the best links I ever have in mountain biking. My friends over at NSMB.com started up a new video series called “Hey Neighbour”. In the second video in the series, they feature Will Craig who was in a [...]

Video: Saykogel – They say video is supposed to flatten terrain…

steep

Our friend Colin is at it again with his latest video of the madness he rides with his friends out in Austria. As the saying goes…”video flattens terrain”…and if you keep that theory in mind, the trail they are riding in this clip is INSANELY steep. What I find interesting in this sequence is how [...]

141 Days: My longest streak off the bike is over

chain

On October 2, 2011, some friends of mine and I headed up to Pisgah National Forest for a special ride. My wife was scheduled to have our first baby that coming Tuesday, so this was a chance to get out for one last weekend before our son came. The weather was perfect, the trails were [...]

Video: These Urban DH Races Are Absolutely Nuts

urban

Awhile back, we posted up a video of a rider shredding an urban DH race in South America. Now a new video has been posted and it is just as crazy as the last one. These guys are nuts and it makes for some of the best POV camera footage (shot with a GoPro) ever.

This Is Why We Ride

This Is Why We Ride

This photo has been floating around social media outlets for quite sometime now. It is from our friends over at Sacred Rides (awesome vacation rides for mountain bikers BTW) and it contains quotes from followers of their Facebook page on why they ride bikes. For me, the best quote on the image is “to find [...]

Freeride Video: Shredding A Foggy Rainforest

fog

Majestic surroundings, fog covered forest and killer riding…all good things that make this video a must watch.