Mountain Biking
This looks like an awesome event and without a doubt, the Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder has the best event website I’ve ever seen. Press release: The Oregon Trail was a 2,000 mile adventure, the likes of which are hard to comprehend in modern times. Adventurers packed their worldly
Mountain Biking
Awesome video of the famous Ahab trail in Moab with Canyon and their new Spectral. Imagine this challenge; take your favorite downhill trail – the one you could jam through with your eyes closed – and take a picture in your mind. Got it? Feel every turn? See every tree, every drop,
Colorado
The Bailey Hundo singletrack epic in Colorado this June helps to raise money for young, up and coming cyclists in the state. Money from the race goes to groups including Trips For Kids, the Colorado High School Cycling League and to advocacy work with the Colorado Mountain Biking Association. So
Colorado
What if nobody had told us that we needed a different bike for each day of the week and every different riding surface? To coincide with their new Spork, Rode Labs has just announced their Trail Donkey 3.0 frameset. The Trail Donkey is a garage clearing wonder, with room
Mountain Biking
When Nukeproof’s mountain bike team went looking for a training bike for long base miles, they decided a standard road bike wouldn’t cut it. So Nukeproof cooked up the Digger, an affordable wide dropbar bike with huge tire clearance and simple drivetrains. Nukeproof has dubbed the bike the
Cycling
When U.S.-based WorldTour team EF Education First announced a partnership with apparel company Rapha late last year, it was announced as going beyond just apparel. EF and Rapha detailed plans to blend gravel and mountain bike races into the team’s conventional pro road race schedule. Now there’
Mountain Biking
Factor best known for its high-performance road bikes, including the One and O2, is coming to the all-road sector with the launch of its new Vista carbon road bike. Factor uses a lot of words and marketing language to describe their tuned ride concept (see below) what you really need
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It’s just October, but snow is already falling in Colorado. As I prepare to move my cycling indoors for the winter, it’s time to look back over a great summer of cycling and share some ride reports. I’ve got several to share (mostly some bucket list climbs)
Colorado
Longs Peak (NenÃisótoyóú’u to the Arapaho people) is the most prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The 14,259-foot fourteener (28th tallest peak in the U.S.) is the highest point in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness and the
Mountain Biking
AllTrails is the only app you need for getting out on the trail. I’m a big fan of the service and will be using it over the Labor Day weekend to navigate up Long’s Peak. It’s always a good idea to bring a map along for any
Mountain Biking
Aero positions in a mountain bike race sound absurd, but are they? With the Leadville Trail 100 just around the corner, Specialized decided to take a look and find out. Does grabbing your fork crown actually create any sort of aero advantage over a standard position? How about a simple
Colorado
Hike a 3,000-mile trail in only four minutes from the comfort of your office chair. The Continental Divide trail covers 3,100 miles stretching from the Canadian border to Mexico. Along the way, the trail passes through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. The highest point on the