The life of a mountain biker can sometimes be frustrating. Being a smaller niche group of the population, many times our needs are overlooked to a broader scope of the population. Many local clubs have been successful in lobbying land owners and managers to allow trails to be built, but [...]
What better way to celebrate this Arbor Day than to chop down some trees and ride them? One of the newest design ideas sweeping the handmade bike market are wooden frames, and with good reason. They range from sleek juxtapositions of new technology and old wood design, to glorified bauhaus [...]
You may have thought unicycling in and of itself was an extreme sport, but when compared to this… well, it really just doesn’t compare. Unicyclists Stephanie Dietze and Lutz Eichholz carry their unicycles to the top of a mountain in the Dolomites, then begin a treacherous descent down. This is really [...]
Long distance cyclists looking for a new challenge this year will certainly want to put the QuickEnergy Trans Continental Race on their bucket list. When this new event gets underway in August it promises to become Europe’s longest and most challenging unsupported bike race, running for more than 2000 miles between [...]
Energy gel is important for endurance athletes needing to fuel our bodies during long endurance activities.