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My friend Fez said, "You have a solid ability to turn a ride around at the right time," by which he meant that I am good at making decisions about how far is far enough, but…

Raising two daughters in Oregon we hiked. A lot. Despite my wife and I constantly stealing a few hours here and a few hours there to get out on our bikes, our daughters…

There is a crazy stretch of trail through the center of my town. The surface is paved, but badly. The boulders are huge and most of them are moving at erratic speeds. The…

Justin Williams is fast. He's also charismatic. When you're fast and charismatic, people in cycling listen to you, and Williams has a lot to say. There is style and substance…

There is a theory of the universe's beginning and end (sort of) called the Big Bounce. For those of you familiar with the Big Bang, the Big Bounce posits that just as our…

Introducing new columnist John Rezell, Johnnie Raz if you're friends. Raz has a background and a history, but as you'll read. It's not at all what you think. So this is…

I like bikes. I like mountain bikes; I like road bikes. As noted previously on this very website, I even like tandem bikes. I always enjoyed the Sea Otter Bicycle Expo in…

Here's another word from our sponsors, Shimano North America. We're sharing it because there are a lot of forces at work in trail building, and the more we can educate…

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the Tubbs and Nuns fires here in Sonoma County (and Napa and Mendocino Counties, too). Such an anniversary wouldn’t be especially…

Every month or so, we collect the questions submitted to our friend Stevil and present them to him for his oracular pronouncements. And pronounce he does. Wisdom. Quippery.…