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Here's a fresh little number from Freehub Magazine about the origins of mountain biking in Colorado. Freehub is doing some really interesting and cool stuff, like this, so…

Humans are not good at large-scale collective effort. We are selfish and short-sighted by design. We struggle to understand proper scale and are prone to dismissing our own,…

I wouldn't have said I'm this kind of guy, the try-hard, the Type A. I'm not. I'm not. I think instead I've fallen prey to the siren song of suffering, the idea that, unless…

I don't remember a lot about the first hour. We'd been side-by-side on a stretch of old rail bed, one of the few corridors like it that hasn't been paved, moving at a…

Shimano North America sponsors our site, and that's a nice thing. As our readership grows, our subscriber base grows too, and between the two we're able to begin to fulfill…

If you listen to today's Paceline you'll hear about my current project, learning to handle my new mountain bike with flat pedals rather than clipless. It's a new bike, so…

There was no announcement. We never agreed. At some point the pace just went up, and I found myself at the (off the) back. A long, straight stretch of dirt and someone got…

I am not a hardcore bike commuter. I only ride to work a couple times a week. It's less than an hour each way, and I don't go when the weather is particularly nasty or on…

This short film from Patagonia fills me with joy and admiration. It's the story of Betty Birrell, a pioneering mountain biker and all-around bad ass still getting after it at…

It’s a tall goddamned order, being cheerful, but what are you going to do? Sulk around all the time? Make everyone else miserable? Make yourself miserable? Left to my own…