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There's something mythically juicy about riding the cityscape on a bike with full suspension. It's possible we've spent entire lunches watching urban downhill runs in places…

The photo above is not what I look like. I am not a moustache-sporting hipster (too old) or an insouciant dandy (too introverted). The photo above represents my best effort…

It was the '70s and California was pregnant with ideas. Skateboarding was on the rise. Bands like the Eagles and Steely Dan were inventing yacht rock. It was, in many ways,…

When it comes to bikes and handling, after bottom bracket drop, the next most important dimension that will determine just how a bike handles is trail. What's trail you ask?…

Born just a few, short years after the end of slavery in the US, and despite obstacles at nearly every turn, Major Taylor became the first black, American superstar athlete.…

My companions dropped me, slowly but resolutely, with hardly a look back in either anger or pity. And then I was alone on a sun-baked, country road with only the chirping of…

I have been into trials (watching anyway) since the '90s, when Hans "No Way" Rey was the king of all things technical. If you're own appreciation of the screechy, hoppy…

It's pretty hard to separate the bike from its movement. There is a fetish for the bicycle as an object, but that's a secondary way of appreciating the machine, mainly based…

I think it was 1979, hard to recall exactly, but we were riding the Tour de l’Avenir in France as the first ever American national team there. This particular Tour was (and…

The quest to eliminate cables from waving in the wind and muddying our air has been slow and fitful. No sooner had the world adopted "aero" brake levers than Shimano added…