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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…

Take a moment to picture your favorite bike. Imagine, as well, that you have a metric tape measure in your hands. It's easy to measure the seat tube length—you run the tape…

Mountain biking has progressed well beyond those early days of 26-inch wheels, triple chainrings and 130mm stems. Thank heaven. I sometimes joke that I'm not sure why I liked…

I'm not entirely up to speed on the state of the art in street-style BMX, but I know some bike-born brilliance when I see it, and I think you'll agree that Dak Roche is…

United Airlines has dropped its fee to travel with a bike. Srsly. To even write that United Airlines has dropped an extra charge seems like fiction, not fact. Honestly,…

I am fascinated by the evolution of the bicycle, intrigued that it took as long as it did to arrive on the scene, and then the way ideas and materials changed every part of…

I'm going to make an assertion based on my experience in working retail: Any product that carries an inexpensive price tag does so because one or more corners were cut.…