mountain bike

Mindful that they are cyclists first and experts maybe, John and Patrick trade stories of cycling pratfalls, times they got it wrong and wound up, well, not on…

This week John looks at how mountain biking has changed in the last few decades and how if you maybe bought a mountain bike in the 1990s or early 2000s, it's…

The chainstay is the forgotten hero of every frame. It's one of the two tubes—the other being the head tube—that no frame design ever eliminates. Engineers and…

Words by Korey Hopkins Fences are used to keep in or out unwanted people, animals, or other creatures. Basically, they create a boundary that you have to…

This week Robot follows up on threads from several previous episodes. He'd like us to believe he's a short, bad human. We know that's not true; he's a…

John has a gravel event coming up this weekend, and he was wishing for something that would give him instant base miles, which he's lacking. Instead, he…

Shimano has completed the overhaul of their MTB groups. Their XTR, Deore XT, SLX and Deore groups have all been upgraded to 12-speeds, use Microspline freehubs…

This is going to seem rude, but hang with me a moment: There are too damn many pro cyclist biographies. As someone who loves memoir as an art form, clunky…

I'm a reasonably strategic shopper. I don't like paying more for something than is necessary. I want quality, but I don't care about labels. Canyon is a brand…

Few people can claim to be as inextricably linked with the birth of mountain biking as Gary Fisher. His company MountainBikes produced what were arguably the…