mountain biking

New Zealand. Family wedding. 19 hours in the air. 9,000 miles from home. It's not what you'd call a "quick out and back." An adventure. The palpitating…

It's a little frightening when the algorithm not only correctly predicts topic areas of interest to you, but also understands the geographies you love and the…

I've been following Blake Hansen for a little while, so I was glad to see this little profile of her from Freehub Magazine. There are a few good messages here,…

Bash and Pop isn't just the rock band Tommy Stinson put together after the Replacements broke up. It's also a rudimentary technique for clearing obstacles on a…

For as long as I’ve been on this planet, and it’s probably a hellava lot longer than most would guess, I’ve believed watching someone’s head as they nod off…

I'm a daydreamer. And when I daydream, I daydream this. One of my Welsh cousins did a world tour in her twenties. She went everywhere. And when she stopped…

I'm not posting this video on a Friday, because actually I have a lot to say about it. I've watched a metric ton of mountain biking how-to videos, and almost…

"Hard right!" I yell over my shoulder, as I saw back onto the line, releasing the brakes. "Rideable! Left hand exit!" This is the language of the lead rider on…

An hour into a remote mountain bike trail ride, where you might cross paths with a half dozen riders in three hours, I pull to the side halfway up a short…

Cycling nirvana. The sweet scent of the towering pines and firs gets lost in desperate, heaving attempts to squeeze some oxygen out of light mountain…