Long Way Home: World’s longest bicycle stretches nearly half a football field in length
What has as many as 40 legs, two wheels and is over 130 feet long? It may sound like a riddle with which a […]
Spin Me Round Like a Record: Kelly Slater adds surfing to sports in the 540 club
In 2014, 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater carved another notch in his board when he became the first surfer to throw a 540 […]
Learn how to pop a wheelie (and keep it going) from mountain bikers Rob Warner, Tom Ohler, Phil Kmetz
At first glance, the wheelie seems nothing more than the most rudimentary of adolescent cycling skills. Looking a little deeper, however, one discovers that […]
Max Stöckl rockets to world record for fastest MTB downhill speed at 167.6 kph (104.1 mph)
Austrian Markus “Max” Stöckl likes nothing better than to go down a slope as fast as possible and has been setting speed downhill mountain-bike […]
Secret Island Adventure: Sebastian Keep and fellow BMXers ride giant Denge sound mirror
When Dr. William Sansome Tucker designed a set of experimental concrete acoustic mirrors in the 1920s, he could never have foreseen that almost one […]
Music to my gears: Glasgow musicians sample BMX rider Kriss Kyle for futuristic tracks
You may have heard of BMI music, but what about BMX music? Unit 23, a skate and bike park in Dumbarton, Scotland, played home […]
Denise Mueller-Korenek shatters bicycle land-speed record at 184 mph on Utah’s Salt Flats
The average cyclist will rarely exceed 25 miles per hour on flat ground, and professionals max out at just over 70 mph (on downhill […]
Decades later, swing bikes are still the most fun you can have on two wheels
Swing bikes are to cycling, as drifting cars is to driving. Put another way, if you like riding a bicycle, then it’s likely you’ll […]
La La Land: Meet the skater, BMXer and freerunner featured in “Another Day of Sun”
Among the six Academy awards won by the 2016 musical La La Land was one for Best Cinematography, and perhaps no scene exemplifies the […]
BMX rider Billy Perry jumps, tricks, weaves, and willies his way through America’s big cities
Of the various ways to tour a city none is more intimate than walking, but cycling comes in a close second. And of the […]
Watch Danny MacAskill front flip his bike into the ocean after riding atop Gran Canaria’s rooftops
Late in 2015, GoPro released a video of trial rider Danny MacAskill skillfully hopping his mountain bike about the colorful rooftops of Las Palmas […]
Trial rider Danny MacAskill is a one-man advert for Scottish tourism
Tourism boards the world over spend millions enticing visitors to their respective destinations, but Scotland’s stunning topography gets millions of free eyeballs per year […]