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 […]
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 […]
Forward to the Past: Hand-crafted, retro electric bikes inspired by classic motorcycles
The earliest motorcycles — as the word suggests — were simply bicycles outfitted with a motor. Those early spartan models have an aesthetic that […]
Wee Welsh town of weird sports plays host to World Mountain Bike Chariot Race Championships
Llanwrtyd Wells, with a population of 600, bills itself as the smallest town in the United Kingdom, but the wee Welsh village is better […]
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 […]
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup champ Finn Iles cannonballs his way through quick Quebec City tour
Your average Quebec City visitor likes to take their time exploring the city — maybe taking in the view from Château Frontenac before slowly […]
Stupid human tricks on cycling rollers (don’t try this at home)
Marco Fanelli is a cycling/running/organic-farming enthusiast from Goleta, California. Also, according to his daughter, he is such a dork, which may explain why he […]
MTB trials riders Kenny Belaey and Tom Oehler explore magical menagerie in Sparta, Wisconsin
Sparta, Wisconsin — the self-proclaimed “Bicycling Capital of America” — boasts more than 30 miles of trail riding opportunities for bikers. It is also home […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Adventure in Namibia: Mountain biking with Kyle Jameson and paragliding with Guillaume Broust
Namibia, Africa is best known by tourists for Etosha National Park, which covers more than 20,000 square kilometers and is home to lions, rhinos, […]