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 […]
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 […]
Mountain bike descent of Corbet’s Couloir proves its time for Winter Olympics’ MTB event
The Olympic Committee is famously slow in adding new events to the world’s most hallowed athletic competition — it wasn’t until 1998 that snowboarding […]
Gee Atherton takes on 400 mountain bikers in new-fangled fox hunt turned topsy-turvy
Over the past several years, Red Bull has been sponsoring a very different kind of fox hunt, wherein world-champion racing cyclist Gee Atherton (the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Zenga Bros bring heightened awareness to cycling with weird and wonderful tall bikes
Tall bikes, as the name suggests, are tall bikes (like really, really tall bikes). Canada’s Zenga Bros have long been at the forefront of […]
Nicole Frýbortová shows why artistic cycling is like gymnastics on two wheels
When Nicole Frýbortová was seven years old, riding her bicycle the traditional way wasn’t nearly enough. The young Czech not only wanted to ride […]