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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sebastian Keep pushes BMX boundaries with massive gap-to-wallrides
For his video project, Walls, UK BMX legend Sebastian Keep made it his mission to touch his tires on some of the most unique […]
Red Bull Rampage: Take a white-knuckled bike ride down a Utah mountain ridge with Antoine Bizet
The past dozen years has seen 21 of the world’s greatest freeride mountain bikers descend upon Virgin, Utah’s otherworldly terrain for the mind-blowing Red […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]