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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Travis Pastrana pays tribute to daredevil Evel Knievel with three iconic motorcycle jumps
In the summer of 2018 in Las Vegas, the History Channel hosted Evel Live in which Travis Pastrana replicated three iconic motorcycle jumps pioneered […]
MTB rider Yannick Granieri brings spiked-wheel thrills to downhill ice track in Marseille
First it was a couple mountain bikers with a pioneering a ride down a white-knuckle ski slope outside Wyoming’s Jackson Hole, then it was […]
Nicholi Rogatkin flips out after landing first ever 1440 in mountain bike competition
There are a handful of moments etched into the collective memory of extreme sports fans — Tony Hawk’s skateboarding 720, and Kelly Slater’s surfing […]
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 […]
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 […]