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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]