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A new social-media app for cycling has more than a million riders racing, cheating, and even dying for virtual supremacy over the world’s roads and trails. A recent convert to the cult explains how Strava is changing the way we ride.
I'm not one for blatant self-promotion from manufacturers, but I have to hand it to Rocky Mountain on this video that captures the essence of what every mountain biker must hope their year gone by just looked like. The tacky singletrack, the big mountain vistas, the friendly race scene, the…
Which is a serious problem when you’re the most famous stunt rider on the Internet. But as Nick Heil finds out, the oft-injured Scot is roaring out of rehab to dazzle the world once again.
The Colorado-based road-race champion logs much of his winter mileage indoors. Here's how he makes trainer time count.
Christian Vande Velde atop the USAPC podium. Photo: Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda In a recent press conference at Aspen's Little Nell Hotel, organizers of the USA Pro Challenge announced the host cities and overall race course for the 2013…
Component manufacturer SRAM gathered some of its biggest sponsored riders during the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross earlier this month and proved, once and for all, that cross racers are indeed more fun than roadies. The dancing is terrible, but that's…
Downtown Chicago. Photo: Transitized/Flickr Late at night on Friday November 30, Chicago’s Department of Transportation began construction on the city’s first protected two-way bike path with dedicated bike signals. They started on Dearborn…
Jason Fenton owns Halter's Cycles in Monmouth, New Jersey, a bike shop that opened in 1987 and admittedly stocks way more rigs than they need to so that customers have plenty of options. Since 2004, Fenton has been building and maintaining the trails at…
Greg LeMond at Interbike. Photo: Interbike/Flickr Former Tour de France champion Greg LeMond said he plans to take on Pat McQuaid for…
The next revolution in POV cameras and viewing software allows the watcher to control the view. Red Bull has teamed up with the tech company Making View to release a series of action sports videos captured with the…
The Amgen Tour of California has released details of its 2013 course, and for the first time in its eight year history the race will follow a south-to-north route through the state. Not only will the direction be different than in years past, but every stage is also brand new.
Whenever I go cycling, I get a runny nose. It doesn’t even have to be that cold outside to get a good drip going. Why does this happen?
Livestrong. Photo: Preston Kemp/Flickr Two people familiar with knowledge of the IRS review process have told Roopstigo reporter Selena Roberts that the government agency is reassessing the non-profit. Though…
Eating healthy doesn’t have to be boring or bland
As Dave Vanderveen recovered from a car accident that could have killed him, he decided to return to mountain biking. The only problem was that the bones in his foot were shattered, and at least one of those bones looked like a bag of marbles. He needed something special for…
David Walsh/Twitter. Photo: Screenshot When journalist David Walsh, the chief sports writer for the Sunday Times and the author of From Lance to Landis and…
Photo: Lance Armstrong on Mobli Lance Armstrong grabbed headlines for two reasons this past weekend. News broke that he resigned from the board of the Livestrong Foundation.
Practicing. Photo: Eric Larsen In the spring of 2002, when Eric Larsen was living in Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shore of Lake Superior and near the Boundary Waters Canoe area, he started watching the lake ice very carefully. He was waiting for some incredibly…
In a time of corruption and coercion, courage was not in short supply. A hidden cadre of men resisted doping, and they paid a heavy price. Here are their stories.
This year's Red Bull Rampage may have been overshadowed by Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking free fall, but the fact that it takes a 128,098-foot sky dive to upstage this event should tell you just how severe downhill mountain biking has…
At the Tour de France route presentation in Paris yesterday, reigning champ Bradley Wiggins surprised the pundits when he said he would likely forgo his title defense at the Grand Boucle next year and instead aim…
Urban bike commuters might want to study this graphic. It’s taken from a recent paper published in the American Journal of Public Health and it shows injury risk based on the type of urban bike route taken by commuters. The further to…
Still can't wrap your head around all the doping escapades detailed in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's Reasoned Decision? Tonight's nationwide debut of The Levi Effect, a documentary about American cyclist Levi Leipheimer, should lend more insight. Leipheimer's testimony about his own and Armstrong's…
Lance Armstrong. Photo: Oddne Rasmussenn/Flickr The International Cycling Union has accepted the findings in the USADA report on…
Nike Lance Armstrong sign. Photo: Bump/Flickr Bicycling's Joe Lindsey has written two detailed articles on the business of being Lance Armstrong. Right now, business is not…
Photo: Phil Beckman/PB Creative Last week the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) brought its biannual World Summit to Santa Fe. In addition to test-riding some sweet 29er bikes from Specialized, Yeti, and Santa Cruz, I got to sit in on a bunch of brainstorming sessions…
Velopresso, the ultimate café cruiser. With the crush of bad news about EPO and testosterone and blood doping in the last week, we're thrilled to bring you an uplifting story about bikes and everybody's favorite performance-enhancing substance: caffeine. Amos Reid and Lasse Oiva, design students…
Lance Armstrong. Photo: Andersbjorkhaug/Flickr On Tuesday, the Livestrong Foundation announced Lance Armstrong’s decision to step down as chairman. “I have had the great honor of…
Closing the book (we hope) on bike racing’s drug-fueled era of excess
Lance Armstrong. Photo: PoweriPics/Flickr “Twenty of the 21 podium finishers in the Tour de France from 1999 through 2005 have been directly tied to likely doping through admissions, sanctions, public investigations or exceeding the UCI hematocrit threshold. Of the 45 podium finishes during…
Lance Armstrong's “zip the lips” gesture to cyclist Filippo Simeoni, who testified against Dr. Michele Ferrari. The United States Anti-Doping Agency's report on Lance Armstrong doesn’t just say he that doped. It says he was the ringleader…
Eric Presley shot this clip using his iPhone while standing just 20 feet from the landing area for the canyon gap jump at the Red Bull Rampage practice day in Virgin, Utah.
In a country where a sport that has always represented social rebellion was unlikely to ever be tolerated, a small group of skaters created their own gear with whatever materials they could find—and started a revolution
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eIOsL8tumMU Or maybe that should be Danny MacAskill vs. Remington. Look, I'm not criticizing the Scottish trials prodigy for selling out—mountain biking's a tough way to earn a buck, and you gotta make a living where you can. I am, however, laughing uncontrollably at the copywriters and creatives at Remington.
Rememberances at the Dempsey Challenge. Courtesy of Rousseau Photography. With all the controversy swirling around Lance Armstrong, it's tempting to turn your back on it all, including LiveStrong. I'm as disgusted with the drama as anyone—the lying, the cover-ups, the…
King of the streets? Photo: Steve Rhodes/Flickr On a September afternoon in 1992, roughly 50 San Francisco cyclists pedaled together down the middle of Market Street, leaving congestion in the wake of…
The Secret Race. Photo: Courtesy of Bantam Dell During the two years Daniel Coyle spent reporting and writing The Secret Race, he interviewed…
This might be the longest series of unnecessary honks in the history of driver-versus-cyclist confrontations. An older male driver in a Ford SUV, license plate Colorado 893 EKG, slowed behind two bikers out for a Sunday ride near Longmont, Colorado, and laid on his horn for an awfully long…
Josh Tostado overtakes an unsuspecting rider in the early morning Vapor hours. Last weekend, I rode the Vapor Trail 125, an unsanctioned bike ride out of Salida, Colorado. It was my third time at the…
With evidence piling up that Armstrong cheated to win, should he confess and ask his fans, enemies, and cancer-fighting supporters to forgive him? As Brian Alexander explains, that would be the worst move he could make.
Contador wasn't as dominant as ever, but it was still enough to win his second Vuelta. Photo: BrakeThrough Media It's tough to be a cycling fan in this country. Case in point: Over the weekend, the Vuelta a España finished with…
Gould at the 2012 World Cup in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Photo: Colin Meagher When Georgia Gould, 32, won bronze in mountain biking at the London Olympics…
Finishing 12th overall, Damiano Caruso was Liquigas-Cannondale's top finisher. Photo: Liquigas A quick look at the final standings of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge reveal a race that was largely dominated by American racers. Though half of the 16 teams in the race were…
With the release of his new tell-all about the doping culture of professional cycling, The Secret Race, Tyler Hamilton has been blamed for cashing in on the celebrity of one-time teammate and brother-like figure Lance Armstrong. But what he's really saying—to Armstrong and everyone else—is this: Come clean with me. You'll feel better, and it's not too la
Tejay Van Garderen takes time out for the next generation of youth cyclists. Photo: Jen Charrette By Jennifer Charrette When the USA Pro Cycling Challenge wrapped up in Colorado, one million spectators had lined the streets from Durango to Denver. It went down…
I was Lance’s personal assistant for two years, during the height of his racing career. Do I think he cheated? Yep. But my real problem is something that diehard fans seem unable to grasp: the vengeful tactics he uses against people who tell the truth about him, on and off the bike.
Our best writing on doping in sports, USADA, and Lance Armstrong's battle against his accusers
Photo: Peter Morning/Mammoth Mountain Before Southern California downhiller Aaron Gwin won the World Cup Overall last year, no American mountain biker had ever earned that title. Then 23 and racing in only his third season…
Lance Armstrong has always denied Mike Anderson’s claim that he broke his word on a business deal, and that Anderson saw and heard evidence indicating that Armstrong was using performance-enhancing drugs. His lawyer, Mark Fabiani, sent this response to Anderson's allegations.
Sunday's downtown Denver time trial saw George Hincapie race his bike for the final time as a professional cyclist. And judging by the warm reception he received throughout the Colorado tour, with his name scrawled on the pavement all across the state and some of the biggest…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_oy0GFjC5v4 On Tuesday, Lance Armstrong sent out a tweet inviting anyone to join him for a Wednesday morning run in Montreal. “Hey Montreal – anyone want to run tomorrow? Meet me at the Monument to Sir George – Etiene Cartier. 6pm! 7.5km loop. http://www.runningmap.com/?id=219916.” Hundreds…
Vande Velde soaks up victory. Photo: Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda The second annual USA Pro Challenge, which I'll forever call the Tour of Colorado, wrapped up on Sunday, and I defy you to find anyone who said it wasn't better than the first edition. Not only was…
She sold her SUV for a six-kid cargo bike. Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland It’s that time of the year again. Time to buy the kids new shoes, despair over what to pack in the lunch box, and fantasize about a different kind of future, one in which…
In the final stage of this year’s tour, Christian Vande Velde edges out Tejay Van Garderen and Levi Leipheimer to take home the yellow jersey.
Tejay Van Garderen retains the yellow jersey on the relatively flat Stage 5.
Last year’s overall winner Levi Leipheimer claims the yellow jersey from Tejay Van Garderen on a blistering climb outside of Boulder, Colorado.
Garmin's Christian Vande Velde prepares for the fight. Photo: Rcrhee/Flickr. They may not be fully in the pole position going into the sixth of seven stages in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, but Team…
Lance Armstrong released the following statement on his website on Thursday, August 23. In it, he explains his decision not to go to arbitration and fight charges brought by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Austin, Texas—There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, “Enough is…
Lance Armstrong. Photo: Oddne Rasmussen/Flickr On Thursday night, Lance Armstrong chose not to enter into an arbitration process that would pit him against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying he's grown…
Jens Voigt wins a rainy Stage 4 while the yellow jersey trades hands yet again.
The fitness industry is packed with more mythology than the Odyssey and Iliad combined. Most of them—think millions of sit ups will flatten a belly—are as real as the Cyclops. But a few are actually grounded in reality. Here are three oft-debunked fitness myths that are more fact than fiction.
Joe Dombrowski. Photo: Shawn Lortie All the talk at this year’s USA Pro Cycling Challenge is the American contenders: Levi Leipheimer, Tejay Van Garderen, Christian Vande Velde, Tom Danielson.
Tom Danielson crashes the party on Stage 3. Photo: Jen Judge. Much has been made about the oversize, fanatical crowds at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. To wit, over one million spectators came out to watch the inaugural race…
The race heads over the biggest climb of the tour, the 12,000-foot Independence Pass, and the yellow jersey trades hands in a sprint finish.
Got a few unwanted pounds to shed? Hop aboard the first “exercise machine” you ever owned—a bike.
Courtesy of CyclingSoul Here's an opportunity for anyone who read ϳԹ's interview with Davis Phinney and wondered, “How can I help?” BMC Racing Team will be chasing a top finish at Sunday's time trial finale to…
American Tejay Van Garderen wins Stage 2 with a strong sprint finish up to Mt. Crested Butte. See more USAPCC coverage on our 2012 Bike Special page.
In a sprint finish on a course with more than 11,000 feet of climbing, American Tyler Farrar wins Stage 1 of the USA Pro Challenge. See more USAPCC coverage on our 2012 Bike Special page.
Putting women's racing back on the map
Leipheimer won the 2011 USAPCC with a TT win, and he could do the same this year. Photo: Alex Kehr/Flickr. The hottest race on the American cycling circuit begins today in Durango, Colorado, and the event is even more…
Breck Epic Stage 4. Photo: Courtesy of Daniel Dunn Photo This week, several hundred mountain bike racers are depriving themselves of oxygen and beating themselves silly in the fourth annual Breck Epic. In the…
Take your eyes off of the race every once in a while to enjoy some of these beautiful Colorado cities, home to incredible food, breathtaking views, and countless outdoor opportunities
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9-GVpIaPEGM When a Portland man had his $2,000 Fuji bike stolen, he took matters into his own hands. The man, who gave himself the alias Simon Jackson, watched Craigslist and Reddit until he found his bike for sale in Seattle. He…
One of the most hyped-up mountain bike races of the season takes place on Saturday, and we're not talking about the Olympics. (After all, according to Phil Liggett, dirt riding doesn't even deserve a place at the London…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nRZeh4KEz9s The International Olympic Committee formally stripped cyclist Tyler Hamilton of the gold medal he won in the 2004 Olympic Games just days before the eight year time limit for changing medals expires. Hamilton…
The Wiggins-Froome show on the Champs Élysées. Photo: Wyll Photographie/Flickr Bradley Wiggins can seem to do no wrong. First came his ridiculously successful season, with wins at Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie, and the Dauphiné Libéré…