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Six-time world champion Rebecca Rusch on the state of women's mountain biking, the hardest races she has faced this year, and how she hopes she'll be remembered
The more we hear from Bradley Wiggins, the more we like him. At a press conference following his historic gold medal in the Olympic time trial yesterday, the 32-year-old Brit downplayed his achievements and vowed that newfound notoriety won't go to his head. Since July, the 32-year-old cyclist has become the…
Vino (third from left) made all the right moves in London. Photo: Greenwich Photography. The road portion of the Olympic cycling events have wrapped with the conclusion of both the men's and women's time trials. And though results were unsurprising,…
I just used Paris’s Vélib bikeshare and thought it was awesome. Do any U.S. cities have programs like that?
Red Bull and Freeride Entertainment have released the full trailer for the freeride mountain-biking movie Where the Trail Ends. In June, the production duo announced they would reveal…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V0roSxMKeBM The men's road race is one of the first events following Friday night's Olympic Opening Ceremony, and it presents Great Britain with one of its best chances at a medal. Four of the five racers on the British team racked up a total of seven stage wins at this…
This might be the ultimate, unsanctioned, impromptu charity ride. This Saturday, July 28, for the second year running, Liquigas-Cannondale racer Ted King and 2009 U.S. Cyclocross National Champ Tim Johnson will undertake a low-key fundraiser ride. The event will raise money for the Colorado Red Cross in the wake of the…
Photo: Shimano/Cor Vos The Tour de France fizzled to a finish on Sunday, and for the first time in a decade I scarcely cared. That's because watching this Tour was as interesting as watching Lance Armstrong's U.S. Postal/Discovery machine dismantle the race for seven straight years.
Sagan roars to a narrow victory on Stage Six. In a Tour de France that has thus far been mostly ho-hum because of Team Sky's insipid domination, Peter Sagan, the Liquigas-Cannondale prodigy, has breathed some life into the race. In just…
Women's cycling is neglected throughout the year. But every Olympic season, our interest in most women's sports peaks—only to quickly wane. With Americans set to compete for gold in London and new races on the horizon, is it finally women's cycling's time?
The embattled cyclist says USADA is out to get him—using powers that it really shouldn’t have. Brian Alexander says he’s right.
Red Bull has put up a 90-second trailer to its new mountain-biking movie, Where the Trail Ends. From it, you get that the movie follows a group of mountain bikers going off trail for some pretty amazing freeriding. The movie features riders…
We start the day with a car accident. The bikes are unloaded and we are on them. It's another scorcher, so we're ready to ride by 7:30 a.m. We're filling the last waterbottle when an 84-year-old Italian man backs out of his garage and into the side of the van.
We spent last night at an ancient stone farmhouse. It was technically a hotel, but it felt like we were staying in someone's home. The family served all the meals, and entertained us with stories translated through the daughter. The food was exceptional: cheese from the family's flock and herd…
Have doping scandals made you want to swear off the Tour forever? Here are five reasons not to pull the plug on this year's race.
Biking is tiring in a really satisfying way. Hammer all day on a bike and you'll feel fulfilled and ready for food and rest. Driving in a car for four hours after hammering all day is brutal. Packed into the backseat with your teammates, your feet swell and even if…
Passo dello Stelvio may be the best known stage of the Giro d'Italia, and for roadies it’s the crown jewel of climbs in the Italian Alps. Today we rode the ninth stage from the 2010 Giro Donne, Livigno to Stelvio, finishing with the classic climb and descent. A few…
Fifty-eight miles through the Alps. That's what was on the agenda for today when we rode the eighth stage of the 2012 Giro Donne. And about 50 miles of that was a climb—nearly 8,000 feet total—over two significant passes. The owners of farmhouse bed and breakfast Acqua…
We arrived last night at dusk, pieced our bikes together from their boxes and hard cases, and devoured primi, secondi and dessert plates—pasta with oil and garlic, roasted pork and pannacotta—before passing out jet-lagged with exhaustion, hoping to get maximum sleep before our 6 a.m. departure. Today we rode the…
After a tough week of deliberations, World Triathlon CEO Andrew Messick explains his decision to keep the seven-time Tour de France winner from competing
The Tour de France and the Giro de Italia are two of the best-known bike races. Even people who don't race—don't even ride bikes—know about them. There is another Grand Tour that should be just as well known: The Giro Donne. But it's not. The Giro Donne has two factors working…
Evelyn Stevens, a cyclist for Team Specialized-lululemon, talks about the progression of her cycling career after leaving finance to pursue professional bike racing in 2009.
In February, Andy Schleck became the official winner of the 2010 Tour de France when Alberto Contador was stripped of his title following a positive drug test. This year, he plans on winning it in Paris.
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With Andy Schleck (right) out of the Tour, there will be no repeat podium in 2012. Photo: HTO3/Flickr Last fall, when two of the biggest teams in pro cycling, Leopard-Trek and Radioshack,…
Leipheimer en route to winning the 2012 Tour de San Luis. Photo: OPQS/Tim de Waele On April 1, while training in Spain the day before the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco, American Levi Leipheimer was struck down by a car and suffered a broken fibula. Not…
Hornanyi takes a breather atop Powell Point during the 2011 Dixie 200, which she went on to win. This morning, June 8, over 100 riders will line up in Banff, Canada, to undertake what might be…
Photo: Shutterstock On Thursday, 53-year-old Polish cancer survivor and double amputee Krzyszof Jarzebski found out his $13,000 custom bike had been stolen from a San Francisco apartment entryway a day before he planned to hand pedal across…
Irmiger talks about the gender divide in mountain biking and the challenges of making it big
A little air. Photo: Shutterstock What are the most common injuries for downhill mountain bikers? A new study published in…
Cyclists cite various reasons for shaving their legs, like making massages more comfortable and cleaning road rash easier. But will shaving make me faster?
Duggan becomes the national champion. Photo: Casey B. Gibson. Liquigas-Cannondale racer Timmy Duggan didn't enter last week's U.S. National Championship road race as a heavy favorite, but he proved that the odds don't always…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gr1vdCmxE3k If you watched the Amgen Tour of California, you might have seen a catchy advertisement from Spy Optics that pitted outgoing U.S. national road racing champ Matthew Busche against freestyle rider Mike Montgomery. The ad starts with…
Geology professor at Prescott College; winner of the 2011 Tour Divide, a 2,700-mile self-supported mountain-bike race along the Continental Divide
Hesjedal takes the trophy in Milan. Photo: Garmin-Barracuda On Sunday, Ryder Hesjedal won the Giro d’Italia to become the first Canadian in history to stand atop a Grand Tour podium. The three-week race turned into a tense,…
High-speed descent of Glendora. It seemed like such a good idea: Ride along in a Team SpiderTech chase car on the queen stage of the Amgen Tour of California. Day seven’s finale to the 6,500-foot parking lot on Mt. Baldy always…
Watch mountain biker Brandon Semenuk in slow motion, and check back when our August issue hits the stands. He’ll be featured doing an even more impressive trick in our Exposure section.
Jason Sikkila's fundraising page for the upcoming AIDS/LifeCycle event. On June 3, Jason Sikkila will mount his bicycle in San Francisco and start peddling south. Over the course of a week, he'll bike through Santa Cruz, Paso Robles, Ventura and a handful…
Mark your calendars for 3 p.m. EST on May 24. That's when Anthill Films will show their new mountain-biking documentary Strength in Numbers for free on Red Bull TV. The production company spent…
The European design company Lunar has reinvented the stationary wheel. Last month, they began promoting the Vela, a training bike that doubles as art. Or, as they put it in the first sentence of their press release, “It might make you…
Sander Vandenbrouke has managed to make a 19-minute biking documentary that has nothing to do with the issues you might expect in a politically-motivated film about cycling. There are no mentions of climate change, or the cost of petrol, or fitness in The Brussels…
Chris Horner took control of the 2011 ATOC on Stage 4. Photo: Richard Masoner/Cyclelicious/Flickr The seventh edition of the Amgen Tour of California started yesterday in Santa Rosa with a thrilling stage that…
Long hauls in the saddle got you sore? These four yoga poses will stretch your trouble spots.
Photo courtesy of New York City's Mayor's Office on Flickr Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced today that Citi paid $41 million to be the main sponsor of New York City's new bike share program. “The idea behind bike share is simple:…
Tomorrow, May 9, is the first annual Bike to School Day. It's all part of National Bike Month, and an estimated 1,000 schools are expected to participate around the country—far more kids than those who ride on a regular basis. According to the National Center for Safe…
Phinney in pink before Stage 2. Photo courtesy of BMC Racing Team Ever since Taylor Phinney won the Junior World Time Trial Championship in 2007, pundits have been saying that the Boulder, Colorado, native would eventually be one of the…
With Contador banned, the 2012 Giro is wide open. Photo: Petit Brun/Flickr The Giro d'Italia starts in Herning, Denmark, tomorrow, and it promises to be one of the most interesting and wide-open races…
Critical Mass in Vancouver. Photo: ItzaFineDay Last week I visited a friend in the hospital, where she'd been since an SUV had hit her days before. The driver, who turned left as my friend was biking—quite legally—straight through the intersection, broke her…
Adrien Niyonshuti. Photo: Ryan Heffernan The physical measurements of Rwandan cyclist Adrien Niyonshuti suggest a world class athlete: 139 pounds, a VO2 max of around 75ml/kg/min (Lance Armstrong…
After a number of tries, Paul Basagoitia became the first mountain biker to land a double backflip on natural terrain in Page, Arizona. Teva released the below video today of their sponsored athlete pulling off the trick. “It felt great when my wheels touch the…
Open Cycle debuts with just one model, the Hardtail O-1.0. The Sea Otter Classic is a launchpad for all manner of bikes and gear, and one of the most exciting projects unveiled at this year's event is a new company…
Screenshot of Mike hall from normallyaspiratedhuman.com On February 18th of this year, ten riders set off on the World Cycle Racing Grand Tour, a race built for those hoping to smash the current…
Former Oakland Raiders running back and Kansas City Royals outfielder Bo Jackson began a five-day, 300-mile bike ride across Alabama today in order to raise $1 million for tornado relief. All of the money raised will go the Governor's Emergency Relief Fund, which…
Elephant Head at sunset on the 2010 AZTR. Tomorrow, I set out to settle a two-year-old score. At 9 a.m. on Friday, I begin my third attempt at the AZT300, a…
Levi Leipheimer in the Prologue of the 2011 USAPCC. Photographer: Courtesy of Rcrhee on Flickr Ask, and very occasionally you receive. You might remember that though I enjoyed last year's premier USA Pro Cycling…
Tom Boonen fights the cobbles at the 2011 Tour of Flanders. The Tour of Flanders, Belgium's biggest bike race, is set to go off tomorrow, and pundits and cycling fanatics have spent the last few weeks speculating who has the form to win this important spring…
I keep hearing talk about how exciting the beginning of the 2012 road race season has been. On Sunday, the season's biggest prize thus far, Paris-Nice, came down to the 9.6-kilometer uphill time trial on the Col d'Èze, with Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins…
There’s a downside to the increase in big-city bike traffic. Newbie riders, unaware of the rules, put others at risk. Our man offers a few pointers for the uninitiated.
Matt Dixon of Purplepatch Fitness shows you how every cyclist can benefit from an indoor bike trainer. PLUS: How to boost cycling performance with a few easy adjustments to your form. For more triathlon training videos, go to The ϳԹ Challenge.
Bombing singletrack in the Himalayas–Anthill Films latest teaser highlights trails and travel in Nepal. The film will be released on April 20th in California.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=heeQnBsnx2Y%C2%A0 “It's been a funny one since becoming a so-called professional rider. I actually ride a lot less than I used to,” says trials phenom Danny MacAskill midway through this clip. The quote sums up the new video: It's more about MacAskill's personality and background (oh, and lots of gratuitous product…
Matt Carnal and his trusty fixie. Photo by Jake Drevs. Before you brag to your buddies about how hard you’ve been training, meet Matt Carnal. Over 26 days in January, this 32-year-old cycling coach from Tulsa, Oklahoma,…
Tommy Chandler/Competitive Cyclist This week I had the chance to spend a few days at the Tucson training camp with the Competitive Cyclist racing team. One of a few notable domestic pro cycling outfits, this team leapt…
The Dangers of Drugs via Shutterstock, Photographer Julien Tromeur The cycling world is collectively sighing this morning, some in relief, others in disgust. If you're like me, no matter how you feel about the two big…
Riding the trainer sucks. It’s about as mindless as Fox News and as excruciating as a trip to the oral surgeon. But unless you’re a Cancellara doppelgänger who thrives in the cold and wet or a cycling snowbird who winters in Arizona,…
If there’s one bike tour that’s a must-do, it’s this Colorado cruise: snowcapped peaks, open valleys, and winding blacktop through the Rocky Mountains. The best part? You don’t need to be an endurance freak to finish.
Patrick Symmes baits and tracks down bike thieves with a cherry ride and a cheesy lock for his February feature.
When thieves stole his beloved commuter bike on a busy street in broad daylight, PATRICK SYMMES snapped—and set out on a cross-country plunge into the heart of America’s bike-crime underbelly. What he saw will rattle your frame.
French mountain biker Romain Paulhan won the 2010 Downhill Mountain Biking Championships. Watch Paulhan rip up the trails in Gautier Grollemund’s short film.
I'm not a dog person. And having been nearly taken out by overexcited pups more than once and scolded by overprotective owners thereafter, I'm definitely no proponent of dogs on the trails with bikers. (I generally think even less of overindulgent animal videos.) But then there's the Jack Russel terrier, the…
If Lance Armstrong went to jail and Livestrong went away, that would be a huge setback in our war against cancer, right? Not exactly, because the famous nonprofit donates almost nothing to scientific research. BILL GIFFORD looks at where the money goes and finds a mix of fine ideas, millions of dollars aimed at “awareness,” and a few very blurry lines.
The year in cycling was one of surprises. For the first time in ages, there was no invincible patrón to lock up the race results before they'd even begun (though Philippe Gilbert did his darnedest, and Contador still stood…
Beneath Mt. Elbert at mile 35 on the Leadville 100 MTB Race. When national health club chain Life Time Fitness, Inc. purchased the Leadville Race Series, many lamented the passing of these events…
Out for a two-hour group ride on the time trial bikes. Basso at right. For most of us, these winter months are for “cross-training,” which means lots of powder skiing, a helping of holiday gluttony, and squeezing in time on the rollers. Not so…
I’ve decided to start bike commuting in order to save some money and get fit. What should I look for in a solid commuter?
Yesterday, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, a.k.a. the tour of Colorado, announced the 12 host cities for the second edition of the race, scheduled for August 20 to 26, 2012. Last year’s inaugural run was largely a success, attracting eight ProTour teams and a star-studded field (Levi Leipheimer, George Hincapie,…
Last night, I humped a test bike (Ellsworth Evolution) up the Atalaya Trail, a steep, loose, rocky path that climbs 2,000 feet in just over three miles. I don't much care for this trail—actually, I secretly hate it. But lately I've been riding it…