With a little over a month left until my first dirty century, my training is really ramping up and yesterday I clocked my longest mountain bike ride yet ever. Here's a recap…
Photo credit: Jay Parrington. One piece of equipment that many of us fail to use but that we really should consider is joint protection. Having stepped up to mostly gravity and aggressive…
My buddy Joseph at the local bike shop, Decatur Bikes. Photo: mudhunny. Want to start a heated discussion among mountain bikers? Just ask a group of riders where they buy…
On Thursday Greg and I met up for a ride at the Five Points trail system in far northwest Georgia. I needed to get in a 6 hour ride as part of…
Funkier Apparel, a cycling clothing company based in Israel, recently sent me a pair of 3/4 length baggy pants, padded spandex undershorts, and ajersey for review. I'll get right to the point:…
Back in November I built up my first FS 29er mountain bike and when it came time to select suspension components, I knew I wanted a fairly aggressive XC-style fork to complement…
I've been wearing the Giant Trail full fingered mountain biking gloves for a while now and I wanted to share my review. First, let me say that these gloves have survived one…
Daylight savings time is upon us, and with it comes progressively more afternoon and evening sunlight. But that doesn't mean night riding season is over! Nope, now's the time for dawn patrol…
A couple weeks ago we wrote about the Global Conservation Mountain Bike Club's collection of exotic singletrack trails around the world and that got us thinking: where can we find our own…
I introduced you to the unique Slingshot Ripper 29er a few weeks ago here. I've been riding pretty much exclusively on the Ripper since then, including racing it at the Snake Creek…
I always enjoy seeing manufacturers improve their products when they see a need.SRAM recently saw a need in the gravity scene and took the opportunity to improve shifting performance and durability while…
The fickle Georgia winter weather decided to cooperate and offered up a gorgeous weekend for the Southeast Bike Expo, with highs reaching 60 degrees on the second day of the event. Thanks…
I had always pictured powder coating as something done to Jeep bumpers and wrought iron fences. I knew it could be done to bike frames, but the ones I had seen looked…
Unlike the trend analysis articles we've been posting recently, I have no hard data on this trend but it's one that appears to be growing in my area: unauthorized mountain bike trail…
Ah, to be 16 again. I recently had the privilege of attending the season opener for the SoCal High School Cycling League at Vail Lake Resort in Temecula, California. If any of…
Some of you may know I've been busy training for my first 100-mile mountain bike race, the fabled Cohutta 100 on April 28. The race is now officially sold out with 305…
After returning the Lynskey to the Shimano booth I went in search of my next demo bike. This time around I wanted to try a carbon fiber 29er hardtail. Id never ridden…
The all-new Giro Feature is a helmet that is sure to get quite a few riders excited about buying a new lid! The Feature is designed specifically for the long-travel rider. If…
There's been a lot of hubub around the interwebs of late about the potential explosion of the 650b wheel size. Much of the commotion is around the very substantial rumor that Fox…
Imagine a mountain bike club funded by a billionaire with access to private trails in exotic locations all around the world. A club so exclusive the trails are guarded by stone and…
At the Southeast Bike Expo this weekend I got a chance to demo the Niner W.F.O., a 5.5-inch all-mountain/trail bike that also happens to be a 29er. You can basically count the…
The first annual South East Bike Expo was last weekend at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, GA. Dozens of companies where on hand with gear to demo on the trails…
The Louis Garneau Edge mountain bike helmet is a true XC-style brain bucket that is comfortable, functional, and stylish - well, at least as stylish as a vented helmet can be. Time…
We had a lot of fun with the mountain bike ownership analysis a couple weeks ago and now it's time to delve into some trail stats. Ever wonder which US states have…
When I think about buying a quality headset for one of my bikes there are only three or four companies that come to mind, and nearly all of my rides use a…
The first ever Southeast Bike Expo is being held this weekend at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, site of the 1996 Olympic mountain bike competition. Online registration closes at midnight…
Bull Mountain has been castrated. What used to be one of the last remaining bastions of technical mountain biking in the state of Georgia has been cut and bled of its virility. What was…
Let me break down the correct way to go fast through a turn.
How much does it cost to go for a bike ride? If youre like me, you remember tooling around your neighborhood as a kid on a hand-me-down Schwinn, or riding your bike…
I recently wrote a post about my Banshee AMP build, and in it I mentioned that I decided to go with the Manitou Circus Expert fork. After spending some quality time shredding…
What is a big mountain bike ride? We all have our own definition, relative to our abilities and experiences.Riders new to the sportmight consider ten miles on a greenway to be a…
photos: San Diego Mountain Bike Association. A friend recently returned from a trip to California with an interesting discovery: bell boxes for mountain bikers. If you ride in California you already know…
In the tradition of Jeff Foxworthy: If you have ever weighed your bike before and after washing the dirt off...you might be a weight weenie. If you have ever taken your bike…
This is the video that started it all for the now-legendary trials genius, Danny MacAskill. With almost 29 million views on Youtube, odds are that if you ride a bike, you've seen…
"Jack of all trades, master of none," is the cliche that keeps coming to mind when I think about my experience with the Ibex Asta Pro. But is that a bad thing?…
I admit it: I'm big mountain bike data geek. I want to know how many people ride a particular trail, what kind of bike they're riding, and how often they ride it.…
Fresh out of the oven, the latest hotness from Louis Garneau. The latest T-Flex 300 mountain bike shoe from Louis Garneau is the shoe Xzibit would build if his TV show were…
This weekend was round two of the Snake Creek Gap Time Trial Series, a three race series over34 of the rockiest miles of singletrack in north Georgia. NWGA SORBA puts on the…
I recently worked with my buddy Chris to pimp out his 2010 Fox 40 to 2012 specs and it was a big success. Well, Fox decided to send down a brand new…
There's one piece of gear that every mountain biker has, but most of us rarely think about: a helmet. That is, we rarely think about it until we really need it. The…
Heading into the weekend it had been sunny and in the 60's for three days, and my planned ski trip with my daughter was derailed by a birthday parry and a youth…
I remember seeing these trails signs this summer and thinking "What's with that guy's feet?" Those of you in the northern parts of the US and in Canada know, right about now…
And now for something totally different: the Ripper 29, produced by Slingshot Bikes. It's so different that I'm not even sure where to beginthis post. I mean, it's got a cable instead…
Over the Christmas break I had a chance to put together a new DJ bike after retiring my older Opus. This year I decided to go with the Banshee AMP after a…
This past weekend mudhunny and I hit Outdoor Retailer in Salt Lake City, UT to check out the latest and greatest outdoor gear. And while Outdoor Retailer isn't all about bikes like…
Smartphone GPS apps have come a long way in just a few short years - but don't count out the dedicated GPS unit for mountain biking just yet. This year at CES,…
We've seen a recent surge of interest in trail building here on Singletracks and we just started a new forum for discussions about building mountain bike trails. But building the trail is…
Installing or replacing the cables on your mountain bike can do wonders to improve shifting performance on the trail and you might be surprised just how easy it is to do yourself.…
13
