Now, this is our kind of race day: The 15th stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia was held in sporting conditions that prompted organizers to move the finish from the top of Col du Galibier four kilometers lower, to the Marco Pantani memorial. It still made for big fat wet flakes that plastered shades and [...]
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Starting in 2005 as a group of crowd-sourced rock climbing beta websites, MountainProject.com has grown to more than two million users and become a go-to resource for climbing route info across the U.S. and the world. Now, the producers of Mountain Project have announced a comprehensive user-driven website for mountain biking info at MTBProject.com. MTB [...]
Bike builder Ezra Caldwell is a man of style, courage, and remarkable lucidity. His steel Fast Boy bikes are stunning bits of magic, worth every bit of breathlessness, and his self-documentation of his fight with cancer has been bluntly transparent and stingingly honest. His writing is direct, personal, and crisp. Spend a few minutes on [...]
In the tightly knit and tightly wound circle of custom bike brands, Portland’s Vanilla Bicycles currently stands out. There are fans who love the brand, and there are a grouchy but vocal minority who say that founder Sacha White is merely a brilliant marketer — great with paint schemes (he also does Speedvagen). But folks [...]
The widow of 73-year-old Eugene Howrey has forgiven Christopher Loven for killing her cyclist husband (left) with his dump truck — after Loven was sentenced last week for careless driving in Howrey’s death near Boulder, Colorado, Sharon Howrey gave Loven a magnet that said, “To err is human.” Cyclists who care about road safety and [...]
The U.S. cycling industry sells approximately $6 billion worth of gear each year, and among all those companies, brands, and corporations, there’s just one person fighting the wave of counterfeit frames and apparel — Specialized’s Andrew Love. Bike knockoffs are a big deal — $5.2 million known in 2012 — and worse than that, dangerous. [...]
The 2013 Bespoked Bristol Show has finished for another year, after profiling a varied range of exhibitors intrinsic to the UK scene. There were some well-placed bets on a few of the award winners, while others were pleasant surprises, especially the award given for Best Off Road: a heavily modified version of Shand Cycles‘ ‘all-road’ bike, [...]
Rebecca Rusch didn’t get the nickname Queen of Pain sitting on the couch and she didn’t win four straight Leadville 100s by pedaling easy, so it shouldn’t be all that much of surprise that the endurance cyclist crushed the women’s record on her first ride of the 142-mile Kokopelli’s Trail — despite separating a finger [...]
Barstool Sports is not a website dedicated to enlightenment, openmindedness, or empathy. Rather, it’s a caustic mix of sexism, voyeuristic thrills, misogyny, and general lunkheadedness. Still, the headline and comments that accompanied this video of a motorcyclists crashing into two road cyclists on Mulholland Drive in Southern California are, to me at least, shocking in [...]
No. We’re not talking about this altercation again. That’s purposeful malice. But a study in England that tracked the eyes of drivers (they wore special glasses that pinpoint the exact focus of the eye by tracking microscopic movements in the cornea) showed that over 20 percent of cyclists were completely invisible to drivers. Younger drivers [...]
There’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is that we now live in a surveillance state. That’s the good news, too, I suppose — it led to the capture/death of the Boston bombers and it might lead to the arrest of an enraged BMW driver, who chased a cyclist, cornered him, pinned [...]
Carson Leh has been producing some beautifully upholstered saddles. We first saw his work on his Deluxe TECH2, he’s since been refining his style with plenty of new saddles, profiled on hisnew website. The site is now live, under his new brand, LEH SPLY&MFG. Have a look at the news feed while you’re there, which presents an interesting [...]
“Why am I doing this,” asks Larry McKurtis. “Why am I in the middle of North Dakota, pedaling a bike across the country?” McKurtis set off on a 4,200-mile journey without clear reasons for going, expectations of why he’d find there, or how it might change him when it was over. A Zen approach, perhaps, [...]
In summer 2011, Zac Davies, at the time a 27-year-old professional road bike racer from Madison, Wisconsin, privateered in Central America instead of racing for his team of record, Fly-V, because his team of record was corrupt and unscrupulous and was in the process of shamefully dissolving, the result of illegal and amoral directorial transgressions. [...]
The Daily Bike: Les Granges du Galibier, Giro d’Italia 2013
15 Seconds: Boiling Clouds
The List: The 10 Things You REALLY Need on a River Trip
Kim Havell Makes First Female Descent of Grand Teton’s Otter Body
‘Avalanche Sharks’ Coming to a Screen Near You. Might Be a Very Small Screen
Makers of Mountain Project Launch MTB Project
Chris Davenport and Friends Aim to Ski Colorado’s 100 Highest Peaks
American Donates 37,500 Acres to Protect the ‘Everest of Patagonia’
Chamonix-Mont Blanc Speed Record Broken
Lance Is Responsible for Anti-Lycra Backlash? Really?
The Man Behind Fast Boy Cycles and Teaching Cancer to Cry
Everest Glaciers Melting, Precip Dwindling, Snowline Moving Up
15 Seconds: The Quiet Leopard
Game Reserve Fires Drunk Guide Who Charged Elephant
