The Virginia Mountain Bike Trail is 480 miles of riding from one end of the Old Dominion to the other, mostly on singletrack, and nearly all of it in national forest. It didn’t come easily; it took planners over a decade to make it a reality, and even now it’s not exactly the Appalachian Trail: [ more... ]

While the Yellowstones of the world are grabbing headlines for budget cuts during the sequester, federal wilderness has seen the threat of under-budgeting for several years. In the Northwest, more than 11 million acres of mountains, forests, and other wild places are designated as wilderness areas. And in much of it, the thousands of miles [ more... ]

This very German bike company is promoting their new bike with a very German YouTube video of two guys riding down an icy bobsled track. Their video is called “The new Radon Slide 130 29″ is chasing James Bond 007 in the bob run!” and it doesn’t have any James Bond footage, but it does have a minute of two guys sitting on a couch drinking beers together. It’s all very German.

Some day, you might grow up to be Jay Petervary. But probably not. The Idaho strongman has set long-distance bike records, including the Tour Divide race solo and tandem, and just stomped the Iditabike record, riding 350 miles from Knik Lake to McGrath in two days, 19 hours, and 16 minutes — 10 hours faster [ more... ]

It’s probably temporary, but a guerrilla trail network in the Croatan National Forest has been shuttered to mountain bikers. And although you probably think of Pisgah as home to North Carolina singletrack these trails are hard by the Intercoastal Waterway. According to the Forest Service it’s a problem because building the trails may have disturbed [ more... ]

The most dominant American mountain biker of a generation and back-to-back World Cup overall downhill champion in 2011-12, Aaron Gwin is breaking a “letter of intent” with Trek and has joined Specialized, Trek’s arch rival in the U.S. cycling market. Whether Gwin can legally leave Trek is something for the lawyers to sort out — [ more... ]

A congressman who gets it? Hallelujah! Congressman Scott Tipton, Republican from Colorado, doesn’t want the Forest Service to bar mountain bikes from sharing a new segment of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail while allowing hiking and horseback riding. It’s Tipton’s district where the new route is being built. “I am primarily troubled by the [ more... ]

How do you even practice for this event? Do you drive cars over cliffs, or maybe just throw yourself into oncoming traffic? I suppose that having these cliffs nearby might be part of the reason that a Utah local took home second place in the Rampage. The top spot went to a Canadian. It makes sense, no one can survive training for this event for too long. It’s bound to catch up to you.

Where the Trail Ends, the Art-of-Flight-style mountain bike film about a Utah crew that’s making a trip to ride the world has released a second episode. Here they head to the Gobi Desert to ride some steep terrain and shoot promos for Contour Cameras. I thought this was a Red Bull film, where are all [ more... ]

But it’s still not all the access we want. A new rule means individual park superintendents can now allow bikes on park roads that are closed to motorists: fire roads, maintenance roads. Bikes are already okay on roads open to cars, but they still won’t be allowed on most trails. “The National Park Service will [ more... ]