Mountain Biking Stories
Tras casi 30 años sobre los sagrados senderos del sur de la Columbia Británica, Betty Birrell aún piensa que la vida es un gran patio de juegos. Y que nunca es muy tarde para lanzarte
In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.
Un grupo de ciclistas de montaña desciende entre los cafetales de Colombia y explora el impacto del cambio climático sobre uno de los brebajes más amados del mundo y la vida de quienes dependen de él.
Un optimismo delirante y una inmersión alpina en las South Chilcotin Mountains de British Columbia.
Al aprender su idioma ancestral, una mountain biker descubre una forma distinta de relacionarse con las palabras, con ella misma y con su comunidad, así como de andar en su bicicleta.
Grappling with her aging trail dog’s declining health, a mountain biker decides to give her furry best friend one last dose of singletrack.
In North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest, a collaboration between anglers and mountain bikers uses better trails to create healthier rivers.
In a tiny Colorado ski town, the world’s oldest mountain-bike club is facing the complicated reality of recreation gone right.
Rolling through a full-scale sensory rebellion in New England.
Una entrevista con Gabo Benoit, creador de senderos y uno de los portavoces del mountain bike en Coyhaique, Chile.
Una lección sobre las reglas para la construcción de senderos.
An unlikely community, in the most unlikely location, has become an even more unlikely force for public lands conservation.
La estrella del mountain bike de Becoming Ruby va en busca de algunas de las esquiadoras más poderosas allá afuera.
Following in Indigenous Footsteps on the Ute Pass Trail.
As editor of the world’s largest mountain bike magazine, Nicole Formosa showed her audience the world’s largest issues—and revealed the sport’s resistance to confronting them.
How one suburban mountain biker’s vision for a trail system reshaped a former industrial town—and turned trail building into a family tradition.
El editor adjunto de BIKE Magazine elabora sobre nuestra percepción de tener el derecho a pedalear donde queramos.
In the second installment of our “Best of Home” series, photographer, writer and editor Colin Wiseman takes us to Washington State’s gloomy, fern-filled Whatcom County for a signature Pacific Northwest ride.
Photo editor Kyle Sparks kicks off our new social media series, “Best of Home,” documenting the everyday, out-the-back-door trails that mountain biking depends on.
Outdoor recreation can be a lifeline for rural economies, but the industry has also benefited from the erasure of Indigenous peoples from their lands.
A bikepacking expedition inspired by one of North America’s most iconic landscapes, and the American Prairie Reserve’s audacious effort to restore it.
En Coyhaique, Chile, los fantasmas de la extracción de recursos pueden ofrecer el camino hacia un futuro basado en la recreación.
Downieville, en California, una vez fue uno de los pueblos más ricos del estado, pero hacia la mitad de la década de 1990 empezó a irse a pique. Eso hasta que un puñado de mountainbikers locales comenzó a usar los senderos aledaños para darle una nueva vida al lugar, convirtiendo al otrora pueblo fantasma en una meca de la recreación.
Perched in the Himalaya and once accessible only by trail, India’s Zanskar region has remained largely free of Western influences for over 2,000 years. That could all change as a new highway brings a wave of instant globalization.
“That comfort, the ability to feel like you’re not stepping outside of some boundary; It’s not like, ‘Do I belong here?’ No, this is where I’m supposed to be.”
When Vince Anderson took a break from alpine climbing, his mountaineering attitude manifested itself in a single-speed hardtail, on which he’s won some of the sport’s most grueling races.
The Slickrock Trail, in Moab, Utah, is one of the most popular mountain bike rides in the world. Now, under a recent BLM decision, it could also be opening to oil and gas drilling.
The Trans-Cascadia has become one of the Pacific Northwest’s most notorious races. This past August, the Back Country Horsemen of Washington joined the Trans-Cascadia team—a first for all involved.
In the 1980s, a group of cyclists in Washington banded together to protect their local trails from illicit activities; 30 years later, that momentum has reshaped the city and preserved a watershed.
In a fossil-rich corner of western Colorado, set against lush agricultural fields, the big-box stores of Grand Junction and the sandstone formations of the Colorado National Monument, you’ll find Fruita. These days, the town is an international mountain-biking destination known for its ribbony, high-desert trails, technical routes overlooking the Colorado River and funky downtown where…
Friday night at the Hot Tomato is not for those in a hurry. Hungry customers grip pints of beer and compare notes on the day’s rides in lines that spill into the parking lot. Music pumps and the staff whirls behind the counter, tossing floury dough, yelling requests to the kitchen, giving each other shit.…