Editorial

Whatever the weather or the hour, odds are you'll have a great ride, or at least be stoked you went out.

There are many excellent options for stashing orifice-optimized tools on our bikes - but it turns out we may need to start concealing them more effectively...

It's not all fresh mowed clover, and even when it is, it might still suck...

Anyone who recommends a dual suspension bike over a hardtail – without first calculating the difference in the cost of ownership – may need some schooling...

Why have Canadians have won more Rampage titles than all other nations combined, and dominated the podium?

"Bikes are adult Lego, and like all Lego, the real fun starts when you put the instructions away..."

Almost every component of North Shore Billet's premium performance flat pedal is made in-house at their facility in Whistler, BC...

"I look at other people, and I remember when I used to be that excited about going for a pedal, but it just isn't there..."

Our subject tests his gains during the winter - but finds himself sidelined with injury once again...

Two good pieces of gear - the Leatt MTB 4.0 pant & Showers Pass Apex short - that would survive a cull of my closest...

Comparing inter-compatibility of bikes present and past, while celebrating sixteen model years of backward compatibility for SRAM's MatchMaker system...

"The crow banquet got served up somewhere in the final mile, at the end of a long fast straight downhill from where the radar gun was usually placed..."

How the fear of injury turned this rider around...

No matter what my reasons were for wanting to do BC Bike Race, I knew it had to be done. As the race approached, I felt a bit of a reckoning coming on.

On dropping pounds of weight off my bike with narrow rims, lighter tires and inserts, a Manitou R7 XC fork, and aluminum chainrings instead of stainless steel.

"Product managers from the US couldn’t understand the volume of broken bikes coming out of the North Shore..."

For some this may be early, but the supply chain is troublesome. Get ahead of the game with domestically made parts, a session with a photographer, or stocking up on consumables like fresh lube.

"20 years later and the game of Rampage has changed: the riders know it, and the pioneering legends who rode the event in the early years do too...."

The runtime, beam quality, weight, and price of self-contained light systems have all been improving for years and Blackburn's Dayblazer 1500 continues that trend...

Wearying of the corporate carousel, Mike Ferrentino has landed in an erratic manner at NSMB.com

"This likely would be a sub-ten-minute job for most good mechanics, but for me, it felt like it would take a miracle to finish in 30..."

"That’s not to suggest that we should all stop mountain biking and entertain ourselves by constructing sculptures out of found materials..."

My 2004 Marzocchi Z150 FR SL fork isn't the only time I've thrown cash into a flaming dumpster in the years I've been mountain biking.

What's it like to ride a bike for months with Shimano Deore M6100 components and then be catapulted into the world of XTR - on the same bike...