Trail Tales

Leaving Whistler is difficult at the worst of times, but two days after the bike park opens? That’s blasphemy.

Get up when you crash, try things that scare you, persevere in adverse conditions, go hard into climbs and corners, and always offer help to a fellow traveler...

“I frantically flip my bike over with a bubbling and hissing rear tire, my team now in fourth place and officially losing ground…”

Just you and the bike, turning pedals. Simple. And that’s the beauty of touring with a mountain bike and trailer to destination trails…

As mountain bikers we are products of our environment. The way you ride is shaped by the trails you ride…

Kaz Yamamura fires up a new series looking at the bikes and riders in the Sea to Sky…

You love great gear. Every piece is selected on spec, tested in battle, and ridden to a legendary death…

Are bike parks destined to fade away like the monoski? Will A-Line become a climbing trail with Strava checkpoints?

How can you tell if a journalist is lying? When they tell you they are unbiased…

What would you do with five days off? No worries, no responsibilities, just empty blocks on the calendar…

A super fun project from Ross Measures that’ll have you scrolling to the bottom of Queenstown, NZ…

Both sides of the discussion have very valid arguments, and neither choice is actually wrong – where do you lay down the green on carbon?

You are going to need these guys for a number of things on a road trip. All the better with B and H…

“The pace was reasonable but I seemed to be dragging Will Ferrell along the dirt…”

“I came back from the test ride with an itchy trigger finger – but something isn’t right…”

Just riding with Ryan Leech is worth the price of admission – from there it’s all gravy…

Where do we draw the line between smooth style and gratuitous shralpage?

Using simple math to clear up some myths and misconceptions surrounding single ring drivetrains…

Rather than freeze-framing a millisecond, wrangling and seizing it forcefully, he allows the motion of the moment, the many moments, to truly show themselves…

Your gang colours – something that a fellow biker might note was a disguised piece of functional cycling clothing…

“Cumberland could very well be British Columbia's new riding mecca…”

The last pair of Money Shot contestants vying to join us at Crankworx and Rampage this year…

How to get the kind of service you deserve for the money you are about to lay down on a new rig…

“We always seem to go far away when we go away on a holiday, so we really wanted to just stay in our back yard, and see what it had to offer…”