EDITORIAL
To Ride or not to Ride During a Global Pandemic?
There is no script for mountain bikers follow and no certainty, but this is one of those rare occasions when we should believe the hype...
Review and Product Release
2021 Rockshox SID Ultimate Fork - Ridden on the North Shore
There are no two SID forks - and one of them has grown up to have 120mm of travel and Pike-diameter stanchions...
VIDEO and Press Release
Introducing the Evil Following V3
"Followings have ridden way past their travel numbers and Evil riders expect that of them..."
A Light and Well Priced 12spd Option
Rotor's 12x Cassette Ridden and Reviewed
Options are a beautiful thing for mountain bikers - and we've just been through a period when drivetrain choices were narrower than ever...
A DIY Tragedy in III Acts
Yeti SB150 Bearing Swap - How To and How Not To
This will serve as a cautionary tale about inattention and complacency, but you can probably use it to help do an SB150 bearing swap...
VIDEO
Trials on an Ebike? Danny MacAskill Gives it a Go
Some spectacular moves from Danny as usual - despite the added heft of his Santa Cruz Heckler...
Press Release
Deviate Cycles Presents The High Pivot Highlander
"This is not our first rodeo into the world of high pivot point bikes..."
First Impressions
2020 YT Jeffsy 29 Pro Race - Out of the Box
What's it like when a YT Jeffsy 29 arrives at your door in a large cardboard box...
VIDEO
Suspension Analysis - Yeti SB150
Videos are particularly helpful when it comes to demystifying the complexities of suspension kinematics...
Teardown and Overhaul Procedure
Teardown - Shimano XTR M9100 Hubs
If you started mountain biking in the age of cartridge bearing domination - Shimano hubs may scare you - but fear not...
More to Say Down the Road...
Product Review Updates - Winter Edition
Some good news and some bad news - several months or years after first reviewing these products...
Rubber Review
WTB Verdict 29 x 2.5 Front Tire Reviewed (w Judge Rear)
I used to think of WTB as 'California rubber' and I had bumped them off my list - but this combo has me rethinking that opinion...
Editorial
What Makes a Tire Worthy of the North Shore?
The observations herein are not universal truths, rather they are the personal requirements of one fussy bastard...
INTERVIEW
Santa Cruz Ebikes? Interview with Seb Kemp of SCB
Santa Cruz's brand manager gets peppered with questions about how the Heckler Ebike got the green light...
2 Minute Expert
Is your Saddle Too Long?
Trends and ideas in mountain biking are sometimes without merit – other times they persist once their merit has expired...
Obsessed with MOUNTAIN BIKING
NSMB Podcast Ep. 3: Sven and Anka Martin
Whatever you do - you should probably avoid copying Sven's opening line
Moab Slickrock Threatened by Oil and Gas Exploration
Moab Slickrock Threatened by Oil and Gas Exploration
News
VIDEO
SEMENUK: LIGHTSPEED
BRANDON SEMENUK, along with REVEL Co. and Clay Porter in the Hakuba Valley in Japan - making magic at the speed of light...
Podcast Transcript
Sterling Lorence Podcast Transcript
For those of you who prefer to read your podcasts...
EDITORIAL
Are Mountain Bikers Accidental A-Holes?
"When mountain bikers are jerks to other mountain bikers, or even trail builders, it doesn't create enemies outside our ranks..."
Bikes, A Destination, and some Gear...
Best of 2019 - Cam's List
2019 was the year to dial things in - and have more fun on two wheels than ever before...
Makin' a List...
Dear Santa: Cam McRae's List for 2019
I haven't been intentionally naughty, but I may have gone riding a few times when I should have been raking leaves...
2-MINUTE EXPERT
Why All Dropper Posts should be 34.9
A conversation with Stefan 'Sacki' Sack - CEO, Engineer & does-it-all of BikeYoke
VIDEO
Fabio Wibmer Rides Old School Urban
Fab came very close to exploding at the bottom of a 25 foot stair set - to flat of course...