GIVE IT OR GET IT
2024 Gift Guide - Week 2
An insulated pint, a burly and affordable trail bike, a hot tire with fresh casings, and a few nice tools round out our highlights this week.
VIDEOS
Kona - Build With Purpose
It’s not just the trails and richness in culture that draws people in; it’s the incredible sense of community and hospitality from the people
Industry News
SHIMANO Commits $10 Million To Global MTB Trail Building Projects
SHIMANO is proud to announce its Trail Born Fund, aimed at helping increase and sustain mountain bike trails around the world.
Editorial and Poll
To dig or not to dig: is that the question?
Do we need to dig if we ride?
WRAPPING UP 2021
Best Of 2021 - Andrew's List
2021 featured fresh cedar on my favourite trails, a pile of messages about rigid bikes, the 29+ Vigilante's stay of execution, Anglesets, and gear that feels like home.
VIDEO
Trails on Trial
"The combination of hardy people, little-understood laws, and collaborations between builders and land managers are crucial to the very soul of the trail. Without them, they sit on the knife's edge..."
EDITORIAL
Spring Trail Riding Etiquette
Manners are too little, morals are too much, but superb trail decorum? That's where it's at.
Wrapping Up 2020
Best Of 2020 - Andrew's List
Riding with my kid, a bottom bracket that will last forever(?), a photo that gets me stoked, and some fresh gear. I have a hot list of things to be thankful for as 2020 pulls over and lets 2021 pass...
EDITORIAL
Digging COVID: Four Rules to Build By
"Sometimes unbridled enthusiasm can wrinkle relationships and risk the trails themselves..."
VIDEO + PRESS RELEASE
Shape Your World
Shimano and IMBA team up to bring you even more of a good thing: local trails...
PRESS RELEASE
Knolly's Builder Program Gets Bigger for 2020
Limited-run graphics and a financial boost for TORCA and the NSMBA are on the horizon for next year.
EDITORIAL
Preserving Gnarly Trails
Grannies isn't euthanized, teeter-totters get a win, Lower Crippler gets a fresh roller coaster, there's a pile of fresh cedar on Boundary Trail, and 'only' one trail lost in 2019...
EDITORIAL
Building On Boundary Trail (An Heirloom Trail)
Ensuring that the full flavour of an old-school North Shore masterpiece is maintained for future generations...
EDITORIAL
Dear Uncle Dave: What happened to "ride don't slide"?
"As our sport has grown and our influence has gained, our attitude has changed. Somewhere along the line we've moved from a place of privilege to a place of entitlement..."
VIDEO
Make Trail Building Great Again with Steve Storey
Looking to build your own slice of singletrack but don't know how to get started? Storey's got your back.
Best of 2016 – Todd’s Picks
Todd's list is simple: a tool and a trail. But what a trail and tool they are.
Raw Riding on Roca Verde
Several years of toil for one of the sweetest trails in BC...
The Warlord Battle Axe Mk II
“What is it? Well it’s a pick, an axe, a trowel, a rake, a scraper and a stomper all in one.”