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Today, Black Sheep Bikes from Fort Collins, Colorado, is offering a first for the framebuilding operation: a production hardtail mountain bike. Photographer Josh Hicks penned a few words and delivered a fun gallery showcasing these new bikes Black Sheep has dubbed the Speedster Project. Let’s check it out…
Colorado bag maker San Util just announced a new hip pack called the Whirlpool ($135)…
We are delighted to launch our first feature-length documentary film, Camera Corner: Wende Cragg Documents the Birth of Mountain Biking. It profiles Wende’s work and its lasting impact on the cycling industry. Photographer Wende Cragg has been a pillar of the cycling community since she began documenting road, cyclocross, and the early days of mountain biking in Marin County, California, and throughout the United States over 50 years ago.
Continue reading below for all the details!
Ahead of the holiday this week, Hailey Moore took part in Treehouse Cyclery and the Radical Adventure Riders’ Denver Cranksgiving event. In the spirit of giving back, read on for her Reportage of an event that showcases bikes at their best.
You’ll find mostly women’s apparel hanging on the racks at Boulder’s newest cycling shop, Cassiopeia. Opened in late September, the “female-forward” store features boutique brands like Ostroy, Jelenew, and Fingerscrossed, and doubles as a cycling café and Velospa. Hailey Moore takes a shop visit to Cassiopeia to chat with owner Diana Freeman about the store’s unique business concept, find out what exactly is a Velospa, the membership model, and more!
In the next installment of a four-part series, our European correspondent Petor Georgallou joins Significant Other Bikes of Denver, Colorado. Petor recently took a gonzo-style roadtrip through North America to visit four framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. Take a peek behind the bikes made by Ashley King at Significant Other…
How far would you travel for a bikepacking trip with new friends? Framebuilder and bladesmith Thomas Callahan of Horse Cycles drove from New York to Colorado for a summertime multi-day ride with Krysten Kohn and Sean Greene. Join Thomas on an unforgettable trip to Aspen Ridge…
The 2024 Breck Epic, which took place last month, is a multi-day race event comprised of six epic backcountry loops between 35 and 50 miles long. Beginning and ending in Breckenridge, CO, the event features a cloverleaf format, with each loop utilizing the sprawling trail networks of surrounding Summit and Park Counties.
Below – with stunning photography from Jace Stout, Cort Muller, and Eddie Clark – author Kurt Gensheimer gains elevation and perspective riding the 2024 Breck Epic, a stage race many consider the hardest of its kind in the world. Whether you’re a racer or just there for the experience, the Breck Epic delivers hypoxia, sore legs, and some of the best alpine singletrack you’ll ever ride!
Rodeo Adventure Labs was founded as an open-to-anyone team a decade ago by Stephen Fitzgerald and a group of friends in search of less rules and more fun on bikes. Since becoming a production bike company with an emphasis on versatility, customization, and—always—refined design, Rodeo has retained a culture of questioning the norm. Today, Hailey Moore shares a long-form profile of the high points and headwinds Rodeo has navigated over the past ten years, and exciting insights into how the company is thinking about its future. To accompany this Shop Visit, we’re also sharing people-and-bike portraits of the folks behind Rodeo Adventure Labs in a separate Radar.
In this episode of Race Metal, Miguel goes back to Foco Fondo, his first-ever gravel event in Fort Collins, CO. He races the 118-mile course and asks fellow riders what makes this race so special, and in the spirit of Race Metal, do you own any metal bikes?
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Trinidad, Colorado, is a gravel riding destination and outpost you ought to visit.
As a testament to the growing popularity of gravel cycling and its ability to spur rural economic development, Trinidad, Colorado, has, in a short few years, established itself as one of the state’s most exciting gravel bike destinations. Before 2020, not many cyclists considered the southern Colorado Front Range corridor as a place to ride a bike. Now, this former outpost on the Santa Fe Trail offers year-round opportunities to ride some of Colorado’s best gravel road conditions…
The San Util Designs Covert hip pack caught Spencer’s eye during his visit to their shop in Winter Park, CO, last summer, and he picked one up to test. Below, Spencer digs into all of the details with this third iteration of the brand’s hip pack design in a long-term review. So, let’s get right to it!
If you’re looking for a two-week-long tour of epic doubletrack in Northwestern Colorado, then check out the latest Bikepacking Roots CRoP! The Rolling Horse route was designed with particular attention to the region’s rich natural and human history. It roughly circumnavigated the Grand Hogback–a 90-mile-long spine of upturned rock marking the geologic meeting of the Southern Rockies with the Colorado Plateau.
The route seeks to reveal the intimate connections between the many varied landscapes once stewarded by the Nuche (Ute people); specifically, those whose ancestors hunted amongst the high places we now know as the Elks, Raggeds, Flattops and Roan; and gathered along the banks of the Roaring Fork, Crystal, Colorado, and White Rivers.
Check out more at Bikepacking Roots!
Part shape-shifter, part time capsule, Hailey‘s Crust Bikes Bombora has taken many forms. It’s the bike that she got when she first started really getting into bikes, and bike touring, and since then it’s the one she’s altered the most, always finding a way to keep it relevant as her preferences and bike collection evolve. In this somewhat unconventional review, she veers into the sentimental as she highlights some of the setups her Bombora has seen over the past five years.
This week, we’ve got a well-documented and thorough account from Mike at Brave New Wheel in Fort Collins, Colorado about his new integrated Bender Bicycle Company Gravel Bike. Let’s check it out!
This past winter, Hailey Moore got a primer in fat biking while test riding Panorama Cycles’s Torngat Ti. Her review assesses both the bike and the challenge of finding ideal fat biking conditions.
The FoCo Fondo (July 21st, 2024) heard that gravel lotteries are super hot right now, so the Fort Collins gravel ride decided to make its own Fake A$$ Lottery. All currently registered riders, will receive their scratcher in the mail in the coming days. The team at FoCo Fondo hopes to see you scratching them on the Internets.
Two lucky dogs will receive a grand prize — either a VIP ticket to FoCo Fondo or a jersey of choice, so check your scratcher closely.
Don’t worry, everyone’s a winner at FoCo Fondo. Register at BikeReg.
Check out our FoCo Fondo Reportage here:
Last year, we featured Reportage of the inaugural Durango Derby, a MTB race weekend in the (mtb) historic town of Durango. Today, the Derby announced 2024 registration is open. Read more here.
