Exactly 40 years after the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) held the first ever Mountain Bike World Championships in Durango, Colorado, the event will return. UCI announced on September 25, 2025, ...

‘Hey, why has your bike only got one leg?’ It’s a question I was asked on more than one occasion while testing the Cannondale Topstone Carbon Lefty, usually while standing at traffic lights. The time ...

As mountain biking has evolved over its few decades of existence, different categories of bikes have begun to emerge. Where there was once only one category — mountain bike — bike builders began to ...

Trek chose the Slash as the platform for their newest lightweight eMTB, and boy did they stick to the prompt. The Slash+ is an electrified Slash, and nothing else—but that’s what makes it so great. It ...

Cannondale has today announced the launch of the 2024 SuperX gravel race bike. It’s based on the current fourth-generation SuperSix EVO road bike, as raced by the EF Education pro teams and available ...

There can be no denying that full-suspension aka full-squish mountain bikes are all the rage right now. Having test ridden loads of them over the years, I totally get it. In addition to providing a ...

Plenty of new (or stubborn) bikers wear any old flat soled sneaker to the trailhead. Hell, I met a guy who swears by his cowboy boots at the bike park. When bikes are so expensive, skimping on ...

In the 90’s, when the mountain biking industry experienced a huge boost, Cannondale was the first to use a 24″ rear wheel. They used it in the “Beast of the East” edition. Following suit, Wes Williams ...

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Hardtail mountain bike: Salsa Rangefinder Deore 11 27.5 Budget hardtail mountain bike: REI Co-op Cycles DRT 1.1 Full-suspension mountain bike: Revel Rascal V2 Regardless of whether you huck cliffs, ...

Looking for a modern drop bar offroad bike that can handle today’s high-volume gravel tires and even mountain bike tires, could go bikepacking and yet isn’t out of place at a cyclocross race? Rocky ...