Me, laying in a ditch with five broken ribs, after total brake failure on a curvy downhill road in Boone, NC. Disc brakes are coming to road bikes. You don’t need to look any further than SRAM’s new ...
It’s finally time. Time for an all-new XTR drivetrain from Shimano. We’ve been waiting for years. Not just for the next generation of XTR, but for a generation that had to reintroduce Di2 shifting to ...
This year was a weird one. 2025 marks 15 years of me writing about bikes, and for the first time in that many years, my non-bike adventures have at least equalled my on-bike adventures. There are a ...
Here we are once again, skidding into the holiday season after a year that seemed to evaporate into thin air. I’d like to attribute that to a successful mix of riding time and family time, but there’s ...
At the end of May, I had the pleasure of attending the Mega Volt eMTB event in Naramata, B.C. Created by the same crew who organizes the BC Bike Race, Mega Volt is a three-day event specifically ...
Hey, let’s talk about dynamo power. I’m sold on it. It’s not free power, but pretty close to it (after the initial investment). There’s something neat about generating your own light. I’ve been riding ...
The Gore-Tex Shakedry material debuted in 2017 as an ultralight wind-and-rain barrier where the laminate layer was the shell, and you could literally shake the water off in a second. Offered to other ...