#mountain-biking

#mountain-biking

The new Levo R Alloy features the same Specialized 3.1 motor and 840Wh battery as the carbon version, providing similar performance at a lower price point.

For 20 years now, the crew behind the BC Bike Race has been bringing fun and challenging MTB events to British Columbia. This year, they've announced the all-new BC Bike Fest, a three-day MTB festival taking place from May 29-31st. This event will debut in Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island, B.C., starting on the final day of the BC Bike Race and running alongside the first of two Mega Volt eMTB events for 2026.

BC Bike Fest features top-tier racing on some of the world's best singletrack, centered around a main festival vibe with the best aprés activities in mountain biking you'll ever come across. The Festival HQ is located at the Cowichan Exhibition Grounds, in the center of three diverse trail networks: Maple Mountain (XC), Mount Tzouhalem (Enduro), and Mount Prevost (DH). This location offers riders quick access to a wide range of trails from one main hub.

Overall World Cup XC Champion, Olympian, Leadville winner and record holder, and XC Marathon World Champion are just a few of the many accolades Kate Courtney has achieved in her impressive cycling career. This weekend, she'll be able to add 'starring in a Super Bowl commercial' to her growing list of accomplishments. Oakley and Meta are teaming up for a commercial featuring Kate, along with a number of other prominent athletes and personalities, to push the Vanguard Meta AI sunglasses.

While most modern competitions recruit riders with similar skillsets and design courses to suit them, Natural Selection flips the script. By drawing riders from a wide range of backgrounds, NST creates a format that values creativity and individuality as much as technical execution. It is one of the few competitions where the structure of the contest comes secondary to the riders themselves.

The Wildcat Canyon Flow Trail would be located in the western portion of the park, north of Wildcat Creek Trail on a hillside near the Mezue Road intersection. It would feature rollers, essentially speed bumps meant to slow bikes, jumps, berms and turnout areas to keep riders from skidding off. The proposed trail would be up to 4-feet-wide with an average grade of 5 to 7%.

Its time. After 8 years riding for Pivot Factory Racing the time has come for me to move on. What a ride it's been! Holy shit, I'll never be able to put into words how grateful I am for the opportunities that Pivot and BK have given me. But, It's time for me to hang up the boots after chasing World Cup racing full-time for the last 13 years . My heroes became friends and my friends became heroes. I'm proud of what we achieved, and to everyone who has been a part of the journey, thank you so much. Love you all and see you on the trails.

Riding a mountain bike comes with risks, and injuries are common among most riders, from minor cuts and scrapes to broken bones and more severe head trauma. But what are the common injuries from mountain biking, and what is the recovery like for the most common MTB injuries? Well, I've had most of them over the years. From the minor scrapes and bumps to the more severe head trauma, fractured bones, and ligament damage.

One last Caleb Holonko edit - black and white, classic BC rain, slow pace, loud feelings. The kind of riding that feels like a memory while you're still watching it happen. This one's a little sentimental. A quiet goodbye to Chonks - not quite a decade with Kona, but somehow more than a lifetime all the same. From the 16-year-old kid who stopped us in our tracks to the grown-up professional super sender... you'll always be the Kona superfan rocking the mullet wig to us.

To celebrate 50to01 turning 10 years old, we felt it was only right to get the crew together for a big road trip. We headed north in 8 vans with 16 of us in total, armed with a loose plan to meet up with our Scottish pals at some beautiful spots. Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed to 50to01 over the years.

Perhaps you've heard of the Chequamegon Mountain Bike Festival? It's a 40-mile "drag race" from Hayward to Cable, ripping through the Birkebeiner ski trail in the sprawling 1.5 million acre Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin. While that annual event may have put the area on the map, it's the massive trail network that's received a recent boost in mileage (and fun!) thanks to the new Trek Trails at Mt. Telemark Village that makes it worth a visit.

This video might just be a couple of minutes long, but it's packed with absurd style that only Sam Hockenhull can deliver. The UK provides some seriously smooth talent when it comes to stylish bike handling, and if you don't feel the same way, you're wrong, and Sam Hockenhull's riding is an excellent argument for my point. Tipsy Turning, a new video part for Burgtec, is made possible by a tall pint of Guinness

Enduro racing is one of the most exciting and interesting formats in mountain biking. But with long days, hard-to-access locations, and segmented race locations, it's also one of the hardest to understand. The enduro race format, enduro bike setup, and proximity to downhill often lead to more confusion about the sport. As interest grows, I want to outline what enduro mountain biking is. Why it's so awesome, and why you should be paying attention to what I believe is the purest form of mountain biking.

The debate over hardtail vs. full-suspension mountain bikes is never-ending, and there is a dedicated camp of riders on both sides. While there are numerous benefits of a hardtail mountain bike over a full-suspension mountain bike, the two options are evenly matched when it comes to the pros and cons, but which has the edge in terms of popularity and versatility?

2025 came and went in a flash! Of all the years in (more) recent memory, this year has gone by the fastest. This year was filled with amazing trips, excellent bikes, and phenomenal products I had the opportunity to test. Calling something the "best" can be tricky. We live in a time where cycling (be it road, gravel, or mountain) has advanced so dramatically that many products are truly stellar. So, are these the "best"? Well, I'm titling them as such. The reality is, given the prompt, these are the picks that first came to mind and that I just couldn't get away from. They are products and experiences that have brought me many smiles, and I would certainly recommend them.

Red Bull Hardline, an invite-only event that is widely regarded as the gnarliest mountain bike race in the world, is back in Tasmania for 2026. On February 7th & 8th of 2026, Hardline Tasmania returns to Maydena Bike Park, with a redesigned upper section of the track and an absolutely packed roster of some of the most talented mountain bikers in the sport's history.

Dropper posts enable us to adjust our saddle height with the push of a lever, enhancing comfort, efficiency, and, most importantly, control while out on the trail. Many people would argue that dropper posts are one of the most important innovations in mountain bike technology, essentially transforming the way we ride. The ability to adjust the height of your saddle on the fly ensures it is always positioned perfectly for the terrain you are riding.

We live in an age of 'content', where everything we see is condensed into short-form quick snippets, with an emphasis on quantity over quality, but the Sleeper Co. is not on board. Sleeper Co. says quality is key, and somehow the team is still able to cook up a large quantity of quality footage, and this new video, in collaboration with Red Bull Media, shows what went down during the 2025 UCI Downhill World Cup in one rowdy edit.

Lems sent me an 11.5 in the Asteroid color way, and it's a handsome shoe. I've been wearing the Trail Thrasher every day for a few weeks now, and it's proven to be a comfortable trail shoe. I've only ridden with the shoe a few times, but I will report back with a full review when I get a good amount of bike time on it.

What was supposed to be a straightforward trip to Prince George lasted about fifteen minutes past the town line for Kona team rider Caleb Holonko. The moment Caleb rolled into Williams Lake and linked up with local legend "Coco," the plans changed. Before the truck had even cooled off, a quick pitstop had become time to unload and post up for the making of his latest project Scratching the Surface II in the supposed Shangri-La of freeride.

Most recently, they teamed up with top-tier mountain biker and team athlete Matt Jones for his attempt to jump through the moving gap between two moving autonomous semi-trucks. It's the kind of idea that starts as a scribble on a napkin at the bar and, thanks to Red Bull, has somehow ended with thousands of simulations, a full production crew, and one rider trusting his life to his bike handling, a pair of driverless machines,

2025 is a year of highs and lows in the bike industry, and Nukeproof has been one of the brands that has seemingly seen more ups than downs. The legendary name has recently been sheltered under a new brand umbrella, and new life has been injected. Today, Nukeproof has unveiled a new trail bike, marking its return to bike development and seemingly picking up right where it left off.

After all, they are the only part of your bike that actually touches the trails you ride, yet most riders treat tires and their setup like an afterthought. Between knob patterns, pressures and casings, it can get confusing quickly for beginners and experienced riders alike, but with the right combination of pressure, casing, and compound, you can completely transform how your bike corners, climbs, and brakes.

Over the last few years, mountain biking has been quietly reshaped by a series of overlapping tariffs-some long-standing, some brand-new, and some so obscure most riders don't even know they exist. These duties hit nearly everything that goes into getting you that new bike, from complete bikes to drivetrains, e-bike motor and battery systems, and frames. Proposed changes could go so far as to evaluating the steel content of a frame or how much metal is in your e-bike battery.

He's been behind the lens for more than 20 years, documenting everything from World Championship wins to late-night garage sessions; Joonas is a creative who's career has been built on caffeine, duct tape, and pure stoke. Before he was Kona's in-house cinematographer, Joonas was a rider himself - a European Kona Clump athlete who lived for the same sketchy lines and photo worthy moments that he now captures on film.

Major companies have bitten the dust, industry-wide layoffs have been ongoing, and massive events like Rampage are being put on the cultural chopping block-asking what exactly we're all doing. But in the wake of hardship and the struggles of the industry at large, there are certainly spaces being left behind as one massive institution after another changes shape. And for those of us who reside at the core of mountain biking, it's providing exciting opportunities.