Mountain Bike News

Tips to Keep Your Mountain Bike Riding Well
Maintaining your mountain bike will not only increase it's longevity, but it's also an important step to ensuring your safety on every ride. Hitting the trails can be dangerous enough -- make sure your bike is ready to handle what you take on!
Mammoth Memorial Day: Mountain Bike, Ski/Snowboard and Golf for $99
Every once in awhile in the Eastern Sierra, the weather and snow conditions perfectly align, making it possible to enjoy everything the mountains have to offer in a single day and this year it’s happening on Memorial Day.
Davao National Mountain Bike Challenge set May 19-20
The biggest mountain bike race ever will hit the trails of Davao on May 19-20 with the staging of the Davao National Mountain Bike Challenge, one of the sporting highlights of this year’s Davao Summerfest. The two-day race will feature competitions in Downhill on May 19 and Cross Country on May 20. Both races will finish in Maa with exciting t…rails out to test the mettle of the country’s best ...
$1,000 mountain bike test – 2012 redux
We’re in year two of our US$1,000 mountain bike test and getting close to the conclusion. Our original best mountain bikes under $1,000 was a hit and is still pulling in interest from riders searching for the best bikes at this price. It’s a tough category, because there's a definite split between bikes that are ready to hit the trail and those aimed at people who are just dabbling with the ...
Bresset moves into Mountain Bike World Cup lead
Do you like this? Tweet Julie Bresset ( BH Suntour Peisey-Vallandry ) cruised to her first UCI Mountain Bike World Cup cross country victory of 2012 in Nové Mesto na Morave, Czech on Sunday, and she took over the lead in the overall World Cup standings from previous leader and reigning world champion Catharine Pendrel (Luna). She now has 590 points to Pendrel's 540 points.
Rim Mountain Bike Team Earns Top Honors
Close to 300 high school student athletes participated at the SoCal League mountain bike series finals last Sunday at the Pinnacles in Lake Arrowhead. Many spent the entire weekend with their coaches and families, training at the course and trying to adjust to the mountain altitude before the Sunday race.
New mountain bike race: going downhill fast
Riding bikes for 20 years and mountain-bike racing for 10, Fred Heinly of Boyertown hopes to share the adrenaline rush he gets from the sport with bikers and fans Saturday and Sunday at the 2012 Duryea Downhill Mountain Bike Race.
Best mountain bike suspension forks
Looking to buy a new suspension fork for your mountain bike? Then you've come to the right place. We've rounded up 32 of the latest trail and all-mountain forks, and put them to the test – both out on the trails and on a purpose-built deflection rig.  Read on to find out which ones we rate. For simplicity's sake we've divided the forks into two categories – 'Trail' (lightweight, 100-150mm travel ...
Fulcrum Red Power XL mountain bike wheelset review
While most cost-conscious wheels betray their budget on the scales, the externally butted rims of the Red Power XLs are bang on the grams for their category. Quick pickup from the silent freehub and taut asymmetric spoking give them a responsive feel on the trail and they track well and corner confidently too.  They’re not shy of clattering through rocks or fair sized drops either. The steel ...
Schurter, Bresset win at mountain bike World Cup
NOVE MESTO NA MORAVE, Czech Republic (AP) Swiss rider Nino Schurter increased his overall lead in the mountain bike World Cup standings Sunday, while Julie Bresset of France won the women's race to move into the overall lead.