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One small Colorado town has fielded mountain bikers at every Summer Olympics since 1996

Christopher Blevins, Savilia Blunk and Riley Amos are carrying Durango’s rich mountain biking legacy into Paris. Read More

How these 3 trail towns rebuilt after natural disasters

From forest fires to landslides and even tornadoes, natural disasters have devastated mountain bike trails across the nation, yet the resilient local communities continue to rebuild and come back better than ever. Read More

Dylan Johnson’s Breakthrough: From Mired in the Middle Ranks of Gravel Racing to Top-10 at Unbound

After a career best finish at Unbound Gravel, the YouTuber is feeling more stoked on racing than ever. Read More

The Thrill of Racing the Train: Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Returns for 52nd Year

The classic Durango to Silverton road race has evolved to become a weekend-long festival of all things two-wheeled. Read More

Mountain bike World Cup coverage for Escape Collective

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Past Favorites

Back in the USA: Christopher Blevins and the comfort of home

Blevins returns to the scene of some of his biggest wins this weekend in Snowshoe, West Virginia. Read More

How New Biking and Hiking Trails Could Bolster Silverton’s Economy

Mountain towns around the country are increasingly relying on mountain bike trails and other recreation as an economic backbone. Will it work in Silverton? Read More

The Frustrating Persistence of Lance Armstrong

One might have expected that Armstrong’s admission and ban would rule out a future as a cycling commentator. Yet he has remained the world’s best-known cyclist and an expert at reading a bike race—which may explain why, this year, he was welcomed as an analyst by NBC Sports to cover the Tour de France. Read More

The refurb man: Building and riding mountain bikes from the good old days

Mike Wilk is hooked on building and riding bikes that most have forgotten about. Vintage mountain bikes, specifically. Bikes from the sport's early days, when the mountain bike itself was still being defined. There's something wonderful, he says, about going back to a simpler time. Read More

How the Pikes Peak Apex MTB stage race operated amid COVID-19

The Pikes Peak Apex was one of the first mass-participant cycling races to be held in the United States since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down most events back in March. This is my dispatch from the race. Read More

Riding in Uganda: How bikes are central to Nichole Baker's pathology work

Path of Logic provides solar lights to rural villages in Uganda, and much more. Read More

Inside the Booming California Enduro Series

Steven Gemelos was never a hardcore mountain bike racer. The California Enduro Series president says, however, that he has gravitated toward organizing events for the mountain bike community in California. Read More

Durango Bike Manufacturers Do Things Differently

John Parker, founder of Yeti Cycles, got his start in the mountain bike-mecca town of Durango when he moved his company here in 1991. It seemed like a natural fit for the company after Yeti rider Juli Furtado won the 1990 Mountain Bike World Championships at Purgatory Resort. Read More

Finding a Home for Freeride

The discipline of freeride mountain biking – downhill focused trails with jumps and challenging features – was born in the forests of British Columbia. Since, trail groups across the world have took inspiration from the Canadian trails to cater to a gravity-fueled clientele. Read More

A Bike Race Through a Bar

It was all about bikes and beer at Steamworks Brewing Co. on Sunday for the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic mountain bike races. One day a year, servers and bartenders have to dodge sweaty, spandex-donning bike racers who come through the patio door and out the front window of the brewery. Read More

Gravel Riding a Long Tradition in Durango

Gravel grinding – riding modified road bikes on dirt roads – is the latest trend among cyclists, but the popular discipline is not new to Durango. Read More

Death Ride Seeks Cure for ALS

A bike ride through the San Juan Mountains so hard it’s called the Death Ride Challenge. The 225-mile loop has typically climbed 16,500 feet along a route that has been ridden in one form or another since at least 1979. Read More