For Anka, traveling and riding go side by side—as do her and her bike, which for over a decade has taken her to some of the world’s most beautiful places. Off on another trip, Anka is all smiles.
At their best, mountain bike videos remind us of the things we love most about this sport. Clear your schedule and turn up the volume, you’ve got videos to watch.
Casey Brown paves the way for freeriding to become a viable career for female athletes.
For the earliest generation of Pittsburgh bikers, Frick Park provided a blank slate to create trails and test the limits of equipment. Now, the labyrinth of a trail system provides something for all types of riders.
What do you get when you mix fly fishing, bikepacking, and absolute chaos? A damn good time.
If you ask 10 different people about the definition of adventure, you’re likely to get 10 different answers. But one common sentiment is that adventure often involves an element of surprise, whether it’s the elation of experiencing entirely new landscapes or simply discovering what’s beyond that next turn on the trail. This edition of Freehub is a testament to the bike as the ultimate tool for adventure, from a quest for ancient singletrack in the storied deserts of Jordan to a search for unridden freeride lines down the glacier-sculpted chutes of Alaska’s remote Talkeetna Mountains. In the case of trailbuilder Jonnie Benda, most of his life has been an adventure building some of the most iconic trails in Truckee, California, free from the modern distractions of the internet and social media. And on multi-day bikepacking missions in Washington’s rugged North Cascades and the lush Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, all-male and all-female teams test themselves against the unpredictable nature of the elements. Welcome to your next adventure—Issue 13.4.
At Pomerelle, the bike park’s chairlift runs on demand, and while word on the trail is that some veterans can unload their bikes without stopping the chair, lead trail builder Michael Westfall takes the safe track
Over the course of 4,000 vertical feet of shredding loam and surfing scree shards, yells of “Heyyoo!” served as both a stamp of approval and as...
As both a fatbike and cross-country-skiing destination in the winter, Empire 47 is Quebec City's beloved trail destination once snow hits the ground.
Emboldened by technology and inspired by history, riders who grew up on freeriding redefine the sport, finding new perspectives on biking in North...
After riding the gamut of 150-millimeter-travel trail bikes over the past year, I thought I’d pretty much covered the spectrum. That was,...
There comes a time in many riders' lives when a critical choice must be made: do you try to look cool in front of your friends and ride the...
Norco’s new Fluid FS is meant for anybody and everybody. But don’t be fooled; this is no cookie-cutter, crowd-pleaser of a bike. The...
