Chris Reichel contemplates his time living in the Centennial State, sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Pacific City, Oregon reignites a spark as the area becomes a destination for riders, breathing new life into the local economy and giving the community an altogether new identity and purpose.
The girls next to me are giggling. Turning to find the source of their elation, I’m greeted by two big grins. Noticing my curiosity, one of the...
Second grader Nora Recker is known among fellow riders for her quiet confidence and serious skill.
Crankworx's Open Enduro, a grueling five-stage race, pushes the world’s top racers to their outer limits.
When I consider community within the context of mountain biking, I tend to think in broad strokes. We bond around the shared exhilaration and fun the...
There is a place, in the furthest corner of the world, where 12-year-olds will have you reconsidering how good you actually are at mountain biking....
Jen See details her ceaseless pursuit of finding ride buddies within her community.
Recently, while conducting research for this Freehub Arkansas Photo Book, I learned about Bruce Walker, a man who owned Flying Possum Leather on...
This February, the Ozark Off Road Cyclists (OORC) celebrated its 19th running of the Buffalo Headwaters Challenge, an annual bike bash based in Red...
In early October 2023, Freehub senior photographer Riley Seebeck shuffled through his camera gear in the dark at the summit of Mount Nebo as he...
As is tradition at Freehub, our final issue of each year centers around the theme of “adventure.” It’s often our toughest edition...
When listing the top 10 brain-melting moments in the history of freeride mountain biking on your fingers, Josh Bender’s four jumps off the...
When settlers first came to the Pacific Northwest, they began an initiative for deforestation. The forest held many valuable resources, but it also...
Crankworx's Open Enduro, a grueling five-stage race, pushes the world’s top racers to their outer limits.
I emerged from the desert at the trailhead, riding through the parking lot, avoiding eye contact with everyone. I was fuming and nobody needed to...
Valerie Naylor is the Rock Queen. At least, that’s what Randy Conner of Contour Trail Design Company calls her. He’s seen her move rocks...
Since getting my first mountain bike in 1990, I’ve seen the ill effects of what ambulance chasers have done to our sport. Closed trails, helmet...
Within a week of showing up in Bellingham, Washington in 2012, it was made very clear to me that I needed a mountain bike. I had moved for a five-...
We’re living at a time during which the pace of change is unprecedented in human history. And each year, when we start to create this issue...
It was October 1992 in western Pennsylvania, and autumn was in the air—brisk temperatures, leaves sporting hues of yellow, orange, and red, and...
I didn’t know it at the time, but I had made a wrong turn. My mind deep into other matters, I climbed endlessly up steep, paved switchbacks,...
Abu Ren lays a naked bike frame on the ground of his shop, steps onto the rear triangle and starts bouncing up and down. It would be an impressive...
At first glance, the thick concrete walls and tall metal gate surrounding Campo Bici don’t give much away. They suggest more fortress than fun...
By the summer of ’93, King was already older than all of us. His years of working summer camps around Brevard, North Carolina hadn’t...
Certain things in the world give me comfort. Like the sound of rain through an open window on a summer night. The rumble of thunder in a mountain...
It comes from my right, an explosion in the trail-side bushes that puts my heart into my throat. I jump aside, and my surprise fades as a ruffled...
Daylight is fading as we pack up our gear from various ridges of a past Red Bull Rampage venue in Virgin, Utah. Our crew has been here since 9 a.m....
At the sound of predawn bagpipes on the final morning of the 2018 Cape Epic, I awoke, and sat up slowly. I was empty and weak, but I was OK. I rolled...
I never expected to spend the last five years living out of a van, traveling around North America to ride bikes. After eight years of university, the...
Bernardo Cruz takes it well past 90 degrees at the inaugural Crankworx whip-off in 2011—a stylish way to kick off one of mountain biking’s most...
