“Bikes are for kids.” “You paid how much for that pushbike?” I’m sure anyone who hangs out on this site or on any of other myriad of mountain bike enthusiast sites that have spread like disease in the past while has heard this before, and probably had the same shaking-head reaction. But we’re “enthusiasts”; bike geeks. Some would say blinkered addicts, addicted to mountain biking, trail building, riding, and hanging out with other mountain bikers. Often caught up in an ecosystem of bike nerdery without much insight into the relative smallness of the mountain biking industry and its relative insignificance in the grand scheme of a global economy.
Times are a-changing though. The people who started riding in the 80’s and 90’s are now older. Often they have kids. They’re still riding; and they’re travelling to ride. Sometimes they travel with … More
At 4 a.m., Dave Mirra patiently posed for every photo request, even for the fan bold enough to ask his sleepy-eyed 4-year-old daughter to snap the shot.
He didn’t seem to mind, even at the conclusion of the most grueling five and a half days of his life; after a race that cost him 12 pounds of body weight; and after pulling a double shift in the last 200 miles. For a guy who just finished a bicycle race that spanned 3,020 miles from … More
The eleventh annual World Naked Bike Ride is upon us, friends.
Say what you will, riding naked is not to be taken lightly, nor is it done willy nilly. The cause is serious, even if the ride looks frivilous and chilly:
“Our ride is part of a global protest taking place today in many cities throughout the US, Europe and other cities in the Northern Hemisphere. Tens of thousands of naked bike riders are protesting the global dependency of our society and economies at the hands of the oil cartels … More
Hundreds of naked bike enthusiasts have swarmed through Manchester city centre in a mass show of cycling solidarity.
At 7pm on Friday the crowd of bare bikers left All Saints Park on Oxford Road to streak through the city streets – causing crowds of onlookers to stop and stare open-mouthed … 2014 Video, pictures and more
Naked Bike Ride in Manchester, England, 2012