The 2011 USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships begin Friday, Oct. 28 and continue until Sunday, Oct. 30, at Angel Fire Bike Park in Angel Fire, N.M. The most competitive cycling schools in the country are expected to compete for Stars-and-Stripes jerseys in for mountain bike events in addition to individual and team omnium awards during the second event of the 2011-12 Collegiate Cycling National Team Rankings.
Competition begins Friday as the riders will  … More
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Sun Valley, Idaho, is hardly living up to its name. After overnight rain, the day has dawned grey and gloomy. None of this, however, is bad news to Greg “Chopper” Randolph, the 38-year-old general manager of the Sun Valley Chamber of Commerce, who also happens to be a former Olympic road cyclist and pro mountain biker.
On his ultra-lightweight Scott bike (the sports company’s HQ is here and it wants Randolph riding its latest model), he’s leading the way to a trail that winds up and around a golf course perched on a mesa opposite the entrance to Sun Valley Resort. The uber-glamorous complex has … More
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If you can be said to be hurrying on a cross-country bicycle trip, for about two weeks I hurried to Pittsburgh. I pushed through some dreary weather in Michigan and Ohio, climbed the roller-coaster foothills of the Appalachians and battled traffic and chewed up roads as I entered the city.
From Pittsburgh, though, with the end of a ride that began almost three months ago in Oregon now looming, IÂ Â …Â More
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