Crankzone

When you are out riding your bicycle on a trail or across town, it pays to be “smooth”. “Smooth?”, you say. Yes….smooth! If you can’t afford to be buying the latest tough parts, or afford throwing new parts on your bike constantly, this “art of smoothness” will reap you dividends. Smooth can mean a lot [...]

Last weekend the mountain bikers in Wenatchee, WA held the 9th annual Darkside nighttime MTB race to mark the unofficial end of the riding season. Sure, the days are getting shorter and we’re about to switch the clocks back an hour but look at it this way: it’s not the end of mountain biking – [...]

Just a quick heads up: We’re giving away two tickets to the Klunkerz screening at the Boulder Film Festival next Friday – check the forum for details! Original post by trek7k

The other day a question popped into my head: Are there regional trail differences that make one mountain bike type a better choice than the other? To answer this question I hit the spreadsheets to crunch some numbers from singletracks and the results are a little surprising. First off, this study isn’t scientific by any [...]

Here’s something I ran across the other day and I thought I’d share it here. I’m disappointed none of the candidates was equated with a mountain bike – too bad dubaya isn’t running this time around, he’d definitely be a mountain bike Who’s a mountain biker to vote for? Original post …

For some time now, I’ve been converting a http://www.nirve.com/largeimage.asp?id=1437“>Nirve Fifty-Three 26″-wheeled cruiser into a “Klunker”.  This is the result.  Our entire sport was founded upon the Klunkers, which were fashioned from scrounged bits from other bicycles, motorcycles & ice-cream carts.  The founders of mountainbiking’s scavenging provided fat knobby tires, brakes, handlebars, and most importantly, derailleurs.  With their [...]

This past Interbike saw many tool companies putting new tools on the market.  We have already spoken about the IceToolz but the big players were there too.  Park and Pedro’s were both out in full force showing (often competing) new tool lines. Many of the tools that were new this year I hope to order [...]

A few mountain bike news items to peruse this morning: Mountain biker wins Xterra off-road triathlon World Championship: 24-year-old Spanish mountain biker Ruben Ruzafa won the Xterra World Championship off road triathlon in Maui this weekend besting the second place finisher by just 34 seconds. Ruzafa was relatively unknown amongst the field of competitors and [...]

Every sport requires power, endurance and stamina. The same rule is applicable to sportsmen who are into cycling. It is believed that an enhanced stability of their upper body, powerful legs and above all their ability to counter local fatigue are the key to their success.Original post by Arleigh Jenkins

The Jeep 48Straight mountain bike series wrapped up this weekend in San Luis Obispo and the overall series winners were announced. For those of you planning on watching the race on television Nov 1 (CBS) this is your spoiler alert – winners are listed below. Nice pic – notice the mountain bike shadow on the [...]