Bike

There was a time not too long ago when you didn’t choose your bike. Your terrain, topography, social circles, fitness and body height chose it for you. Circumstance would all but lock you down to the travel, geometry, frame material and wheel size yo

PLATINUM-CARD SPEC, GOLD-CARD PRICE AND BIG-TERRAIN ATTITUDE SQUEEZED INTO MID-SIZE PACKAGING. At first glance, Orbea’s Occam looks like a derivative portmanteau of other bikes. The rear triangle could easily be confused for a Trek ABP, or a Weagle S

THE FASTEST NOMAD SPECIALIZED HAS EVER MADE. For its biggest, baddest Enduro ever, Specialized scrapped the hugely successful, yet rather long-in-the-tooth X-Wing frame and began anew. Inspired by the freshly redesigned Demo, the Enduro shares Specia

X01 AXS W/S35 CARBON WHEEL AND GRIP 2 DAMPER UPGRADES IN A SEA OF LONG-TRAVEL 29ERS, THIS 27.5-INCH STALWART PROVES THAT SIZE DOESN’T (ALWAYS) MATTER. Mountain bike trends are a funny thing. Spend any time in this world, and you’ll end up with well-e

Christopher stopped dead in his tracks; fast and without a sound. The suddenness of his deceleration as we climbed through the aspen just above town on Johns trail caught me off-guard and I clumsily, not-so-quietly augured into a tree root while tryi

Charlie Sturgis is in the middle of a time-honored ski-town locals’ tradition when I reach him on a Sunday morning in late November—the shoulder-season desert pilgrimage. The 67-year-old veteran climber was in St. George, Utah, spending three days on

If I were allowed to keep just one bike from this year’s Bible, free of charge, my choice would be the Specialized Enduro. That is the simple criteria we use to pick our Bible favorites, after all. We don’t pick a best-of in each category or build a