There are precious few truly “family friendly” mountain biking events in the United States, and even fewer still that enjoy the full support of a thriving community while offering world-class riding and learning opportunities for anyone who throws a leg over their bike. The Evergreen Mountain Bike Festival, hosted by the Evergreen MTB Alliance at [...]
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Drive around in a Sprinter. Ride bikes. Take pictures. Poke the keys on a laptop. Sleep, when possible. Burritos, three meals a day. Life on the road is the life of the Kitsbow “van man,” as I’m affectionately referred to when in the office. Since you’ve maybe already met our founders, we decided it was [...]
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Why do we ride? What does it mean to mountain bike? Simple questions really, but ones with a multitude of a subjective answers — easily as many as there are mountain bikers. The more we thought about this ourselves, casual discussions would turn into a late night in the office or a longer pause at [...]
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What should mountain bike clothing be? Depending on who you ask, it’s not exactly an easy question to answer. To us, it was a matter of looking at what was already available and seeing just how far we could take it. In doing this, we ultimately kept our goal simple: make the very best kit [...]
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“You are witnessing the future of mountain biking!” Over and over, heard on the PA echoing across Stafford Lake, and falling from the lips of parents and coaches alike. No one was wrong. Not only were we witnessing the future of mountain bike racing at the High School State Championships, but the future of cycling [...]
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You’ve got to hand it to Bike Monkey. They’ve mastered the delicate art of cycling event promotion — ie: bringing in large numbers of eager participants for challenging, “must-ride” events in some of the very best natural venues that Northern California has to offer. SoNoMas, Annadel XC, and Levi Leipheimer’s epically beautiful King Ridge Gran [...]
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A few months back, while Marin was still being subjected to heavy rains on the daily, we heard that the riding far away in Fruita, Colorado was pretty decent (re: “incredible”), where it stayed dry almost year-round. We’d also heard that the town’s annual Fat Tire Festival was a springtime “must-experience” in the world of [...]
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We’re back in Marin for a few days; shaking off the thin veneer of Laguna Seca dust, catching up on a pretty major backlog of emails, and putting in lap after gleeful lap on the new Tamarancho flow trail (rumored to be soon christened “Endor”). But before the Sprinter gets back out on the road, [...]
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