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Roanoke native Aaron Dykstra walked away with the coveted “Rookie of the Year” award for his sleek and elegant track bike at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, where the best custom bike builders converged to compete for top honors. For two years, Dykstra has been building Six Eleven Bicycles, custom-made bikes inspired by a [...]

Why do all nicer bikes use presta valves when shrader valves are easier to pump? The valve inside the presta has a better fit where it meets the tube, so your tube can actually handle more air pressure. You can run narrower rims, too, since the typical Schrader valve is bulkier. But schraders are also [...]

Q: Is it okay to run on the school track with my jogging stroller? A: It is okay, but only if you jog in the outside lanes. Those strollers take up some room and you typically don’t run as fast with them, so it’s important to stay out of the way. Some tracks don’t allow [...]

Holt Webb is living in the past. The Georgia-based photographer is traveling across the country looking for disappearing landscapes, decaying buildings, and forgotten cultural relics. Since 2007, Webb has been driving to remote corners of the U.S. in a veggie oil-powered RV and Land Rover visiting cultural and environmental sites that are on the brink [...]

More kids are mountain biking than ever before, thanks to Marilyn Price, founder of Trips for Kids. The national nonprofit has taken over 50,000 at-risk youth on free mountain biking outings. BRO: How did the idea for Trips for Kids originate? MP: I was a mother and a housewife who loved biking throughout my life. [...]

Bike Town Africa donates bikes to health workers in African villages, enabling them to cover more ground and see more patients. The program is led by Kona, a bike manufacturing company: biketownafrica.com. In the last two years, Christine George, a former Virginia Tech student, has helped raise $18,000 for the program, and recently she traveled [...]

Car toppers mean less gas mileage

Before I even knew there was a name for it, I was a trail runner. The first time I can remember running on a trail I was eight years old. My family had moved out of the city into a trailer park in the country. Other kids would roller skate or ride their bikes around [...]

Slip on your spray skirt: The Southeast is whitewater country. Here are the best rapids for every level of whitewater, from easy class I floats to class V hairboating adventures. Class I The James River, Va. Eagle Rock to Horseshoe Bend For 343 miles, the James River sweeps across the state of Virginia, connecting the [...]

Cycling group ranks each state’s bike friendliness

Beale Street Music Festival May 1-3 • Memphis, Tenn. This legendary festival brings together the finest in rock, blues, R&B, and Americana music in historic downtown Memphis. thebealestreetmusicfestival.com World Beer Festival May 2 • Raleigh, N.C. Beer. Reason enough. Come to Raleigh and partake of the brews from over 150 world class crafters. allaboutbeer.com Cheat [...]

The Most Horrible Thing Ever In February, bikers attempted The Most Horrible Thing Ever, widely believed to be the hardest mountain bike race in the region. The race calls for over 36 straight hours of pedaling in six stages through North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest. For the second year in a row, no one was [...]

Next month, three world-class female ultra runners—Virginia’s Rebekah Trittipoe, North Carolina’s Anne Lundblad, and Jenny Anderson—will attempt South Beyond 6,000, a challenge that requires summiting the 40 peaks in North Carolina above 6,000 feet. The runners will connect the 40 peaks together in a 273-mile journey; they’ll run at least 40 miles of trail per [...]

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Government proposes more access for bikes in National Parks