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You think you’ve got mad skills on a bike? Watch this video of five-year old Jackson Goldstone riding his bike to kindergarten. The little dude hucks boulders, rides singletrack, and hits the skate park with style.

This weekend riders will suffer through the Off-Road Assault on Mt. Mitchell, which is a metric century complete with 11,000 feet of climbing—on some of the most challenging trails in the area. I rode Kitzuma last weekend, which is a mere fraction of what riders will see as they traverse 63 miles of gnar-gnar. The [...]

The Virginia Creeper Trail might be a mild spin downhill for 17 miles of picnic spots, but it’s downright dangerous. We stood waiting to get our bikes from the shuttle when the first overly serious cyclist elbowed through the small crowd barking, “Watch it! Watch it!” “Seriously?” I asked incredulously as witnesses laughed. It was [...]

I did my first road race last weekend, the Town Mountain Hill Climb, a five-mile time trial straight up the side of Town Mountain on the edge of downtown Asheville. It’s a popular mountain for roadies looking for an in-town workout, and my riding buddies and I usually pedal it once a week. We do [...]

Somehow I have convinced my friend Michael to take up cycling. Not only did I coerce him onto the road bike for “health reasons,” but I’ve gotten the adrenaline junkie inside of him jonesing for the trails. My first weekend away from the children was to visit Michael in Austin, Texas where I found myself [...]

I think the difference between “hardcore” and “works really hard,” is that despite the cold, the rain, the wind, and the snow, the hardcore just think, “wow, the rain/snow/hail is almost refreshing once you’re moving.” The others either skip the workout or find a way that isn’t quite so painful. I’ve flip-flopped between these two [...]

Taking yoga has brought me through every single injury I’ve experienced in my risk-seeking lifestyle, right down to a sprained toe from tripping over a stupid purse in the middle of the night. Talk about extreme. I don’t even carry a purse. All of this yoga has also helped me lecture plenty of cyclists coming [...]

I begged Santa Claus for a trail-a-bike, imagining my son and I doing road races together, and me riding him to school in the mornings. I noticed that they refer to the contraption as a “TRAIL-a-bike” instead of “tandem,” because they have tested the thing out on their own unwilling children. If they were honest [...]

My gut is growing, and I am feeding it Fritos and beer. I can’t bear to go to spin class, because…well…it isn’t outside. Ok, I’m lying. Spin class hurts. Those people are crazy. Whenever the lunatic woman up there tells us to stand up and crank up the tension, I fake it, reaching to the [...]

Atlanta’s Chattahoochee NRA is getting new trails

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Bike club cuts mountain bike trails near downtown Asheville.