The winter doldrums mean there's more than enough time to contemplate mountain bike culture between rides. There's also less incentive to ride my bike to the shop and peruse their tire selection, ...

Colin Meagher: reframing death and toasting to a life well lived.

The RCT715 has become a fully integrated part of my drop-bar riding, especially when family is involved. It helps reduce my ...

This is an ode to a Treehouse and a trail builder. More specifically, this is an ode to a guy with a curmudgeonly reputation, with a heart of gold, who happens to own a place I call the Treehouse.

On the terrain I generally ride, and among the some of the usual suspects who congregate at the base of Mount Seymour here in North Vancouver, a hardtail almost seems like a novelty. And it's not that ...

A tale of two Specialized bikes. Well, OK - this is really just the tale of one bike, and that bike is (take a deep breath in) the Specialized Stumpjumper EVO Elite Alloy. In the interest of not going ...

What’s In A Name? I wanted to start this out with some play on words, mixing up XTC’s debut album “Drums and Wires” with the words “valves and tires” because that is still such a damn good album 45 ...

There are a lot of ways to get from one place to another and the best way to get from A-to-B depends on a lot of factors. I've walked long distances when I just needed to do some thinking, and I've ...

This is a frame-only review of Banshee's 6" travel Titan. Being a frame-only review and because the build has been ever-evolving, there is a certain degree to which this is a snapshot. Essentially I'm ...

Well, we have finally done it. We have arrived at the mountain bike. We have been hard at work from the moment the first coaster hub caught fire while bombing down the dirt roads of coastal California ...

While the long-term thoughts are yet to be revealed, Cam seems to be having a good time on the S-works Levo 4. I wasn't expecting a short travel version of the Levo to surface but I understand for ...