Kids Ride Shotgun enter the bike game with the launch of their new Dirt Hero off-road balance bike
How do we set up our bike for the perfect ride? Alex and Rick of JRA Bicycle Co. tell us everything we need to know to keep us rolling
Vero Sandler has made Wales her home over the last few years. Now, she’s just finished carving her very own dream line into its countryside
A work of art in itself, the Gorge Road Jump Park turns backdrop for Brett Rheeder, Kade Edwards and Matt Begg in this freeride edit by Clay Porter: “it’s poetry in motion.”
In 2018, she bought her first downhill bike. By 2019, she had completed her first season as a DH racer. Now she’s one of the best in the world
The Canadian XCO National Champ puts Fox’s FLOAT SL through its paces in her Vancouver testing ground
A new location for 2023 and a weekend of record-breaking tricks…the Nines has once again confirmed itself as the coolest event of the year
Cory Wallace: The Nomad
Cory Wallace has travelled the world by bike for the last 16 years. He stops in Guatemala before his next race in this short film
Down Hill World Championships 2023
Midge nets and raincoats are required kit this north into Scotland – but this didn’t stop a weekend of great racing
Champions of the World: 1, 2 and 3 for Junior Women at Fort William
The three fastest girls in Aotearoa – and now the world
Dan Butterworth: Purpose
Dan is fresh and full of style. When he’s not giving the seasoned Crankworx pros a run for their money, he dreams of designing the bikes they ride
Press Release | Norco Fluid FS Carbon
Lighten up: Norco introduces the Fluid FS in carbon
The Debora Effect: Healing through Riding
After suffering a life-altering brain injury 7 years ago, Debora DeNapoli found healing in the one place she was warned never to return to—the trails
Getting Trail-Ready with JRA Bicycle Co.
How do we set up our bike for the perfect ride? Alex and Rick of JRA Bicycle Co. tell us everything we need to know to keep us rolling
Creating Communities with Jo Guest
Jo has been creating space for women’s riding in Wānaka for over a decade, and one thing is clear: the demand for women-specific riding courses is only getting stronger
Erice Van Leuven | Little Bikes to Big DH Dreams
How Erice van Leuven went from chasing her brothers to chasing podiums
Slow and Steady
Lessons from teaching a risk-averse kid the joys of mountain biking–so far
Exorcising the Old Ghost Road
Mountain Safety Council’s new video guide dispels the “unknown unknowns” of a backcountry adventure
Word Play
Is it time to refresh the language we use? Tom Lynskey unpicks – from Spoke Issue 86
The Future is Female
Women’s mountain biking is blowing up and we’re loving it.
DVO Onyx Vorsprung Smashpot Review
It’d been years since I’d ridden a coil-sprung fork. The last one was a Marzocchi 66 RC3 EVO Ti; a behemoth that smoothed out even the roughest of trails, its sensitivity was unmatched. It was a fork that I’ve never forgotten; the buttery feeling it delivered has been seared into my brain.
Trek Fuel EXe Review
Stealthy, silent, seductive: the new lightweight Trek Fuel EXe sets the bar very high for this fast growing sector of eMTBs
Earshots Gen 2 Review
It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were testing the original version of these wireless sports headphones from Kiwi start-up Earshots. While the concept and magnetic closure mechanism of the originals were world class, there were a couple of teething quirks that needed ironing out, so we were eager to get our hands on version two to see how things had evolved.
Trek Top Fuel 9.8 Review
The Top Fuel has been a staple in Trek’s line-up for many years now and its target market has always been those XC racers and enthusiasts wanting a full suspension option. However, the development of the Supercalibre as Trek’s pre-eminent XC race weapon has given the Wisconsin-based brand room to ex- pand the Top Fuel’s horizons and push it into the hotly contested, ‘downcountry’ category.
Orange Switch 6 RS Review
Halifax in North England lies in the county of Yorkshire. There’s a saying about people from Yorkshire: “they say what they like, and they like what they bloody well say”. And that rings true when it comes to making mountain bikes.
Earshots Review
It’s with great sadness that in the year 2021 my life is still surrounded by wires of all sizes and colours. I honestly thought wires would be a thing of the past by now but here I am getting tangled in a web of ear bud wires while trying to
“I hate the air shocks but I love the new Vivid” – Kade Edwards
Cory Wallace has travelled the world by bike for the last 16 years. He stops in Guatemala before his next race in this short film
Midge nets and raincoats are required kit this north into Scotland – but this didn’t stop a weekend of great racing
