Mountain Biking
Pro slalom, downhill, slopestyle, cross-country and other mountain biking competition
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
You’d think someone who grew up in Seattle and has lived there most of his life would be used to a spot of rain, but it’s been ugly for nearly a week here in Palo Alto, where we live in the winter to escape … rain. Meanwhile, reports are Seattle is enjoying a spate of [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged mountain bike rainy day training, rainy seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
At this point there’s not a lot that can be definitively said about the mess at Whistler, other than there’s much more going on behind the scenes than we’re being told. That and the reporting on this so far has been opaque. Typically any high-profile bankruptcy “announcement” is simply high-stakes brinkmanship aimed at loosening up [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged Crankworx, whistler bankruptcy, whistler mountain bike park
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 21, 2010
Who’s the stronger rider: Mountain biker or roadie? At Bike Intelligencer, drawing from years of suffering in both disciplines, we’ve often opined for the former. We know personally that, despite having done numerous double centuries, triathlons and races during our nearly six decades aboard two wheels, our hardest rides by far have been the six-to-eight [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged Andy Schleck, burry stander, lance armstrong, mountain bike action magazine
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 19, 2010
In a lot of ways, Black Diamond Bike & Backcountry’s shop jump-started the freeride revolution in southeastern King County. The shop had the maps, helped build the network, sponsored the races, worked to maintain the trails and sold the bikes that made the whole thing pop ‘n sizzle. When it opened its doors eight years [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged black diamond bike and backcountry, black diamond bikes, freeride revolution, town of black diamond king county
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 18, 2010
Inspiring: Thousands join Lance’s Twitter ride Down Under. I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen 5,000 cyclists in a peloton. It must have been quite a sight. Perspiring: British dude wheelies for 8 miles, claims world record. Aspiring: The Schleck brothers take aim on this year’s Tour. We’re big fans of Andy Schleck and [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged Andy Schleck, lance armstrong twitter rides, mark weir, sam hill
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 17, 2010
The show schedule for “Women of Dirt,” the much-anticipated feature movie on downhill/freeride grrllzz, is starting to round out. The worldwide premiere will be Feb. 5th in Seattle, and Cyclelicio.us broke news that the film’s California premiere will be in Santa Cruz Feb. 28 at the Rio Theater on Soquel (Yokota promises more details, including [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged aptos post office jump park, awesome land women of dirt, galbraith mountain, galbraithmt.com, mark brent, mtbchick.com
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 17, 2010
From an alert issued by the California State Parks System… I was riding in Arastradero today and the rangers were all over, battening down the hatches. “Don’t expect much in the way of riding weather through the end of the month,” one told me. We at Bike Intelligencer ride when sane mortals rest. But this [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Trail Access | Tagged cycling storm, cycling weather, mountain biking storm
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 15, 2010
You have to love this: Newly elected Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn riding his bike to a press conference. Thanks to BikeHugger for the pix. When we wondered last August whether Seattle could get a mayor “who actually rides,” we were expressing more hope than expectation. Now it’s breakthrough reality. Images like this do wonders to [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Trail Access | Tagged bikehugger, bikingbis, fanatik bikes, galbraith mountain, Momentum magazine, seattle mayor bike commuter, seattle mayor mike mcginn, whimps
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 12, 2010
Big bike rally Saturday in Palo Alto to protest the hate-cyclist page on Facebook. Riders will convene at Facebook headquarters near California Avenue and Bowdoin Street. This is a residential area called College Terrace where the locals may well join the protest. Facebook is not well liked. Its employees sucked up all available parking for [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Videos | Tagged $290, 000 speeding ticket, Bicycle Leadership Conference, Facebook anti-cycling page protest, reckless endangerment of cyclists, The Next Generation DVD
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 11, 2010
God this is ugly. The guy who ratted out Sam Brown, the once-celeb freeride mountain biker who hanged himself after being arrested in a drug sting last year — the guy who ratted him out was himself a major drug kingpin. And he ratted Sam Brown out in return for a promise of immunity from [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, This Day in Doping | Tagged helicopter drug running, new world disorder III, sam brown, sam brown hamster wheel
