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Photo: Lance Ghostkeeper A legendary downhill race track in Alberta has been brought back to life. The Baseline Mountain Biking Club (BMBC) secured $115,000 in grant funding to rebuild the Canada Cup trail a track that hosted a Canadian national DH race series in the mid-90s and the work was completed earlier this year. Baseline…

What happens when a bike brand that started out building downhill bikes moves into short-travel trail bikes? Well, you get a bike like the third-generation Propain Hugene. This trail bike looks the part of a much bigger bike, yet it???s a surprisingly efficient pedaler. Though it doesn???t boast the descending chops of a longer-travel trail…

Photo: OSI A $260,000 grant is bringing 3.5 miles of new mountain bike trails to northern Maine???s Peavey Brook Outdoor Center, expanding the remote town of Patten???s trail network to as much as 10 miles and positioning this timber town-turned-outdoor-recreation hub as the next destination in the state???s growing mountain bike scene. The expansion at…

Photo: Adam Munich, Rock Solid Palo Pinto Mountains State Park has been coming soon for almost 20 years. While we know that most mountain bike trail projects take years to come to fruition, creating an entirely new state park unit from scratch much less one that measures some 4,871 acres is a massive undertaking on…

Shimano officially launched their first wireless electronic mountain bike drivetrain in June 2025, though members of the media got a sneak peek last February. I???ve been riding on the XTR Di2 drivetrain, wheels, and brakes for a year now, and this is a long-term addendum to my initial review. The good: Consistent, crisp shifting Twelve…

All prices and availability are subject to change. Hopefully you???ve spent the last couple of months servicing your mountain bike(s), getting everything ready for the season. If so, it???s time to restock your supplies! If you haven???t, now is the time to order everything you need so you???re ready for the season ahead. These are…

Photo courtesy Maple Wind Farm All across the country, mountain bikers are turning to private land in an effort to get trails built. This has only become a nationwide trend in the last few years, but the true pioneer of this strategy is the tiny northeastern state of Vermont. If you look at the maps,…

File photo: Dylan Johnson The idea of putting drop bars on a mountain bike isn???t new, but with many of the latest ???gravel bikes??? speccing mountain bike forks and tires, many riders are giving the concept a fresh look. How many riders? That???s what we???d like to know! #wpforms-711894.wpforms-block-bd05a868-9d36-4664-96c1-3740943b6dc6 { –wpforms-field-size-input-height: 43px; –wpforms-field-size-input-spacing: 15px; –wpforms-field-size-font-size:…

All photos courtesy WEBC In just three years, a brand-new trail organization in Essex County, Ontario, has raised over $200,000, logged more than 5,000 volunteer hours, and built 8km of trails from scratch. And they???re just getting started. The Windsor Essex Bike Community (WEBC) stepped into a void during the pandemic and found a community…