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View from Telluride Mountain. Photo: Greg Heil Thanks to the longest professional ski patrol strike in U.S. history, 2025/2026 was Telluride Ski Resort’s (Telski) most chaotic ski season ever. The Telluride Professional Ski Patrol Association had been working without a contract since August 31, and after 99% of the members voted to authorize a strike…

Riding mountain bikes at a proper bike park can be a lot of fun, though not everyone is interested or has access to one. Riding park can be a different style of riding than our everyday rides, which can make it worth the effort and expense. (For the purposes of this survey we’re asking if…

Photo: Leah Barber At what point does a gravel bike become a mountain bike? I’ve been pondering that question a lot lately, and though I don’t quite have the answer, I can say that the Specialized Diverge 4 — despite having front suspension and clearance for wide, 2.2-inch tires — is a gravel bike in…

The bike on display at Sea Otter won’t go to production. Instead, it was built to display Stablead’s line of unique components. Stablead is a new component brand that teased an extensive line of advanced mountain bike components at Sea Otter 2026, including suspension forks and shocks. Despite officially launching the brand at Eurobike 2025,…

Electric mountain bikes equipped with select Bosch drive units are set to get a performance upgrade this month. The free software update promises to unlock more torque and rider support, though it stops short of increasing maximum power output beyond 750W. The move appears to be in response to the release of the new and…

9L Atlas Rack Pack. Old Man Mountain has emerged as a leader in bikepacking rack systems and gear hauling solutions. In addition to their racks, they sell numerous bags to attach to those various racks, with new and improved products dropping frequently Over the course of three different bikepacking rides, I’ve tested Old Man Mountain’s…

Astronaut Doctor. Photo: Noah Buchanan While mega ski resorts like Whistler-Blackcomb and Killington boast the biggest and best downhill mountain bike parks, there’s been a recent surge across the country in small, hometown ski areas expanding their mountain biking infrastructure. One of those hometown ski areas has emerged as a benchmark for downhill riding in…

My main quest at Sea Otter was straightforward: Test ride a mountain bike with 32-inch wheels. In fact, I had been hoping to test a big-wheel bike for more than a decade after seeing a dusty Black Sheep 36er mountain bike at the Interbike Outdoor Demo in 2010. Sadly, I was told it wasn’t available…

Photos provided by Specialized. If you want to know where cross-country mountain bike designs are headed, just take a look at the new Specialized Epic 9, which launched today. The XC race bike, piloted by current XCC and XCO World Cup overall title holder Christopher Blevins, is lighter than ever before… but not as light…

Some trail systems name themselves. If the Three Blind Mice trail system, just outside the beachfront city of Penticton in the South Okanagan region of interior British Columbia, evokes imagery of aimless wandering, it’s in the trail network’s noodling DNA. “When mountain biking kicked off here in the early 90s, folks were just stringing together…