Picture this: you roll out at 7 a.m. at 7,000 feet. Cool mountain air fills your lungs as you pedal onto a winding ribbon of singletrack. Your tires hum over smooth, velvety dirt. Alpenglow lights the ridgeline. You focus on the climb, the rhythm of your breathing, the quiet whir of your drivetrain. All around […]

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By Gail Newbold — Mention that you’re going cycling in northern Idaho and everyone assumes you’re biking the infamous Route of the Hiawatha renowned for its 10 tunnels and seven train trestles through breathtaking mountain scenery. Tell them instead that you’re hitting the 73-mile paved Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes and watch them draw a […]

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By Gail Newbold — The beauty of cycling in Sun Valley is you don’t need to bring your game face. Or your fancy kit. Unless you want to, of course. This sprawling landscape made famous for its celebrity skiing, now draws cyclists of all ilks to its crown jewel of paved paths: the Wood River […]

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By Lisa Hazel — On the island of Spetses, a member of the Saronic Islands, just south of the Peloponnese in Greece, and at the mouth of the Argolic Gulf, we began our human powered honeymoon bike ride. The island has a variety of terrain which forces you into nature’s distraction. Each angle yields a […]

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By Lukas Brinkerhoff — Mauricio is perched on the round white table in front of us. He’s a concave chested man in his early 20s. Fair skinned, thin and with hair that appears to be salt and peppered but not due to age. He is the grandson of Antonio Nunez, 4th discoverer of Cuba, and […]

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By Tom Jow — Enter a search for “Bentonville mountain biking” and you will find the statement “Mountain Biking Capital of the World”. For those of us in the Mountain West, it seems a bold statement from a locale where the highest elevation is around 1,300 feet above sea level. Therefore, what reason could they […]

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By Dave Iltis — In February 2024, a couple members of the Cycling West crew traveled to Madrid, Spain. We didn’t ride while there due to time constraints and what we felt were not so great riding conditions. We did, however, take lots of photos which we present below. We stayed in Centro Madrid, the […]

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“Well, I’m Her Mom”  or  We’re Already Booked  for Next Winter’s Kerstperiode By Don Haywood — We are on the train and the fellow sitting in front of us is sporting a beanie with the word “Sweek” emblazoned on it. He is also wearing big rubber boots. It isn’t much of a guess that he’s going […]

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By J. Eli Powell — When my wife first mentioned that we would be taking our vacation this spring in north west Arkansas, I have to admit my first question was, “Why?” Actually, I think my question was something more along the lines of, “Why would we take our hard-earned personal time off and go […]

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By Peter Abraham — Last summer our family went to Prague to visit our daughter Sadie, who’s graduated from college and moved to Europe to work as an English teacher. I decided to bring my bike, since I was tacking on a bike business-related work trip to London afterwards. I’d ridden bikes once before in […]

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By Mike Pribesh — Iceland has long been called the land of fire and ice, and appropriately so. But that moniker leaves out a lot. Iceland can also be called the land of wind and rain and waterfalls and sheep. All of those only very slightly begin to describe what this tiny country in the […]

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By Shannon Boffeli — Visiting the famed Inca fortress city of Machu Picchu in southern Peru is a bucket-list dream for most adventurers but few imagine the experience as part of 5-day mountain bike stage race. The Machu Picchu Epic makes this dream a reality. Following five days of racing throughout Peru’s Sacred Valley region […]

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By Shannon Boffeli — I always tell people the best part of doing a stage race is spending a week not thinking about anything except riding your bike. It’s a truly freeing experience but such singular focus can sometimes lead to that FOMO feeling that you traveled halfway around the world and missed out on […]

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By David Ward — I told my daughter I could live in Sweden. Stockholm, at least, where we have spent most of our time during our two visits to Sweden. It is a beautiful, green, forested region with scenic blue lakes, rivers, bays, and inlets. Everyone speaks English and speaks it well. And you don’t need […]

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By Micah Drew – Seeley Swan Pathfinder — Cycling tourism contributes nearly $377 million annually to Montana’s economy Leigh Ann Valiton watched a customer meander the aisles of the Blackfoot Commercial Co. in Ovando, Montana. Valiton’s store, and attached inn, is open until seven every evening, but it was 10 p.m. and she showed no sign […]

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By Shannon Boffeli — A few years ago, Jen and I took a break from mountain bike stage races, and vwent from what felt like a developing civilization in Cuba to racing in the earliest expanse of western civilization; I can’t imagine a greater contrast from out last stage race to the Mitas 4 Islands […]

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By Eric Kramer — Ambitious plans have a way of falling through. Work gets in the way, resolve weakens, and friends bail. But occasionally the stars align and a great idea materializes, and what started out as a casual discussion bloomed into a full-on road trip to Squamish, British Columbia with seven friends. One might wonder […]

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By Jamie Morningstar — One of my family’s most treasured annual traditions is our trip down to Colima, Mexico to visit with, serve, and enjoy precious time at Hogar de Amor Orphanage. We started traveling to Colima in 2013 and over the years have forged deep relationships with the kids and caregivers. We usually take a […]

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By David Ward — Mexico City. When my daughter Jessica, who works for the Foreign Service, was first assigned to work in the embassy there, I wasn’t really excited to visit. My wife and I have followed Jessica around the world, visiting her in her various assignments in American embassies. Each place has been exciting […]

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REYKJAVIK, Iceland (May 4, 2021) — As Chris Burkard’s images of Iceland’s active volcano dazzled the world, endurance athlete Rebecca Rusch and cyclist Angus Morton joined the photographer in the land of fire and ice for an epic journey that was recently completed. The goal: to establish and ride a new north to south interior route […]

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