By Dave Iltis — Hangar 15 Bicycles, a locally owned bike shop, has relocated its Lehi store to a new location in Lehi, Utah, within the Smith’s Marketplace Shopping Center. Manager Mark Miller shared insights about the new shop location. Cycling West: Tell us about Hangar 15 Bicycles.  Mark Miller: Hangar 15 Bicycles was started […]

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By Steven L. Sheffield — Melisa Rollins has established herself as one of the premier Gravel and MTB riders in the U.S., boasting major victories such as the 2024 Leadville 100 MTB, the 2023 Belgian Waffle Ride in Cedar City, Utah, and consecutive wins at the Wasatch All-Road in 2022 and 2023, while she also […]

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By Savannah Cottam — Sam is a contagiously charismatic Aussie; I met him while working as a backpacking guide in Colorado. As he told me about his adventures, I knew his story was one meant to be told. Sam traveled alone on his bike for 5162 miles from Canada to the border of Mexico. I […]

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By Savannah Cottam — Deep insight into inspiring people’s lives that have used two wheels to take them across the country. Untrained, yet able to use their bikes and go on beautiful adventures. John Kennington is an extraordinary man that I have known for a very long time yet had never heard about his great […]

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By Lou Melini — I have known Matt Davidson for nearly 2 decades from a few group bike tours. He has taken a number of tours, mostly as solo self-supported. In 2023 Matt did a guided tour in the Netherlands with his wife having his gear shuttled from hotel to hotel [See companion story]. Upon […]

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By Dave Campbell — In the summer of 1984, I was fifteen years old and in my second year of serious bike racing. I was desperate to learn everything I could about this new sport that was still decidedly foreign to me and most of America. I was especially interested to learn about “our” progress […]

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By Anthony J. Nocella II — Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Conner Lacey to talk about managing a bicycle shop and team. Conner has honed his skills at Contender Bicycles in Park City, and at Hanger 15 Bicycles in Millcreek, Utah. He currently manages Sun and Ski Sports in Murray, Utah. […]

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By Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D. — People often don’t think of people who build and ride lowrider bicycles as part of the cycling community. Instead, they’re considered to be a small offshoot of lowrider car culture; but that’s far from all that they are. Anthony Nocella recently interviewed Xris Macias on the topic of […]

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By Dave Iltis — Monica Garrison founded Black Girls Do Bike (BGDB) in 2013. It has since grown to include over 100 chapters on the United States and United Kingdom with over 180 Sheroes (leaders) and approximately 30000 members. She’s also an artist and we are featuring her bike art this month in Cycling West. […]

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By Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D. — Anthony Nocella: Could you tell me how you got into cycling and if any women supported you in the beginning? Tiffany Schwartz: I got into cycling when I met my late boyfriend in 2013 and told him that I won an entry into a triathlon. He convinced me […]

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By Eli Powell — David Herlihy is the author of Bicycle: the History and more recently, The Lost Cyclist.He is a well-regarded historian of cycling, and his writing has appeared in numerous bicycle related publications. EP: Both of your books, Bicycle: the History, and The Lost Cyclist demonstrate such a well-researched and comprehensive knowledge of the […]

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When I worked at A Bicycle Odyssey, in Sausalito, California back in the mid-to-late-1990s, building bikes out of carbon fiber was still a relatively new phenomenon; most of the bikes we sold were custom-built steel, aluminium, or titanium. Some of us were wary of carbon fiber because it was perceived as being brittle and unrepairable. […]

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By Anthony J. Nocella, Ph.D. —  Anthony Nocella: Could you tell me how you got into cycling and if any women supported you in the beginning? Isabel King: I fell into cycling a bit serendipitously. I was a soccer player growing up and played D1 through college. After working on the trading floor in New […]

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By Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D. —  Anthony Nocella: Could you tell me how you got into cycling and if any women supported you in the beginning? Lindsey Stevenson: I grew up mountain biking, but my focus in high school was on running cross-country and track. I started getting overuse injuries when I was 16, […]

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By Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D. — Anthony: Could you tell me how you got into cycling and if any women supported you in the beginning? Melissa Coles: In college I sold my first car and bought a road bike and road my bike to work. It was an 18-mile commute to my job. My mom […]

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By Elke Bengston and Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D. — Elke Bengston and Anthony Nocella: Could you tell me how you got into cycling and if any women supported you in the beginning? Sarah Kaufmann: I got into cycling as a way to rehab an injury as a nordic ski racer. Cycling was the only activity […]

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By Steven L. Sheffield — Richard Sachs is one of the preeminent bicycle framebuilders in the United States, and yet building bicycles was never really an aspiration of his. After being wait-listed for admission to Goddard College, Sachs saw an advertisement in the Village Voice for a position working in a bike shop in Vermont and […]

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By Peter Abraham — Like my recent interview with Tamika Butler, the following text is an edited transcription of my on-camera discussion with Peter Flax. He’s an LA-based journalist and the former editor-in-chief of Bicycling Magazine. I interviewed him for the fifth and final episode of my video series on HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) […]

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By Peter Abraham — I’ve just wrapped up an 18-month journey telling the story of the Saint Augustine’s University cycling team. This is the first HBCU (Historically Black College and University) with a cycling program, and I helped set up their sponsorship from Canyon Bikes then supervised the storytelling process in episodes of video, photography, writing and public relations. […]

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By Elke Bengtson and Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D. — Anthony: As a twenty-five-time USA Champion, Bronze BMX Olympian, and Mountain Bike World Champion, how did you get into cycling and were there many women role-models in the sport at that time? Jill: Thank you! I got into biking like most kids, just ripping around the […]

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