PORTLAND, Oregon (May 5, 2026) — A documentary centered on BorderLands Gravel has been selected for the Nogales International Film Festival, bringing the story of one of the Southwest’s most distinctive gravel cycling events to the big screen. Titled Get Your Gravel On: Gravel Racing in the Borderlands, the film will screen May 16 at […]

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Cycling West contributor and longtime cycling world commentator Maynard Hershon presents a new selection of stories, inspired by his years of riding both bicycles and motorcycles. The Dysfunctional Cycling Club and Other Stories is out with 50 of Maynard’s stories over 147 pages. Here are lessons from his passions, plus suggestions about your bike club. […]

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By David Ward — In the prologue to his book, Riding with the Rocketmen: One Man’s Journey on the Shoulders of Cycling Giants, the author states: “My name is James Witts. I’m 45 years old and I write about cycling … I follow the professionals, many of whom are 25 years my junior. That makes […]

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We Will Never Be Here Again: Adventures in Cycling from the Wilderness to the Tour de France by Svein Tuft and Richard Abraham By Dave Campbell — I “met” Svein Tuft in 2001 on the start line of the time trial stage of the Tour Willamette at Dorena Reservoir outside of Cottage Grove, Oregon. I […]

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“I am a reader of maps…I read them as others do holy writ, the same text again and again in quest of discoveries….”  —William Least Heat Moon, River Horse: A Voyage Across America “It is not on any map; true places never are.” —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick By Don Scheese — According to the Federal Highway Administration, […]

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By Charles Pekow — So how can you learn to bike more efficiently? Or understand the mechanics of just how your body’s interaction with the pedal machine actually moves you along? A new book provides answers and explains how you can adjust the vehicle to give your more power per revolution. The answer depends on […]

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BOULDER, Colorado (January 16, 2025) – SHIMANO presents RITUAL Mountain Bike Film Tour powered by Outside, a nationwide celebration of mountain biking’s best films, is expanding this year to hit big screens in 23 mountain towns. Kicking off in March at The Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina, the tour will showcase epic adventures, legendary […]

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By Lou Melini — On June 25, 2016, Kristen Jokinen, and her husband Ville, started their 2-year, 18,215 bike ride from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, the world’s southernmost city in Argentina. They did this without any previous overnight bike ride. Their camping experience was good, having hiked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) shortly before […]

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By Charles Pekow — In addition to providing transportation and recreation, the bicycle has impacted culture historically. The difference it made, in all its incarnations over time is chronicled in a new mini-paperback simply entitled bicycle (with a small “b), written by cyclist Jonathan Maskit. The book is part of a series on Object Lessons […]

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By Shanna Matheson — An historical fiction story woven through the history of Grand Junction and the surrounding areas; Bicycle Junction, by Chris Brown, is the story of a cycling time traveler. On his first day in Grand Junction, the main character crashes his bike on the Holy Cross trail and finds himself on a […]

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By David Ward — If I were to nominate one day as the greatest day of professional bike racing in terms of determination, wonder and pure grit, I would propose the 1910 edition of Milan-Sanremo, La Classicissima, won by Eugène Christophe, he of Tour de France fame who in 1913 had to run down the […]

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New documentary ‘Major Taylor: Champion of the Race’ premieres Monday, February 26 at 8 p.m. EST (5 p.m. PST) on WTIU, and streaming through the WTIU website and through the PBS app. BLOOMINGTON, Indiana (February 5, 2024) — A new documentary from WTIU Public Television explores the life and legacy of speed cycling champion, civil […]

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By Lou Melini — This is my first book review for Cycling West in some time. The cycling themed books that I have looked at (briefly) in the past few years have been stale with sameness. Travelogues or, worse yet, an account of one’s suffering and self-made adventure appear to be the current fashionable writing. […]

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By Dave Iltis — Do you ride your mountain bike, but struggle for connection to the earth and life? Albert DeSilver’s wonderful new collections of essays, Singletrack Mind: Finding Wisdom & the Poetry of Life on Two Wheels, is part storytelling, part philosophy, part tribute to fallen friends. The collection of 7 stories by DeSilver […]

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By Eli Powell — I imagine that many of the readers of Cycling West have suffered the throes of the same disease that I have battled for years. The malady that goes by the name of cycling madness. The disorder manifests itself with the poor patient becoming entirely fixated with all things bicycle. They ride them […]

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WORCESTER, Massachusetts — “Whirlwind”, a film documentary in the making about the life and career of Marshall Major Taylor, is set to release its concept trailer on November 26; which happens to be Taylor’s birthday. This historical, groundbreaking documentary aims to explore in depth the life and times of the first African American world bicycle […]

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By Don Scheese — The more passionate an author is about their subject, the more readable the book. Make no mistake: Jody Rosen is passionate about the bicycle. In this wide-ranging, far-reaching social history, he traces the invention and evolution of the muscle-powered wheeled machine, from its first iteration in 1817 with the appearance of the […]

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By Greg Overton — The bicycle is often described as the noblest machine ever produced, where the engine is also passenger, and its use makes one healthier. Many cyclists who have a longstanding history with the bike, and especially a bike that has carried them for many miles and many hours to many places will have […]

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By John Higgins — As a low-impact form of exercise, cycling attracts and retains participants across a wide age range, and is especially appealing to those in the in the second half of their life. Much of the cycling research focuses on improving the performance of younger athletes, but this book shifts the focus to sustaining […]

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By Lou Melini — French Olympic founder Pierre de Coubertin wanted the games to be based on purity and chivalric romance. That idea was quickly squashed as the will to win took over. Whatever it took to win, even if it was poison, was soon the law of competition. Historically, it was the duty of the […]

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