Long Way Home: World’s longest bicycle stretches nearly half a football field in length
What has as many as 40 legs, two wheels and is over 130 feet long? It may sound like a riddle with which a […]
Gee Atherton takes on 400 mountain bikers in new-fangled fox hunt turned topsy-turvy
Over the past several years, Red Bull has been sponsoring a very different kind of fox hunt, wherein world-champion racing cyclist Gee Atherton (the […]
Spin Me Round Like a Record: Kelly Slater adds surfing to sports in the 540 club
In 2014, 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater carved another notch in his board when he became the first surfer to throw a 540 […]
Music to my gears: Glasgow musicians sample BMX rider Kriss Kyle for futuristic tracks
You may have heard of BMI music, but what about BMX music? Unit 23, a skate and bike park in Dumbarton, Scotland, played home […]
Secret Island Adventure: Sebastian Keep and fellow BMXers ride giant Denge sound mirror
When Dr. William Sansome Tucker designed a set of experimental concrete acoustic mirrors in the 1920s, he could never have foreseen that almost one […]
Max Stöckl rockets to world record for fastest MTB downhill speed at 167.6 kph (104.1 mph)
Austrian Markus “Max” Stöckl likes nothing better than to go down a slope as fast as possible and has been setting speed downhill mountain-bike […]
Learn how to pop a wheelie (and keep it going) from mountain bikers Rob Warner, Tom Ohler, Phil Kmetz
At first glance, the wheelie seems nothing more than the most rudimentary of adolescent cycling skills. Looking a little deeper, however, one discovers that […]
Forward to the Past: Hand-crafted, retro electric bikes inspired by classic motorcycles
The earliest motorcycles — as the word suggests — were simply bicycles outfitted with a motor. Those early spartan models have an aesthetic that […]
Decades later, swing bikes are still the most fun you can have on two wheels
Swing bikes are to cycling, as drifting cars is to driving. Put another way, if you like riding a bicycle, then it’s likely you’ll […]
La La Land: Meet the skater, BMXer and freerunner featured in “Another Day of Sun”
Among the six Academy awards won by the 2016 musical La La Land was one for Best Cinematography, and perhaps no scene exemplifies the […]
Travis Pastrana pays tribute to daredevil Evel Knievel with three iconic motorcycle jumps
In the summer of 2018 in Las Vegas, the History Channel hosted Evel Live in which Travis Pastrana replicated three iconic motorcycle jumps pioneered […]
Denise Mueller-Korenek shatters bicycle land-speed record at 184 mph on Utah’s Salt Flats
The average cyclist will rarely exceed 25 miles per hour on flat ground, and professionals max out at just over 70 mph (on downhill […]