I’m lucky living in Utah. Not only do we have the Greatest Snow on Earth™ (yeah, trademarked), but this is also an awesome proving grounds for…
Browsing: New Gear
New mountain bikes, skis, backpacks, outdoor gear, jackets and all that stuff that outdoor enthusiasts love.
In my final installment from Outdoor Retailer, I’ve got a handful of great products that will be hitting retailers as early as this Fall. Highlighting this…
On March 26, 2009, ski legend Shane McConkey died in a ski BASE jumping accident in the Italian Dolomites. In countless ways, McConkey defined skiing as…
Part 3 of Outdoor Retailer followup features some great new products from Rab, Ryders Eyewear, Salomon, Keen and Merrell. With lots of product refinements coming, keep…
My search for the latest and greatest gear for Spring 2010 continued at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2009 in Salt Lake City. The tradeshow rolled on…
With Santa Cruz Bicycles recent love affair (rightly so) with carbon fiber frames comes their latest creation… The Santa Cruz Tallboy 29er. This new XC trailbike…
With a legendary rider like Brian Lopes onboard team Ibis, it was bound to happen… a longer-travel Mojo for longer-travel applications. While the “HD” isn’t going…
Lightweight on the calendar, but once onsite, those empty slots get filled pretty quickly as more goodies captured my attention. My appointments today took me to…
Niner fans have been waiting for this for a LONG time… the actual shipment of the much-ballyhooed Niner WFO 9 long-travel 29er trai/freeride bike. It’s the…
It has been built… my personal test sled for the season… an Ibis Mojo decked to the hilt with top-shelf parts just to show how absolutely…
It’s that time of year. We’re all reveling in the mid-season singletrack stoke with our shiny new 2009 mountain bikes underfoot when all of the sudden,…
Having just picked up a Rocky Mountain Hammer29 hardtail 29er for review, I’m really liking the simplicity offered by a hardtail mountain bike. However, I still…
After riding the previous-generation Transition Covert at Interbike a couple of years ago, I was stoked on its performance. The bike felt smooth right out of…
Truth be told, the first place for bike manufacturers to skimp is with the wheelsets. They’ll slap a Shimano XTR rear derailleur on a $2500 bike…
As a huge proponent of nuun, I’m stoked about the new flavor, banananuun. The funny thing is when I first tried it in January at Outdoor…
Since last Fall, I’ve been getting the whitewash from Rocky Mountain’s PR Department. When the new Rocky Mountain Altitude platform was launched just prior to Interbike,…
This just came through from the crew at Ibis Cycles. As always, Chuck Ibis, is in rare form as he spreads the word about their great…
As a relatively new bike company based in Salt Lake City and Seattle, Corsair Bikes is delivering targeted bike frames to gravity-lovers everywhere. With a small…
My ACL was obliterated on the summit of Jupiter Peak at Park City Mountain Resort in March 1997. A quick carve down the ridge and a…
After years of development and a now-defunct single-sided chainstay, Yeti Cycles is introducing the all-new 2009 ASR 7 aggressive, long-travel trailbike to the market. With a…