Gold sent settlers into the Rocky Mountain’s “Ten Mile Range” in the 1850s, and Gold brings Americas most talented and stoked stage racers to the steeps of Breckenridge Colorado for the 10th Breck Epic stage race. The singletrack heavy 6 day race sends riders from the valley floor (9500 ft, 2900m) into the thin rocky […]
Epic Rides Carson City Offroad- “Fast times and Hot lines in the Rush for Gold”
Epic Rides brought another “good day on the bike” to Carson City Nevada this past weekend. The Carson City Offroad is the third in their four race series and the last even in the Western USA before the series heads to the deep south for the Oz Trails weekend in Bentonville Arkansas. While new last […]
Epic Rides Grand Junction Offroad
There are two ways to win the Grand Junction Offroad; “be a natural born climber or have bigger balls than anybody else.” And that pretty aptly fits the course description of the Grand Junction Epic course. With the Albstadt World Cup taking many of the regular competitors and previous winners away from the 2nd round […]
Epic Rides Whiskey Offroad Wrapup
Epic Rides put on their first of 4 Epic events this weekend with the Whiskey Offroad collection of pro and amateur races in Prescott, Arizona in the USA. The 15th running of the race had over 1500 amateur racers attend Saturday’s event and 150 Mens and Womens professionals toeing the start lines. Amateur racers were […]
Epic Rides Whiskey Offroad Fat Tire Crit
The Epic Rides Series Whiskey Offroad features both amateur and professional events; with the pro riders required to participate in Friday Night’s downtown fat tire criterium format race in order to be eligible for the cash payout of Sunday’s marathon race. Friday’s crit is the perfect foil to the aptly named “epic” on Prescott Arizona’s […]
A Decade of Dirt, The 2018 Pisgah Stage Race Wrapup
The stage racing hangover is as real as any substance abuse hangover. Every part of the body aches, the sense of time and place is less certain than on a regular-day. And the mess you’ve got to clean up is substantial. But unlike any other hangover you’ve got all the memories from the incredible experience, […]
Roots, Rocks, Repeat- The Pisgah Stage Race Cometh
The Good Book tells that God led Moses to the top of Mt Pisgah and from there showed him the Promised Land. For mountain bike riders and racers on the east coast of the US of A the Pisgah range in North Carolina is also the Promised Land. A Promised Land of ancient Appalachian mountains […]
REVIEWED: Camelbak Chase Bike Vest
The endurance racer has always faced a conundrum when it comes to liquid nutrition. Bottles or hydration pack? The low placed, light weight of bottles onboard a frame have been the logical solution for at-the-ready hydration since Joe Breeze and Gary Fisher took to the slopes of Mt Tamalpais. These dirt pioneers re-purposed the bidons […]
24 Hours of Old Pueblo – according to Quadsworth
Related Event: 24 Hours of Old Pueblo
The saying goes that everything in the Sonoran Desert wants to kill you. Seems the perfect setting then for one of the oldest and largest 24 hour races in the world. Epic Rides season of shred kicked off with a bang this past weekend as some of America’s finest endurance athletes gathered in “24 Hour […]