Singletrack Mind

by Tom Winter May 5, 2010

Want to know where to find off-the-radar, core mountain bike rides in Colorado and Utah? We give you the best riding away from the unwashed masses. You’ve been to Moab, that hip, happening scene in the red rock desert, with more mountain bikers than lizards. You’ve fought the crowds on the trails around your home, [...]

Italian Cycle Style

by Elevation Staff March 23, 2010

No, we’re not talking about who is shaving what or who is drinking Lambrusco during their rides. We’re talking GranFondo, the Italian obsession of long, challenging rides through spectacular scenery. The point of a GranFondo is to finish, making it a ride, not a race, by nature. Although it is timed, because in Italy, most [...]

Pedal Power in Afghanistan

by Jayme Moye March 23, 2010

Mountain to Mountain empowers women with the help of the bike. Breck resident Sharon Galpin loves mountain culture and the sports that go along with it, particularly trail running and mountain biking. The 35-year-old also has a passion for gender equity and human rights. So she decided to put the two together and create Mountain [...]

The Moab Way

by Doug March 23, 2010

A quest to ride the perfect line—8,000 vertical feet from the top of the La Sal Range to the Colorado River, by bike and ski—is a lesson in the moodiness of big mountains in the desert. Photos by Adam Barker TWENTY-SIX INCHES of fresh powder in April should be something to get excited about. It’s [...]

Q&A with Chris Grealish

by Jayme Moye October 5, 2009

Elevation Outdoors talks turkey with Colorado’s king of cyclocross, just in time for the race season You run a successful message courier business, Denver-Boulder Couriers, and yet you’ve been monkeying around putting on bike races in Colorado since 1989. What was it that first fed your compulsion? When I moved here from Boston in 1988, [...]

The Ride of the Nedhead Dirt Club

by Paul Tolme August 4, 2009

At the risk of blowing the most closely guarded secret in the Front Range, we send a former Nederland resident back to his old stomping grounds to uncover the truth about the riding scene, local politics, all those hidden trails and what the future has in store for a community that still rides for the [...]