Mountain

Travis Brown, two-time winner of the Singlespeed World Championships, will be ripping this year's race in Rotorua, New Zealand on a Superfly.

A riding reader wants to know why the big manufacturers aren't making 172.5mm mountain bike cranks anymore. Singletrack.com's resident-wrench, Lennard Zinn, ventures a guess or two…

What better way to tell that hot Bike Betty in your life that she shreds your heart like she does swoopy singletrack than a shiny headset spacer studded with sparkly cubic zirconium "diamonds"? Now that's some bike bling…

SLIDESHOW: Heather Irmiger earned a sweet tattoo last year by winning the Singlespeed World Championships in Durango, Colorado. Along with her hubby, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, Irmiger is headed to Rotorua, New Zealand to defend her title next weekend.

Fort Lewis College, Div. 1, and Brevard College, Div. II, successfully defended their 2009 overall team omniums at the Collegiate National Mountain Bike Championships over the weekend.

2010 Collegiate National Mountain Bike Championships: short-track results

SLIDESHOW: Fort Lewis College rules short-track at Collegiate nationals, as Sage Wilderman and Rotem Ishay take Stars-and-Stripes jerseys; for Ishay it was his second title of the weekend after winning XC.

2010 Collegiate Mountain Bike Nationals: Division 1&2 XC results from Northstar-at-Tahoe.

SLIDESHOW: Collegiate mountain bike nationals underway in California: Rotem Ishay (Fort Lewis College) takes men's Division 1 XC, Erica Zaveta (Lees-McCrae College) took home top honors in the women's Division 1.

Degreasing wipes are easy to carry and can easily clean not only skin, but oily chains and dirty frames.

SLIDESHOW: Just a few days before departing Colorado and heading south of the equator to Rotorua, New Zealand for the 2010 Singlespeed World Championships, Ross Schnell shares his sub-20 pound, full-suspension SS rig.

VIDEO: Do some more rampaging with Cameron Zink, as the Red Bull Rampage winner talks you through his winning line.

The flannel-wearing stoners in Marin and the bandana-clad neo-mountain hippies in Crested Butte circa 1975 have long gone back and forth on where the first "mountain bike" was pioneered. How about Italy some 95 years ago?

Singletrack.com's resident wrench Lennard Zinn has the latest on DT Swiss' efforts at stepping up its line of suspension forks.

The 24-Hours of Moab and the 24-hour national championships were held together over the weekend, with Josh Tostado defending his title in the men's solo division and Jari Kirkland taking the women's solo Stars-and-Stripes jersey.

VIDEO: Master bike technician Lennard Zinn does a step-by-step on bleeding a Shimano hydraulic disc brake.

The 24-Hours of Moab will once again play host to the 24-hour National Championships this weekend.

SLIDESHOW: More than 140 student racers lined up for the Colorado High School MTB League's second event.

VIDEO: While he's been doing well with his Breezer transportation bikes, the "Original Joe" is back on the dirt with a new line of mountain bikes…

FILM TRAILER: The end result of the camera crews and the chopper that descended on Leadville, Colorado this summer will soon be here: Race Across the Sky 2010 is set premier on Thursday, Nov. 4.

VIDEO: The Red Bull Rampage out in the Utah wilds is wrapped up , but helmet cam footage from a few different riders is popping up. Check it out...

VIDEO: The organizers of next May's Whiskey Off Road in Prescott, Arizona are expecting 1,500 racers, with 100 of those vying for a $20,000 purse.

Tech guru Lennard Zinn says that perhaps what's not said about Shimano XTR philosophy is that there clearly has been a fundamental shift about what the venerable XTR group actually symbolizes.

Jett MTB's technical line of fall clothing offers design elements most often found in high-end road garments, but as interpreted by trail hounds.

VIDEO: American freerider Cameron Zink not only pulled off the win at the famed Red Bull Rampage during Sunday's finals in the Utah desert, but nabbed the best trick award with a hairy 360 that he crashed on in an earlier run.

Three-time mountain bike world champion Marga Fullana has been provisionally suspended for testing positive for the banned blood booster EPO.

VIDEO: Twenty-one riders started the qualifying round Friday at the Red Bull Rampage freeride event in Utah. Ten riders move on to the finals on Sunday.

VIDEO: Starting Friday, the documentary film "Ride the Divide" will be showcased in a  "2711-Minute Free Ride" event offering free, live streaming of the movie for 45.2 hours, or one minute for every mile in the Tour Divide route.

Slideshow: Moots' MootoX RSL 29er started with the same philosophy as that originally applied to the company's Vamoots RSL  road rig : Build the highest performing race bike possible without eroding the Moots quality and durability standards.

VIDEO : The 2010 Rampage starts Oct. 1, and runs through Oct. 3, in Virgin, Utah. And while the name of the game is "freeride," it's clear that after watching the carnage from past events, nothing is ever truly free.

Saalfelden-Leogang, Austria to host 2012 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships.

Singletrack.com's resident wrench, Lennard Zinn, has a word to the wise: If you're buying superlight disc-brake wheels, DO NOT inflate to the rated pressure on the side of the tire.

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At under six pounds (frame and shock), Salsa's alloy dually 29er is a surprise. But it gets even better when you get a look at the pricetag for a full bike.

Americans Ross Schnell and Heather Irmiger will make the trip to Rotorua, New Zealand later in October to defend their SSWC tattoos earned last year in Durango, Colorado. 2009 SSWC SLIDESHOW-DURANGO

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VIDEO : Feast your eyes on ripping downhill action from Interbike's Dirt Demo at Bootleg Canyon and sexy new DH framesets from the showroom floor.

SLIDESHOW: Sun Ringlé has licensed the rights from NoTubes.com for its patented low rim wall design to beat burping.

SLIDESHOW: Hidden amongst the thousands of new road, XC and All-Mountain products on display at Interbike were a few wicked new offerings for those whose top gear is limited only by gravity.

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Washington, Minnesota and Texas are the newest states to join the National Interscholastic Cycling Association alongside Northern and Southern California and Colorado.

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Focus' cross-country and marathon FSL 1.0 is one of those bikes that turns heads, as it has its rear suspension integrated into the top tube.

Slideshow: Following a successful season that saw Swiss cross-country racer Nino Schurter win the World Cup overall on his Scott Scale, the bike is making a showing at Ritchey's Interbike booth.

Missoula, Montana will be the seventh race for riders in USA Cycling's 2011 Pro XCT, which is one more event than in 2010.

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For 2011, Gates CarbonDrive Systems is showing a new belt and pulley system called CDX-CT.

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Slideshow: Singletrack.com's Caley Fretz hit Interbike's Outdoor Dirt Demo hard and found that Yeti, Scott and Breezer are now in the big-wheeled game with their new 29er hardtails. Orbea has refined its offering in the category.

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Slideshow: Interbike's Outdoor Dirt Demo was hot, windy, dusty and generally a pretty kick-ass time — except for the hot, wind and dust...

Built on the history of the popular Xen helmet, the Xar is slightly more streamlined and refined, with a couple of new features. Check it out…

Singletrack.com's Steve Frothingham is scouting out affordable rigs at the Interbike trade show to supplement our usual coverage of the latest and greatest price-is-no-object gear.

SKS's new Stow-Away bicycle pump is still a "first-of-its-kind" tool worth mentioning.

Slideshow:In effort to highlight bikes that give you some bang for your buck, Singletrack.com's own miserly New Englander Steve Frothingham is taking a look at cost-effective rigs all week at Interbike. Check out Fuji's Outland 1.0.

Slideshow:Dave Turner said the latest evolution of the Turner RFX project is still six months from seeing a showroom floor.

Check out what Blackburn is claiming to be the world's smallest shock pump.

Day one of the 2010 Interbike show kicked off  Monday at Bootleg Canyon just outside of Las Vegas, with large crowds and the first of two days of test riding.

The Descendant is a downhill race-specific crank that uses the same forged AL7050 material as the freeride/DH Holzfeller, but weighs in 240 grams less.

The best part of Interbike — the outdoor dirt demo — will be available to anyone and everyone who has $150 and the means to get to Moab, Utah for the first-ever Outerbike — a consumer demo event.

Bryn Atkinson and Jill Kintner claimed overall titles in USA Cycling's Professional Mountain Bike Gravity Tour.

The first high school mountain bike league outside of California kicks off this weekend with the Colorado High School Mountain Bike Racing Series. And look for more mountain biking to go along with the NorCal, SoCal and Colorado leagues soon.

The folks at Gates say the new design offers all the advantages of their existing Carbon Drives, but with 20 percent more tensile strength, a slimmer profile and even better dirt- and debris-shedding.

Fox has revamped its Terra Logic "intelligent" damping system, expanded the Boost Valve to more rear shocks, rethought the Talas travel adjuster, lightened and lengthened the 36 forks, introduced more 29er forks and a new 4-cross/dirt jumping/dual slalom fork model, lightened and beautified the 15QR through axle and added a low-friction coating to its upper fork legs.

Singletrack.com's Zach White takes Fox's totally revamped Terra Logic fork offering for 2011 on the trail.

What do you get when you combine GPS and a Contour hands-free video camera? Location, location, location.

The final round of the Pro Gravity Tour series in Whiteface, New York was domintated by Trek World Racing.

Readers ask bike guru Lennard Zinn about running a new suspension fork on a 15-year-old bike as well as an  external  bottom bracket on an even older rig.

Christian Tanguy wins Shenandoah 100, the final race of of the Kenda National Ultra Endurance Series while Jeff Schalk wins overall. Amanda Carey captures first place at Shenandoah and her first NUE Series title.

Singletrack.com's Zach White puts his foot down on Shimano's 2011 XTR pedals. What's his conclusion? Subtly outstanding…

Alex Grant and Josh Tostado duel each other in the second annual Park City Point 2 Point race, a 75-mile epic played out mostly on Utah singletrack.

Sun Valley, Idaho, will host the cross-country mountain bike nationals for the next two years; gravity events to be at own venue, which has not been announced.

SLIDESHOW: American Aaron Gwin barely missed a spot on the elite men's downhill podium when he clocked the fourth fastest time on Sunday. Neko Mulally misses junior gold by fractions of a second.

SLIDESHOW: For mountain biking — or world championship mountain biking to be exact — 20 years is just old enough to afford a nostalgic look back and see what a long ride it's been. Legendary mountain biking photog Tom Moran gets the goods at Mont Saint Anne.

SLIDESHOW: Spain's Jose Antonio Hermida — who crashed at least once, with pre-race favorite Julien Absalon on lap 1, and was as far back as 10th at one point — powered to an impressive win, handily holding off a late challenge from the Czech Republic's Jaroslav Kulhavy and South Africa's Burry Stander.

SLIDESHOW: Poland's Maja Wloszczowska won the women's world cross-country championships Saturday, riding away from Willow Koerber, Catharine Pendrel and Irena Kalentieva on a foggy, cool morning at Mount St. Anne, Quebec.

The Swiss continued their recent hammerlock on the international cross-country scene by sweeping the U23 men's race on Friday at the mountain bike world championships.