Mountain

SEA OTTER: Nope, ain't done yet with the cherry gear. Easton Haven grows from a pair of wheels into a full family of lightweight but sturdy parts. Check ‘em out in the slideshow.

SEA OTTER: Yeti introduced its new 29er at Sea Otter — the Big Top. Check out the video.

SEA OTTER: Singletrack.com showed you Shimano's new 10-speed drivetrain last week. Here's a video view of the new group from Sea Otter.

Singletrack.com interviews Christoph Sauser at the 2010 Sea Otter Classic.

Singletrack.com interviews Judy Freeman at the 2010 Sea Otter Classic.

Singletrack.com interviews Adam Craig at the 2010 Sea Otter Classic.

Singletrack.com interviews Amy Dombroski at the 2010 Sea Otter Classic.

Singletrack.com interviews Katerina Nash at the 2010 Sea Otter Classic.

Singletrack.com interviews Rebecca Rusch at the 2010 Sea Otter Classic.

SEA OTTER: The big-wheel specialists at Niner give the Jet 9 and Air 9 some upgrades.

SEA OTTER: Singletrack.com's Zach White roamed the Sea Otter expo to track down some trick new tech. Check out his collection of photos and information.

2010 Sea Otter Classic results

SEA OTTER: Schwalbe is now making some of its popular 26-inch treads for 29er lovers.

SEA OTTER: Giant is now in the big-wheel game with its new Anthem X 29er. Check out the video update.

SEA OTTER: Reigning U-23 world champ Burry Stander out-kicks Geoff Kabush for the win at the Sea Otter Classic cross-country race.

SEA OTTER: After winning the short-track race on Saturday at the Sea Otter Classic, Luna's Georgia Gould repeats in the cross-country.

SEA OTTER: Glimpses of Cannondale's revised Scalpel short-travel XC bike have been rare — until Singletrack.com's Zack Vestal was offered a look at Sea Otter. Plus look at what C-dale is doing with Shimano's Di2 electric shifting…

SEA OTTER: They're not ready for a splashy launch, but Sea Otter is often a time to get a peek at secret bikes like Felt's new four-inch XC rig — the Edict.

SEA OTTER: Todd Wells and Georgia Gould take impressive wins in the Pro XCT short-track race at the Sea Otter Classic.

SEA OTTER: Some choice bits of tech from the Otter expo. The ever-stylish line of accessories from Lezyne grows by a couple of pumps, German brand Focus unveiled a new 29er hardtail and DT Swiss is getting serious about forks.

SEA OTTER: Singletrack.com talks to some familiar faces — Mike Sinyard, Pua Sawicki and Christoph Sauser — out and about at the Classic's expo

SEA OTTER: Singletrack.com's Zach White reports from the Sea Otter Expo area with what's new, improved and just kinda cool.

SEA OTTER: Crank Brothers is venturing far beyond where the company, which started with an innovative tire lever, has ever been before.

The first batch of Sea Otter videos: Lene Byberg and Todd Wells interviews and the SRAM launch party.

The question was not "if," but "when" and "how" Shimano would go about creating a 10-speed mountain bike drivetrain. Now those questions have been answered. That's right — at the Sea Otter this week, Shimano finally revealed its 10-speed off-road drivetrain.

Shimano Dyna-Sys 10 speed mountain bike drivetrain gallery

Singletrack.com's resident wrench Lennard Zinn helps explain the different bottom bracket standards to a confused reader.

SCB's new trail and all-mountain bikes sport a design that incorporates aspects of the company's VPP suspension — but only different.

With first World Cup of the season two weeks away, Todd Wells and Willow Koerber show good form by winning Pan American Mountain Bike Championships in Guatemala City over the weekend.

After a grueling five-year education in bike racing (A Dog in a Hat), Joe Parkin describes his return to the U.S., his struggles with the nascent American bike racing scene, and the birth of mountain bike racing.

Wisconsin Off Road Series' Subaru Cup will play host to the Pro XCT and North America's top cross-country racers June 26-27.

Two sign-up days will be used for the second Mellow Johnny's Classic on Lance Armstrong's Texas ranch over Memorial Day Weekend; first reg day to support Livestrong.

Scott Fleming's Phat Phat-Tire photo from March will place him in the pantheon of winners from the Singletrack.com reader-submitted photo contest.

Now in its ninth year, the Teva Mountain Games in Colorado brings cross-country riders, roadies and freeriders together for a weekend of competition in June.

A reader wants to like 29ers, but found that he was "underwhelmed" by the big wheels. He asks Singletrack.com's tech guru Lennard Zinn if he's missing something.

Easton's new carbon all-mountain wheelset uses a ballistic composite material designed for blast resistance, but they still come with a no-questions-asked warranty.

Rotor's Agilis crank is available to take double or triple rings for mountain bikes.

A broken wrist suffered at a little bike race held every July in France kept Levi Leipheimer off his Trek Top Fuel and from joining Lance Armstrong at the 2009 Leadville Trail 100. Before that, there was plenty of jawing between the teammates about the Race Across the Sky.

Santa Cruz Bicycles' six-inch, all-mountain masher — the Nomad — is now dressed in fresh carbon fiber.

Specialty plate seeks to raise funds for trail creation and maintenance; $1,500 still needed to make it a reality.

Avid's Elixir 3 and RockShox's Sektor 150mm fork are SRAM's newest offerings at attainable prices.

BC-based Rocky Mountain Bicycles has signed a multi-year agreement to become the bike sponsor of the BC Bike Race.

Singletrack.com's master mechanic Lennard Zinn shows how to get your rig ready to roll for some spring riding.

Singletrack.com readers get around on their fat tires. Where have you been? It's time for show and tell.

An autopsy performed after James Williamson's death at the Cape Epic in South Africa revealed a ventricle problem, according to a family member.

Fontana Pro XCT 2010: Pro men and women short-track results.

Rather than the traditional short-track length of 20 minutes plus three laps, Fontana promoters shortened the event to fifteen minutes plus one lap, guaranteeing that competitors would give an all-out effort for the entire race.

Like Bonnie and Clyde or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, craniums seem to work best in pairs. Together, Titus' Ron Hoffman and Chris Holman — designers and engineers by trade — make for bikes that are downright stealable.

Specialized Factory Racing’s Todd Wells and Lene Byberg take first ProXCT race of the season in California.

Karl Platt and Stefan Sahm, last year's winners of the Cape Epic in South Africa, repeated the feat on Sunday.

Pro men's and women's results from the Fontana Pro XCT

Specialized Factory Racing's Todd Wells and Lene Byberg take first ProXCT race of the season in California.

Alex Grant and Benjamin Sonntag will join Jeremiah Bishop and Tinker Juarez on CFR in time for first ProXCT race in California.

James Williamson died Tuesday morning before stage three after his riding partner Shaun Lewis could not rouse him.

German tire company finally offering 29-inch Rocket Ron and Nobby Nic rubber and a white 26-inch Rocket Ron.

Red Heat is designed as a race-ready wheel for the downhill and freeride worlds.

Many of the world's best cross-country mountain bike racers will take on the 450 miles of the eight-day Absa Cape Epic.

Using technologies pioneered in SRAM's first 10-speed MTB group XX, X7 is designed to bring 2x10 to mid-level cross-country riders, entry-level downhillers and freeriders.

While most bars and stems go with the oversized 31.8 clamps, Rotor is aiming at fans of Euro-style, 25.4 ultralight bars and stems.

A reader is concerned concerned about not making things worse by washing out lubricants or by washing dirt into bearings, or overlubing. Singletrack.com's mechanical master, Lennard Zinn, has some pointers.

After the first weekend of cross-country, short-track and Super D racing in the H2O Overdrive Triple Crown, Max Plaxton and Kelli Emmett are the overall series leaders. Next up in series is Colorado's Chalk Creek Stampede May 14-16.

Cross-country and gravity racers chosen to represent U.S. at Pan American Continental Mountain Bike Championships in Guatemala City April 9-11.

After withering attacks from Sam Schultz and Geoff Kabush, Max Plaxton was able to break away on the last lap to win the first race in the US Cup Triple Crown Series on Saturday. Kelli Emmett managed to outsprint Lene Byburg in the women’s field on the Bonelli Park course in Southern California.

US Cup Triple Crown 1 Bonelli Park cross-country and short-track results. March 13-14, 2010

Giant's Kelli Emmett rules small women's field while Sho-Air-Specialized rider Max Plaxton fends off withering attacks from Sam Schultz and Geoff Kabush to win at Bonelli Park in Southern California.

As board president Peterson will work closely with the organization's senior management team to fulfill USA Cycling's mission of achieving sustained athletic success and growing the sport of cycling in America.

The first top pro-level race of the season in North America kicks off this weekend at the H2O Overdrive Triple Crown Series in SoCal's Bonelli Park.

Financial concerns around 24-Hours of Big Bear in Hazelton, West Virginia spur move to Moab, where Nationals were held in 2009.

Southwest Wisconsin's driftless ridges and valleys west of Madison will dish out a difficult challenge in the Unnamed Epic come August.

Joining the Boulder, Colorado-based Mafia team this year is former Under-23 National Champion Sam Jurekovic.

Due to pilot error, there was some confusion over which picture actually won the February Phat Phat-Tire Photo Contest. Allow us to explain…

Now that SRAM's XX group is available to the masses on 2010 bikes and in aftermarket catalogues, the question is does it deliver? Singletrack.com's Technical Editor Zack Vestal gives you the low-down in a two-part XX review.

It may be March, but if you haven't checked out this calendar with world-class cyclists as models, well then, it's better late than never.

Moots has teamed up with Dirt, Sweat & Gears to assist with IMBA and the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association's efforts to provide trail accessibility for mountain bikers in the Southeast.

Want to convert your geared bike to a more simple singlespeed? Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn offers a few pointers.

Durango Mountain Park is now officially Overend Mountain Park. MTB pioneer's roll in creating open space dates back to 1994.

An elite crop of European racers lined up Sunday at the second XC race in the XX Maremma Cup, where Marco Aurelio Fontana held off the Swiss duo of Nino Schurter and Florian Vogel.

Singletrack.com's Zach White says Giant's 5-inch trail machine is one of the most precise and solid-feeling mountain bike frames he has ridden — period.