Road Culture

Bike racing flows through every pocket of life and reporter Matthew Beaudin finds himself with a towed car, no phone, clinging to the raft

Sometimes the ride is motivation enough, but sometimes our relationship with suffering is what pulls us onto the saddle

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Bissell rider talks about team training camp in California, taking home stuff from sponsors and drinking his favorite beverage

Bike racing is an exercise in timing and suppression, and both come into doubt when Matthew Beaudin narrowly avoids a car/bike collision

Judy Freeman is on the ground in Austin, Texas, for the Mellow Johnny's Classic and psyched up for a new cross-country season

With support from family, friends, and his new Bissell team, "Phil the Thrill" is headed to altitude and hoping to leave a yellow jersey behind

How do we move past doping and attract new fans when we ask them to watch six hours of racing for 10 minutes of drama?

VeloNews rider diarist Tyler Wren recounts a frightening encounter with an Arizona driver at camp and the swift response from authorities

Dr. Michael Puchowicz contests Michele Ferrari's claims that Lance Armstrong would have benefited equally from altitude training and EPO

Sport medicine doc Michael Puchowicz contests Michele Ferrari's claims that Lance Armstrong would have benefited equally from altitude training and EPO

Sometimes a rider dreams of a flashy, carbon race machine. Sometimes a rider dreams of something else entirely

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The opening days of the Puerto trial have the look of a great work of surrealist art

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Once the break goes it's time for the peloton to get acquainted

RadioShack-Leopard's Ben King joins a 120-person service group to build homes in Tijuana during the offseason

Jamis-Hagens Berman veteran Tyler Wren checks in from the Tour de San Luis, where ProTeams are instilling order, but chaos still reigns

Velo reporter Matthew Beaudin reflects on the good things in mountain life: mid-winter snow bike rides, beer, and laughs

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Phil Gaimon fondly recalls some highlights with Kenda as he prepares to move to Bissell for 2013

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Adam Craig recaps a (mostly) successful six-week run from Trans Provence through Louisville

Phil Gaimon shares his favorite #ahhffseason activities, and addresses the Armstrong Affair

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Crankbrothers pro Judy Freeman finds new fans and results that bode well for the future in China

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Judy Freeman is off and riding for the high life on an excursion to China for the Guiyang International Invitational Tournament

I learned a few new lessons and had to re-learn a few. One, in particular, I am working on ingraining for the future...

I learned a few new lessons and had to re-learn a few. One, in particular, I am working on ingraining for the future...

Marathon nationals, enduro, Downieville and generally getting torn apart

Marathon nationals, enduro, Downieville and generally getting torn apart

Mountain bike racing goes through trends and phases, so what will be the next big thing?

Our off-beat diarist has one day to go to back off and defend second or go for the win at the Tour de East Java

I went into the season with a plan but it came out entirely different; still, somehow it seemed scripted

I went into the season with a plan but it came out entirely different; still, somehow it seemed scripted

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Our off-beat diarist is in the running in Java and riding the cultural waves of the Kazakhs and riders from Hong Kong

Joe Dombrowski got best young rider jerseys from several major pro road stage races under the guidance of mountain biker Jeremiah Bishop

Adam Craig describes a seriously wild ride in France

The RadioShack-Nissan youngster gets back on the bike in Colorado and fights his way to Denver

After six hard days in the saddle, Mike Hogan and Thomas Dooley were still kicking. Here's their final installment of the Breck Epic

Colby Pearce's last day of the 2012 Breck Epic there was nothing left to do but kick a dead horse until it inched to the finish

Follow Masters 80+ Duo riders Mike Hogan & Thomas Dooley on Day 5 of the race

Colby Pearce did the super stage race, following the Leadville Trail 100 with the Breck Epic. Here are some of his experiences

My training was sort of a “go or blow” attempt to earn Olympic selection

Racing a singlespeed at Breck Epic is a right of passage.  Don't believe me?  Try it.  I dare you!

A bacon hand-up at 12,500 feet. It does not, will not, cannot get better than that

Convincing myself and others that I was feeling fine, we set out for a VERY long day

I sit here having learned a valid lesson in my first year of racing and first attempt at a stage race. Bummer.

In the end the battle of Me vs. Me was won by the good guys

Before taking third in the Leadville Trail 100, Jeremiah Bishop had to make the switch from XC to endurance. Here's how he transitioned

If America is the land of comfort, we were definitely not in America today

Now that I can feel my fingers, I feel it an opportune time to recap today's mud run

What I learned from Stage 1: Keeping a positive attitude and losing your mind are NOT so far apart

Karen Jarchow will be chronicling her experiences of her first mountain bike stage race at the 2012 Breck Epic

King checks in with his prologue from a new book on mental strength in cycling

Our Kenda-5-hour Energy rider checks in on late-season disappointment, a new Olympic medal system and criterium moral outrage

With amateur doping cases gaining notoriety, local racers in Florida are taking anti-doping into their own hands

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Being beaten on the line when you think you're going to win and getting your bike stolen while on course is way worse than a slow race

Going slow to get back to fast is easier said than done

Ben King checks in from the rainy Netherlands after going soft in the U.S. for a month

Fresh off her selection to the U.S. Olympic team for London, Amber Neben checks in on overcoming adversity and leaving her ill-timed Beijing mechanical in China

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Judy Freeman's Olympic bid was a hard dream to let go of — and the battle cost her a tooth — but the other side isn't as bad as it looked

Judy Freeman's Olympic bid was a hard dream to let go of — and the battle cost her a tooth — but the other side isn't too bad

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Amber Neben checks in after her Specialized-lululemon team taught stage-racing class at the Exergy Tour over Memorial Day weekend

Our off-beat diarist checks in from the final stage of the Jelajah Malaysia with a long-shot close-call