Paved magazine correspondent Kevin Rouse waxes poetic on why Chrome's Cardiel ORP (Operation Readiness Pack) is fan-fricken-awesome:

I'm a [smug]gler. My tool of choice, Chrome's fan-fricken-awesome Cardiel ORP (Operation Readiness Pack).

My cargo? A screw-you attitude and a middle finger to the oppressive car culture found behind the Orange Curtain, otherwise known as the surreal land of Orange County, California.

Smarminess aside, I've had the luxury of..

So, Lance Armstrong has finally come clean--or partially clean, depending on who you ask and how cynical you are--and what ulterior motives you believe Armstrong had in granting his interview to Oprah. (Did you notice how he perked up when she asked him about the prospects of ever competing again?)

Anyone familiar with endurance sports was a fool to believe Armstrong never doped--but most of us realists gave him a pass given cycling's dirty history. (I know I did.) "They're all..

Bike Magazine's 2013 Bible of Bike Tests

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There's a new mountain bike series in the Rocky Mountains called the Big Mountain Enduro Series, and it's gaining a lot of buzz. Indeed, Bike magazine hailed the series with the headline "World-Class Enduro Racing Comes to the Rockies." (For Bike's preview of the series, click here.)



For those of you unfamiliar with enduro-style racing, it's downhill racing in stages, and it also includes climbing, which is why it's sometimes referred to as "all mountain"..

Cyclocross is all about mud, blood, and beers, and judging by a recent Bike magazine photo gallery, the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships in Wisconsin's Badger Prairie State Park did not disappoint. "This is Badger country we're talking about here, and there were more than a few Green Bay Packers supporters on hand. Something you'd likely never see on the sidelines of a national cyclocross championship in Belgium or Holland is a thick jacket emblazoned with a snowmobile brand..