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Are you someone who uses your smart phone for fitness tracking? It may be for running, hiking, or biking, but many of us have taken to using our smart phones for these activities instead of investing in a specific tracker like Garmin or Suunto.Or perhaps you're like me and have an e-bike which...

Double shell helmets are nothing new and have been around for a while. The downside of them was, well, they looked like double shells and made you look like Big Helmet from Spaceballs. Now along comes the Giro Manifest Spherical with its N=Mold polycarbonate shell with EPS liner, progressive...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trek’s all-new Fuel EXe is here to redefine eMTB with natural, quiet assist that lets riders get more out of every ride. [Waterloo, WI] – Trek has launched the all-new Fuel EXe e-mountain bike today, championing a whole new category in the mountain bike world. While...

Electric assist mountain bikes (eMTB from this point on in the article) in the $6-7K segment like my Cannondale Habit Neo 2 are the most popular and fastest growing segment of mountain bikes offered today - if you can find one. This Cage Match could easily be a comparison between Trek Rail...

Back in the dark ages of hardtails and 2-in. travel forks, I was working summers in a bike shop in Pennsylvania to help fund my new mountain biking addiction. After a short time, I was blackmailed into joining the local crew for a Tuesday night ride. (I was promised that the pictures have been...

It is our experience that Kulkea makes some of the best-built, most durable, and smartest designed bags on the market, and the OTRmost Hydration Backpack continues that tradition. Leave it to Kulkea to take an established design -- the hiking and biking daypack -- and reinvent it. Not only did...

In these crazy times of social distancing and trails getting more and more crowded with a mix of hikers, runners, horses, unicyclists, jugglers, unicycling jugglers, and other mountain bikers, we feel it is time to make our presence better known to others. It is not so simple anymore to just...

Philpug: I tried my first e-bike a couple of summers ago -- and almost two years to the day later, I bought one. I am writing this follow-up review not as a discussion on cheating, accessibility, and stigma, all that stuff; instead I want to explain how and why we went from being extremely...