12-3-07 // News: Cam Zink Signs With Felt For '08
A number of big team changes are coming down the pipes for the 2008 season. Fallout from the end of the Honda G-Cross team got the ball rolling, but many other riders are also looking for a new pit tent to call home. One such rider is Cam Zink.

11-21-07 // News: Greg Minnaar Joins the Syndicate
The former World Champion and two-time World Cup overall winner signs a two-year deal with the Santa Cruz Syndicate. With the addition of Minnaar to a team already stocked with Steve Peat, Nathan Rennie and Josh Bryceland, the Syndicate becomes one downhill’s most powerful teams.

11-18-07 // Events: LA RUTA Journal Stage 3
Rain, wind, cold temperatures, a seemingly endless climb up an 11,000-foot Irazu volcano and the longest, rockiest, muddiest, most punishing descent this Bike magazine reporter has ever encountered.

11-19-07 // Events: LA RUTA Journal Stage 4
This long-winded digression of the day’s main event is only noteworthy in that the mudslide contributed to the underlying theme of the 2007 La Ruta: unexpected twists.

11-16-07 // Events: LA RUTA Journal Stage 2
Greetings from the laundry room of the Best Western Irazu in San Jose, Costa Rica, where the machines are being abused almost as badly as the bikes being ridden by participants in La Ruta de los Conquistadores.

11-15-07 // Events: LA RUTA Journal Stage 1
Now I know what it feels like to climb 15,000 feet in one day. The first stage of the 2007 La Ruta de los Conquistadores could be described in many ways, but a few hours after crossing the finish line in El Rodeo, about all I can muster is this:

11-14-07 // Events: La Ruta Begins Today UPDATED
The 15th anniversary of the famed La Ruta de los Conquistadores begins today along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, in a surfing paradise called Jaco. 517 riders in all, including Bike magazine Managing Editor and endurance enthusiast Kip Mikler, will have begun their day at the bright and early start time of 5:10 a.m.

11-8-07 // Online Exclusive: 2007 Six-Pack Invitational
I intended to merely observe the 2007 Six-Pack Invitational—a rambunctious, season-ending finale to the renegade downhill series in Harrisonburg, Virginia—but then someone handed me a lukewarm can of Natural Light and a laminated number plate with an illustration of Jesus on it.

11-7-07 // Events: Ray's MTB Park Grand Opening
It hasn't started snowing yet in Cleveland but that didn't stop several hundred mountain bikers from flocking to Ray's Indoor MTB Park in Cleveland, Ohio last weekend for the season's grand opening celebration.

11-2-07 // Online Exclusive: SoCal Trail And Fire Damage Report
More than a dozen fires across the state stretched from north of Los Angeles to the Mexican border. Flames burned nearly 600 square miles, an area larger than New York City, resulting in at least one death, the destruction of 1,300 homes and the evacuation of more than one million people.

10-31-07 // Events: Ray's MTB Park Opens This Weekend
Ray's Indoor MTB Park in Cleveland, Ohio officially opens its door for the winter riding season this weekend. Bikemag.com is flying to Cleveland Friday for a few days of riding indoors.

10-29-07 // Events: Red Bull Stairway To Hell
Thirty-two riders were chosen to race down all 373 steps, the longest stretch of steps in all of Europe, in front of hundreds of screaming fans.

10-19-07 // Online Exclusive: A ride with Kabush
I've heard a lot of excuses (and made a lot excuses) for sucking on the bike. Lack of sleep, brake rub, the previous night's cheap burrito-I've heard 'em all. I guess this is why it was such a refreshing experience to ride with a guy who doesn't make excuses and who really doesn't suck. In fact, this guy doesn't suck so much that he recently won the NORBA cross-country and short-track series for the third time. I speak of course of Geoff Kabush, the Canadian cross-country rider.

10-17-07 // Events: Singlespeed Cyclocross World Champs
Leave it to the single-speeders of Portland, Oregon, to dream up the newest entry in the category of unofficial world championship events: the Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships (SSCXWC), scheduled November 10-11 in Portland.

10-16-07 // News: 2 Mountain Bikers Die In Kayak Accident
The Vancouver mountain biking community lost two highly regarded members of the tribe on Sunday when a kayaking accident took the lives of Richard Juryn and Denis Fontaine.