6-7-07 // Events: The NYCMTB All-City XC Race
The New York City Mountain Bike Association celebrated the grand opening of their Manhattan MTB trails with the inaugural All-City XC Race.

6-4-07 // Events: The 2007 Bearclaw Invitational
The Bearclaw Invitational, just one week after Crankworx and organized by one of the discipline’s most dominant athletes, Darren Berrecloth, promises to be this season’s grand finale of slopestyle. More than 20 of the world’s best riders have signed on to compete in the second annual contest.

5-31-07 // Events: Jeep KOM 2007 Schedule
The host sites for the 2007 Jeep King of the Mountain Series have been announced. The Jeep King of the Mountain Series features 16 of the world's top riders competing head-to-head to capture the World Professional Champion title. In addition, the athletes will be battling for a share of the richest cash payout in the sport, topping $100,000, and the keys to a new 2008 Jeep vehicle.

5-30-07 // Online Exclusive: Chopper's Leg Hair E-Bay Auction
Authentic Chopper Leg Hair—grown in an all natural environment over the course of six years, this mane was fed a hormone and antibiotic free diet of hamburgers, beer, and bacon and eggs, this is the fur of a happy free range Chopper.

5-29-07 // Online Exclusive: Inside The Qashqai
It’s as unlikely a location for a freeride mountain bike competition as you’ll find—downtown Cologne in northern Germany. Miles away from the trees and the dirt and the mountains of our sport. Regardless, this past weekend (May 25th-26th) 24 of the planet’s best trick and air blessed mountain bikers gathered on the cobblestones of a park in the city’s centre for the fourth of five stops on the Qashqai Urban Challenge.

5-24-07 // Events: Germany Prepares for Qashqai Slopestyle
This weekend the world’s best slopestyle and park riders hit the streets of Cologne, Germany, for the fourth stop of the Qashqai Challenge. The street-focused course will feature ramps, quarters, box jumps and drops.

5-22-07 // Online Exclusive: Man the Shuttle Plane!
This was the first mountain bike float-plane trip of the season. A week earlier, our guide, Erin Heintzman, had hiked the Gun Creek Trail with a rowdy crew of high school students. She claimed the trail was in good condition, but that a major river crossing had been flooded with raging water. From the plane, Erin could see that the waters had receded, but exactly how we would cross the still-churning river was a problem that was miles of winding, scenic singletrack away.

5-21-07 // Trail Report: Santa Ana River Trail
The San Gabriel Mountains rise from the desert of Southern California to 13,000 feet. With a yearlong drought turning many of the region’s trails into dust bowls, the mountains offer a welcome respite from the heat. There are dozens, if not hundreds of trails lacing these craggy peaks, but one of the best is the Santa Ana River trail.

5-17-07 // Online Exclusive: Bike To Work Day
Bike Month, including Bike To Work Day on Friday May 18, was started over fifty years ago in 1956. Since that time a federal transportation bill has set aside more than $5 billion for bicycling with the goal of making it easier and safer to recreate and commute on a bicycle in the United States. Bike Month, and Bike To Work Day in particular, are celebrated by hundred of thousands of people across the country every year.

5-16-07 // Online Exclusive: An 18 Hours of Fruita Brief
Rolling down I-70 again to escape the never-ending winter of the Colorado high country. The last three weekends have seen the treads on my tires leaving prints in the dirt in Fruita and Moab. This weekend I will not be riding as much as assisting a friend who is literally coming off the couch to warm up with an 18-hour race.

5-15-07 // Events: Qashqai Urban Challenge In Milan
The Qashqai Urban challenge is unlike any other event. A touring band of freeride, street and dirt jumping’s elite battling it out for cold cash and a new car as they travel to a handful of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Unlike most World Cup events that are held at ski resort, Qashqai truly is bringing mountain bikes to the people by choosing these urban locales. This week, Qashai stopped in Milan, Italy for a dirt jump competition that pushed the rider’s abilities and imaginations to new levels.

5-14-07 // Events: Vigo World Cup Results
These are the result for the 2007 World Cup in Vigo, Spain—the first World Cup of the year with gravity racing events.

5-10-07 // Online Exclusive: MeXTico
Way down south, at the very tip of Baja California, where sun-baked mountains meet turquoise seas somewhere south of the Tropic of Cancer, Shimano earlier this week doled out the first early test samples of its new and improved Deore XT component line.

5-9-07 // Online Exclusive: Norway Knows How To Make it Work
Three years after the limited release of Watch This, which was circulated mainly throughout Norway’s small but burgeoning freeride scene, the ANTI crew is getting set to release their second movie, Make it Work—shot in HD, on a dirtbag, press pass budget in locations throughout Europe, California and Whistler.

5-9-07 // Online Exclusive: La Ruta Extended Mix In 2007
This year, for the first time ever, racers at the La Ruta de los Conquistadores will pedal the complete Pacific-to-Caribbean route across Costa Rica. Organizers have added one stage to the November stage race, making it four days instead of three.