Photos: A White Christmas - Bike Heads For The Snow
Recent storms dumped snow up and down the west coast all last week. The Bike web crew took advantage of the opportunity and set off to sample a once-every-ten-year snow dump on local singletrack. The result was a ridiculous 2-hour push to an even more impassable route, but proved that even the most arduous rides are a hundred times better than not riding at all.

Photos: Victor Lucas Mountain Bike Photo Gallery
Victor Lucas is one of a handful of seasoned professional photographers who document the World Cup from the first race of the series to the last. Here is a gallery of his mountain bike images.

Photos: Sven Martin Mountain Bike Photo Gallery
'Complex' is the easiest description of Sven's character. A legendary skateboarder who originally hails from South Africa, Sven's a bit new on the World Cup scene, but an old hand at the same time. As a kid, he learned to shoot from his father, a professional photographer, and would snap away on trips in the African bush.

Photos: Rob Jones Mountain Bike Photo Gallery
Rob Jones. Tall, lanky and not exactly happy to get dirty (but not afraid to, either, especially if it means getting "the" shot); that's Rob. In some ways, Rob's the chap who's "been there and done that" the most out of all of us from the race scene—he's been covering the World Cup since before it was a World Cup (Mammoth Mountain in 1987).

Photos: Colin Meagher Mountain Bike Photo Gallery
Colin Meagher come out from behind the camera and talks about a handful of his favorite recent photos in this gallery from the Men In Black features story that he also wrote.

Photos: Gary Perkin Mountain Bike Photo Gallery
After a stint in the South African Navy Gary Perkin, who's known best in mountain biking circles as Flipper, started documenting cycling events and never looked back. Here's a selection of some of his favorite recent images.

Photos: Fraser Britton Mountain Bike Photo Gallery
Former professional downhiller Fraser Britton traded racing bike for shooting them. Now clients including Troy Lee Designs and Monster Energy go to Fraser for their catalog photos.

10-20-08 // Online Exclusive: Team IMBA's 24 Hrs of Moab
The Team IMBA program marries the teamwork of a 24-hour mountain bike race with that of trail advocacy. Team members raise money for trails and get some pro-level support in return, but the real winner is the trails.

11-20-08 // Photos: Riding Chelan's Devil's Backbone
In denial of winter's ominous approach, photographer Colin Meagher makes his annual pilgrimage to central Washington's Lake Chelan region. In addition to brake-melting epics, Colin and his crew encounter a host of local oddities along the way.

11-17-08 // Photos: 16th Annual La Ruta Results
The 16th La Ruta de los Conquistadores was held November 12-15 and again staked its claim as one of the world's toughest mountain bike stage race. Costa Rican Federico Ramirez won the event finishing 2008's La Ruta in a time of 17:52:32--some 30 minutes faster than last year’s event.