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When You’re Black, “Just Ride” Isn’t An Option 

This is the third in a series of essays written by Rachel Olzer on representation in cycling. Read Olzer’s first two parts: Why Representation Matters and What Does it Mean to be ‘Really Black?’   In September 2015, I started graduate school at the University of Minnesota. Two months into my program, two Minneapolis police officers Read More

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What Does it Mean to Be “Really Black?”

If you missed the first part of Rachel Olzer’s essay series on why representation matters, read it HERE.   I walk into the room where we have our regularly scheduled meetings. I’m elated. It’s my first year in the outdoors club at my university and for the first time since arriving at Arizona for college, Read More

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We Are Still Here

Yá’át’ééh shí éí Renee Hutchens yinishyé. Tódich’ii’nii nishłį́, Bilagáana báshishchíín, Tabaaha dashicheii, Bilagáana dashinálí. My name is Renee Hutchens, I am from the Bitterwater clan, and a member of the Diné (Navajo) Nation. My introduction in Navajo tells of my relationships and my identity that is inseparable from the land with a history that dates Read More

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Nine Ways Mountain Biking Became More Accessible This Decade

What our sport needs more than anything is to grow. Trail access issues might not even be issues if every land manager and their daughter or son, husband or wife were an avid mountain biker. And each city would have a bottomless trail-building budget if enough of its citizens demanded it. And speaking of budget, Read More

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June Issue On Sale Now

Click here to subscribe to Bike Magazine and support print. Photo Credit: Ale Di Lullo The June issue of Bike hits newsstands today, anchored by a stunning image of Thomas Ravina singeing down a sun-baked ridgeline outside of Novato, California, shot by the talented Ale Di Lullo. The cover marks our first on a new, Read More

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