The staff and friends of Singletrack Magazine are set to ‘do a Calendar Girls’ and strip off for charity.

Hello Lee,
I am currently in the market for a Specialized Enduro Pro and was wondering if you could help me out with sizing. I am 6″4′ and my previous bike was a rocky mountain slayer 20.5 with a top tube length of 620mm.

That bike felt almost a little big for riding on the crazier […]

Deer Valley NORBA Dual Slalom KT There are lots of different ways to race mountain bikes, Dual Slalom

Dave Nice, a 26-year-old Denver resident, may be your everyday classically trained French chef and whiskey distillery employee who enjoys 160-mile bike rides before work, but this June, he’s going to try to do something special: Ride a fixed-gear mountain bike on the longest off-road, self-supported bike race in America.

The Great Divide Race follows a 2,490-mile route along the Continental Divide, from Roosville, Mont., to Antelope Wells, N.M. Nice will have to carry everything he needs to survive it — camping gear, repair tools, first aid supplies, food and water — and the lighter and smaller he keeps his load, the better, because it will have to fit on a small rack on his handlebars, a small pack under his seat, and a 1,000-cubic inch backpack. He wants the bike and the gear to weigh less than 40 pounds, not counting food and water. (Depending on the tires used, the bike weighs 27 to 29 pounds by itself.)

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Specialized calls the 2007 Stumpjumper FSR Pro “the most versatile trail bike around.” Now, after two weeks and over two-hundred miles of riding, can I second this opinion? That is the big question of the day, so I’ll save that one for later. In the meantime, let’s talk a little bit more about three review categories: overview of my physiological/kinetic experience, how the bike rides and what the components do for the ride. But first…the video review:

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Spain is clearly becoming the hottest MTB destination in Europe - here’s another holiday company down there

hi all, keen MTBr surfing the web, I came across this site and it looks very good so I thought I’d register and say a quick hello, new to this forum thing but have been riding my bike for ten years now and still loving it. Still on my 1st bike, with a few upgrades GT Hard Tail, looking at buying a new bike next year 07 Specialized Enduro comp. I’ll see ya round the site.

Just got a note from Jason in SoCal. Last fall I coached him and some of his teammates, and this winter they killed it at Southridge.

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Jason rocks the race style.

Hey Lee,
Hope all is well (and thawed out) on the Front Range. […]

I put a lot of work into this baby, and 25,000 of you are digging it every month. Time to step it up!

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I (Lee McCormack) am an experienced journalist, information designer and kung fu master (figuratively) who loves bikes. I started leelikesbikes.com four years ago as a way to share stories with […]

Lee,
Pro Jamie Ford and I are doing this clinic at whiteface. Would you mind putting up this press relase? It’s pretty apropos. You’ve done a rad job legitimizing coaching for DH.
Thanks! Mickey

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DATE: March 26, 2007
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