
The Best New Outdoors and Fitness Gear We Discovered Last Month
Everything from Nike’s latest kicks to the biggest multi-tool we’ve ever seen.

Everything from Nike’s latest kicks to the biggest multi-tool we’ve ever seen.

A week’s worth of product news, reviews and buying guides, all in one place.
By Gear Patrol

The best way to catch up on the day’s most important product releases and stories.
By Gear Patrol

Yeti’s new short-travel 29’er, the perfect commuter and a bike built specifically for adventure.
By Gear Patrol

The Stumpjumper has been a mainstay in Specialized’s stable of mountain bikes since its introduction in 1981.

The best way to catch up on the day’s most important product releases and stories.
By Gear Patrol

Changing the landscape of Point A to Point B.

In case you hadn’t noticed, the future of transportation has already arrived.

Specialized’s new S-Works Stumpjumper FSR 650b is the result of cutting-edge innovation.
By AJ Powell

Life is filled with compromises, and with aero road bikes that means that speed sometimes comes at a cost.

A faster road-bike from Specialized, a better raincoat from Columbia, National Geographic’s adventurers of the year and more.


The Roubaix isn’t limited by monikers like “road bike”.

The Specialized Turbo S is sure to turn the heads of panting competitive bikers.
By Peter Koch

The best in bikes trickles down from what professionals use on race day.

In honor of National Bike to Work Day, 2015, we bring the best road wares for the bike commuter.

The Global Fat Bike Summit reported that fat bike sales doubled from 2011 to 2012, then doubled again from 2012 to 2013. The category is growing, and the ease with which the oversized tires float over sand, snow and technical rock sections is to thank.

Fat bikes can effortlessly glide over snowy conditions like a set of snowshoes, and they’re cushy enough for riding in frigid temps without shattering your frozen tuchus. But the bike can only take you so far.
By Dirk Shaw

Cyclocross racing pits riders on bikes with drop bars and knobby tires against each other on multi-lap courses over a mix of grass, dirt, pavement, sand, mud and sections that force riders to carry their bikes over barriers and up stairs and hills. Racers attack from the line, and the intensity doesn’t diminish for the duration of the 30- to 60-minute events — it’s a redline-all-the-time, full-contact affair.
By Andrew Vontz

Competing in endurance mountain bike racing requires a significant amount of time on the bike. There are days when you eat your breakfast and lunch on the go, get on your bike before the sun comes up and even get lost in the woods trying to find six hours worth of trails.
By Dirk Shaw