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Cycling

Sports

My Month of Doing 100 Wheelies a Day

A rider’s self-improvement project becomes a whole lot more.

Kim Cross Outside Mar 2021 Permalink

Sports Food

Everyone Has a Tom Pritchard Story. Only I Have His Bike.

A legendary chef and the wheels he left behind.

Ben Montgomery Bicycling Sep 2020 20min Permalink

Sports

He Lost His Leg, Then Rediscovered the Bicycle. Now He’s Unstoppable.

Leo Rodgers is the irrepressible gravel-racing hero we all need now.

Peter Flax Bicycling May 2020 20min Permalink

Crime Sports

To The Driver Who Hit Me and Ran

A letter from a cyclist who survived.

Andrew J. Bernstein Outside May 2020 Permalink

Sports Travel

What Happens When Two Strangers Trust the Rides of Their Lives to the Magic of the Universe

One cyclist rides west, another rides east. They meet on an empty stretch of road in a Kazakh desert.

Kim Cross Bicycling Mar 2020 30min Permalink

Sports Health

Their Son's Heart Saved His Life. So He Rode 1,426 Miles to Meet Them.

An organ transplant recipient cycles across the country to meet the people who gave him his heart.

A.C. Shilton Bicycling Jan 2020 Permalink

Crime

The Bicycle Thief

Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing Olympic gold. Then he began using his bike for a much different purpose: robbing banks.

Steven Leckart Chicago Magazine Jan 2019 40min Permalink

Crime Sports

Bikes vs. Cars: The Deadly War Nobody's Winning

Riding along with the cycling lawyer who’s trying to change that.

Andrew Tilin Outside Feb 2015 15min Permalink

Sports

The Ridiculous Saga of Lance Armstrong, the Cheater Who Became an Enemy of the State

It’s worse than you thought.

Patrick Redford Deadspin Apr 2018 30min Permalink

Sports

Riding Away From a Broken Marriage

How getting back into serious cycling helped the author heal as his marriage unraveled.

Andrew Tilin Outside Apr 2014 15min Permalink

Crime

The Real-Life Superhero Who Beats the Cops to Bike Thieves

Meet Seattle’s cycling vigilante, Bike Batman.

Christopher Solomon Outside Aug 2016 20min Permalink

Sports

Broken

Every time a bicyclist rides on an open road, we entrust their lives to a safety net of legal protection and basic human decency. That system has failed.

Read more

Winner of the 2009 National Magazine Award for public interest reporting.

David Darlington Bicycling Magazine Jan 2009 35min Permalink

Crime

On Way to Disaster, a Life of Wrong Turns

What happened before a woman killed two cyclists.

Sarah Schweitzer Boston Globe Feb 2014 15min Permalink

World

Climbers

On Rwanda’s cycling team.

Philip Gourevitch New Yorker Jul 2011 50min Permalink

The Long Ride

On Lance Armstrong’s return to racing after cancer.

Michael Specter New Yorker Jul 2002 35min Permalink

What’s Your Excuse?

It costs $40 and could save your life. What do cyclists have against bike helmets?

Tanya Snyder Washington City Paper Mar 2009 30min Permalink

Best Article

That Which Does Not Kill Me...

Inside the twisted, half-conscious world of Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who might be the world’s best ultra-endurance athlete.

Daniel Coyle New York Times Feb 2006 Permalink