In The Know Featuring Ryan Howard

Do you dream in black and white or in shades of loam and leaves? When you dream, do you revel in that sweet silence as you float weightless before landing again? Are your dreams filled with the sounds of tires smashing berms and spraying hero dirt? Is ragged-edge speed your number-one best friend? Do the trails in your dreams flow like water and offer never-ending possibilities for new lines and new creativity? And do you always wake up before you get to the end? Yeah, that’s what we thoug...

The sport of mountain biking has its epicenters of excellence — places where the word ‘progression’ really means something. The product engineering of mountain biking also has its hotspots. And few have a more interesting history and legacy than Schweinfurt, Germany. Located near-perfectly in the center of Germany, innovators from Schweinfurt are responsible for the first precision ball-bearing, the first ball-bearing hub, the first freewheel and, now, SRAM Eagle™, the SRAM 1x™ drivetrain...

Admit it. At least once, recently, in your mountain biking career, you’ve thought it would be a good idea to race an enduro. Or maybe you’ve raced a local event, and are considering stepping up to an Enduro World Series event. And maybe, since racing an EWS is going to require travel for most people, the idea of combining an enduro with a trip to the most awesome mountain bike festival in the world seems like the way to go. But how do you do it? What’s the inside info? You’re in luck. Y...

ESCAPE - Jérôme Clementz - INDONESIE Mount Rinjani

He delivered an all-star acting performance as a mad, performance-enhancing-drug doctor in his Dirt Diaries production, Ze Lab. He pushed Fabien Barel to get creative in RockShox's French Lessons. He skillfully — and shamelessly — sent a cyclocross bike down A-Line and Dirt Merchant in the Whistler Bike Park. And despite a DNF in Rotorua, the opening round of the 2015 Enduro World Series, Yoann Barelli’s solid performances, and a couple of close 2nds, netted the Whistler-based Frenchman a top...