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I pull gently on the Hayes Disc Brakes to slow my Schlick Northpaw as I pull up next to an idling four-wheeler along Masterson Fire Lane. “Any of your guys get anything this morning?” I ask? “Stubby saw that five-pointer but he let it pass,” Buck Masterson said with the combination of disappointment and approval…
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A well-known Wisconsin cyclist, former employee at the Telemark Lodge, and one of the founders of the Chequamegon MTB Festival, Phil Van Valkenberg, will get a trail named after him in his home town of Cambridge, WI. Phil started working at the Telemark Resort in 1978 as the Vice President of Sales. Below is the…
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With the Tour de Chequamegon bikepacking trip only a couple months away, a few people have been asking questions about what to pack. or the weekend trip. If you ask a dozen experienced bikepackers what they bring, you are bound to get 12 different lists. Individual preferences vary widely and there is so much great…
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Wow, people are racing again with mass starts and no masks! Thinking about the last year feels like one of those foggy morning memories of a disturbing dream the night before. You remember an overwhelming sense of dread, but nothing really made any sense. It feels so good to see the pandemic fading in the…
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This post originally appeared on Bikepacking.com. The last time I pedaled the Colorado Trail in Durango, I did it on a lugged steel Waterford with Nitto mustache bars. I think that was 1990, the same year Durango hosted the very first UCI National Mountain Bike Championships! While Ned Overend is still shredding the trails around…
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This story originally appeared in the July 2014 issue of Wisconsin Bike Fed magazine. I may never go to Colorado again. After a whirlwind weekend tour of Wisconsin’s North Coast along the south shore of Lake Superior, I found some of the best mountain biking I have experienced since I last rode in Durango. While…
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I pull gently on the Hayes Disc Brakes to slow my Schlick Northpaw as I pull up next to an idling four-wheeler along Masterson Fire Lane. “Any of your guys get anything this morning?” I ask? “Stubby saw that five-pointer but he let it pass,” Buck Masterson said with the combination of disappointment and approval…
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In 1992 I bought a bike so I wouldn’t kill anyone driving home from the bars in Milwaukee. I went to the bars a lot back then. It was an entry-level mountain bike painted white with black splatter paint and blue Trek logos. I added a halogen headlight since I would mostly be riding at…
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Even before TLC popularized the phrase in modern culture, bicycle advocates have built careers on the metaphor. Since I retired from two decades working in bicycle advocacy, I’ve given up tilting at windmills, but I do have a lot more time to literally chase waterfalls. This route follows the plentiful unimproved forest roads in northern…
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