At 11 a.m. local time on Saturday, the 2026 Silk Road Mountain Race started in Talas, Kyrgyzstan. The Silk Road is the longest of the ‘Mountain Races’ —more than 2,000 km (1,250 miles)—and arguably the hardest, with more than 36,000 m (119,000 ft) of climbing in some of the world’s highest mountains. The… read more

It’s become a little quiet around 32″ wheels recently. The revolution hasn’t happened (yet): Many observers expected the new bikes to make a clean sweep of the races they entered. Cameron Jones, the winner of the 2025 Unbound, enthused that his new 32″ gravel bike made him feel like he was “levitating over… read more

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the world. We don’t know yet whether it’ll make many of our jobs obsolete, but we can already see the results every day, when we scroll through news stories or open our inbox. AI has made it easier than ever to generate ‘content.’ If you want to turn… read more