The dashboard for our website lists our most popular articles for the day, month, year and all-time. It’s fun to see that some older articles have real staying power. That’s the beauty of good science and good history—it doesn’t become outdated quickly. Here are four articles that continue to be popular and relevant: read more

The recent furor around ‘privatizing’ the last kilometers of famous mountain stages in the Tour de France, and charging admission, has died down a bit. For now, those ideas have been dismissed by Tour organizers… In all those discussions of how free viewing is an essential part of the Tour de France, one… read more

During much of my 20s, I raced mountain bikes, before taking almost a decade off to focus on my bike shop, Nicollet Bike and Ski in Mankato, Minnesota. I returned to racing at the top level in 2023, now mostly on gravel, but with plenty of mountain biking in the mix. I was… read more