While the rest of us were enjoying the great outdoors this Labor Day, the New York Times Opinion section laid a rotten egg for cyclists. "Keep Bikes Off Our Trails," demanded the headline of an ...

ASPEN An unlikely foe has emerged for valley advocacy groups pushing for more wilderness – mountain-biking organizations hoping to keep longtime trails. Three trails in the Aspen area – two that ...

On Dec. 13, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed the mountain bikes in wilderness bill (HR 1349), sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif. This bill weakens the 1964 Wilderness Act ...

It’s the debate that’s brewed for decades. Do mountain bikes belong in wilderness areas? Mountain bikers, hikers, conservationists and lawmakers have long traded jabs about the place of bicycles on ...

For more information on Sustainable Trail Coalition’s plan to open designated wilderness trails to mountain bikers, go to http://www.sustainabletrailscoalition.org ...

Are you ready for mechanized vehicles on every wilderness trail in the United States? That’s what you’ll get if a deceptive piece of federal legislation becomes law. Portrayed as a “modest” proposal ...

To the editor: I’ve been mountain biking since 1989 and really love riding on great single-track trails, but mountain bikes do not belong on the Pacific Crest Trail and I’m sure many other wilderness ...

Bicycles are clearly an example of the “mechanized transportation” barred by the act, and were hardly unknown in 1964 when it was passed. Hikers and conservationists aren’t thrilled with the prospect ...

It hasn’t happened yet, but one day, bicycles and baby strollers will be welcome in wilderness. That’s the goal of the nonprofit Sustainable Trails Coalition, which seeks to permit other forms of ...

RENO — Some of America’s most pristine wild places could be opened to mountain biking under a proposal before Congress. A bill by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., would lift a decades-old national ban ...

These Ngā Haerenga Great Rides of New Zealand offer truly memorable cycling experiences in some of the country’s unique ...