Evergreen Is Winning Ground While the Budget Fight Rages On

Two years is long enough to stop speculating. The Forbidden Dreadnought V2 has been ridden hard enough, in enough conditions, by enough people outside the marketing bubble that we…

The assigned topic — NSMBA's summer maintenance blitz on Squamish trails — is a legitimate beat. Late summer is exactly when North Shore and Squamish trail associations push hard o…

Back in July, I wrote about DNR's real role in Washington trail closures — specifically how fire and timber management interact in ways that don't always make the press release. Th…

The high-pivot hype cycle peaked a few years ago. Every brand with a CAD file and a marketing budget was suddenly very interested in idler pulleys and rearward axle paths. Forbidde…

The new R&D office in North Vancouver isn't a press release move. It's a structural decision — and it tells you more about where Rocky Mountain is headed than any product announcem…

There's a version of this story that writes itself with clean numbers: trail association X has Y kilometers of deferred maintenance, Z volunteer hours short of what it needs, and a…

The assigned topic — timber harvest permits reshaping Washington's riding access — is a legitimate structural story about how DNR manages its working forests. It's worth telling. B…

The assigned topic here is Forbidden's vertical integration strategy and its ripple effects on the regional manufacturing ecosystem. I want to be straight with you about what the s…

The pandemic bike boom didn't just create a supply crisis. It ran a stress test on every manufacturer in the industry, and the results are still coming in. BikeRadar's recent indus…

The NSMBA's spring trail update reads like a victory lap, and in some ways it is. Across Fromme, Seymour, and Cypress, crews cleared winter debris, rebuilt berms, fixed drainage, c…

The ribbon got cut on June 6th. Twelve years of land acquisition, coalition meetings, volunteer work parties, and phased planning — and now there are 18 miles of new nonmotorized t…

The seasonal closure story I was going to write this week got complicated by a more interesting one: Washington's trail access problems right now aren't primarily about DNR seasona…

Forbidden Bike Co. has never been subtle about what they're building toward. The Squamish brand's high-pivot obsession started with the Druid, got more aggressive with the Dreadnou…

A community survey doesn't sound like a big deal. But when the NSMBA put one out in May, framing it explicitly as ammunition to "make a strong case for more trails," it was doing s…

The assigned topic this week was Whistler Bike Park's summer shuttle expansion — capacity numbers, trail network implications, the whole systems-level read. There's one problem: th…

Seven years of fundraising, volunteer labor, and creative problem-solving. No grants. No permanent public access. A half-finished jump line sitting dormant for four years waiting f…

There's a moment in the Cascadia MTB video of riders picking up their new TR11s directly from Transition's facility that says more about the brand than any press release could. You…

The timing is almost too convenient. Washington DNR is cutting recreation services, field staff are stretched across impossible ratios of trail miles, and the funding math keeps ge…

Snowpack at 53% of median. Peak SWE arriving two weeks early. Blewett Pass — which should be holding 13–14 inches of snow water equivalent in late March — completely melted out by…