Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Crested Butte and Gunnison Valley are recognized as one of the best places in the country to mountain bike — and for sound reason. In the heart of the Elk ...

CRESTED BUTTE - Glo Cunningham’s first attempt to ride Pearl Pass did not begin well. “I had a three-speed and two of my three speeds broke on my way up the hill out of town,” the 61-year-old cyclist ...

Gunnison Valley and its peripheral mountains are home to the highest concentration of singletrack mountain biking trails in North America—and until recently, no one had ridden all 750 miles of them.

The Crested Butte Bike Week delivered four days of cycling celebration. The Fat Tire 40 mountain bike event delivers strong competition each year. It was no different last weekend, as Durango’s Levi ...

Fat Bike Worlds is coming home. The 10th-annual event returns to Crested Butte Friday through Sunday, with the five-lap championship race set for Saturday. “Don’t be intimidated by the title ‘World ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Recognized as a mecca of mountain biking, Crested Butte is also a pioneer of fat biking. Fat bikes use oversized tires to boost stability and traction while ...

If Crested Butte didn’t invent mountain biking, mountain biking would have had to invent Crested Butte. There’s a tableau familiar to anyone who’s driven north along Colorado Highway 135, where the ...

The 31st annual Crested Butte Bike Week gets underway today with Alison Gannett’s Rippin’ Chix Mountain Bike Camps for women ($35 per session; $95 for the singletrack skills workshop) and a 6 p.m.

Dave Ochs spent some long days last summer working on a new bike trail up the Slate River above Crested Butte. The executive director of the Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association was driving down to ...