On October 21, 1976, a small group of cyclists and a dog named Junior gathered on Carson Ridge, which rises just west of Fairfax, California. It was mid-morning and the sky was bright blue, a beautiful day for racing 50-pound vintage Schwinn Excelsior clunkers down Cascade Canyon Road, whose winding dirt surface plunges 1,300 feet in less than two miles, past serpentine outcrops, low-lying chaparral, and scattered oaks on its way to the confluence of San Anselmo and Cascade creeks.

In New York, smart street design helped the city have its safety and its speed, too.

Yanking a bicycle from the docking station outside New York's Grand Central Terminal, a helmetless rider slung a golf bag full of clubs over his shoulder and, along with another rider wearing headphones but no helmet, merged into rush hour traffic.

It's not uncommon to spot cyclists in a city riding around with earbuds crammed firmly into each ear. To many people, this seems insane: city riding is dangerous to begin with, and eliminating one of your senses can only make it more perilous.

At the office or airport, 30 minutes of easy pedaling on a WeBike will get you a full iPhone charge and keep you fit.

Renárs Bundzis learns the hard way: don't tailgate a backhoe.

After years of being overshadowed by the cheater, Greg LeMond is the only American to have fairly won the Tour de France. I apologize for being complicit in the lies against him.

Biking in Seattle can be less than mellow with all the hills, traffic and especially that rain. But those things are exactly what inspired the Teague team of bicycle designers to build the Denny bike for the Oregon Manifest bike design project.

Urban biking is a totally different beast than peddling around suburban trails. And yet, most of us ride the same exact bike in both situations. That’s fine—whatever two-wheeler gets you from point A to B is good in my book—but the fact remains, biking in a city requires a different set of transportation tools.

Vincenzo Nibali emerged on Sunday from a Tour de France marked by inclement weather and almost cruel eliminations of other favorites as the race’s first Italian winner in 16 years.

A U.S. cyclist who pedaled across 50-plus countries for peace and charity was run over and killed in Russia by a drunken truck driver, ITAR-Tass news agency said Friday.

The best parts about experiencing the Tour de France are outside the course itself, from the endearing scene before every race to the bliss of driving through one of the world's most eclectic landscapes.

Bike riding is very popular in Norway, especially in the city of Trondheim. But there's a steep hill in that city called the Brubakken that most bicyclists won't try to climb. It's just too steep. So in 1993, the city built a bicycle escalator. It recently upgraded the escalator into the one you see pictured here. It's a lift that moves at about 3.4 miles per hour up a 427-foot hill with a gradient of about 10-18º.

Racing through the streets of England, crowds have shown up in thousands to cheer riders on, but sometimes extreme fandom can come as a detriment to the cyclists. Crowds have poured on to the street making narrow roads much more limited, causing the cyclist to take measures into their own hands.

German police have apologised to a one-armed man who was fined €25 for having only a single handbrake on his bicycle, not two as required by law. The man, theatre employee Bogdan Ionescu, was reimbursed the money and "police apologised to him" three months after the incident, a Cologne police spokesman told AFP.

Until the autumn of 2012, Lance Armstrong was almost universally heralded as a champion of the human spirit and a sportsman whose personal and professional accomplishments were nothing short of heroic. Handsome, intelligent, charismatic, seemingly fearless and thrown into adversity…

Harley-Davidson debuted an electric bike called the LiveWire.

MTB ride on Saturday 31st May 2014 from Ongegund, last few km's before end of session. Armed gunman and 2 others stopped myself and took cellphone, car keys, oakleys and bike. Fortunately they did not have a clue what a GOPRO was and this is the evidence that will assist in their procecution!

The best defense against bike thieves is to own a bike that no one would want to steal and use a lock that's just good enough to make it inconvenient. But if you must have nice things, a good bike...

Take an interactive ride across the 8 best cities for bicycling across the USA!