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Posts tagged: IMBA Epic

October 21, 2013

Breaking Down Brown County

We initially heard of the Brown County Breakdown via an article about the “Best Bike Festivals of 2013” published in Outside Magazine. And since it was the same group of discerning tastemakers at Outside who also named our Rudy Jersey to a list of “Best Fall MTB Essentials,” who were...

October 04, 2013

Montgomery County: The Urban Epic

After nearly 4000 miles of making excellent highway time, we met Pennsylvania’s late summer rains head-on whilst en route to Washington DC. Falling as though the streams and grasses were owed a great debt, the rains rendered the PA Turnpike a slow-moving river of taillights — streaks of red blurred...

September 07, 2013

Little Epic on the Prairie

Somewhere outside of Boulder, it was noticed that the trip odometer on the Sprinter resets every 1000 miles. Flicked open the Kershaw and started scratching hash marks into the plastic on the dashboard. One mark. And another. Our destination of interest was deep in the state of Kansas, nearly 10...

August 26, 2013

Mountain Bikers The Bucket List

“If you are a mountain biker, this is your bucket list.” A bold, and appropriately succinct statement for sure, but not one without warrant. This is how the International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA) sums up their “Epic” designated rides. All over North America, these are the rides that epitomize the...

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