The community over at Community.Bike198.com is rocking along. Thank you to everyone who is participating in the growing forum section of this site. With over 420 members and 2,100 posts, we are really killing it for a young forum. If you haven’t registered yet, click...

Last week, I shot up a poll on mountain biking photography asking how involved your process is on capturing the action on the trail. With camera technology taking huge leaps in recent years (especially with video and small HD camcorders), I was interested to see how many...

Last week, we took a look at the nuts and bolts required to convert a standard mountain bike frame over to a single speed. As the single speed craze caught on more steam, the mountain bike community started integrated methods typically found in commuter bikes to develop...

For those of us in the United States, our favorite time of the year has finally hit…daylight savings time. That glorious time of year where we get that extra hour of daylight and emerge from the darkness of winter. Where riding into the night without the aid of lights...

Dear Trail Head Bling Master, If you are reading this (and you are probably not because you are actually searching for that next top end part you are going to buy), I want to let you in on a little secret. We all know your routine. We have seen you come to the trail head...

More information is getting out on the new mountain biking video from Anthill Films titled “Follow Me”. From the same crew that brought us Roam and Seasons, Follow Me is going to be another bit of video that is going to make us ride well above our ability thanks...

Time to jump in and give you guys an update on where things are, where they are going and how it affects you. So here is some Bike198.com news to go with your morning coffee as we continue to unwrap this pedal propulsion obsession. Ever since the move last month to the...

Photography has always been a side hobby of mine and after extensive talks with Keith Pytlinski and other photographers that shoot cycling, I am really starting to ramp up my hardware to handle the needs of fast motion, under tree cover shooting (picked up a Nikon D300S...