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Are you as fired up about this weekend of rafting the Cheat River as we are?  Pictures of a day of rafting on the Cheat Do you have some good photos of you having a blast on the Cheat?  Add them to the  post....

Can you say Spring time rafting action! The Cheat River is the largest undammed watershed east of the Mississippi.  The whitewater action gets going in Albright, West Virginia where the Cheat River narrows and drops into the Cheat Canyon.  At this point the might Cheat River...

The Shivas are here!  We got all three sizes of Pyranha Shivas in stock.  I have tried both the large and the medium.  I am around 5'10" and weigh in at svelte 200 lbs.  I thought the large would be it for me, but I thanks to the indomitable John...

Yakima makes good racks. We use them on our bike tour vans: And our personal tiny convertibles: We have a ton of rack parts in stock at the store, and we can always order specific stuff. Give us a call at 1.800.272.4141, or stop in the store. Anyway,...

Eric Martin, one of the owners of Wilderness Voyageurs, took part in the Trail Town Sustainability Summit. Read what they had to say "After a warm welcome from Cathy McCollom, director of the Trail Town Program (and fair-trade coffee from Reilly’s Best in Ohiopyle) Eric Martin...

A good town bike for the guides needs to do three things: 1: Be mechanically sound enough to make trips from the store to town all day. 2: Keep employees off of our nice Cannondale Comfort rental bikes. 3: Survive drunken crashes. With those things in mind, I grabbed a can of...

Some new Pyranha Shivas were delivered yesterday From the Pyranha guys: The Shiva has a rounded hull, soft stern chines, a high bow rocker and loads of volume in the bow and stern. These features give you softer landings on big drops, rear driving force when you want...

Zane demonstrates the German Shepard carrying feature built into the Astral Bird Dog K9 PFD: And the foot uglifying feature built into camo muck boots. posted by Montana...

V-brakes are used on almost all hybrid bikes and most older mountain bikes. They're simple, powerfull and easy to adjust. Here's how to work on them. For this job, you'll need a small philips or flathead screwdriver and a 5mm hex wrench: The brakes are adjustable at...

Yesterday we got a shipment of Princeton Tec headlights: I'm on my second Princeton Tec EOS Bike light, and I'm perfectly happy with it. It's bright enough for trail running in the dark, lasts a long time on three AAA batteries, and is tough enough to be...