The Battle for Western Hills
The bikes slowly arrived at the defunct golf course, many caked in mud and grass from the night before, their owners still dragging a bit from the skirmishes held at […]
Ghosts in the Night
Early in the day the threat of rain was only about 20% but as the start time for the Arkansas Super-Prestige Night Cyclocross Race got closer, the chance of rain […]
I’m on a 29 step plan
The funny folks at nsmb.com are at it again. They’ve come up with 29 steps to be a real mountain biker, something everyone from girlfriend-free teenage boys to presidents have […]
The Dirty Tri
As the racers entered the water they were reminded how lucky they were. “Two months ago it was 110 degrees for a triathlon here, today it’s only 55 degrees, exactly […]
Enter the Coliseum of Cyclocross
As I walked part of the course with Chad, we looked at the lines and the barriers. He looking at spots he could work an advantage, me looking for good […]
How We Got Beer
UPDATE: There is a Part 2 to this story. A journey that started way back in 2013 is revived in 2024, 11 years later. Part 2 has been added at […]
Kids, Puddles and Mountain Bikes
For the past two years in a row, three years total, team Arkansas Outside has hosted a local International Mountain Bicycling Association Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day (TAKMBD). IMBA […]
Now we’re getting somewhere…almost. On the Trail to Hot Springs.
The Arkansas River Trail is an incredible resource in Central Arkansas for recreational walking, running, and cycling providing great spaces for people to enjoy the outdoors. A distant secondary use […]
Things you Can and Can’t do.
First a Bit of Bad News We have a lot of great recreational opportunities in Arkansas, unfortunately many of them are on federally managed land and during the government shutdown […]
We Have Our Own Guy
(from International Mountain Biking Association news release) Steve Schneider has joined IMBA as the region director for the South Central states. Schneider joins seven other region directors on IMBA’s team […]