COTOPAXI, Ecuador -- Riding a mountain bike down the side of the world's highest active volcano, from just below its 14,770-foot-high snowline to its foothills, can literally take away your breath.

We'd been traveling for most of a day — flying into Rome from the U.S., renting a car at the airport and then driving three hours north into the hills of Umbria. Our destination was Norcia, a small ...

The single-track mountain-bike trail drops through a scrubby high-desert landscape of gnarled trees and thorny bushes and directly into a tunnel formed of spiky cactus. There is no other way to ...

Nestled in the western Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania is a village with the unlikely name of Jim Thorpe. Once a go-getting town of railroads, robber barons, and coal barges, Jim Thorpe has ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – The folks at Detroit Mountain Recreation Area are reaching for the golden ring of mountain biking – they want to become an official International Mountain Bicycling Association ...