Cycling Utah

General registration for select spring 2025 IRONMAN 70.3 events open now. Remaining 2025 IRONMAN 70.3 event schedule and on-sale dates to be released in coming months. TAMPA, Florida (June 17, 2024) — IRONMAN has unveiled its spring 2025 IRONMAN 70.3 race calendar for the United States and Canada with general registration open now. Athletes looking […]

Is 13 your lucky number? This year it is for the Utah-Cache Gran Fondo. 2024 is our 13th year, and the event is Saturday July 13th, so naturally we applied a ‘Lucky 13’ theme and started printing posters, flyers, jerseys, tshirts, hats and signs with shades of green. The Cache Gran Fondo is for everyone, […]

Cycling West and Cycling Utah Magazine’s Early Summer 2024 Issue is now available as a free download (11 MB download). Pick up a copy at your favorite Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Northern California bike shop or other location. Download the Magazine Now!   Contents Bikepacking […]

LANDER, Wyoming (June 11, 2024) — The 8th annual WYO-131 gravel race will take place on September 7, 2024. The event is hosted by the Lander Cycling Club and is best known for its rugged 131-mile course that starts and finishes in Lander, WY. Additional courses include 13, 45, and 75-mile distances to suit riders […]

By Matt Davidson — I absolutely love cycle touring! Different than all my previous bike tours, on this trip I stitched together a paid, self-guided adventure designed by a tour company along with another couple, and then ventured out on my own Self-Supported tour in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. That Self-Supported tour is described […]

By Charles Pekow — A study from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program suggests that the standard crash prediction modeling system requires revision to better account for circumstances involving bicycles. The Federal Highway Administration has used the Highway Safety Manual since 2010, which was originally designed for cars and does not adequately address cyclist considerations. […]

Brian Head Resort announces 2024 summer operations and event calendar BRIAN HEAD, Utah (June 13, 2024) — Brian Head Resort, Southern Utah’s premier mountain resort, is excited to welcome summer with lift-served mountain biking and scenic chairlift rides starting on Friday, June 14. Throughout the summer, Brian Head Resort offers mountain bike and trail races, […]

Batten, Blunk, Blevins, and Amos will represent the United States in the Cross-Country Olympic Mountain Bike event in Paris. BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (June 11, 2024) — Brendan Quirk, CEO and President of USA Cycling, revealed the four athletes selected for the Mountain Biking events at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 during a press conference held at […]

Planet Ultra’s Hoodoo 500 has been selected as the 2024 World Ultra Cycling Association 500-mile Supported (with crew) and Unsupported North American Championship event. The fastest solo male and female in both divisions will be awarded a championship jersey. The race kicks off on August 23, 2004 in St. George, UT. The beautiful and challenging […]

By Charles Pekow — In addition to providing transportation and recreation, the bicycle has impacted culture historically. The difference it made, in all its incarnations over time is chronicled in a new mini-paperback simply entitled bicycle (with a small “b), written by cyclist Jonathan Maskit. The book is part of a series on Object Lessons […]