In professional mountain biking, it’s downhilling that is the most dynamic… and dangerous. Dominic Bliss met the crazy riders at the 2025 downhilling World Championships, in the Swiss Valais region, and discovered why they launch themselves down steep mountain trails at full tilt

The Passo Campolongo has a charmingly musical name that sounds like it could be the title of an Italian piano sonata. But cyclists who come to this climb in the Dolomites soon learn that it is a true

After spending two months bubling around southern Spain, you join the ride at Valor, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Andalusia. We were contemplating our return route north to Santander and the ferr

David Myers tests his sanity (and calf muscles) on the Alpenpässe-Weg – a journey of 40 cols and nearly 700km – to discover how the Swiss Alps were lived in and connected long before the combustion engine

Bikes love bends, so find out where the UK’s best combinations of corners are with RiDE’s guide to the ultimate stretches of twisty tarmac

From the black lava fields of Lanzarote to the emerald green slopes of El Hierro, GranGuanche Gravel is an adventure shaped by contrasts. Five islands, four ferries and a single continuous route stitc