FRUITA – This is Fruita’s secret season.In spring, SUVs decked out with the hippest bike racks swarm the farm town-turned-biking mecca near the Utah border. The trailheads are clogged, and on the ...

MOAB, Utah ” On a blustery April afternoon, two dozen vehicles line up on the blacktopped hill leading to Moab’s Slick Rock trail system and campground. Some tow trailers stuffed with dirt bikes and ...

FRUITA • Four trails built in the past year, another coming this summer and more in the planning stages — this mountain biking paradise built by mountain bikers isn’t settling in the desert dust.

ASPEN ” Cyclists who make regular pilgrimages from the Roaring Fork Valley to Fruita’s popular mountain bike trails might be in a for a surprise in the near future. Fruita’s diverse network of ...

As I suited up to ride at the trailhead for the North Fruita Trails— a favorite mountain biking destination for Roaring Fork Valley locals— I noticed the flyer conspicuously posted at the information ...

Although he sold the downtown Fruita shop to George Gatseos and Ross Schnell a few years ago, Rarick still advocates for the Over the Edge brand. The company has since set up shop in Hurricane, Utah, ...

Approximately 130 miles west of Aspen, Fruita is a mountain bike mecca. The first weekend in May, it extends its embrace to the mountain bike community, playing host to the Fruita Fat Tire Festival ...

A destination mountain bike celebration is returning to the western Colorado desert. Fruita's three-day Fat Tire Festival is kicking off May 12 for a full weekend of live music, food, beer and, most ...

In the mid 1990s, there was one mountain biking mecca: Moab, Utah. That's when a group of Fruita mountain biking enthusiasts, including Troy Rarick, former owner of Over the Edge Sports mountain bike ...

FRUITA – I hesitate to write this story, for fear of letting the secret out.But hidden along the dusty roads, rough jeep trails and web of singletrack paths that interlace the scenic Uncompahgre ...