News broke yesterday that THE pioneering 24-hour mountain bike race, the 24 Hours of Big Bear, is canceled for 2010. Granny Gear Productions also said that the 24 Hours of 9-Mile has also been called off, but the 24 Hours of Moab is still scheduled to go strong.

The second stop of the 2010 Dirt Rag World Tour rolls into Seattle this weekend for the Seattle Bike Show. Stop by to talk to Maurice and oogle all the cool bike stuff!

Three awesome things come to mind when you think of New Belgium Brewing’s Urban Assault Ride: beer; bikes; big wheels. That’s right, the series is back for 2010, and we’re excited. So excited, in fact, that we’re helping sponsor it again this year!

We have some fantastic news coming out of the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC this morning. The League of American Bicyclists is reporting that Google Maps has finally added a “bike there” option to the choices of directions between to locations.

Philadelphia-area mountain bikers of all shapes, sizes, experiences and abilities will again have the opportunity to fraternize, ride, eat and buy stuff when the Fourth Annual Rally in the Valley goes down on April 17th in Wissahickon Park.

The good people over at Bikes Belong recently showed us 55,000 reasons why they’re so cool. Several cycling organizations and projects (catering to those who love non-paved as well as paved cycling) have just benefitted from the award of $55,000 worth of grants.