It’s not really about who thinks they rule the trails. It’s about the little bits of bike we all leave behind. It’s about the side of the tree with scrapes from the multitude of bikers who couldn’t see the towering thing and hit it with a handlebar. It’s about the plastic bottle wedged in a …
Category Archives: mountain biking
June is Bike Month
You may get tired of all the “dad jokes” in June, so let’s talk more about bikes. There isn’t anything I can think of that has more varieties than the cycle. There’s the unicycle, the recumbent cycle, the cruiser, the tandem, the tricycle, the roadie, the BMX, the mountain bike, the balance bike, the gravel …
MTB Definition
As I was doing a variety of things at the BMX park on my mountain bike, I was wondering if I was really “mountain biking.” Then, of course, I saw my own inability to pin down what exactly mountain biking is. This is how research happens. Though the first bicycle was made in 1871, mountain …
Adrenalin Junkies
Are you ready for a communal experiment? Are there moments in your day when you’re loud? Are there moments in your day when you’re quiet? What changes your volume? Is it who you’re with? Is it location or time-of-day? Do you feel like happenings are urgent? Do you rush about as well? Does your volume …
Slowshoeing
Have you ever seen the strangest sport ever? It operates the opposite from all other sports in its arena. While all other mountain sports enjoy a fast downhill and some sweet airtime, participants in this sport are going slow on the downhill. Slow? Not only do they go slow downhill, they go slower than they …
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