It is a good sign that as I was perusing mountain bike trail names all over the western United States, I found more names I would place in the Best column than in the Worst column. As I’ve seen them though, the majority of the total were rather bland and inane. You get a lot …
Category Archives: mountain biking
Who Rules The Trails?
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 …
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 …
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