It has occurred to me that one of the reasons why many of my friends who mountain bike don’t end up hanging out together, let alone riding together, is because there are so many styles of mountain biking. How many styles are there? First, let me list one that’s not: Not quite grown out of …
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Stop Naming Trails This Way
With some help from my friends and family, we came up with over 300 mountain bike trail names worth using, or emulating. Before I get in to what some of those trail names are, let’s review naming traditions which need to be buried. Naming a trail after a person is the quickest way to tell …
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 …
Cables
Swearing is a powerful thing, when you’re taking an oath, or making a promise. And I did. I promised myself that the next time I had any trouble whatsoever with my hydraulic brake system, I’d make it one hundred million times better by switching to a mechanical, cable brake system. I swore it and then …
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