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Over a Beer: The Inherent Dysfunction of Continued Risk Taking

Editor’s Note: “Over a Beer” is a regular column written by Greg Heil. While Greg is the Editor in Chief for Singletracks.com, any opinions expressed in this column are his alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Singletracks.com. Risk taking is an integral part of our lives. No matter how much we try to …

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Learning to Reduce the Impact of Some Mountain Bike Crashes, Part 1: Sliding out Sideways

I saw this 2013 video of mountain bikers crashing (mostly on downhill runs) on a couple of Facebook pages in recent weeks: Most of the crashes in the video seem to happen in such a way that there’s little the riders could do to mitigate the impact because of the speed or type of motion that …

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