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7 Mountain Biking Tips that Will Help You in All Pedals of Life

As you climb to the top of a viewpoint and look over the vast valley below, it’s not uncommon to have some kind of epiphany. Mountain biking tips to improve your riding can also help you in this thing we call life. The quiet serenity of nature often spurs the mind to ponder life’s deepest …

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In Appreciation of the Non-Riding Spouse

We hardcore mountain bikers are a rare breed. Sure, there seems to be a lot of us when we show up at a busy trailhead on a weekend, but relative to the overall population, we are but a drop in the bucket. What’s more, we don’t always gravitate toward each other–romantically speaking, that is. Wouldn’t …

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How to Ride Like a Jerry: Follow These 12 (Terrible) Rules!

Y’all know what I’m talking about. Those “rare birds” on the trail, well… just taking up the trail, suspiciously lazy with no matchy-matchy attire. Terrible at their sport (and likely questionable at daily life duties), they are the Ronnie Mac’s of mtb, goonin’ all day long. No one understands why these exaggeratingly awkward riders exist, but when encountered, they possess …

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Mountain Bikers 3X More Likely to Drive a Subaru

As a part of one of our surveys back in 2016, we asked mountain bikers to tell us about the primary vehicle they own. Based on the popularity of a recent forum topic about the best vehicles for mountain biking, we figured it was time to crunch the results. At a high level, these survey results back up the notion that …

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Placemaking: Building Community with Beer, Bikes, and Beans

“Hey, have you heard of a place in Sonoma County that has a bike shop and a bar and a café where bikers hang out?  Trail something?” In my work on the San Francisco Bay Trail at the Association of Bay Area Governments, my colleagues are urban planners working on regional housing and transportation needs, …

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