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MTB Dreams Can Make Your Wildest Singletrack Fantasies Come True

Adventure tourism as an industry is growing rapidly worldwide, and within that industry, the niche of mountain biking is one of the fastest-growing sectors. While it can be difficult to quantify that growth internationally, we’ve seen more and more mountain bike tour operators coming onto the scene on the local level, regional level, and even …

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An Ode to the Night: The Most Intense Time to Ride

In the beginning, the night was feared and forsaken… Most people have a favorite day of the year.  For many, especially the young, it’s Christmas, for others, their birthday, maybe an anniversary, or yet some other uniquely-important-to-them number out of the 365 which appear on the calendar.  For me, it was a day in spring, …

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Dueling Banjos: How Two World-Class Bike Shops in Brevard, NC Set Themselves Apart

If you haven’t yet heard about the phenomenal mountain biking in Western North Carolina, congratulations on your new internet connection! While riders in NC and the Southeast as a whole have been making the pilgrimage to the region for years, it largely flew under the radar in the broader mountain bike community. That has changed over the …

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When Rides Go Wrong: My Tragedy Trilogy

One bright and beautiful September afternoon roughly a decade ago, I was riding with a colleague, having a grand time slaying singletrack and swapping ride stories.  At one point, as I recounted a rather spectacular endo, my colleague informed me he had never gone OTB.  I found this a little hard to take.  After all, I …

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I Ride Alone: The Origin, Evolution, and Devolution of a Solitary Mountain Biker

I RIDE ALONE I am new to mountain biking.  I am neither fit nor skilled.  I am slow.  I walk many obstacles.  I crash.  It seems I spend more time off the bike than on it.  I am proud;  I don’t want to be seen failing.  I don’t like seeing only the backsides of other …

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