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Spotlight: Trips for Kids Uses MTB to Reach At-Risk Youth

Trips for Kids is a seemingly limited name for an organization that is using mountain biking in multiple ways to help at-risk youth all around the world. Through the non-profit’s ride and Earn-a-Bike programs, they’ve reached more than 100,000 kids from their home base in Marin County, California to as far away as Israel and …

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Why Mountain Bikers Are the Most Fanatical

Many times when I talk to other people–people who don’t mountain bike–about the sport of mountain biking, they seem to think that it’s like some sort of hobby that I have. Perhaps it comes up in conversation that I’m the editor in chief for one of the largest mountain biking websites in the world, and …

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5 Reasons to Take a September Mountain Bike Trip

For about four years now we’ve been taking September road trips the week after Labor Day.  It’s turned out to be our favorite trip time of the year!  Why? 1. Campgrounds are empty. Of course, this only starts on Labor Day itself since everyone usually camps the weekend before.  BUT they’ll all have to head …

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Apple Watch and MTB… What If?

I’m taking a quick break from Interbike coverage–without my editor Greg’s consent, I might add–to do some quick speculation about the Apple Watch. The Singletracks team was on its way to Las Vegas when the watch came out. It seemed the world saw the watch, leaned its head back as far as it would go, …

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Win a 10 Day Cycling Trip to New Zealand from Diamondback and Sport Chalet

I know a lot about New Zealand, for three reasons. First, I’ve been to London, and it’s chock full of New Zealanders thanks to something called a “gap year,” whatever that is. Second, I have watched all of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, which are filmed in NZ, and third, I have …

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