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Over a Beer: How Bad Is Mountain Biking for the Environment, Really?

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. The stock criticism trotted out by extreme anti-mountain bike conservationists like the Sierra Club is that …

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Mountain Biking Has an Identity Crisis… And it Affects Us All

Mountain biking is currently in the throes of an identity crisis. This isn’t exactly news, but has rather been an ongoing issue in our sport for many, many years. But I think that soon, very soon, this brewing issue is going to come to a head and will, unfortunately, boil over the top of the kettle. …

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Video: 8 Steps to Green Your Mountain Biking

Let’s face it, just because we’re mountain bikers doesn’t mean we have to be environmental idiots. We are outdoors people doing outdoors things so it stands to reason that collectively we have at least some interest in the wild, beautiful natural playground we ride through. If it was concrete we were after we’d be BMX’ers, …

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