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Watch: How To Prepare Your Mountain Bike for Winter

GMBN explains how to get your mountain bike ready for winter riding, with tips like adding grease, cleaning, and more.

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Vittoria’s Fast-Rolling Mud Tire is a Rotating Oxymoron

At Sea Otter last week I got my first look at Vittoria’s Gato, cross-country (XC) tire. On paper, the Gato seems like a pretty standard XC tire: it’s (just) 2.2 inches wide, weighs 760g, and features a supple, 120tpi sidewall. And in person, the tire looks to be fast rolling, with regular and densely-packed, medium-length knobs arrayed along a round profile. …

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Watch: Wet, Muddy Roots Are Manifest Evil

Is there anything worse in mountain biking than wet roots on a steep trail? I personally can’t think of anything at the moment… From the 661 UK Gravity Enduro at Ae Forest.

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Riding After Rain: Advice for New Riders

This time of year, mud, snow, and ice cover trails across the continent, and sunshine is in short supply. Most mountain bikers acknowledge that riding soft trails can accelerate erosion and widen precious singletrack into jeep roads. But sometimes, it’s tough to know if trails are dry enough to ride. “It is something that takes some experience,” said …

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Opinion: STOP Riding Like This! Ease the Impact of Mountain Biking on the Environment

Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are Chris Daniels’s alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Singletracks.com. Enough whining already! Stop berating politicians and land managers for avoiding a fair public process, an absence of bipartisanship, unilateral decisions, dismissing scientific data leading to blind edicts preventing, prohibiting, and pilfering our trails under …

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