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fat biking, News - January 14, 2016

Spirit Mountain to Open for Lift-Served Downhill Winter Fat Biking

Spirit Mountain, located in Duluth, Minnesota, announced today that they are opening their lifts for lift-served, downhill winter fat biking, from 10am-4pm every Sunday, beginning January 17th. Ever since fat bikes came on the scene I’ve been waiting for ski resorts to embrace downhill bike riding as they have during the summer, and while we …

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chain guide, Gear, mrp, News - December 18, 2015

News: MRP Releases SXg Chainguide

With the prevalence of narrow/wide chain rings, you’d think that innovation in chainguides would have dried up. Not if the folks at MRP have anything to say about it. Today they announced a new guide called the SXg. So what makes this one notable? When it comes to chain guides, you typically have two options: …

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Hundreds of Miles of the Best MTB Trails in Western North Carolina Are Being Evaluated as Wilderness

We’ve received several emails from IMBA urging mountain bikers to respond to the USFS’s request for comments regarding “Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests Potential Wilderness Inventory.” From the initial emails, it sounded like IMBA wanted riders to comment regarding the simple inventorying of land–but they didn’t really explain what all the hubbub was about, and which trails could …

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NEMBA Writes Open Letter to IMBA Urging them to Support the STC

The controversy surrounding the Sustainable Trails Coalition and their goal of getting mountain bikes into wilderness areas is heating up for round two, with articles and editorials dropping in many publications, including Bike Magazine and Outside Online. I personally think many people initially wrote the STC’s efforts off as a wild shot in the dark, but following the news that …

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Paying Penance at the 12 Hours of Penitence

A LeMans start is always a bit of a frenzied affair, as runners sprint to be the first to make the transition to be riders. After all, we don’t register for a bike race, even a 12-hour race, to show our mettle as pedestrians. Nevertheless, such a start is often necessary to thin out the …

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