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Watch: 8 Things We Wish We’d Known Before We Started Mountain Biking

Here are a few of the things we wish we'd known when we started mountain biking! What's the one thing that you wish you'd known before you started?

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Watch: 8 Mistakes All New Mountain Bikers Make

From screwing in pedals the wrong way to being in the wrong gear for a section of trail; all MTBers make mistakes. Here are Neil and Blake with some of the most common ones.

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In Praise of the Noob

Noobs take a lot of heat in the mountain bike world.  They are constantly getting passed and maybe dissed in the process.  We “expert” bikers scoff at their lack of skills and fitness.  We disparage their lack of trail etiquette and general knowledge of the care and feeding of a simple bicycle.  For some, the …

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