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Opinion: 10 Reasons Why You SHOULD Race Your Mountain Bike

Editor’s Note: Dustin Gaddis has raced a slew of endurance MTB events and has helped coordinate races ranging from a local time trial to a national championship, but he isn’t very fast in the grand scheme of things. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Singletracks.com. …

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Opinion: 10 Reasons Why You Should NOT Race Your Mountain Bike

Editor’s Note: Greg Heil made it one of his primary goals to not enter any races in 2015–and he succeeded. While Greg is the Editor in Chief for Singletracks.com, the opinions expressed in this commentary are his alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Singletracks.com. By and large, our sport of mountain biking is rooted in racing. …

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Test Ride Review: Turner Czar

Having enjoyed my time on the Turner RFX so much, I decided to wrap up my Outerbike experience with another Turner, this time migrating from the all mountain side to the opposite end of the spectrum in Turner’s line of high quality suspension bikes, with the dedicated XC racing Czar.  Like most dedicated full suspension …

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The Importance of the Pre-Race Shakedown

Or how I learned to accept that things just break at inconvenient times. As a habitually late person with a completely and irreparably broken sense of time, I tend to push timelines a bit in both work (sorry, Greg) and play. As the time drew nearer for the first event of the Arctic MTB Club’s …

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New 7-Day Stage Race Coming to New Zealand January, 2016: The Pioneer

Mountain biking in New Zealand is on many mountain bikers’ to-do lists, and now there’s one more reason to visit: The Pioneer stage race. New this year, the 7-day race links together 353 miles of singletrack, doubletrack, farm tracks, and cycle trails from Christchurch to Queenstown through the Southern Alps. Riders must ride in a …

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