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5 Reasons to Take a Break from Mountain Biking During the Winter

I know, I know.  Those are fightin’ words: take a break from mountain biking?  Who would?  Why would you?  Blasphemy! Except… maybe it’s not. Here are my top 5 reasons for taking a break from biking during the winter. 1.  There’s snow!  Snow!  Snow means skiing and snowboarding.  Crosscountry, downhill, snowboarding, backcountry, split boarding… pick …

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Off Season: Ski Season is Here!

In our household there are two seasons: bike season and ski season.  Rarely do they overlap.  Once ski season begins, the bikes take a long winter nap.  Bike shorts get stored away and ski pants and socks come out.  The back of the car is no longer filled with bike helmets and scattered pairs of …

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Mountain Biking Breckenridge, Colorado

Known worldwide as a premier ski town, Breckenridge racks and stacks with the biggest and most famous ski resort destinations in the world, and rightfully so. Breck sports over 2,300 acres of skiable terrain on nearly 3,400 vertical feet from top to bottom, including long groomers, hairy steeps, glades, cornices, above tree line peaks, and …

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Video: Fat Bike vs. XC Skier

Back in December Greg posted a video showing a race between a snowboarder and a downhill mountain biker but here’s a new take: fat bike vs. cross-country skier. It’s pretty rad to see how much speed the skier gets even on the flats but the fat bike rider’s no slouch either. Who will win? Watch …

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Transitioning Ski & Board Skills to the MTB Trail

Looking through the corner. The sport of mountain biking (and especially downhill mountain biking) shares many similarities with the sport of downhill skiing and snowboarding. For the average cross-country or all-mountain biker, most of the congruent skills occur in the mental decision-making department. I first learned of these similarities from my mountain biking master when …

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