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Mountain Bike Spring Cleaning, Part 2: Drivetrain, Pivots, and Brake Maintenance

This is a continuation of our series on spring bike maintenance. Click here to read Part 1: Washing, Fork Maintenance, and More. Drivetrain Maintenance After cleaning your bike and maintaining your fork, it’s time to tackle the drivetrain, frame pivots, and brakes. Carefully remove the crank arms. Most cranks are self-extracting using an 8mm Allen …

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Four Trails for Avoiding the Crowds in Fruita

It’s spring here on the Western Slope of Colorado and that means bikers. Lots and lots and lots of bikers. Bikers are great! There are festivals and campgrounds filled with tents; the Hot Tomato and other pizzarias and restaurants do a booming business and bike companies rent, guide, and shuttle happy mountain bikers day-after-day. Still, …

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The Best Day of the Year for Mountain Bikers

Yesterday was the best day of the year. Yes, it’s true – at least it’s true if you are a mountain biker or some other sort of outdoors enthusiast. Yesterday was the beginning of daylight savings time, and we all got to tack on an extra hour of daylight to the end of our day. …

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Stay Off Wet MTB Trails This Spring

Muddy conditions on the forest roads outside Helen, GA this winter. Spring can be a frustrating time of year for mountain bikers. The weather is finally warming up, the flowers are blooming, and the leaves are starting to come out on the trees but in many places the trails are still wet. Its true that …

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Stay Off Wet MTB Trails This Spring

Muddy conditions on the forest roads outside Helen, GA this winter. Spring can be a frustrating time of year for mountain bikers. The weather is finally warming up, the flowers are blooming, and the leaves are starting to come out on the trees but in many places the trails are still wet. Its true that …

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