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Over a Beer: Rutting Up Trails Is an Act of Pure Selfishness

Editor’s Note: “Over a Beer” is a regular column written by Greg Heil. While Greg is the Editor in Chief for Singletracks.com, any opinions expressed in this column are his alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Singletracks.com. The alarm clock squawked obnoxiously at 6am, jerking me rudely from my slumber. I wiped my bleary …

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How Strava Is Using GPS Map Data to Help Mountain Bikers

Last year, Strava users logged 9.6 fitness activities per second. Think about it: in the time it took you to read that sentence, 50 rides, runs, and workouts were logged by athletes around the world. If you’re like me, you’ve probably wondered what Strava does with the data from those 300+ million activities, beyond the leaderboards and the kudos. Monitoring …

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Brownfield Mountain Bike Trails: From Environmental Disaster to Pristine Singletrack

Mountain bike trail builders tend to get a bad, though undeserved, rap among certain groups for damaging the environment. But there’s one form of trail development where mountain bikers are surely working to improve the environment: brownfield trails. A brownfield is defined as “a former industrial or commercial site where future use is affected by real or perceived environmental contamination.” Brownfields …

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Thieves Stole a Trail Machine from SORBA Mid-TN. Support Their Raffle to Win a Moots Frame

SORBA mid-TN is working to build and maintain mountain bike trails in the Nashville area, and they recently suffered a setback when their new DitchWitch trail building machine and custom trailer was stolen. The rig was stored behind a locked gate and the brazen thieves had to drive deep into the park to get the machine. …

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New Kingsbury Stinger Trail in Tahoe Nearing Completion

The Lake Tahoe area has seen the addition of many great trails over the last six years. Another trail is about to join this rapidly expanding inventory. Work is nearing completion on the new Kingsbury Stinger trail. The hope is that this trail will officially be completed sometime this fall, although there is a chance …

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