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5 Tips for Adjusting to Washed Out Local Trails

Familiar local trails can change quickly after a storm. Here are some tips for adapting to damaged trails.

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Watch: Reopening Virginia Key Bike Trails After Hurricane Irma

This video shows the hurricane damage done to the Virginia Key bike trail system, and highlights the incredible volunteer recovery effort to get the trails reopened.

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Watch: Man Caught on Camera Destroying Bike Trail Berms With a Shovel

According to Dirt Magazine, this 67-year-old man was "cautioned" after being caught on camera damaging bike trails on Cavehill in Northern Ireland.

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Mountain Biking Has an Identity Crisis… And it Affects Us All

Mountain biking is currently in the throes of an identity crisis. This isn’t exactly news, but has rather been an ongoing issue in our sport for many, many years. But I think that soon, very soon, this brewing issue is going to come to a head and will, unfortunately, boil over the top of the kettle. …

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Loving a Trail to Death: The Downside of Being a Popular Trail

Earlier in the fall Greg wrote a post about riding Horsethief Bench, one of the most popular trails in the Kokopelli Loops Trail System near Fruita, Colorado. In his post, Greg stated, “Horsethief Bench has fallen prey to its own popularity. . . it looks like it has been loved to death.” This gave me …

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