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Listen: What it Takes to Build Mountain Bike Trails
We discuss how mountain bike trails are built, from idea to approval to construction. Walt Bready of B Ready Trails shares his favorite tools and resources too.
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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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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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3 Reasons Why You Should Get Involved in Trail Maintenance this Spring
Spring is upon us. The weather is warming up, and the snow is on its way out. It’s time to get out and ride, but chances are your local trails are in need of some attention before traffic increases this spring. The freeze-thaw cycle has pushed up hundreds of rocks, dozens of branches have fallen, …
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Video: How To Maintain And Build Mountain Bike Trails
Maintaining existing trails and building new ones should be done as a group effort, on land where it is legal for you to do so. Why not find out if your local trail centre has volunteering days? Mountain biking as a sport would really struggle without well-maintained trails and new trails being built. Once you …
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