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How To: Mountain Bike Stream Crossing Tips and Techniques
Mountain bikers encounter all kinds of obstacles on the trail, and each one requires a slightly different technique to address. Today I want to share some tips for making it across a stream crossing without taking a bath in the drink. Momentum Is Your Friend Honestly I could just end the article with that heading because momentum is …
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How to Improve Your MTB Life: Attend a Training Camp
Mountain biking is an amazingly diverse sport. Complementing the plethora of styles and terrain, the motives to participate in cycling are equally varied. Many of us are recreational riders, dabbling in the race scene here and there, cultivating our own unique experience as life permits. Others take to racing on a more serious level by …
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“Gluten-Free” Won’t Make You Faster!
It feels good to go fast. It feels even better to win (hell, just be honest with yourself). To get there, some people are willing to try almost anything–EPO, steroids, HGH–pick your poison. The majority of us take a more “healthy” approach to reap personal fitness and performance gains. We do things like… diet. But, define “healthy?” Going …
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Watch: Make Climbing Easier: 8 Tips To Climb 3,000ft on Your Mountain Bike
These are Scotty’s 8 Tips To Climb 3,000 Feet On Your Mountain Bike. Climbing 3,000 feet is an awesome milestone to accomplish on your bike. Big climbs can often be daunting, tough, and require some planning. But once you’ve done your first you will be wishing for more!
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Mountain Biking: It’s Good for Your Heart
Most of us start mountain biking because it’s fun. Hitting the trail is a satisfying way to get outside, hang with friends, challenge your mind, and of course, there’s beer. The list goes on, and we love it. But aside from these more obvious advantages there exists a major internal benefit–it’s good for your heart. Heart disease (CVD) is the number …
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