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Love for the Newbies: 8 Easy Mountain Bike Rides in Western North Carolina

8 of the easiest, beginner-friendly mountain bike rides in Western North Carolina include the Jackrabbit Trail System, the Tsali Trail System (the Thompson Loop and the Mouse Branch Loop), Spencer Branch in Pisgah National Forest, Pink Beds in Pisgah National Forest, the Explorer Loop at the Bent Creek Trail System, Deep Creek, Hoor Hollow at the Fontana Village Trail System, and Dupont State Forest as an honorable mention.

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New Southern Highlands Traverse Bikepacking Route Travels 1,270 Miles from Virginia to Alabama

Last week the Southern Highlands Traverse bikepacking route was officially unveiled, and it looks to be an instant classic! Brett Davidson and Logan Watts, along with more than a dozen contributors, created the route, which begins near Front Royal, VA and ends at Flagg Mountain in Alabama, making it the first 1,000+ mile bikepacking route on the East Coast. The …

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Dueling Banjos: How Two World-Class Bike Shops in Brevard, NC Set Themselves Apart

If you haven’t yet heard about the phenomenal mountain biking in Western North Carolina, congratulations on your new internet connection! While riders in NC and the Southeast as a whole have been making the pilgrimage to the region for years, it largely flew under the radar in the broader mountain bike community. That has changed over the …

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Hundreds of Miles of the Best MTB Trails in Western North Carolina Are Being Evaluated as Wilderness

We’ve received several emails from IMBA urging mountain bikers to respond to the USFS’s request for comments regarding “Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests Potential Wilderness Inventory.” From the initial emails, it sounded like IMBA wanted riders to comment regarding the simple inventorying of land–but they didn’t really explain what all the hubbub was about, and which trails could …

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Tsali is the Place to Ride

The Tsali Recreation area is legendary among mountain bikers across the country. Well, legendary in the sense that there is a mountain bike named after if (The Litespeed Tsali). But beyond the 40 miles or so of singletrack located on Fontana Lake in western North Carolina, there are several other scenic gut busting rides that …

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Love for the Newbies: 8 Easy Mountain Bike Rides in Western North Carolina

New Southern Highlands Traverse Bikepacking Route Travels 1,270 Miles from Virginia to Alabama

Dueling Banjos: How Two World-Class Bike Shops in Brevard, NC Set Themselves Apart

Hundreds of Miles of the Best MTB Trails in Western North Carolina Are Being Evaluated as Wilderness

Tsali is the Place to Ride

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