Gear Articles tagged ‘biking’

Monday Slam Sesh

By: Adam Riser | March 28th, 2011
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If you’re like the rest of us here, then Monday mornings aren’t exactly your favorite times. All you want is for it to be Saturday again. You want to be out riding, climbing, hiking, or just about anything but sitting in an office. But you know what always cheers us up? Passing around a video of a good old-fashioned slam session.

So, we introduce the first installment of the Monday Slam Sesh. Today, we had a hard time decided between this segment of a particularly sketchy corner in a UK cross country bike race …

BUCS 2011 X.C Carnage! from Joe Bowman on Vimeo. (thanks NSMB)

… and this great security camera shot of a poor office worker losing the plot. Read More …

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Three Reasons: Get a Bike Stand

By: Justin Mool | October 14th, 2010
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Bike Stand = Easy Tuning

When it came to making minor adjustments on my bike, for years I had been using my creativity to keep the damn thing upright. I’d strap my mountain bike into my car rack for cleaning, but if it was raining that option was out. I’d turn my road bike upside down to twiddle with a derailleur, but everything seemed to go to hell when I flipped it back over. And I’ve paid my fair share of security deposits for apartment walls that were marked with dirt stains, nicks and dents from leaning an unstable bike. Read More …

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Bike Trail Building 101

By: Adam Riser | July 21st, 2010
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How to Build Bike Trails

Put some thought and effort into your bike trail features

Good bike trails don’t build themselves. They take a lot of planning, time, and effort to create. Too many bikers are satisfied to simply ride existing trails, never thinking of how they got there in the first place. All too often I hear a rider complain about a jump or a berm or a section of trail that kills the flow, but that rider never thinks of picking up a shovel and fixing the problem. If a section of trail needs some love, get out there with tools, and fix it up. If some friends are building a new bike trail, go help them out for a few days. If there isn’t a trail around your home that has the type or riding you like to do, then step up, and build it yourself. Just make sure you do it right. You don’t want to put in weeks of effort only to find that your trail isn’t that good, or worse, creates access issues for everyone. Read More …

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Learn New Tricks Without Going to the Hospital

By: Adam Riser | July 6th, 2010
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Pick up any freeride DVD out there, and you’ll see the biggest and most technical tricks being executed with a level of fluidity that borders on perfection. The stuff at the absolute limits of a pretty talented freerider looks like absolute child’s play when executed by the world’s best.

It’s pretty tempting to hop on your bike after the end credits, head to the dirt jumps, and throw down something that you just witnessed for the fist time. Later that day, while you’re downing painkillers like it’s your job, you may wonder how the pros go out and stick tricks so easily. The truth is that they practice like mad, bringing each trick through a progression of low- to high-commitment settings until they finally bring it to dirt. If you want to learn something new and stay in one piece, take the trick through the paces. Here’s how: Read More …

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Trip of the Month: Big Bend National Park

By: Andy Anderson | October 19th, 2009
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Big Bend NP 061

In a remote corner of southwest Texas, in a large crook formed by the meandering Rio Grande, the Chisos Mountains rise from the rolling desert scrub and soar to nearly 8,000 feet. Surrounded by vast and often unforgiving terrain that stretches endlessly into the horizon, the majority of this massive expanse (over 800,000 acres to be exact) forms Big Bend National Park, one of the least visited parks in the United States. Read More …

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