The Short Story of Trail Gentrification

Endangering The Soul of Mountain Biking

making mountain bike trails to easyA strange phenomenon is sweeping our local trail networks. Roots are disappearing. Rocks are migrating. The cuts in the side hill are getting wider. At it’s current rate of growth, every corner will be bermed by 2015, and terms like “off-camber,” or “bunny-hop,” will quietly make an exit from most mountain bikers’ vocabulary. Continue reading

Review: Joytrax SE2 Child Carrier (BX Trailers)

A necessity for the cycling family

joytrax se2 (bx trailers) child carrier pulled behind mountain bike

It’s funny the things you begin to look forward to once you become a parent. Before learning that I was going to become a dad, I never would’ve thought that I’d so anticipate being one of those parents seen pulling a child carrier behind their bikes. Now, however, what used to look like a chore before becoming a dad, is now a great excuse to get some new bike related swag! As cycling parents, behind-the-bike child carriers make perfect sense for transporting kids around, so when our baby girl was born, my wife and I couldn’t wait to go shopping for a child trailer to tow behind our bikes. After some looking around, we settled on the Joytrax SE2.  Continue reading

I’d Rather Be Biking

i'd rather be bikingI feel guilty, and maybe even a little bit ashamed. I shouldn’t feel like I hate winter right now, but I do, and It doesn’t help that all day long at work I’m listening to people say stuff like this:
“I sure hope it snows.”
“We need some snow right about now”
I just play along and say, “Yes you’re right, a powder day sure would be nice right about now.” The words come out of my mouth automatically, after all, I do work in a ski shop, don’t I? Continue reading

Video: Gerard Trueba Modified Trials Biking

Impressive trials riding from an 11 year old kid!

gerard trueba 20" modified trials biking kidI was just watched the full length premier a movie named “All or Nothing” on Pinkbike today. If you haven’t done so already, I’d say it’s worth checking out. It’s one of the funner bike films I’ve watched this year, containing a variety of riders, bikes and riding styles. The film also seems to focus on up and coming younger riders, including one that was particularly impressive. Continue reading

10 Best Mountain Bike Blogs

BikeFAT’s 10 Best Blogs About Mountain Biking

10 best mountain bike blogs There are a lot of mountain bike blogs on the internet these days, and if you are a regular blog seeker, you will have probably encountered some of these blogs already. As a mountain biking blogger, I am constantly on the lookout for new blogs about mountain bikes, ten of which I have picked out for you here. This list is by no means exhaustive, as there are no doubt hundreds or even thousands of mountain bikers out there writing their own blogs. These are my favourites, at this moment, and I will likely need to update this list once a year or so, as I discover others I like. So here we go, BikeFAT’s list of 10 blogs about mountain biking, in no particular order: Continue reading