Four years ago, I hiked up a new MTB trail in my area. It was steep and scary, and halfway up there was a large drop with a sharp berm…
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Mansplaining: the seemingly embedded need by men to tell other people (usually women) about things that either their audience already knows about, or that simply aren’t of interest to them;…
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Ageing Gracefully: A Mountain Bike Story… This year I turned 50. It always felt like it was going to be a big deal, both mentally and physically, so it was…
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The things we love are easy to take for granted. Assuming that we’ll always have easy access to them is quintessentially human; after all, because we’re creatures of habit, we don’t…
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So, I’m injured again. It’s not the first time, and probably won’t be the last. Over 25 years of mountain biking I’ve had any number of injuries, small and large,…
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Risk Vs Reward, learning to deal with fear, pushing yourself and knowing when to back off. There’s a certain smell to mountain biking that anyone who’s spent time shuttling or…
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The Rise of the ebike I noticed ebikes starting to appear on the mountain bike scene about three years ago. Like most people I was sceptical – initially, they were…
