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Singletrack Around the World!

Racing

Upcoming (or recently held) events

• The Sea Otter Classic, Monterey, California, U.S.A.
• The annual "24 Hours of ..." races
• Route of the Conquistadors, Costa Rica. (Described as "the world’s hardest mountain bike race")

People

• A "San Francisco Chronicle" article about the ageless Ned Overend

Mountain Biking Advice

Riding

• "MTB-Amputee" (information for amputee mountain bikers)

Mechanical

• The "UtahMountainBiking.com" Bicycle Repair Pages
• Jeff Napier’s "Bicycle Tune-Up and Repair"
• "Chain-Suck in a NUTSHELL"

Parts & products

• "MTB Review", lets you browse reviews of MTB parts, and add reviews of your own.
• Tires: "mtbtires.com"
• Bike’alog’s database of bike specifications

General

• "Mountain Biking to the Extreme"
• Winter mountain biking tips: from "AdventureTime"; from "AllWeatherSports"; "icebike.org"
• "The Physics of Mountain Biking"
• "ABC-of-Mountain-Biking.com"

Mountain Biking Pictures & Movies

Pictures

• Various personal photo archives: Tom Purvis’s;
• Several mountain biking stock photos (from "fotosearch.com")

Movies

• Pete Fagerlin’s "The Hub" has several wonderful mountain biking videos, taken from a helmet-mounted video camera.
• "TrailTapes" mountain biking videos (including a video podcast)
• "PedalMasher.com" has several online mountain biking videos (from the western U.S.)
• More helmet-cam MTB movies: from "kidinthecorner.com"; from Shane Shieffer; from "red-haze.com"
• High-bitrate videos of downhill racing (from "mtbike.mountainzone.com")
• More online mountain biking movies (from "mtbmovies.com")
• Some short video clips (animated GIFs) from Sedona, Arizona (from "Mountain Bike Heaven")

Online Magazines & Stories

• Mountain biking "e-zines" are springing up everywhere. Here, IMHO, are the best (that I don’t link to elsewhere on this page): "BIKE magazine", "Mountain Bike Action magazine", "Mountain Bike magazine", "dirtworld.com", "Mountain Bike Tales", "YourMTB.com"
• "Charlie Kelly’s Website" describes much of the early history of mountain biking

Mountain Biking Humor

• The "Mountainbike Militiamen Movement"

Potpourri

• The "Women’s Mountain Biking and Tea Society" (WOMBATS)
• Famous trials riders Hans Rey and David Cachón
• "Science of Cycling" (a feature from the San Francisco "Exploratorium")
• Russell Hoffman describes his vision for a year-round mountain bike park
• Some novel alternatives for off-road riding: bike polo; mountain bike ultimate (frisbee); mountain unicycling
• Need arguments for why singletrack should be kept open to bikes? See "Off-Road Impacts of Mountain Bikes" (a research report by the New Zealand Government Department of Conservation; note also this follow-up paper). See also the "IMBA Online Library"
• "Hey You, Get Off of My Trail!" - an article about access conflicts and mountain biking advocacy (from "Outside" magazine)
• IMBA’s Rules of the Trail

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Last modified date: 2022.09.26
Noted in:

• "San Francisco Chronicle", February 18th, 2001
• "Wired" magazine, June 1997, page 165
• "Mountain Bike" magazine: June 1997, page 70; May 1995, page 12
• "Mountain Biker" magazine, May 1996, page 13
• "San Jose Mercury News", September 21st, 1995

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