MTB.LIVE555.COM - "The Internet's Mountain Bike Park"

MTB.LIVE555.COM - "The Internet's mountain bike park"

"Tahoe Rim Trail - Mt. Rose to Tunnel Creek Rd. segment" (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, U.S.A.). Beautiful alpine singletrack, with spectacular views of Lake Tahoe.

An amateur MTB race in Croatia, June 16, 2007.
The annual "Coolest 24 Hour Race Against Cancer", Cool, Caifornia, U.S.A.
The 2006 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Rotorua, New Zealand
The 2005 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Livigno, Italy
The NORBA National Mountain Bike Series (USA)
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")

A "San Francisco Chronicle" article about the ageless Ned Overend
An article about "endurance monster" John Stamstad: from "Outside Online"
(See also John Stamstad's "Singletrack Ranch")

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")
"Dave Halton's MTB Video Page"

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", "webmountainbike.com", "MTBMind", "Mountain Bike Tales", "mountain-bike-central.com", "YourMTB.com"
"MTB Review's" "MTB Passion" and "MTB Files" let you contribute your own stories about mountain biking.
"Charlie Kelly's Website" describes much of the early history of mountain biking

"sonic.net" hosts a mountain biking mailing list. To subscribe, send email to mtb-list-request@afterburner.sonic.net
There are also two mountain biking newsgroup: rec.bicycles.off-road and alt.mountain-bike. "AdventureZine" also has an online mountain biking forum
The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
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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