Video: How To Wash Your Bike Like a Pro
Bikes get muddy. And they should. But leave that mud on there and it will grind into your drivetrain and eat away at your gears and your pocket money. Of course you cold pop down to the jet wash at your local garage and fill your bearings full of high pressure water, or you could …
Trail Ninja Video: Trail Pirates Pillage Menorca’s Classic Cam
The Spanish island of Menorca’s highest point is only 358m above sea level. Its not high, but ride the Camí de Cavalls trail that circumnavigates this Mediterranean island and you’ll pack in a whopping 3700m of lung-punching climbs and brake-searing descents, all of it on an ancient footpath that used to connect watchtowers used to …
Video: Marcelo Gutierrez’s Winning Run From The Santisimo Downhill, Peru
It’s not every day you get to ride in the sacred land of the Incas just a few miles away from the ruins of Machu Pichu in Peru. Marcelo Gutierrez calls the Santisimo Downhill “one of the most epic races i’ve ever done”. It’s a fast track with very open curves, lots of different lines, …
Trail Doctor Video: How To Carry Your Bike Easily
The oracle of adventure and tech know-how is back to teach you how to carry your bike. Pro bike photographer and all-round adventure nut Dan Milner shares his secrets on how to make hauling your bike up an impossibly steep trail easy. Carrying a bike might look easy and it is if you know how …
Video: Elbow-Dragging in the Berms
Bryan Regnier is a super skilled enduro rider from the south of France. In this little welcome to the Sôk team video, Bryan shows you a bit of his skills, like how to get crazy low and fast through the berms. These angles are just nuts – the guy is scraping his forearms in the …
Video: How To Set Up Suspension Forks
Setting up your mountain bike’s suspension forks correctly for you is important. A good fork set up not only gives a a comfy ride and a get-out-of-trouble clause on technical descents, it also adds to the steering the control. But sag, air pressures and rebound damping can seem like confusing terms, so where to start? …
Video: Trail Doctor: How To Fix A Snapped Bike Chain
Everyone at some point in their riding experience will snap a chain, probably on a steep climb, and they’ll probably land square on their face in the dirt, much like mountain bike maniac Dan Milner here. But don’t worry. Just pick yourself up and get on with fixing it. Not sure how? Well you’re in …
Video: Trail Doctor: How To Set Up Your Rear Shock – Fundamentals
Today’s suspensions are the best we’ve ever had and they get you out of whole heaps of trouble on the trail. But despite the tech boffins’ best efforts this suspension only works as well as you set it up. Luckily, setting up your bike’s rear shock isn’t brain surgery. In under 2.5 minutes mountain bike …
Video: A Super Aggressive Line Through The 2015 Manizales Urban Downhill Course
Racing in his hometown of Manizales, Colombia is always a big motivation for mountain bike Downhill World Cup rider Marcelo Gutierrez. This year the course builders put together one of the most demanding tracks the race has ever seen and Marcelo really put on a show for his crowd. With very aggressive lines around the …
Video: Urban Mountain Biking At Its Best – The Lyttelton DH
The normally peaceful Port town of Lyttelton, New Zealand changes to a place of high speed chaos when mountain bikers invade the streets once a year for the Lyttelton Urban Downhill. Racers push their limits down the 1.3km course over driveways, through backyards, off garage roofs, through a house, down stair ways, on to shipping …
Video: Marcelo Gutierrez And Danny Hart Ride One Of The World’s Best Downhill Tracks
The world is full of great downhill MTB tracks but Norway’s Hafjell Bike Park might just have the very best, Behold, the Roller Coaster. It’s long, steep, super curvy and features big jumps (lots of them) and fabulous terrain. Widely considered among the best tracks in the world, it’s certainly a personal favorite of Marcelo …
Video: How To Pack Your Bike for a Flight
When winter hits, the lure of riding endless, exotic singletrack in warmer climes hits home. But getting your bike abroad without mishap is not guaranteed. In between you and all that amazing dusty riding stand a dozen baggage handlers and a few Nepalese taxi drivers. In 30 years of travelling to the 4 corners of …
