Video: How To Plan Your Own MTB Adventure
The world is getting smaller, places are easier to get to, flights easier to book. But getting your head around the idea of planning your own bike adventure – whether it’s on home soil or heading somewhere exotic – can seem like a big headache. Pulling from his 30 years of mountain biking in some …
Watch: Riding Lakes Basin With Mark Weir and Ben Cruz | Trail Ninja, Ep. 27
Only 30 miles north of legendary Downieville, California, sits an oasis of empty, deserted old mining trails ready for plundering. The Trail Ninja joins Cannondale riders Mark Weir and Ben Cruz for a 2 day romp around the Lakes Basin area, pulling mile upon mile of flowy turns and endless rocky staircases out of the …
Video: How To Pack Clothing for Epic Adventures
Survival isn’t everything on adventures, there’s also the art of enjoying yourself to consider. And being warm, dry and comfortable goes a helluva long way towards making that enjoyment happen. So if you’re thinking about heading out on a mountain bike adventure, whether its a 1 day or 21 day ride, sorting the right clothing …
Video: 8 Steps to Green Your Mountain Biking
Let’s face it, just because we’re mountain bikers doesn’t mean we have to be environmental idiots. We are outdoors people doing outdoors things so it stands to reason that collectively we have at least some interest in the wild, beautiful natural playground we ride through. If it was concrete we were after we’d be BMX’ers, …
Video: A Trail Hunting Mission In Turkey | Trail Ninja, Ep. 26
What does it take to find a new destination for guided mountain bike trips? A group of dedicated trail hunters, that’s what. The Trail Ninja heads to the Black Sea region of Turkey to join a group of mountain bike guides on a mission to scout the area for suitable trails. And to make it …
Video: Cleat Setup Made Easy
Today’s mountain bikers are split in their pedal choice, with many downhill racers joining the XC riders’ clipless pedal option and many trail riders opting for flats. Being clipped into your pedal might seem daft on technical trails, but clipless pedals and shoe cleats can boost your pedalling efficiency by upto 30% on climbs, which …
Everything You Wanted To Know About The Megavalanche But Were Afraid To Ask
The Megavalanche holds a special, and usually scary, place in many mountain bikers’ hearts. And this year it became 21 years old. Now that it’s come of age the Trail Ninja (aka pro MTB photographer and adventurer Dan Milner) hit “the Mega” to see what all the fuss is about. Chaos, carnage and insanity were …
Video: How to Buy a Used Bike Without Getting Burned
Brand new bikes are expensive little things, so buying one that’s only a year or two old means you can save heaps of money while still benefitting from the latest bike technology – sometimes at half the price. But splashing cash on something that’s been hammered along mountain trails means you gotta go armed with …
Amazing New HEXO+ Autonomous Drone Follows You, Provides The Ultimate Aerial Selfie
The HEXO+ autonomous drone is next-level drone technology that follows the user without the use of a pilot and totally hands free. By attaching a GoPro to the drone, users are able to record an aerial view of themselves in action to bring home the ultimate aerial selfie. For the first time, HEXO+ unveiled their …
Video: Onboard With Marcelo Gutierrez On The Crankworx Les Deux Alpes Downhill Track
We join Marcelo Gutierrez for a run down one of the gnarliest downhill tracks of the year, the Crankworx Les Deux Alpes Downhill. This infamous downhill track, which normally poses to be a challenge, has been upped a level for this year due to the heatwave that has struck Europe. Now riders just have to …
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: Never Mind The Quantocks – Chris Smith And Dan Milner Ride Southwest England
Green hills, rocky trails, enchanted forests and wild otters – the Quantocks have it all. The Quantock Hills are one of south west England’s best natural riding spots and the Trail Ninja joins local bloke Chris Smith for a fast lap of some of its best offerings. The fact that Chris races 4x, is ruddy …
