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FKTs Are Known to Be Awesome [The Stoke]

We Lived to Make Better Decisions in 2020: A Cold Ride That Nearly Ended in Tragedy

Don’t Buy a New Bike, Buy New Experiences [The Balance]

5 Examples of Mountain Bike Trail Etiquette that Are Applicable in the Real World [The Balance]

The Balance: Blood, Sweat, and Pickle Juice at the Grand Junction Off-Road

Crashing Bikes is a Learning Experience [MTB Skills]

The Balance: Great Trails and Better Friends - Making an Effort to Ride Again

The Balance: A New Column on Mountain Bike Culture

Over a Beer: The Trails Don't Belong to You...

Over a Beer: Just Decide Which Bike to Buy, Already

Over a Beer: What We Can Learn About Getting Outdoors from Our Dogs

Over a Beer: For Me, Riding Isn't About Fitness. It's About Adventure

Over a Beer: Time Is Our Single Greatest Limitation

Time is our single greatest limitation but if we choose to spend our time wisely, if we choose to prioritize the things that matter, even the time that's left over after the most basic of tasks required to survive can be used to do and achieve great things.

250,000 Feet: Pursuing Health By Changing my Metric of Success

In an effort to stay healthy health, Greg decided to stop measuring the number of miles that he bikes in a year and instead focus on a different goal: elevation gain.

Over a Beer: Mountain Bikers Are Conservationists, Too

The debate about mountain bikes in Wilderness areas is pitting recreation groups against conservation groups, and mountain bikers against each other. The crazy thing about this entire debate? If mountain bikers were allowed in Wilderness areas, we could all join forces and work together instead of being divided.

How Mountain Biking Fulfills Humanity's Most Basic Needs

In this article, Greg attempts to discern just how fundamental mountain biking is--or could be--to achieving the five most basic human needs, based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

Over a Beer: The Problem with New Year's Resolutions and Mountain Biking

Setting a year-long mountain biking goal as a New Year's resolution is fraught with challenges. What if we simply started our goals at a different time of the year?

Crashes Happen. Keep Moving Forward

Life is fragile, and everything can change in an instant. Whether it's on the mountain bike trail or in the rest of life, the only thing we can do is focus on that which is within our control.

Over a Beer: The Definition of

At first blush, "mountain biking" seems like an easy thing to define. But when you sit down to write the definition and are mindful of all the different variants of this sport... it gets a touch more difficult. Greg takes his best stab at it in his latest Over a Beer column.

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