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Go Outside, Transform Your Life: The Power of Outside 365

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Farewell to Greg, the Bearded Bike Trail Philosopher

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

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

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

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Over a Beer: Attend Meetings, Get Trails Built

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

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Over a Beer: Quit Your Side Hustle and Ride More

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Over a Beer: Time Is Our Single Greatest Limitation

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

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Over a Beer: Mountain Bikers Are Conservationists, Too

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How Mountain Biking Fulfills Humanity's Most Basic Needs

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.

Over a Beer: Passion Leads to Tension

Mountain bikers are a passionate bunch and sometimes, that passion leads to internal tension.

Over a Beer: Your Time Will Come to Pay the Price

If you mountain bike for long enough, your time will come to pay the gods of Pain and Suffering.

Over a Beer: How do you define success?

How do you define "success" in your own life? What makes a person successful? There are no easy answers to be found in this Over a Beer column.

Over a Beer: "But that's not REAL mountain biking!" ...or is it?

In this Over a Beer column Greg looks at the arguments that some people give for discriminating against one type of mountain biking or another, and points out the beauty of mountain biking's diversity.

Over a Beer: On Wanting - Where do motivation and desire come from?

What motivates us? Where do our desires to do certain things come from? Why do we want what we want? There are no easy questions in this Over a Beer column, but hopefully professional freeride mountain biker Cam Zink can give us some insight.

Over a Beer: How Bad Do You Want It - What Pain Do You Want To Sustain?

As you're confronted with the next obstacle between you and your goals, ask yourself: "how bad do I want it... really?" And, "what kind of pain am I willing to sustain?"

Over a Beer: What Autumn Can Teach Us About Worry

Worrying about the future and obsessing about the past--these two things rob us of embracing and enjoying this present, singular moment. Autumn teaches us to embrace these fleeting moments that collectively make up our lives.

Interbike: It's All About the People

Over a Beer: The Yin and Yang of Bikepacking

Bikepacking is both complex, and yet very simple.