Luckily for most mountain bikers, the winter is not a time to get off the bike. Unless you have 8 feet of snow on the ground like much of the northeast does right now, mountain biking is typically thought of as a year around sport as long as you have the right gear to keep [...]
This past weekend was a brutal one. With multiple weeks in succession of being out of town, I was itching for a ride in the worst way so there wasn’t anything that was going to keep me off the bike on Saturday and Sunday if I could help it. Sometimes you just need rides and [...]
This guest post is by Joy Paley. If you would like to write an article for Bike198, contact us to get the ball rolling. You probably know about carbo-loading as a strategy to prepare for intense sessions on your bike. Besides the stored-up energy of carbs, however, there are lots of other nutrients that can [...]
This guest post was written by a great friend of Bike198, Kyle Glave. Not only is Kyle an avid mountain biker for over 19 years, part time endurance racer, lifelong outdoor adventurist, but we have ridden together for years. I thought this article on flow would be a great lead in to a weekend of [...]
Keeping food in your body while you go on rides is important to keep from cramping and to keep enough power in the engine to get through the ride. However, buying goos, bars, bloks and other related biking nutrition items can start to get costly on the budget for riders that want to get out [...]
This past weekend, I hung up the suspension bikes to get out on my 29er rigid singlespeed. It had been awhile since I had ridden the one gear bike and even longer since I had forgone suspension on the dirt. A group of us decided it was a good idea to make this ride a [...]
For as long as I can remember, my head feels like it has been stuck in between a vice and cranked down after hard weekend rides. The calm before the storm is great. I pack up my gear, head out to get something to eat with friends…and everything seems fine. Once I finally get home…about [...]
This past weekend, a group of us headed up to Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina to get some tech riding in. The area is about 3 1/2 hours from Atlanta and features arguably the best riding on the east coast and some of my favorite riding out of anywhere I have been to date. [...]
In this guest post by Greg Heil, Greg goes into the mechanics of steep mountain bike climbing. You can check out Greg’s blog and riding tips by clicking the link at the end of this article. Some of the most challenging parts of a trail for a new mountain biker to conquer are the climbs. [...]
Decreased daylight hours and looming cold weather means the night riding season has begun for mountain bikers. While the weekends are showing promise of perfect riding weather, the weekday rides are undergoing drastic change as we prepare to ride off into darkness. As with anything done at night, there is different gear that you must [...]
In the northern hemisphere, fall is coming up and that means sunny and 70 weather that is so perfect you want to never leave the trail, so longer mountain bike rides are on the horizon. Last night, around our usual Tuesday night mountain bike ride table at dinner, we started talking about longer mountain bike [...]
It’s the constant battle of balance between the need to hit the trail and spend time at home. During a time where we are all working longer hours, the stress relief of riding keeps us in shape both mentally and physically, but that also means there is less time to spend at home with our [...]
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