A week ago yesterday, I headed out for our regular Tuesday night “Dirt and Taco’s” at our local mountain bike trail. As part of the evenings festivities, we typically head back to a small DH/FR area and session for most of the night. We get in some great climbing while getting the added benefit of [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, my back has been feeling great. I am not getting any pain at home and I am able to hit the road and trail when I have time. Life is good on the road back to the bike during my recovery. However, I find myself in a place in [...]
Just when you think you have seen everything, a picture like this pops up on the web. I have heard of sticks getting caught in wheels, wild life taking out riders and even squirrels finding their way into brake rotors – but a snake around your bike has to be the wildest on trail animal [...]
For those of us in the southeast US, this week is a pivotal point in our year. Daylight savings time hit and that sparks the beginning of our true riding season. After work rides without lights are now a reality and the weather is about to get warmer. For every rider, it is the beginning [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I put together one of those social meme’s on mountain biking and how the world views us and how we see ourselves in our own minds. It caught on an as of this post less than 24 hours later, it has 146 likes and 67 shares on our Facebook page, so I figured [...]
When I saw this image by Will Simmons in the Bike198 Flickr pool, I knew it had to be shared. One of the things I love about mountain biking the most, you can not get from any other cycling discipline…the ability to completely escape the reality in which we live. When you get out into [...]
A friend of mine sent over this link off of PinkBike of Stund Best of 2011. Let’s face it. There are a lot of videos making it around the web of mountain biking in the same locations over and over again. You are either going to see a bigger budget production or a GoPro strapped [...]
This morning, I awoke to carry out my usual routine. My alarm went off (baby crying) about 7am and I promptly hit the snooze button with a bottle. Once he was taken care of, the dogs and I took him downstairs so they could get in their morning sniff of the yard and I hit [...]
Mountain bike shops (often referred to LBS for short) have been around since the conception of mountain biking. What started off as road biking shops that carried a few fat tire options have now become full fledged bike shops with everything both skinny tires and fat tires have to offer. In recent times, the local [...]
First, thank you for the continued support of Bike198 and the content we publish here. We greatly appreciate it and your spreading of our content on the web allows us to continue with the site. Without you guys…Bike198 is nothing but words on a screen. To make things more organized…there have been some big changes [...]
Last week, we asked you guys what area of mountain biking you call home. While a lot of us explore different disciplines of mountain biking, there is normally one style that when given the chance to ride…we generally prefer and really feel like we are in our element. The choices for the poll were as follows: XC/XC [...]
This past weekend, I got a glaring glimpse into a life I have left behind in mountain biking. First, let me preface this article by saying the following…this is purely my opinion based off of how I chose to live my life and ride my bike. It does not and will not apply to everyone. It also [...]
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