Just like with any other type of cycling, in mountain biking, communication is crucial. Not just because it’s a social activity and being a gloomy, self-conscious and closed-off person is way out of character for someone speeding down a mountain trail but mainly because it…
We are not afraid of the dark, and although some horror movies try to scare us straight into staying indoors, preferably with our lights turned on, we love to dedicate our nights to our bikes. Luckily for you, we are willing to share our secrets…
It’s that time of the year when we mountain bikers reconnect with the earth. Face first that is. Although the season started roughly two months ago, we are still lusting over the high mountain peaks from which we could fly down at an incredible speed.
As a teenaged kid in the 90s, I used to hang around bike shops, spending hours peering through the windows and observing dreamy mountain bikes. They were all hardtails, simply because no full-suspension bikes existed yet. Some of the bikes were equipped with the early…