Avoiding Common Mountain Bike Mistakes
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It would take two lifetimes to learn everything there is to know about mountain biking, and along the path we’re all bound to make mistakes. We talk about some of the most common pitfalls and offer hard-won advice that’s useful for everyone from newbs to pros.
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| 1:14.1 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today Aaron and Greg and I are going to be talking about mountain bike mistakes and how we can learn from them. |
| 1:25.2 | So mountain biking, as a lot of us probably already know, has a steep |
| 1:28.6 | learning curve. And there are definitely mistakes that are bound to be made along the way. |
| 1:33.9 | So with that in mind, we're going to run through a number of mistakes, some of which we've |
| 1:38.9 | made ourselves and have learned from. And hopefully our listeners can learn from them as well. |
| 1:44.0 | So I'm going to start off with |
| 1:45.7 | a big mistake that a lot of beginners make when getting into the sport. And that is buying the |
| 1:50.9 | absolute cheapest mountain bike or bike parts that they can find. You guys have any experience with |
| 1:57.3 | that and why might that be a bad idea? Yeah, well, you know, you get what you pay |
| 2:01.7 | for like so many things in life. And, you know, this isn't to say that you need to buy all |
| 2:06.9 | XTR or XX1 Eagle components. You know, there's a lot of components there in the midrange. And they are |
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