Common Mountain Bike Mistakes, And How to Fix Them
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Aaron, Greg, and I discuss some common mountain bike mistakes we’ve made or seen others make, and how to avoid those mistakes.
- Buying the absolute cheapest bike or components
- Spending too much on a bike
- Spending money in the wrong places
- Improper bike setup
- Ignoring maintenance intervals
- Washing bikes with high-pressure hoses
- Using the wrong tool for the job
- Being unprepared
- Treating every ride like a race
- Overestimating skills or fitness
- Riding wet trails
- Not getting involved in local trail work
If you’ve learned from a mountain bike mistake we didn’t cover, we’d love to hear about it here.
--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks
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| 1:00.4 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 1:03.4 | My name is Jeff, and today Aaron and Greg and I are going to be talking about mountain bike |
| 1:08.5 | mistakes and how we can learn from them. So mountain biking, |
| 1:12.7 | as a lot of us probably already know, has a steep learning curve. And there are definitely |
| 1:17.4 | mistakes that are bound to be made along the way. So with that in mind, we're going to run |
| 1:22.7 | through a number of mistakes, some of which we've made ourselves and have learned from, and hopefully our |
| 1:28.2 | listeners can learn from them as well. So I'm going to start off with a big mistake that a lot of |
| 1:33.6 | beginners make when getting into the sport, and that is buying the absolute cheapest mountain |
| 1:38.8 | bike or bike parts that they can find. You guys have any experience with that and why might that be a bad idea? |
| 1:46.3 | Yeah, well, you know, you get what you pay for like so many things in life. And, you know, |
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