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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

How to Keep Mountain Bikers Active and Engaged

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What is the best way to keep mountain bikers engaged in the sport? Well, for starters, pizza never hurts! If you’re listening to this podcast episode, chances are you’re hooked on mountain biking. But not everyone sticks with mountain biking, and many riders eventually move on to other things, leaving their bikes to gather dust in the garage. What, if anything, can be done to prevent people from leaving the sport, and how can we reactivate those who are already gone? Today we’re going to talk about ways to keep mountain bikers engaged and active. If you have a friend who is losing the fire, or you even find yourself starting to ride less, this is the episode for you.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab.

0:08.3

Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal.

0:16.3

Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last.

0:20.2

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.3

My name is Jeff, and today Leah and Greg and I are going to talk about ways for keeping

0:29.6

mountain bikers engaged.

0:31.6

If you're listening to this podcast episode, chances are you're already hooked on mountain biking,

0:36.3

but not everyone sticks with mountain biking

0:38.9

and many riders eventually move on to other things leaving their bikes to gather dust in the garage

0:44.4

what if anything can be done to prevent people from leaving the sport and how do we reactivate those

0:49.7

who are already gone today we're going to talk about ways to keep mountain bikers engaged and

0:54.8

active. So if you have a friend who's losing the fire, or even if you find yourself starting

1:00.1

to ride less, this is the episode for you. So I want to start by asking Leah and Greg, why do

1:06.8

you guys mountain bike? Start with you, Greg. For for me the number one reason is adventure and exploration

1:13.4

like i did a bunch of sports before i started mountain biking i still do other sports but for me

1:19.6

the mountain bike is just an incredible vehicle for exploring this big wide world that we live in i mean

1:25.5

you can just cover so much ground, see cool places,

1:28.2

and it's a heck of a lot of fun when you're flying downhill, too. And I've also written quite

1:33.9

extensively about like the mental benefits I get from mountain biking, just the mental clarity,

1:39.0

emotional balance. To me, those are my two main reasons. Yeah i got to admit i started for the same reasons too

1:46.6

the exploration finding new trails um seeing different parts of the country that was always really

1:52.7

exciting to do on a bike but now i find myself you know more into the physical aspects of it right i like a like a lot of fitness stuff. I'm always running or I'm

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