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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Money-Saving Tips for Mountain Bikers on a Budget

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Wilderness, Sports

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we share our money-saving tips for mountain bikers. Starting with bikes, we’ll talk about how buying a tool can save you money, bike warranties and insurance, and how to shop for new or used bikes. On the travel side, we’ll discuss ways to save money on transportation, lodging, food, and race when you’re on a budget. You can’t afford NOT to listen to this episode.

--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks

Transcript

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0:00.0

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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.

0:20.1

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.0

My name is Jeff, and today, Aaron, Greg, and I are going to be talking about money-saving

0:28.5

tips for mountain biking.

0:30.4

So we've shared some of these tips before, and we're going to reference some of the

0:33.9

articles that we've written about the subject.

0:36.1

But rather than focusing just on

0:39.1

upgrades and things for your bike, we're going to run the gamut here and talk about ways you can

0:44.3

save when you travel with your mountain bike and ways you can save when you're upgrading or

0:48.4

buying new parts. So it should be a good discussion. So we're going to jump right in by starting with repair and

0:56.4

maintenance. So one of the things that I'm a big fan of is buying a new tool every time I need to

1:03.2

do a repair. What do you guys think about that? Yeah. One thing about working on bikes is there are

1:09.9

some tools that are that you need that are bike specific. You know, you thing about working on bikes is there are some tools that are that you need that

1:12.0

are bike specific. You know, you can do a lot of repairs on your bike with a set of Allen keys and,

1:18.4

you know, some open-end wrenches and stuff like that. But there are things like bottom bracket

1:23.4

tools and, you know, headset tools and other things like that where you really can't make

1:30.4

anything else work so you have to buy a bike-specific tool.

1:33.8

So the one thing I will say with that is, you know, just like with any kind of tool, you

1:38.7

don't really want to cheap out.

1:39.9

You get what you pay for.

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