Mountain Biking for Beginners – How to Get Started
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
I was recently a guest on the Curiosityness podcast with Travis DeRose on the topic of getting started in mountain biking. If you’re listening to the Singletracks podcast, chances are you’re already a mountain biker, but you probably have friends and family members who are not (yet). So whether you’re looking for ways to convince your friends to join you, or you know someone who could benefit from this discussion, we hope you find this helpful. In this interview, I talk about trying mountain biking for the first time, trail dos and don’ts, how to shop for a bike, and how to find the best trails to ride.
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| 0:30.2 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:32.8 | My name is Jeff, and today we're going to do something a little different. |
| 0:36.0 | I was recently a guest on the |
| 0:37.5 | Curiosityness podcast on the topic of getting started with mountain biking. If you're listening to |
| 0:43.7 | the single tracks podcast, chances are you're already a mountain biker, but you also probably |
| 0:48.3 | have friends and family members who are not. So whether you're looking for ways to convince your |
| 0:52.6 | friends to join you or you know someone who could benefit from this discussion, we hope you find this helpful. |
| 0:58.7 | All right. What's up, Jeff? How are you doing? Pretty good. How you doing, Travis? |
| 1:02.5 | Doing good, man. Thanks for being on. Stoke to talk. So where are you at? Where are you based out of? |
| 1:07.0 | I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, actually, in Decatur, which is just east of Atlanta, about five miles or so. |
| 1:14.2 | Oh, okay. So pretty close. So is that like suburban type stuff or what kind of area is that? |
| 1:20.3 | It's actually not. It's pretty urban, or at least I would call it urban. I grew up in the suburbs. |
| 1:25.8 | But here in Decatur, everything is really walkable. We got lots of bars and restaurants and breweries. And there's even a train line. We can hop on the train and get to the airport and stuff. So, yeah, it's pretty sweet. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, it sounds like a good area. So are you close to mountain biking trails and stuff, or is that a trek for you? I'm not, not official ones anyway. Yeah. I mean, that's one of the challenges, I guess, with mountain biking is that for the most part, people have to, a car is involved, right? They have to throw their bikes on a car. I mean, unless you're blessed to live, |
| 2:06.8 | you know, like a small town in Colorado or somewhere out west like that. Yeah, for most of us, |
| 2:11.7 | we've got to get in a car. But fortunately, we do have some green spaces, some short little trails. We can ride in town and sort of piece together using paved roads. So it's not bad. |
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