Podcast: Minimizing MTB Trail Damage Caused by Riding
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
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🗓️ 14 January 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about our personal pet peeves when it comes to preventable mountain bike trail damage. How do you determine if a trail is too wet to ride? Is skidding ok?
Plus, we let you in on the secret behind some of the amazing skids and sprays of brown pow you see in online MTB videos. Hint: it’s not always real and there’s a way to tell whether flying dirt is a result of pinned riding vs. lazy skidding.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, just leave from work now. Sorry, it's a bit loud. Um, basically, so I was thinking we could get Mackeys tonight. Had a big Mac on my mind all day and delivery fee on the app is now from 99P. So you win? Of course you are. Love you. Bye. |
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| 0:21.8 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | Today it's me, Jeff, and I'm with Aaron and Greg. |
| 0:27.6 | And today we're talking about minimizing trail damage on the mountain bike trail. |
| 0:32.5 | So I want to start off asking you guys, what is your pet peeve when it comes to trail damage caused by mountain bikers? |
| 0:39.6 | Man, there's a lot, but probably the biggest one for me is people riding around puddles instead of through them. |
| 0:47.4 | You can see this really clearly how it really widens the trail. |
| 0:52.3 | And it's mountain biking. |
| 0:53.6 | You're going to get dirty. Just ride through the middle of it. It's much better for the trail. And it's mountain biking. You're going to get dirty. |
| 0:54.6 | Just ride through the middle of it. |
| 0:56.0 | It's much better for the trail long term. |
| 0:59.4 | My number one pet peeve is probably people who feel like they have to get a ride in. |
| 1:04.6 | And it has to be like on trail when they go when it's just not conducive to riding. Let's say we're in a freeze thaw cycle and they're |
| 1:12.9 | like, I have to ride and they ride in the afternoon when it's super nasty. It's like you could have |
| 1:18.0 | ridden this morning cause zero damage, but you chose to ride in the afternoon and now you cause |
| 1:22.4 | something that we have to go back in with McLeods and Pulaski's and fix. So just time your rides for when you're not going to |
| 1:29.8 | cause trail damage. Yeah, that's a good one. I would say mine is litter on the trail. That's like |
| 1:35.1 | the easiest thing to avoid. I mean, if you open up a cliff bar, shove the wrapper back in your |
| 1:40.6 | pack, you know, you had room for the bar, so you definitely have room for the wrapper. To me, there's just no excuse for dropping trash on the trail. So, Greg, you mentioned |
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