Singletracks’ Tips for Beginners and Friends of Beginners
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast we talk about some of the barriers to getting started with mountain biking and share specific ideas for improving fitness and technical skills. And if you’ve been riding for a long time, you won’t want to miss our tips for taking friends out for their first ride.
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| 0:23.1 | My name is Jeff, and today I'm here with Aaron and Greg to talk about beginner tips for mountain biking. |
| 0:29.7 | Now, before you turn off the podcast and say, I'm not a beginner, we're going to also talk about a lot of things that apply to people who are trying to get their friends |
| 0:38.2 | into mountain biking. So if you're, you know, an expert mountain biker already, there's still |
| 0:43.3 | going to be a lot of meat here for you if you're trying to get friends into mountain biking for the |
| 0:47.4 | first time. So I wanted to start off by asking Greg and Aaron, what do you guys think are the |
| 0:53.5 | biggest barriers to getting people started with mountain biking? you guys think are the biggest barriers to getting people started |
| 0:55.8 | with mountain biking? Well, one of the biggest barriers is the equipment costs. So bikes, as we all |
| 1:01.5 | know, are expensive and generally just seem to be getting more expensiveer. But there's a lot of |
| 1:08.4 | ways around that. For instance, if you're thinking about getting into mountain biking, |
| 1:12.5 | chances are you have a friend that already rides and they likely have more than one bike |
| 1:19.1 | or know someone that can let you borrow a bike so you can try it out. I mean, I don't think it's |
| 1:23.2 | very often that someone just up and randomly decides out of the blue that they're going to start |
| 1:28.5 | mountain biking without having someone that they know that already is into the sport. |
| 1:33.7 | So, you know, see if you can borrow a bike from a buddy and take it for a ride. |
| 1:37.2 | You know, I think in general, most mountain bikers are happy to get new people into the sport. |
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