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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

My name is Jeff and today Aaron and Greg and I are going to be talking about social etiquette

for mountain bikers.

So there are any number of coaches and videos out there to help us learn bike handling and wrench skills and things like that,

but soft skills, as we're calling them, are just as important for mountain biking. You had a good

quote about that, right, Aaron? Maybe not exactly a quote, but a rule from Mike McCormick,

who is the founder of the six-day Breck epic stage race in Breckenridge, Colorado,

and he does a variety of other things as well.

Anyways, there are three rules for his race, which is a surprisingly small number of rules for

anything, but particularly bike racing.

And the first one is, don't be a dick.

So if there's one guiding principle in this whole discussion and just in mountain biking and probably life in general, that should be it. Don't be a dick. And as the race website says, that really covers a lot of ground. Yeah, definitely. And yet it's such a simple rule, but there's still a lot of situations where maybe people don't know exactly what to do or how to not be a dick.

So we're going to cover some of those situations and try to share what we've learned over the years in all of our collective wisdom.

So the first rule, one of the first rules that a lot of mountain bikers encounter

is the rule about yielding the trail. How do we yield to other trail users? What's the

thinking behind that? How does that work? Basically, yielding to other trail users is going to

limit conflicts on the trail. And typically, mountain bikers are supposed to yield to all

other trail users. That could be hikers, that could be equestrians, aka horses, could even be

modos in some instances. You need to be especially careful around horses. Spooking a horse can get the rider or you hurt.

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