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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

The Environmental Impact of Mountain Biking

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Wilderness, Sports

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, we talk with Ross Martin, a PhD candidate at the Texas State University, about his research into the environmental impact of mountain biking. Ross is a mountain biker and a scientist who is working to understand how mountain bikes affect everything from plants and animals to soils and society at large. We get down and dirty in our discussion on erosion, and ask Ross what he thinks about potentially allowing mountain bikes in Wilderness areas.

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome to the Single Tracks podcast.

0:33.0

My name is Aaron and I'm here with Jeff and we are joined by a very special guest today.

0:38.6

We're going to talk about the environmental impacts of mountain biking.

0:42.1

And joining us is Ross Martin.

0:44.2

He's a mountain biker who also happens to be a PhD candidate in the geography department at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

0:52.5

He also teaches and lectures there. And I know Ross from

0:55.5

back in the day when we used to race some mountain bikes here in Atlanta, and he's also a pretty

1:00.3

handy bike mechanic. So thanks for joining us, Ross. Yeah, thanks for having me. Cool. So first off,

1:05.5

you know, when we're talking about environmental impacts, it's not just a single thing, right? So

1:09.8

what are the different types of

1:11.8

environmental impacts mountain bikers should consider? Generally, it can be broken down into basically

1:18.1

physical impacts, ecological impacts, and social impacts. The focus of my research is really on

1:25.0

erosion and physical impacts to the soils, but everything is connected.

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