What the MTB Community Wants for Christmas
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Mountain biking has a lot of momentum going into 2019, but if we’re honest there are things all of us can do to make our sport even better. Whether you’re new to the MTB community, or you’re comfortably established, we want to reflect on some ways to give back during this season of giving. If mountain biking had a wish list for Santa, these are the things that would be on it. In this episode, we’ll suggest ways we can all speak, give, share, and help the mountain bike community. Here are the action steps we suggest for 2019:
Take 5 minutes to submit a letter to your rep or to sign a petition the next time one hits your inbox or news feed.
Give to you local MTB club this year. It costs less than a single new tire.
Share something on Singletracks.
Offer help or encouragement to someone who is just starting out.
--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. |
| 0:03.0 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the Ultimate Collab. |
| 0:08.0 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. |
| 0:11.0 | Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. |
| 0:16.0 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Single Tracks podcast. From 11am, includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst not last. Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:23.1 | My name is Jeff, and today Matt and I are going to be talking about the mountain bike community. |
| 0:29.7 | You know, mountain biking has a lot of momentum going into 2019, but if we're honest, there are things that all of us can do to make our sport even better. |
| 0:38.0 | Whether you're new to the mountain bike community or you're comfortably established, we want to |
| 0:42.7 | reflect on some ways to give back during this season of giving. If mountain biking had a wish list |
| 0:48.2 | for Santa, I guess these are the things that would be on it. So we're going to be talking about |
| 0:53.8 | a number of different ways that all of |
| 0:55.3 | us can give back to the community. But I wanted to summarize all of this into four easy action |
| 1:01.1 | steps that we can all remember and hopefully take with us. And we'll be covering each of these |
| 1:05.8 | again throughout the show. But basically, we can all speak, we can give, we can share, and we can help. |
| 1:12.2 | And a lot of this stuff is going to be really easy to do. |
| 1:15.2 | Maybe you're already doing it or it sort of comes as second nature. |
| 1:18.7 | But this is the kind of thing, though, where we all should probably talk about this at least once a year and make sure that we're all doing our best. |
| 1:25.3 | So, Matt, I wanted to start off by talking about trails and how |
| 1:29.3 | we can create a community around trails and give back to the trails as a mountain bike community. |
| 1:34.8 | So you recently investigated trail funding for a two-part series on the website. How do |
| 1:41.6 | mountain bike clubs generally raise money for trails? |
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