Winter Fat Bike Etiquette: The Basics
Riding your bike on snow is a fun and exhilarating experience. And fat biking is booming in popularity. As a result, trail associations all over North America and beyond have started grooming and maintaining ever-growing networks of winter trails. It’s essentially a new sport, and with a new sport comes a new set of guidelines for making sure everyone on the trails has an enjoyable experience. Some would call it etiquette. Nothing will interrupt a great fat bike ride like coming across a section of trail that someone has torn up and made unrideable by being unaware of, or unwilling to practice, some simple fat bike etiquette. Let’s keep the…
3 Not-So-Obvious Reasons to Volunteer Your Time to Building a Local Trail
How many times have you started the mountain bike season with a promise to yourself that this will be the year you do some volunteer trail building? I’ve promised myself that very same thing too many times to count. I start out with big plans to boost my trail karma with some good old-fashioned hard work only to come upon the end of the season without having lifted a finger. It’s at this point that my guilt generally takes over and I donate some money to a trail organization or two who’s trails I use regularly. This season was different for me. I went out and did some trailwork! Not…
