Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

By Singletracks.com

Podcast host Jeff Barber, Editor-in-Chief at Singletracks.com, aims to inform and inspire with topics and interviews from the mountain bike world. Since 2015, we have been sharing weekly stories from ... more

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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast episodes:

October 08, 2015 Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 4
In this episode we share Greg's Intense Tracer review, Michael's list of 50 essential items for an MTB emergency kit, John's review of the Marin Pine Mountain, and a note about updates to the Singletracks forums.
Tune in to tomorrow's podcast for a conversation with myself, Greg, and Aaron about this week's MTB news!
The post Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 4 appeared first on Singletracks Mountain Bike News.
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October 07, 2015 Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 3
In today’s podcast we share Helena’s 3-part trip report as she samples the singletrack from Pennsylvania to Colorado.
Stay tuned as we mix things up a bit on Friday with a Singletracks staff conversation about this week’s MTB headlines.
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14min
October 07, 2015 Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 3
In today's podcast we share Helena's 3-part trip report as she samples the singletrack from Pennsylvania to Colorado.
Stay tuned as we mix things up a bit on Friday with a Singletracks staff conversation about this week's MTB headlines.
The post Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 3 appeared first on Singletracks Mountain Bike News.
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14min
October 06, 2015 Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 2
Join us for our second episode of the Singletracks podcast. Today we share Mike Brcic’s 7 Life Lessons from Mountain Bike Pain, the latest on Garmin’s newest GPS units, and John’s summer trip report from the Upper Midwest.
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October 06, 2015 Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 2
Join us for our second episode of the Singletracks podcast. Today we share Mike Brcic's 7 Life Lessons from Mountain Bike Pain, the latest on Garmin's newest GPS units, and John's summer trip report from the Upper Midwest.
Subscribe via iTunes or Soundcloud to automatically get the latest episodes!
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17min
October 05, 2015 Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 1
Thanks to everyone who tuned into our first podcast, we’re off to a great start! The Singletracks MTB News podcast is now available in iTunes and also via SoundCloud.
Today’s episode features Michael Paul’s review of the Guerrilla Gravity Megatrail mountain bike, Walter Rhein’s tale of a stolen Bucksaw, and Greg Heil’s test ride review of the new Yeti SB4.5c.
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October 05, 2015 Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 1
Thanks to everyone who tuned into our first podcast, we're off to a great start! The Singletracks MTB News podcast is now available in iTunes and also via SoundCloud.
Today's episode features Michael Paul's review of the Guerrilla Gravity Megatrail mountain bike, Walter Rhein's tale of a stolen Bucksaw, and Greg Heil's test ride review of the new Yeti SB4.5c.
The post Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 1 appeared first on Singletracks Mountain Bike News.
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14min
October 02, 2015 Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 0
Here at Singletracks we’re always interested in trying new things, from all-wheel drive mountain bikes to fat bikes to yes, even electric mountain bikes. In that same spirit, today we’re posting our first podcast to explore a new way of sharing MTB news. The inaugural episode catches listeners up on articles published this week including information on the massive QR recall, a review of Niner’s brand new RKT mountain bike, and an MTB race report from Alaska.
We’re starting simple so we can learn as much as possible, and we’ll be tweaking and experimenting over the next couple weeks to see how it all works. If this seems like something you’d be interested in listening to on a regular basis, hit us up in the comments to show your support and let us know how you plan to listen to it! As we (hopefully) gain listeners, we’ll be able to devote more resources to improving and expanding the podcast.
Maybe one day we can even afford a more talented narrator than yours truly. 🙂
Podcast feed URL is here.
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13min
October 02, 2015 Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 0
Here at Singletracks we're always interested in trying new things, from all-wheel drive mountain bikes to fat bikes to yes, even electric mountain bikes. In that same spirit, today we're posting our first podcast to explore a new way of sharing MTB news. The inaugural episode catches listeners up on articles published this week including information on the massive QR recall, a review of Niner's brand new RKT mountain bike, and an MTB race report from Alaska.
We're starting simple so we can learn as much as possible, and we'll be tweaking and experimenting over the next couple weeks to see how it all works. If this seems like something you'd be interested in listening to on a regular basis, hit us up in the comments to show your support and let us know how you plan to listen to it! As we (hopefully) gain listeners, we'll be able to devote more resources to improving and expanding the podcast.
Maybe one day we can even afford a more talented narrator than yours truly. :)
Podcast feed URL is here.
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13min
March 26, 2015 Learning to Reduce the Impact of Some Mountain Bike Crashes, Part 1: Sliding out Sideways
I saw this 2013 video of mountain bikers crashing (mostly on downhill runs) on a couple of Facebook pages in recent weeks:

Most of the crashes in the video seem to happen in such a way that there’s little the riders could do to mitigate the impact because of the speed or type of motion that their bodies had.
But there are at least two types of falls in which riders do seem to have some ability to, all things being equal, make better or worse.
1. Over the bars (OTB)
Here’s a sequence of 4 screenshots from the above video (at the 01:26 mark) showing how one rider extends his hands and arms straight out in front of him as he goes OTB:

2. Sliding out sideways
Here’s a one-minute video (GoPro chest harness view) of me crashing at MORC’s Lebanon Hills Mountain Bike Park in Eagan, MN last year. I got caught in a brief rain shower that turned the trail surprisingly slick and I slid out three times in a short span, mainly due to improper form on the flat corners:

Three screenshots:

In both types of falls, my instincts are to use my hands and arms to protect my head because it’s where my brain is, not withstanding my wife’s contention that it sometimes migrates to more southern regions of my body.
The expert mountain bike coaches suggest that this instinctual maneuver to extend our arms in a fall is generally a bad idea (there are exceptions) because of the havoc it tends to wreak on our hands, wrists, rotator cuffs, collarbones, etc.
I first blogged about this back in 2012 with a post titled: How not to crash on your shoulder. I’ve never followed through on the tumbling drills advice in the video by James Wilson, in part because I had a handy excuse: I didn’t have easy access to a place with a tumbling mat. I do now, at my local Northfield Area YMCA.

So the big question for both types of falls: What can you practice so that you’re more likely to override your instincts to stick out your hands and arms?
I’ll soon blog about the drills for the OTB scenario but for the remainder of this post, I’m going to focus on the technique of hanging onto the handlebars for crashes where you slide out sideways at speed. I first learned about this in Ned Overend’s 1999 book, Mountain Bike Like a Champion:

In Chapter 18, Crashing: the right instincts reduce the damage, he writes:
Depending on what you’re going to land on, one way to reduce the chance of serious damage is to hang on to the handlebar. Keep your hand on the grip and turn the bar so the end hits first. Ease yourself onto the ground by landing with your hip. arm, and shoulder in sort of a rolling motion. This technique works on soft surfaces, but you may need to use an outstretched arm if the ground is full of roots or rocks—things too hard for a hip to take. If you reach out, do your best to absorb the impact by collapsing your elbow, as if lowering yourself from a one-arm pushup.
A more detailed explanation of this hang-on-to-the-handlebars technique is in William Nealy’s 1992 book, ...
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