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How To Ride a Mountain Bike - Fluidride Flow Tonic Mountain Bike DVD (2012)



How can you take fast turns on your mountain bike without falling? How can you ride faster? And how can you take advantage of the forces that are at work when riding on downhill singletracks?

Why You Need a Lockout MTB Suspension Fork

Lockout MTB Fork
Serious mountain bikers usually choose mountain bikes with a lockout front suspension fork. But then again serious cyclists in general are more into cycling than they are into gear. What I mean is you don't have to own the perfect bike to be a good cyclist.

The lockout is a switch/lever on one of the tubes in your MTB fork that once turned makes your fork rigid. Some forks have what is called remote lockout - the lever is placed on the handlebar and thus you don't need to reach down at the fork to operate it. A cable connects the handlebar lever with the actual lockout switch on the top of the fork tube.

What Are the Benefits of Lockout MTB Fork
Having a rigid fork (suspension locked) is useful when riding uphill on even terrain. In this situation you usually get up from the saddle and push on the pedals using your own weight. If you have a regular suspension fork most of your effort dissipates in the fork itself. Instead of transforming your work on the pedals in covered distance you waste energy by allowing the fork to glide back and forth with each push you make.

A rigid fork allows you to transform your pedaling into traveled distance. When riding out of the saddle you won't bounce (as with the suspension on) and you will gain distance more efficiently.


If you ride in the city and cycle in a soft manner (on the saddle) you may want to leave your suspension on as to decrease the breaking distance. Basically the same thing happens here - the kinetic energy is being absorbed by the fork enabling you to stop faster and keep permanent contact between your bike's wheels and the road.

Remote Lockout Suspension ForkRemote lockout on MTB fork

Pictures taken from here and here (Cozy Beehive - a technical cycling blog).

Go cycling!

Free Downhill T shirt Design

Downhill T shirt Design MTBDownload this downhill T shirt design in vector format (SVG) here

Aren't we all downhill addicts?

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Wear your helmet while riding the single-track!

Are You a Fat Cyclist?

Coz if you are, fat that is, you're not the only one.

I myself gain and consequently struggle to loose about 2 kilos (4.4 lbs) per week so I feel fat pretty often. :-) That's because I like to indulge myself with pork - as you can see in the MTB video "And Mustard Please..."

What you can do for loosing weight is what the Fat Cyclist did for himself:

I had known I needed to lose weight, but hadn’t really done much about it. As I pushed my bike up the road, I realized I had not tried one very successful diet tactic: humiliation. I resolved to start a blog, embarrassing myself by proclaiming my weight on a daily basis, no matter how bad I was doing.
I urge you to read Fatty's blog here and start getting in shape. You can also bring your contribution to the fight against cancer by riding 100 Miles of Nowhere.





My mountain bike downhill video where I get fat...


Enjoy the bike satire!

Awesome Mountain Bike Video



The title says it all: If Only Every Mountain Biking Video Was Shot Like This...

I assume they used a glidecam (Steadicam) with a body vest and flying arm for shooting this footage. It looks that they also had flying cameras on steel cables running above the single track. I can only guess the amount of work behind this free ride MTB clip. Good job guys!

Downhill MTB Mountain Bike T shirt Design
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Keep riding and wear your helmet. Cheers!

Free Mountain Bike Vector Design for Your T-shirt and Hoodie

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Ride on!