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Rock n Roll in Arkansas @markymath on his @marinbi

Rock n Roll in Arkansas @markymath on his @marinbikes Rift Zone XR.
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Friday trail party vibes from @bernard_kerr always

Friday trail party vibes from @bernard_kerr always bring the heat and the good vibes!
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#bike #mountainbike #cycling

Several waves of iconic freeride moments have come

Several waves of iconic freeride moments have come crashing onto the beach of mountain bike culture throughout the last few decades – each swell has its origins, but Kamloops B.C seems to continuously produce the largest. The whitewash of these monstrous waves comes in with blood, sweat, and broken bike parts, yet it spreads something completely different across the sand that remains: inspiration to the masses.
Why does Freeride strike the hearts of so many mountain bikers? It’s more than just a niche discipline of cycling, it’s been a movement – a form of rebellion.
For @konabikes Factory Rider @kystewart , this movement shaped her upbringing almost entirely. Born and raised in Kamloops B.C., it was just part of the norm to encourage a young shredder to hit jumps in the yard. As her local riding community dove deeper into jumps and creative lines, her progression as a rider evolved in variety, style, and impressive features – just like the famous local trails.
From a 2007 Makena to a Process X DH in 2023, Kyleigh shows us how far she’s come and how her love of bikes and downhill hasn’t faded

Throwback Thursday - Looking back to the 1990s Jo

Throwback Thursday - Looking back to the 1990s
John Tomac is widely regarded as the most versatile bike racer in history. He left a promising career in BMX in the mid-1980s to take up mountain biking and then road biking. Tomac won so many major events in those two disciplines that Velo News voted him the world’s best all-around rider of 1988. Tomac raced both mountain and road bike events during the late 1980s up through 1991, when he decided to focus on mountain bikes again. Tomac thought that many of the top European road riders were using performance-enhancing drugs, making it too hard for a non-drug-using rider to beat them. He refused to take such drugs, so he went back to racing mountain bikes.
Not too long after that, Tomac decided to stop racing the UCI World Cup cross-country series when he began to suspect that many of the newer European cross-country mountain bike racers were also using performance-enhancing drugs.
One of the people who won a UCI XC World Championship in the 1990s was Christophe Dupouey, who was later stripped of his world title for having been found to have used performance-enhancing drugs to win the title. Dupouey ended up committing suicide in 2009 after his title was taken away from him for having used drugs, and it was also revealed that he was involved in drug trafficking. Here’s what one cycling news site said about Dupouey’s case: “In 2006 he was given a suspended three-month prison sentence for participating in a trafficking network for ‘pot belge,’ a mix of cocaine, caffeine, pain killers, sometimes amphetamines and heroin.” That’s from the story, “Former World Champion Dupouey commits suicide,” published in Cycling News, February 5, 2009,
Europeans weren’t the only bike racers who began using performance-enhancing drugs in the 1990s. America’s Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times—1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005— before he was exposed for having used performance-enhancing drugs to achieve those wins.
In 1991, Tomac won the UCI World Cup XC title as well as the UCI XC World Championship for that year. Tomac also took second in the downhill at the UCI World Championship in 1991 and ’97.

what would you rate @kade_2000 kit and matching pa

what would you rate @kade_2000 kit and matching paint job?
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EMTB Hard Enduro? @pat_smage Thinks that this shou

EMTB Hard Enduro? @pat_smage Thinks that this should be a thing as he gives his thoughts in a recent post you can check out to get his 2 cents!
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#bike #emtb #ebike #mountainbike #mtb

Some times free ride Fridays quickly turn into Fri

Some times free ride Fridays quickly turn into Friday Fails it’s a good thing @aric_duncan is tough as nails!
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#bike #mountainbike #freeride #mtbfail

Throwback Thursday - Mountain Bike Actions Novembe

Throwback Thursday - Mountain Bike Actions November 1986
John Tomac made his first cover appearance in the upper left corner of our second issue. July 1986 was the date of the first issue of Mountain Bike Action, and it was so popular that we came out with our second issue in November 1986, shown here That’s trials champion Kevin Norton splashing through the ocean water in the main cover photo, and that’s MBA test rider John Tomac, in the upper left corner of the cover, clocking some air time on our Jamis test bike. @johntomac1
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#mtb #mountainbike #90smtb #80smtb #mtb80s #mtb90s #throwback #tbt #oldschool

Wild Ride Wednesday! Full video of all the carnage

Wild Ride Wednesday! Full video of all the carnage on @jackmoir_ YT channel!
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#mountainbike #mtbfail #mtb #downhill

It’s not @jono_jones1 epic cave trail, but it wa

It’s not @jono_jones1 epic cave trail, but it was a pretty cool experience nonetheless!
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#cave #ride #mtb #mountainbike #tunnel #caveride #trail #bike #bikelife #bikes #nature #uswe

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