#mtbers

[jamieharbour]

Volcanic Epic -Stage 4 - what an event! @volcanicepic is a must for any serious MTBer! Managed to hang on to 5th place in Masters2 and snuck a 13th overall Solo result. (Not counting the e-bikes) 4 days of “race effort” riding was hard but awesome fun. Can’t wait for next year. Thanks @iride for taking care of my bike and me. (at Whakarewarewa Forest, Rotorua) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTvylMB_WZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[benediktine]

Kuni Yamagata @KuniYamagata - 午後11:44 ・ 2024年7月12日 : https://x.com/KuniYamagata/status/1811773661713694902 : https://archive.md/rWfcP 大体スポーツで自転車乗るのなんてランニングが苦手な奴か金の余裕があるランナーが怪我や故障している最中に時間潰しでやってる奴か若いつもりで妄想してる爺い達がやるもんだろ。 ≫――――――≪

ドラ&打倒乗鞍　 @dorainoti - 午前7:16 ・ 2024年7月13日 : https://x.com/dorainoti/status/1811887429563171311 : https://archive.md/VKdEX 　　　　　　 おばさんですが、 自転車　のってます　 ≫――――――≪

Kuni Yamagata @KuniYamagata - 午前7:27 ・ 2024年7月13日 : https://x.com/KuniYamagata/status/1811890145450426411 : https://archive.md/aEcS1 1ランナーの独断の偏見です。 ≫――――――≪

ドラ&打倒乗鞍　 @dorainoti - 午前7:30 ・ 2024年7月13日 : https://x.com/dorainoti/status/1811890934424219997 : https://archive.md/rDv8t 私は、スポーツと言うより 手段としてサイクリングを楽しんでいます 趣味のひとつですね　

車で、ドライブ　　と同じ気持ちです ≫――――――≪

Kuni Yamagata @KuniYamagata - 午前7:35 ・ 2024年7月13日 : https://x.com/KuniYamagata/status/1811892165192352128 : https://archive.md/UoPzU 一般市民の自転車はとても大事な交通手段です。ただ一般道路でも自転車と歩行者そして車との確執は絶えないですね。 ≫――――――≪

ドラ&打倒乗鞍　 @dorainoti - 午前7:38 ・ 2024年7月13日 : https://x.com/dorainoti/status/1811892819994509677 : https://archive.md/8f9Nh 確かに 走る時は お互いにお互いを思いやって いきたいです

肝に銘じておきます ≫――――――≪

Kuni Yamagata @KuniYamagata - 午前7:46 ・ 2024年7月13日 : https://x.com/KuniYamagata/status/1811894994204262483 : https://archive.md/cqNP3 コロナ以前の自転車乗りとは全く問題が無かったのですがカリフォルニアではツールドフランスのアームストロング以後のロードバイクとコロナ禍時に増えたMTB のマナーの悪さには辟易しています。 ≫――――――≪

92iiii @92iiii_MTB - 午前8:59 ・ 2024年7月13日 : https://x.com/92iiii_MTB/status/1811913373833134488 : https://archive.md/5R6Hx うるせーよ老害トレランじじいが、って思ったけど、ポストを読み解くとなるほどそういう事かと。 トレイル天国と思われるアメリカでもMTBerとその他トレイル利用者の軋轢は必ずある。 MTBに対する公的なスピードメーターや、個人的なトラップなどもあると聞きますね。 　{{ 画像 : コロナ以前の自転車乗りとは全く問題が無かったのですがカリフォルニアではツールドフランスのアームストロング以後のロードバイクとコロナ禍時に増えたMTB のマナーの悪さには辟易しています。 }} ≫――――――≪

[doitsunonihonjin]

大事なのは「やる気」

マウンテンバイク（MTB）教室行き、決定――スポーツ系の習い事としてアイスホッケーのほか体操系、ダンス系を試してみてもモチベーションは感じられず、当地にいながらサッカーには（仲間とたま蹴りは好きなくせに）1mmもなびかずにいた我が家の男児ですが、ついに見つけたようです。日増しに伸びる体力と恵まれた体格を、存分に使う場ができました！

日曜の朝。ドルトムント郊外、集合場所となっているサッカー第5リーグチームのホームグラウンドへ行くと、集まってきた子供たちが周回ルートを走り“自主アップ”を始めました。何はともあれ、皆に倣って列に加わり流れに乗る息子を、密かにガッツポーズをして見守りました。そんなに自主的に子供たちの輪に加わる息子を、わたしは初めて見たのです。

そのうちインストラクターが到着すると、面々が緩やかにご挨拶。インストラクターのひとりが初顔のわたしたち夫婦を認め、挨拶に寄ってきました。事前に参加の旨を伝えていましたが、給水ボトルはインストラクターが持っていってくれること、万が一の時のために携帯番号をシェアすることなどの伝達があり、息子の名前を再確認して終了です。

ちょうど近くを通り過ぎる頃合いを見て、先ほどのインストラクターが息子を呼び止めていました。遠目に見ていると、ヘルメットのフィッティングにはじまり、車輪周り、ブレーキ、ハンドル周りやフィッティングを確認しているのが解りました。そのほか、自転車に乗れるか、他の子供たちと（親の見えない所へ）走りに行けるか、ということは事前にメールでやり取りがあったものの、細かなことは何も無し。ヘルメットを含む装備、更に「やる気」があることが、まずは大事なこと。柔らかな子供が何かを新しくスタートする際は特に、証明も、型も、禁止事項の知識も要らないこの感じは確かに、わたしが愛しているドイツだなと思ったのでした。

そういえば、息子がまだ小さい頃に通った水泳教室だってとても自由でした。やりたい放題のボーイズを本当に上手にいなして、練習を導き、最後にはテストを通過できるスイミングスキルが身についていたのですから。

インストラクター2人にはさまれた4〜6歳の子供たち12人は、およそ1時間のトレイルライドへ。MTBerの保護者おふたりは、一緒に出かけていました。わたしたち夫婦はもちろん自転車乗りなのですが、ロード、ピスト、クロス、シティー（重量級Eバイク）とそろいつつ、MTBにはどうしても興味なし。泥だらけの身とバイクで戻ってきた息子は、ラクに走れる場所では前を走る男の子とずっと話しながら走ったことや、森を巡り、泥の道、石だらけの小山を上った話を随分と生き生きと聞かせてくれました。嬉しいですね。

泥だらけのバイクの洗車は、ガソリンスタンドに常設されている高圧洗浄機（数分1ユーロ）を利用しました。あっという間にピカピカになり、気持ち良い！ 帰宅後チェーンなどにオイルをさして、次の出番の準備は完ぺき。ゆっくりお休み〜（息子＆バイク）。

[worldstop10]

5 Tips for Finding the Perfect Saddle For Your E-bike

New Post - 5 Tips for Finding the Perfect Saddle For Your E-bike

How do I find the perfect saddle for my e-bike? This is a question that every cyclist will be familiar with not just us e-bike owners. After all, whether you are a keen MTBer, road racer or triathlete, everyone wants to ride comfortably, without pain and get the best out of their bike. We help you on your way with five tips for finding your ideal saddle. Find the Saddle With the Right Shape No…

[boneshakerbike]

Deer Creek Ridge DH Full Run

Deer Creek Ridge DH Full Run

Deer Creek Ridge is a moto trail that local MTBers have taken under their wing. Although wrongfully spreading the word that this is MTB only, I hit it up with my EMTB. #trailforkswrong #bringbackthemoto

[safereturndoubtful]

Day 95 - to Mols Bjerge National Park

I’m on a mission to find Danish hills, not easy as the country’s highest point is only 171 metres, and marked solely by a rock on a grassy meadow. Rebild is such a place though, a place of hills. It’s a National Park of hilly heathland, the peaks rising to 100 metres in exceptional cases. But the area is well-organised, keeping the cyclists, MTBers, horse riders and hikers separate, and on well-maintained paths. It’s more like a National Park in the south of England, and nothing at all like those I have been in in the last few months further north. It is one or just two national parks in the country.

It put on a fine show today in the autumnal sunshine, on an almost warm day, at 17C.

After lunch I drove to the other national park, Mols Bjerge, which we will investigate tomorrow. It’s coastal, and has large areas of beech forest. I’m stopped over somewhere in the middle of it, accessible by rough tracks, and an excellent wilderness camp. Most likely my last wilderness stopover of this course, but completely dark, absolutely quiet, and not a soul for many a kilometre.

Once stopped up, we had an evening stroll, but it’s dark at 6 pm now, so back into to read, and then contribute to, a Guardian piece on the best horror short stories.

Halloween provides an opportunity for such things. Though I’ll read and watch horror throughout the year quite happily, I like to overindulge in these next few days.

By the time I contributed to the article, I was the 470th person. It has proved one of the most popular of their genre based features similar to this.

[4x4community]

Tilt slide for fridge

Forum: Camping, Fridges, Accessories Posted By: Mtber Post Time: 2022/10/21 at 09:56 AM http://dlvr.it/SbSZ3F

[uchippo]

MTBerで行く沢登り。

[challengerbmxmag]

Interview: Peter Sutherland

This piece originally appeared in Challenger BMX Magazine Volume 2, Issue 1 Spring 2018. Read the PDF of this issue here. Purchase the physical copy of this issue here.

Peter Sutherland is a skier, surfer, MTBer, and artist living in New York City/Colorado. His work often takes the form of photographs with elements of sculpture. It’s probably a cliche in the Instagram era to say that someone has a knack for the overlooked but Peter has a great way of looking at the world and the subcultures he inhabits. Whenever I see his work in person or pick up one of his books, I feel like it was made by one of my friends.

What’s your involvement with cycling/bikes?

Low level BMX as a small kid then I skated, but I was Mountain Biking heavy through high school and college. Lots of single speed freewheel for the last 20 years I’ve been in NYC. I love being self propelled, not using gas all the time. I love the way I feel on any sort of board or on a bicycle.

Skeletor from Peter’s 2001 documentary, Pedal, about NYC bike messengers. Available for purchase here.

Just from following your work I knew you were interested in cycling but never really saw much related to BMX. But then I think I saw photos you shot of Grady Corbitt at Posh and maybe a photo of Edwin DeLaRosa in NYC. How much do you follow BMX? And did you ever ride BMX?

I was excited about BMX when I was really young, we lived in Michigan on a dirt road. When we moved to a place with a paved road (Colorado) I started skating. But early issues of BMX Plus! and BMX Action magazines were super inspiring to me. I think the bails always seemed too gnarly for me on bikes and skate bails seemed more manageable.

I loved that video you made with your bro kinda centered around a MTB trip. A lot of people make work that is inspired or semi related to their other interests.I feel like you do a good job of not being really obvious with your references/inspiration.Can you elaborate a little on making work that is inspired by your other interests?

Thanks. Yeah I think there is something about moving to NYC when I was still young and seeing art work in museums and galleries and then going back into the world and collecting images with that sensibility. Most of my work has an autobiographical angle, so I’m showing you the things that I am really excited about. Maybe it translates. Also none of us are really that good at MTBing so it’s all about the atmospheric stuff.

Would you ever want to swap your life as a pro artist with mtber, skier/snowboarder hobbies and be a pro mtber, skier/snowboarder, with an art hobby?

I have friends that are pro or were pro. I think it’s awesome but it’s hard to grow older and hang on to it. I feel lucky with the direction my life has taken, so I guess I wouldn’t trade. It’s just as fun to do all of this stuff on a non competitive level. I always feel like I’m expressing my self on a board or riding a bike.

I’ve always thought that it would be really easy to compare the art world with the BMX world re: someone working professionally:

Gallery representation is to sponsorship as solo show is to video part, etc.

Have you ever thought about that connection? I’ve never been a pro bmxer or a pro artist so I could be completely wrong…

Yeah I think that is correct, there is something about representation, all it really is is someone else saying what you do is good. It’s good to have that stuff but even better to just keep doing what ever it is you like. Sometimes all the galleries and stuff cloud up what you are trying to do. I’ve been on both sides where my art is worth nothing and I’ve sold stuff for a lot of money. Both are interesting. It’s hard to hold on to the second one.

I’ve really enjoyed seeing your work mature and develop over the years. I love the sculptural elements and move from straight photography. What prompted that?

I still take photos and believe in the strength of images, but I also get bored with the limitations and the ways people tend to present photography. It’s always about framing it and photographers being so precious about images. But when it’s loosened up and you can add in sculpture and cut your photos in half and light them on fire it feels way more open.

Favorite skate, BMX, snowboard, subculture graphic of all-time?

I think its the Mike Vallely barn yard board. It was a board I had and an early double kick type of board. A lot of the time it’s not about the graphic but more about the time in your life when you see it. There’s good graphics everywhere now but they don’t sink in as deep as they did when I was 12 years old and trying to varial flip on flat.

[totalmtb]

I’m been feeling pretty crappy of late so today I decided to get out in some fresh air and have a brief blast around the local trails. Bumped into some walkers who loved the fact that I was out on the bike in the midst of all the doom and gloom, it was also refreshing to speak to like minded people who just want to enjoy the countryside as much as us mtbers do, without claiming all of the trails are theirs and theirs only. They also approved of the brew making facilities. . @therealmickeyhunt . . . . #TotalMTB #LetsAllRide . Go follow @Total.Rider #TotalRider . Our new jersey is now available and for just £29!!! . Visit our website for discount codes, up to 20% off on big brands! . We also have a range of apparel available for men, women and kids! . . Follow, like and tag us in your MTB photos on Twitter and Facebook for a share! YouTube: TotalMTB Twitter: @TotalMTB_ Facebook: /TotalMTB Strava Club: /total-mtb . Main Partners @EBWatches @Veloforte @SpengleCarbon @Steadyrack @SquirtCyclingProducts_UK @JeJamesCycles @LEMHelmets @IGL_Coatings_UK @Etnies @OspreyEurope @AssSavers @DialledMedia . #mtb #mountainbike #bike #downhillmtb #downhillmountainbiking #downhillbiking #bikepark #instabike #bikestagram #bikeride #cycling #itsaboutmtb #badassmtnbikes #bikestable #stravacycling #mtbmag #gopro #goprouk #bikeporn #mtbporn #cyclinglife #freeride #outsideisfree #baaw #fromwhereiride #ukmtb #ukcyclechat https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zKw9hHoaO/?igshid=2mj0bsz4lkzf

[benediktine]

TKC プロダクションズ @tkcproductions - 午前9:09 ・ 2022年11月11日 : https://twitter.com/tkcproductions/status/1590859140611858435 : https://archive.ph/ZSRD0 この写真を選んでくるセンスが凄い。 　{{ 画像 : 登山道でのマウンテンバイク走行が物議　ルール制定難しく、マナー任せの現状も : https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/9521832c819b540f43841a3bc7cc1620164ac194 : https://archive.is/VdtM3 : https://benediktine.tumblr.com/post/702412101402116096/ }} ≫――――――≪

TKC プロダクションズ @tkcproductions - 午前9:20 ・ 2022年11月11日 : https://twitter.com/tkcproductions/status/1590861898484166656 : https://archive.ph/yT89B MTBって場所によって気候、土質が違うから一律にルールを決めるのが困難。

オレゴン、ワシントン州では多少の雨でもトレイルに行くし、ノースショアでも走る人はいると思う。

アリゾナやCA州はあまり雨が降らないけど、降った後はライド厳禁の不文律がありそう。轍が乾くとカチカチになるので。 ≫――――――≪

TKC プロダクションズ  @tkcproductions - 午前9:26 ・ 2022年11月11日 : https://twitter.com/tkcproductions/status/1590863423642165248 : https://archive.ph/qf7ZH 管理の行き届いたトレイルシステムは排水を考えてあるので、シアトルあたりのMTBerは雨でも乗りに行ってる気がする。

南CAは雨が少ないので排水を考えたトレイルはあまり無いし、メンテする際は水を持ってこないとダメなので、LA辺りに絵に描いたようようなフロートレイルはあまり見たことがない。 ≫――――――≪

オルクリスト @kamitsukimaru - 午後1:19 ・ 2022年11月11日 : https://twitter.com/kamitsukimaru/status/1590922027229401088 : https://archive.ph/sSpdf 返信先: @tkcproductions ちょっと悪意を感じられるチョイスですね…例えば東京都自然公園ルールを守って走るようにしてる人だったら、特別保護地域は走らない、 ハイカー優先、などに加えて雨天時に走らない、ぬかるみで乗らない、なども守ってますし。 ≫――――――≪

[edodevon]

After ride 200km!! Bl 200km 2017 #bintaroloop #bl200km2017 #liveforride #rideforfun #lainatlit #mtbers #enjoyurride

[castle878-blog]

That makes one,two, three forks. Mtbers got jokes.🧐 Happy Wednesday everyone! (at Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtRACI5FxSW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t65t0eu5l6zl

[safereturndoubtful]

Day 94 - to Rebild, Denmark

It was an early start for the ferry this morning. On such days the van is a big advantage, as it can be just a few seconds from being in bed to driving - breakfast, most important for the dog, can be done once checked in.

We were in the line at the terminal, which is right in the middle of Gothenburg, by 7 am.

It was a three and a half hour crossing during which Roja was quite happy dozing in the van. As we travel south the weather gets steadily warmer, from -10 at Hemsedal last weekend, to 12C in Gothenburg, and 16C off the ferry in Denmark at Fredericksburg, and 18C further inland.

I located a forested public area, not quite a Nature Park, called Hammer Bakker where we took a leisurely lunch and then a couple of hours out.

Later in the afternoon we drove through, or rather around, Aalborg, and then south to Rebild, which is a big tourist outdoor area in the summer, but tonight, I arrived just before dark at 6 pm, there was just some determined MTBers and runners, in clubs, trying to squeeze the last bit of light out of the season.

[4x4community]

Gauteng area camps

Forum: Gauteng Posted By: Mtber Post Time: 2022/08/25 at 08:13 AM http://dlvr.it/SXC8hD

[f9dtkfm]

幌ボディ、日本ではラインアップされないようだけれど（このあたりにスズキの”認識出来てない感”がニジミ出る）

 (via 自動車評論家 国沢光宏)

日本じゃ幌車なんて本格クロカニストか某変態MTBerとかマニアしか買わないよ。このスタイル復活させただけでもかなり認識できてると思うが。てかガチのジムニー乗りは自分で切る。だが幌車は正義。