Mountain Bike Living

This is the first 10 minutes of the TV coverage of the 1989 Carlsberg UK Mountain Bike championships held on a 30km circuit around the Rothiemurchus Estate near Aviemore in Scotland. This wasn’t the first UK MTB champs (I think it was the 2nd or 3rd) but probably the first to be broadcast on mainstream TV. Ironically, such events don’t get shown on TV any more ! Highlights of this footage include Phil Liggett explaining what mountain bikes are, and the fluorescent 80’s cycling fashion. Pretty much every rider is using toeclips. There are none of the camelback drinking baggy shorts riders that you see today ! Everyone’s got thumbshifters, cantilever brakes, no suspension. Lots of riders with pipe insulation foam around their crossbars, chainstay mounted u-brakes, 6/7 speed friction gears and Biopace chainrings. Perhaps some lucky pro riders had SIS indexed thumbshifters, GroundControl tyres, and studded shoes to help run up slopes.

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mountain bike crashes

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Learn to do the BMX trick called the 180 in this instructional video.

Expert: Michael Novelli
Bio: Michael Novelli ha estado haciendo acrobacias en bicicletas BMX por más de 11 años.
Filmmaker: Michael Novelli

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Former Talking Heads frontman and bicycling enthusiast, David Byrne, takes a ride out to Brooklyn to show off his latest project, designer bike racks. WSJ’s Reed Albergotti reports. (July 18)

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You asked for it, you’ve got it… Bicycle maintenance videos. This week we discuss and show chain cleaning and lubrication. Please thank Doug Moak and our sponsor, River City Bicycles, for making it possible.

Next weeks topic is brake pads. If you have any topics you’d like to suggest please shoot us an email. We’d love to see your responses and any repair videos you might have in a video format.

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Just north of Columbus, OH; Alum Creek State Park hosts three mountain bike trails. Phase 1, also known as P1, is a six mile intermediate level trail made up of almost all singletrack.

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mountain bike ride through woods. awesome jumps, great music, and incredible terrain.
[I am not the originator of this video, but found it to be soo cool, that I wanted to share it with YouTube viewers] Mike

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Extreme tricks on a fixed gear bike from wheely to handstand

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Learn what qualities make a mountain bike right or wrong for you in this free video series that should help you pick the proper bike for yourself.

Expert: Eric Kieke
Contact: www.spincitycycling.com
Bio: Eric Kieke co-founded the Spin City Cycling bicycle shop in Austin, Texas. He is a member of the National Bicycle Dealers ociation.
Filmmaker: Sally Martin

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rad biker danny macaskill

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