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It's Give to the Max day: If you ride a mountain bike in the Twin Cities metro area, MORC deserves your support - Mountain Bike Geezer
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. It’s Give to the Max day: If you ride a mountain bike in the Twin Cities metro area, MORC deserves your support. November 14, 2013. Although I ride mountain bike trails all around the upper Midwest, my local mountain bike club is MORC. 160; I’m constantly amazed that it costs ZERO to ride the dozen MTB trails around the Twin Cities metro area, so I’m happy to A) be a member of MORC/IMBA. And B) kick some $ in the MORC Give to the Max Day bucket. Give to the Max Day. Is a grea...
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Advocacy Archives - Mountain Bike Geezer
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. Using a blog post to address citizen concerns about a mountain bike trail. June 2, 2016. I occasionally put on my mountain bike advocacy hat (helmet? And in the past few of weeks I’ve had it on quite a bit in my role as a board member of my local IMBA chapter, Cannon River Offroad Cycling and Trails (CROCT). While we are reaching out to these citizens to meet face-to-face, I’ve used our CROCT blog to address the main issues. February 11, 2016. I’ve been taking the lead on ...
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. Mountain Bike Geezer teams up with Ryan Leech, pro mountain biker & coach. January 13, 2016. I’m pleased to announce that I’m teaming up with pro mountain biker Ryan Leech at his Performance Mountain Biking and Coaching website, RyanLeech.com. As a longtime customer and student of Ryan’s, I’ve seen firsthand how his instructional philosophy mirrors my beliefs that:. His first two online courses (. Live up to his site’s tagline:. July 28, 2015. Last spring when I saw that pro mou...
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Top Ten Difficult MTB technical obstacles in Twin Cities Metro area - 2014 - Mountain Bike Geezer
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. Top Ten Difficult MTB technical obstacles in Twin Cities Metro area – 2014. The technical obstacles ranked here were voted the 2014 Top Ten most difficult skinnies, rocks, rock gardens, drops, and climbs selected from the Twin Cities metro area mountain bike trail systems. (Not included: bike park jumps, pump tracks, berms, etc.) ‘Difficult’ was left open to interpretation: skill level, exertion, danger, etc. See the discussion in the MORC forum here. Results, stage 1. Professio...
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The exercises I do for mountain biking, Part I: Low back pain - Mountain Bike Geezer
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. The exercises I do for mountain biking, Part I: Low back pain. November 20, 2013. I’m grateful to be able to ride a mountain bike aggressively at my geezerly age. I’m lucky, but I’ve also learned a couple things that seem to help. Back RX : a fifteen-minute-a-day Yoga-and Pilates-based program to end low back pain forever. By Vijay Vad. (See Dr. Vijay Vad’s web site. For more about his books and DVDs, research, etc.). An emphasis on the hips. By fall, I was pain-free doing his s...
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Photo album: IMBA Great Lakes Regional Summit 2015 - Mountain Bike Geezer
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. Photo album: IMBA Great Lakes Regional Summit 2015. June 22, 2015. After my two days in Duluth, I headed across northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s U.P. to attend the 2015 IMBA Great Lakes Regional Summit. The best way to get a sense of what is was all about is to read this blog post by Dan Fausey published on his Mountain Bike Trailer Park blog. A titled Something for Everyone – Riding Marquette MI and the IMBA Regional Summit. Recommended) or SLOW CLICK this small slideshow:.
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Learning to ride Archives - Mountain Bike Geezer
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. Category Archives: Learning to ride. Video: learning to jump from Phil Kmetz, part 1. June 22, 2016. A video posted by Griff Wigley (@mtbikegeezer) on. Jun 22, 2016 at 8:43pm PDT. See Phil Kmetz’s blog post titled How To Jump A Mountain Bike. Video: some progress on my rocking skills. June 17, 2016. A video posted by Griff Wigley (@mtbikegeezer) on. Jun 17, 2016 at 5:47am PDT. I’m now a PMBI Level 1 MTB instructor. June 15, 2016. It was held at Spirit Mountain in Duluth. Here ar...
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Trail work Archives - Mountain Bike Geezer
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. Category Archives: Trail work. My summer as an MTB skills park dirt boss and heavy equipment operator. November 20, 2015. This past summer, fellow mountain biker and uber volunteer Bill Nelson used his Ford Tractor to help CROCT. CROCT’s first National Trails Day & membership drive: superb. June 8, 2015. Over three dozen trail workers (including 15 kids) showed up at Rice County’s Caron Park. On Saturday (National Trails Day) to work on the first segment of a CROCT. In Faribault...
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Competition Archives - Mountain Bike Geezer
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. Photo album: Superior Cycling Association’s Sawtooth Mountain Challenge mtb race. October 25, 2015. Last weekend I took photos of the Sawtooth Mountain Challenge. An annual mountain bike race in Grand Marais, Minnesota, hosted by the Superior Cycling Association. I’m starting work on a bike advocacy project for Advocate Cycles. In one big group: Experts first (22 miles), followed by the Sport class (15 miles) and Citizens (4 miles):. Pincushion Mountain Trail System. Was again h...
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Ryan Leech – MTB courses. All posts by Griff Wigley. Mountain biking instructor certifications: IMBA ICP Level 2 vs PMBI Level 1. July 1, 2016. This spring I’ve gotten certified as both an IMBA ICP Level 2. And PMBI Level 1. Mountain bike instructor (blog posts with photos here. The competing certifications are similar in that they’re designed to equip one with the ability to instruct beginner and intermediate-level riders in basic skills. ( IMBA’s ICP Level 1 is a Ride Guide course. It poured nearly the...
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