8 Ways To Green Your Mountain Biking

Trail Ninja, Dan Milner gives you 8 top tips on how to ride your bike without buggering up the planet.

Dan says…

Let’s face it, just because we’re mountain bikers doesn’t mean we have to be environmental idiots. We are outdoors people doing outdoors things so it stands to reason that collectively we have at least some interest in the wild, beautiful natural playground we ride through. If it was concrete we were after we’d be BMX’ers, but its not, its big, bloody beautiful mountains and glaciers and forests and wild places that give us chance to escape the mundane world of utility bills and mortgage payments. So we owe our environment some respect, and here are 8 steps we can take to lessen our impact as mountain bikers on the planet we call home.

Warning! Contains a failed attempt at bleeping out some swears.

Mark Alker

Singletrack Owner/Publisher

Mark has been riding mountain bikes for over 30 years and co-owns Singletrack, where he's been publisher for 25 years. While his official title might be Managing Director, his actual job description is "whatever needs doing" – from wrangling finances and keeping the lights on to occasionally remembering to ride bikes for fun rather than just work. He's seen the sport evolve from rigid forks to whatever madness the industry dreams up next, and he's still not entirely sure what "gravel" is. When he's not buried in spreadsheets or chasing late invoices, he's probably thinking about his next ride.

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