Do I Need a Full Face Helmet for Mountain Biking?

As I continue to push the limits of my riding and experience the ‘growing pains’ of mountain biking (aka; wiping out), it has become quite apparent to me that my open face helmet just doesn’t seem like enough protection for the riding that I am doing. So before running out and dropping cash on the first one I see, I did my due diligence, and here’s what I...

Am I Too Old to Mountain Bike?

As I get older, a little wiser, crash and get a little banged up now and then, I catch myself wondering if there is such a thing as ‘too old’ for mountain biking. So not wanting to just go off my gut instinct and so ‘hell no’, I did a little digging to see what others might think. Here’s what I found. So, can a person be too old to mt. bike? No. Absolutely not. Basing our ability to perform anything in life based solely on the number of trips around the...

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