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We’ve teamed up with some of our favorite brands to get you and your best buddy ready to Ride Like a Ninja in 2019! One lucky winner will receive two tickets to one of our 100+ 2-Day Camps along with a seriously drool-worthy gear package. If you’re due for some new skills and fresh gear, […]
3 Things That Will Make You Faster Today
Going fast on your mountain bike isn’t just about pedaling faster – it’s about being smooth! Using only what you have right now — your bike, your mind, and your body — you can unlock secret speed when you’re out riding with your friends, or even on a race course. That’s right, you don’t have […]
9 Steps to Riding with Your Significant Other
We aren’t usually in the business of offering relationship advice but when it comes to riding with your +1, we have a few suggestions to help you both start and finish your ride still smiling! We understand that every (riding) relationship is different so think of these guidelines as a solid starting point. Ready to […]
Creek Crossings – 9 Tips For Staying Safe & Dry
If you’re like me, you never gave up stomping through puddles on a rainy day. Fast-forward a few decades and now we get to trade our galoshes for bike tires. Creeks, brooks, rivers, or streams… every moving body of water poses an exciting challenge on your mountain bike and a chance to experience that same […]
11 Tips For Getting Back On The Bike After a Break
Okay, so maybe you’ve been off the bike for a while. Maybe a really loooong while. Maybe you were injured, work got crazy or life just got in the way. It happens. Don’t fret! You can still get back on the horse bike! Before you go riding off into the sunset, take a minute to […]
Ease the Freeze With These 8 Cold Weather Riding Tips
By Jeremiah Stone The days are cold and it’s dark by 5pm. We’re becoming one with the couch as cookie crumbs gather on our sweatpants, scrolling through Instagram and dreaming of riding, but staying inside because “EW, IT’S COLD!” Can you relate? Well it’s time to snap out of it because with the proper gear […]
Top 5 ‘Must Know’ Ninja Tips of 2018
Let’s take a trip down memory lane and look at the most popular Ninja Articles from 2018! #1 Manual Machine The manual is a useful skill for lofting your front wheel over an obstacle, but if you’re like most mountain bike mortals then learning to manual is much easier said than done! Enter the Manual […]
Dirt Lovers’ Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide
It’s official: we’re just a few advent calendar chocolates away from the big day! We’ve rounded up some of our favorite mountain bike gear and gifts so you can shop for the dirt lover in your life… or strategically leave this article open in your browser for a not-so-subtle hint that THIS is what you […]
How To Ride A Wheelie: 10 Easy Steps
The wheelie is really a useful riding skill, particularly for getting over trail obstacles, as well as a great way to practice balance and bike control. But maybe even more importantly than that (for all the attention-seekers out there) it looks cool. Wanna be YouTube-famous? You gotta learn to do a wheelie. This skill is […]
6 Unexpected Ways to Find Your Flow
What is Flow? You know that feeling when everything just clicks and you are one with your bike, the trail, the universe? You lose all sense of time as you’re fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process. Hello, Flow. So nice to see you again. Turns out […]