Mountain Biking - Riding Responsibly

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    Great Information
    I started mountain biking again after 15 years. My first outing was a disaster with many bumps and bruises. I watched these videos and went out again and had a great ride using the techniques highlighted. Thanks very much for sharing these useful tips with us.

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Scott Scudamore
Hewlett Packard Company
www.more-mtb.org  
703 717 1714

I have been mountain biking since 1993 and have been active in Mountain Bike Advocacy since 1997.   I am a self-proclaimed MTB Junkie.  I have been involved with MTB advocacy for over 11 years, 6 of those years on the Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts  (MORE)  Board in various positions, including President twice.  I have helped to maintain and/or build and design portions of the trails at Fountainhead, Schaeffer, Rosaryville, Gambrill, Cabin John, Wakefield, Accotink, Colt's neck, Cedarville, Conway Robinson and Riverbend.  All legal mountain bike venues within 100 miles of Washington DC.  I am  the current International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA) Representative for the DC Metro area.  I also represents IMBA on the National Rivers and Trails Coalition Working Group.  I am currently President of  the Board of Directors for the local Trips for Kid’s  Chapter. I was Race Director for their first 2 Charity Mountain Bike Races held the end of October   I joined Potomac Velo Bike Racing Club in 1999 and have helped run their MTB and cross races for over 9 years performing various duties including course designer, assistant race director, announcer, course setup, registration, and awards.  I have raced both MTB and Cyclocross since 1995 but have spent the past  4 years doing a few MTB races while I concentrate on the sport of Off-Road Triathlon, XTERRA .   I am also a member of the Bike Lane Elite Racing team.  I started racing XTERRA just a couple of years ago and was totally hooked from the beginning. I have competed in 16 XTERRA races including the 2005 and 2007 National Championships in Lake Tahoe finishing 5th  in 2007 and ended up Mid-Atlantic Regional Champion in 2004. I also competed in the 2007 XTERRA World  Championships.    I am also currently  a staff member for EX2Adventures. They produce local off-road races that challenge competitors of varied interest and ability. From  Trail running, mountain biking, adventure racing, off road triathlons they pretty much have an event for anyone.    I have  given MTB instruction clinics to the newbie’s before the 2004 VQ. I have competed in two VentureQuest races, the EX2 Off-Road Half Marathon, the Backyard Burn 10 mile Trail Runs, numerous Cranky Monkey  MTB races, and the EX2 Off-Road Xterra Triathlon  three times.     I love mountain biking and all that it does for me.  It is my passion and also my mid-life crisis.  

 Shawn Punga was the other member of the team that did the video.  As an active member of MORE for over three years,his involvement with the club has included trail work, trail advocacy, and trail planning at Fairlands, Patapsco, Hoyles Mill, the Upper Rock Creek project, the Watershed, Schaeefer and Roseryville. He has organized and taught a variety of different skills clinics, for different levels of riders as well as leading dozens rides at nearly every venue in the area, His contributions were recognized in 2006 with a Silver Spoke award for Ride Leader of the Year.

Mountain Biking - Riding Responsibly

In this video Scott Scudamore and Shawn Punga of the International Mountain Biking Association will teach you the basics of riding a mountain bike.

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Scott Scudamore: Hi! My name is Scott Scudamore and we are teaching you how to ride a mountain bike with confidence. In this clip we are going to talk about riding responsibly. The International Mountain Bicycling Association or IMBA has rules of the trail. One of the most important rules is leave no trace. If you are riding your bike and your tiers are actually making ruts in the trail or your tiers are filling up with mud, the trail is too wet, then you should not be riding. If you go out there and you take something to eat or you take something to drink, keep the waste with you, take it back out of the woods when you go; all part of leaving no trace. You should always be controlling your bike at all times and easy way to do that, as we're planning ahead with your ride, so you know exactly what you are looking for and then that way that keeps you under control. So, one of the other rules is that we should always yield the trail to other users whether it be a equestrians or joggers or hikers or fishermen out on the trail, we always want to yield and that gets part back to the control your bike and to be planning ahead. So riding responsibly and the rules of the trail, hopefully now that you understand those rules, you have much better experience ridding your bike on the trails and making sure that that experience is inline with other users on the trail as well.

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