One of our goals in starting McDowell Mountain Cycles has been to help people rediscover what great exercise and good fun riding bikes is. Part of the allure of it is being outside and not stuck indoors like we are for much of each day, but being outside brings certain challenges when the weather turns on us.
Bikepacking is like backpacking, except that you have the majority of your gear on your bike. At the shop, we’d been talking about exploring this for a while and decided to do a maiden voyage overnight trip to Seven Springs.
The All Women’s summer ride is planned for June 12, 2016. It starts and ends at MMC, more details enclosed.
I had not been riding much and “training” even less. I needed a goal, but none of the races I had done in the past were getting me on the bike in earnest. I needed something new, something crazy, something stupid and that’s when it hit me!
The Cape Epic is one of those legendary mountain bike races. MMC owner Harry Johnson and his daughter Heidi recently completed the 8 day stage race, here are some of their stories and photos.
A few years back I wished that I someone would design a road bike that could handle mountain bike tires. Well, that bike is finally here, meet Open Cycles!
When we started McDowell Mountain Cycles, we decided to do a lot of things differently than a lot of bike shops. We recycle over three times as much as we throw away and we decided to allocate space to create a hangout for riders.
In Part 1, I talked about how becoming a stronger rider requires us to stress our various energy systems. Then in Part 2 I discussed the other important side of the equation, recovery. In this installment, let’s get into how we fuel our bodies for our rides.
In Part 1, I talked about the importance of training three of the body’s key energy systems, endurance, threshold and VO2. Now, we need to work recovery into the equation.
It’s that time again, let’s get together and celebrate women on bikes! On March 6, 2016 we’ve got our All Women’s Winter Ride happening, which also happens to be a full century. Yep, it’s a great time to spend all day on your bikes, with friends new and old.