9 Bad Mountain Biking Habits That You Should Avoid!

Lmao dude, Blake riding while sitting was amazing. He had the whole dead sailor thing going, what a beaut!

My bad habit: Spending more time watching GMBN than actually riding while using more than one finger on my computer's mouse.

“One finger can do it all” you haven’t seen my crappy mechanical brakes.

Not only is trash littering, but if you happen to be one of the people who have reflectors on your bike and it should break in a crash or a pedal strike, please pick it up. I get tired of seeing reflective pieces of plastic on the trail. They are sharp, and distracting.

Blake’s acting was so good that I started to get mad at him for not having the tools to fix a flat.

You missed riding with no water

Mountain bike elitists... I consider myself a beginner/intermediate, scrap the attitude man... just because you have a 7k bike doesn't mean you need a 7k attitude - learn from Blake here. :)

1 litter 2 skidding in turns/berms 3 crunching gears

Bad habit: excessively skidding the trail and destroying what others built

MOVE IT OR LOSE IT!!

These have to be top 2! 1. Littering 2. Stopping in the middle trail

No excuse for littering, you should always take your litter home, i'm probably guilty for 1 or 2 of the other habits though haha, good vid :)

No.1Not greeting a fellow rider, nothing like coming across a stuck-up rider who's too good to say Hi!....No.2 Blowing past and not offering help to a fellow rider who may need help. Give them the option of kindly declining any help. No.3 Not yielding to a hiker, trail runner, or horseback rider on a multi-use trail, yelling out to make them move, and giving Mountain Bikers a bad reputation. Just have a bit of patience and you'll be rolling along in no time.

Listening to your Bluetooth speaker on the trail forcing everyone else to listen to your awful music...

Definitely chiming in with the others on a raging hatred for littering. I make it a point to always stop when possible and pick up the litter that other pricks dropped. Nothing worse than riding in the beautiful outdoors and seeing a constant procession of those god awful gel squirty packets and red bull cans. I do need to work on getting the correct speed before cornering though, I had a bit of a realisation on that very point today on the trails but I am a noob so it takes time for all these lessons to sink in :D

Riding without pants

Not saying hello... it’s simple courtesy. Surprising how many people are incapable of it it!

Another bad habit : watching GMBN instead of riding. 🤣

Anybody: how many people can u fit in that van? GMBN:Yes

#TrailKarma: Always slow down and say "hello, have a nice walk" if you meet people walking the trail. People see Mountain Bike riders as thugs and asses, when we just race past, don't slow down and don't say hello. That should really have been #1. I don't know how it is in other countries, but here in Denmark all trails are open for all. We just encourage hikers to walk against driving direction, so they can see the riders coming towards them