Mountain Bike Forks – Air v Coil

When you take riding seriously, the types of forks that you use on your bike can make all the difference in the world for the comfort, function, and reliability of your ride. The purpose of suspension forks is to buffer the wheels movement when hitting bumps, so the wheel will give way without the entire bike moving, creating a bumpy, uncomfortable, and exhausting ride for the rider. The prevention from the jarring effect of bumps also helps protect the integrity of the bike, keeping the need for maintenance lower.

When opting to get new forks for your bicycle, you have two main choices to compare and consider air-sprung and coil-sprung forks.

An air-spring fork is the Read more

Choosing An ATV Helmet

For many outdoor sports a helmet is a pre-requisite to safety but there is much more to things than that.  In this article we focus on ATV helmets but the general points explored apply equally to other power sports where head protection is recommended or mandatory.

A bit of research shows Read more

Mountain Bike Buying Guide – Part One

In this series of articles we will be looking at how to buy a mountain bike.  As with many things in life it is not simply a question of making the decision to buy, but rather, having a clear set of goals and objectives before starting to shop.

For this reason you are best served by buying a couple of months worth of mountain bike magazines so that you are familiar with the type of riding, different styles of bikes, pricing points, materials used etc.  But more of that later.

Lets begin by taking a look at: Read more

How to Clean A Mountain Bike – Part One

After a hard and enjoyable day on the trails it is often tempting to put off cleaning your bike at best, until the next outing, at worst, to defer the matter altogether.  However, if you want your bike to perform at its optimal potential keeping it cleaned and well lubed is essential.  After all, why bother forking a big slice of cash for the latest greatest model you can afford and then failing to look after it?

In this series of articles, we don't know how many yet we'll see how it goes, we are going to provide a detailed breakdown of the steps you can take to ensure a smoother running bike. Read more

Snowmobile Heaven

I'm looking on in envy today at those lucky Canadians that live with traveling distance of the Whistler mountain resort.

A report today in the Whistler Question uncovers the anticipation of the new snowmobile season as the snow line begins to creep down the mountainside.

Now I've had the good fortune to visit Whistler during the summer months and would count it as one of the most beautiful places on earth.  Where better to snowmobile?  Read more

ATV Madness

An article on a slightly more serious note today. I have written extensively on other sites in the past that I am sick and tired of the bad press attributed to many outdoor power sports.

A search of Google news will reveal new stories on a daily basis siting accident, damage, destruction, injury or death involving power sports participants.

Well newsinferno.com is today reporting that ATV accidents continue to rise unabated. It was a bit of an eye opener for me.  A new report published by the Consumer Product Safety Commission shows that atv related deaths and injuries increased from 146,000 in 2007 to 150,900 in 2008.

What does this say about responsible ATV riding? Read more

Pure Outdoor Sports Indoors

We're going on a little diversion today but I hope the journey will be worthwhile.  You see, whilst I love the outdoors and the world of outdoor sport in particular there are just times when you need to kick back and relax.  You know, those days when you just don't want to leave the house.

I love to spend the day on my own from time to time and enjoy being able to do what I want, to do it when I want to do it and without having to consider anyone else.  Selfish some would say but I think it brings a greater balance to our lives to have some alone time.

Anyway, as you might guess apart from being a sports fan I'm a huge tech fan, otherwise, this site would never exist.  This also means I enjoy playing the odd computer game or two and what better when your indoors to enjoy some great fun outdoors - confused? Read more

Eat Yourself Fitter – The Paleo Diet Explained

I was speaking with a sports nut friend of mine today and asked him what goals he'd set for next year.

He responded that he wanted to represent GB in Sprint Triathlon at a competition taking place in Australia in 2009.

He then went on to explain that he had radically altered his diet in the last couple of weeks and had found himself setting new personal bests in various disciplines.

Curious I asked him to tell me more and he said that this new way of eating had given him a tremendous energy boost without the need to train longer and harder.

Now if there is one thing required to enjoy most outdoor sports it is a good level of general fitness.  So if you struggle to get out as often as you'd like and also find it difficult to keep in shape down the gym why not eat your way fitter?

The Paleo Diet is based on the principles of what the historic hunter/gatherers ate.

Keeping things brief the basics of this diet require Read more