{"id":46551,"date":"2025-08-05T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46551\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:39:18","slug":"my-life-began-when-i-became-a-mountain-biker-start-your-own-journey-today-with-bikeradar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46551\/","title":{"rendered":"My life began when I became a mountain biker \u2013 start your own journey today with BikeRadar"},"content":{"rendered":"

My adult life truly began when I became a mountain biker. That might sound like exaggeration, but it\u2019s true.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The most formative experiences of my life as a young adult took place on the countless days I spent rattling around trail centres with friends, pushing my skills at my school\u2019s mountain biking club, and on early solo epics into the mountains around my hometown in the Scottish Highlands.<\/p>\n

Mountain biking helped develop a sense of adolescent independence and identity, not to mention a deep interest in the natural environment, map reading, practical mechanical skills<\/a>\u2026 in short, mountain biking meant a lot to me as a teenager, and those experiences shape who I am to this day.<\/p>\n

Life and an opening mind gradually drew me towards road<\/a> and gravel riding<\/a>, but my heart truly belongs to mountain biking \u2013 a day spent riding trails still tickles a deep-seated atom of delight inside my brain that nothing else can match.<\/p>\n

\"\"I’m so lucky to be able to share my passion for mountain biking with you, our dear readers, and my wonderful colleagues. <\/p>\n

My experience is not unique, least of all among the staff here at BikeRadar \u2013 as a team, we share decades of experience as deeply passionate and, in most cases, lifelong mountain bikers. In fact, a desire to share that enthusiasm with as many people as possible is why many of us became writers in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mountain biking continues to draw new riders of all backgrounds, ages and abilities for all of these reasons \u2013 you don\u2019t have to search very far to find testimonials about how mountain biking can revolutionise your fitness, mental health, confidence and sense of belonging.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With all of that in mind, I\u2019m delighted to introduce Get Into MTB<\/a> \u2013 our latest themed week, produced in collaboration with our partners, Trek.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week, we\u2019ll be serving up the very best guidance you need to start your own mountain biking journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With beginner-friendly buyer\u2019s guides, opinion pieces and riding advice, we\u2019ll bring to you everything you need to know to begin your path towards trailside enlightenment \u2013 and let you in on why we love mountain biking so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My adult life truly began when I became a mountain biker. That might sound like exaggeration, but it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-46551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}