Leah Gruhn isn’t sure what she likes more – riding bikes or talking to people about riding bikes. Leah lives in Duluth, Minnesota and her sweet spot is combining wilderness camping with biking. After completing the Tour Divide in 2017, Leah now wants to focus on encouraging and helping people to find their own cycling adventures.
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]]>Brent is a Trail Builder with the North Shore Mountain Bike Association and focuses on the Upper and Lower Griffen Trails on Mount Fromme. Through his work with Trailforks he’s come to discover the world of advocacy beyond just his home in North Vancouver, and serving as the inspiration to create Front Lines MTB.
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]]>Bred in the wilds of Vermont, MTBBen has been venturing off on two wheels since the early 90’s. Having spent years in and out of the bike industry he’s seen a fair share of ups and downs for the progression of riding on dirt. Now this father of three and husband of one shares his passion for pedaling in New England on anything but pavement.
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]]>Regular Guy Mountain Biking is made up of a great group of folks that enjoy the sport of mountain biking. The crew has a mix of skill levels and we all are very down to earth. As a good friend in the group always says, “We start together and we end together”.
Other than planning out rides and trying to get more people involved in the sport, we create videos generally based on mountain biking. Some of these videos are product reviews and some are basic tips and tricks.
If there is anything you would like to learn more about regarding the sport please feel free to post some comments or contact us directly via one of our social media channels 
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]]>I took up the sport of mountain biking in serious way in June of 2011 after attending the Cuyuna Lakes Mountain Bike Festival Grand Opening. I bought a 2011 Trek Gary Fisher X- Caliber 29’er and joined IMBA upon my return. I’ve been hooked ever since.
I actually first began mountain biking back in 1990 when we bought bikes for my three teenage boys. We rode for a few years but riding on hiking trails grew old after a while and we gave it up. I refocused on riding mototrials (motorcycle trials) which I’d done since 1975. Once I discovered that mountain biking offered all the technical riding challenges of mototrials but with the addition of going fast on purpose-built flow trails and pumping/jumping in bike parks, I sold my trials motorcycle and haven’t looked back.
This blog site is about my mountain bike adventures, the people I’m meeting, issues related to the sport, and what I’m doing to try to improve my skills and help others do the same.
Other history
I served as a Minnesota Off Road Cyclists (MORC) board member for 2014 and stepped down when I co-founded Cannon River Offroad Cycling & Trails (CROCT) where I’m currently Vice Chair.
In the summer of 2014, I began including blog posts related to my venture, Thick Skull Mountain Bike Skills. In January of 2016, I stopped work on that and began collaborating with Ryan Leech at his Performance Mountain Biking & Coaching website, RyanLeech.com where I’m an Ambassador and a marketing affiliate.
In the spring of 2016, I became an IMBA ICP-certified Level 2 instructor and a PMBI-certified Level 1 instructor.
In December of 2016, I created the Mountain Bike Skills Network (MTBSN), an online community of mountain bikers dedicated to helping one another develop our riding skills.
My wife Robbie and I live in Northfield, MN USA where we raised our four now-grown-and-gone kids. My Griff Wigley Facebook Profile has more about me than you want to know.
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]]>Phil is a mountain biking engineer living in Middle Tennessee. Long fascinated with things that were light, stiff, and expensive, he’s been involved with designing and racing racecars with Carnegie Mellon Racing as well as doing design work for SpaceX.
Phil has been riding, tuning, and thinking about mountain bikes for 10 years, on everything from budget hardtails to 6″ travel wunderbikes. Now he’s applying his skills and talents towards uncovering the coolest science and engineering behind our current bikes, as well as debunking marketing myths that have become prevalent in the cycling industry.
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]]>We are Lynda Wallenfels and Dave Harris. We each won a 24 Hour Solo National Championships title in 2009. Both of us winning a National Championship title on the same day was really cool!
Many of our athletes have achieved lofty goals too. Read through some of our athlete testimonials and race reports.
We coach mountain bikers all over the US from our home base in Southern Utah. Using TrainingPeaks, WKO+ software, email, chat, Skype and phone we keep in touch with athletes like they are next door. Developing a personal relationship and close communication with each athlete is important to us.
Business Principles
Excellence in customer service, fast response times, reliable scheduling, innovative custom training plans. We serve athletes and celebrate in their accomplishments.
LW Coaching Philosophy
LW Coaching philosophy is a blend of scientific principles, athlete joy and schedule reality. Each of these facets is a crucial part of a successful training program and race performance.
Lynda’s Personal Philosophy
My goals are to be the best coach I can be. I have been coaching endurance athletes for 20 years. I am a certified USA Cycling Level l coach. I strongly believe in continuing my coaching education and holding sport specific certifications. I routinely attend conferences and clinics to further myself as a coach. I also race. Racing myself is one of the many ways I become familiar with specific race courses, race distances and learn in detail what it takes to be a fast racer. Mostly I race because I love racing.
Coach
Cycling Coach, USA Cycling Category 1 Level Certified
Coaching mountain bike racers is my dream job 
BSc (Hons 1st class)
Racer
Pro category mountain bike racer since 1994
1994 & ’95 UCI World Cross Country Championships British National team member (25th place)
2000 Naturalized as an American Citizen
1996 & 1997 Scottish National Cross Country Mountain Bike Champion
2004 & 2005 US 100 mile Mountain Bike National Champion
2004 Ironman finisher
2006 & 2009 Solo 24-hour mountain bike race winner Moab & Old Pueblo
2006 Trans Rockies Open mixed Champion
2007 2nd place 24-hour World Solo Championships
2008 Trans Rockies 1st ever female single speed finisher and 3rd GC
2008 Kaibab Monstercross 200 1st place
2009 US National Champion 24-Hour Solo Single Speed
2009 Single speed world championships 6th place
2010 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo Mixed Duo Champion
2011 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo 5-person open co-ed winner
2011 Arizona Trail Race 300 winner
2012 360 mile Grand Loop winner
2012 Coconino 250 winner
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Contributor to Velo News, Active.com, mtbracenews.com, XXC magazine, Mountain Flyer, TrainingPeaks.com, Bikepackers Magazine.
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]]>After earning an engineering degree, Nathan now works in Socal in the action sports industry. He loves all forms of dirt riding but mostly focuses on Enduro and XC. Both of which he competes at expert levels.
The guys welcome all of your questions and encourage you to send them an email with the subject “Podcast Question” to [email protected].
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]]>Between bike commuting and enjoying all styles of bicycling, Auk averages about 5,000 miles a year on the bike. Call it a love of the lifestyle, he truly, “Loves the Bike He Rides!”
He’s enjoyed many adventures with the co-hosts, Nathan and Tani: shuttling (by car or by hike-a-biking) local DH trails, soul riding epic mountains, charging wilderness parks, and even dusting off the road bikes from time to time.
A civil engineer by day, you can find him developing spreadsheets to document bike geometries, talking shop over a good pint, and possibly sitting at his desk in sweaty bike gear before the work day starts.
The guys welcome all of your questions and encourage you to send them an email with the subject “Podcast Question” to [email protected].
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]]>Later, when the family moved to Maui, Tani rode BMX with other local pre-teens on the trails around Makawao. For the last 17 years, Tani has been deep in the bike shop life.
As the founder and operator of The Path Bike Shop, Tani has worked as a mechanic, a bike fitter, and helped a lot of customers. He has raced gravity and endurance events, gone free riding, on death marches, shuttling, park riding, trials riding, urban assault, a little dirt jumping, and bike commuting.
Though Tani enjoys competition, his deeper passion is the cycling lifestyle, the fun, experience and the expression of mountain biking.
The guys welcome all of your questions and encourage you to send them an email with the subject “Podcast Question” to [email protected].
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