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Contributor introduction: Cory

Now that all of the other active contributors have posted up their introductions on The Biking Hub, I thought I’d wrap up the week with a few words about myself.

I ride a lot, but it’s hard for me to nail down a favorite style of mountain biking. I regularly ride cross country, all mountain, and freeride-type trails and enjoy them all. Most of my bike time is spent on trails that fall between the aggressive xc and freeride categories on the ‘spectrum’ but I do like the climb up as much as the rip down. I hope the contributions I make to The Biking Hub do a decent job of reflecting my cycling interests.

Over the past couple of years, I was an active member of a local trail advocacy group, and in the coming months I’ll be writing about some of the things that I learned while volunteering for the FVMBA. Specifically, some of my writeups will discuss the techniques and ideas that were well received as well as those that were less successful.

Also, I spend a good deal of time building and maintaining mountain bike trails in my area. While I probably won’t provide any ‘how-tos’ or advice for trail builders, mostly because I think that trail building relies on localized techniques and knowledge that can’t always be transferred between regions, I expect that I’ll have a few opportunities to discuss certain building ‘techniques’, flash a few photos, and maybe even post up some video footage of the trails that we ride in southwest BC.

For gear reviews, I’ll be looking primarily at products and services that cater to the ‘all mountain’ crowd. That means I plan on testing gear that is light, but strong and durable enough to handle everything that’s ‘out there’.

Thanks for all of the support and kind words that many of you sent in during our first ‘official’ week. I hope we can keep this thing going and keep people informed about the sport that they’re so enthusiastic about.

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