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September 2024, Moab

Mike Johnson — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:17:07 +0000

By:Cameron Stockton Sometime during the summer of 2024 while working part-time at the shop I was invited to join THE WTB MOAB TRIP. I had heard tales of this trip among the gang while wrenching away on occasion. It always sounded so amazing, especially with me wondering how I would ever make anything like that happen for myself.

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Runners & Cyclists Unite!

Mike Johnson — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:23:03 +0000

Part 3 Many runners that I have spoken with over the years, both casual and dedicated, seem to be under the impression that running is superior to cycling because riding a bike is too easy. I had a friend tell me that he runs because he wants to, “… get a work-out. I can run around the block…”, he told

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Wear & Tear

Mike Johnson — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 08:45:33 +0000

Part 2 Though my participatory experience with running ended, for the most part, in grade school, my observational experience continues to this day, Working with customers who are, or were, runners is quite a frequent occurrence. Runners have something special in common with bike riders, they understand the character building, soul enriching joy of intense exertion, bordering on and sometimes

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Running vs Biking

Mike Johnson — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:20:15 +0000

Speaking from ignorance… … and immersive experience, respectively, I have some thoughts and observations on one of the most divisive issues of our times; Running vs Bike Riding. I admit that from an experiential level I know almost nothing about running, other than I have done it (running was one of the most commonly used skill sets for playing in

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Search Party

Mike Johnson — Mon, 14 May 2018 01:15:45 +0000

Part 4 Some of the WTB family went off on a deeper adventure last fall. Starting in Reno Nevada we climbed onto our Norco Search Adventure Bikes and headed west onto unpaved forestry roads. Destination: Adventure… …Actually, the destination was Mendocino California. Adventure, we knew, was going to be lurking around every turn like a villain in a horror movie…

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The Allure of Gravel

Mike Johnson — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:44:19 +0000

Part 3 For me there is no inherent allure to gravel as a road surface. I don’t seek-out gravel roads. I seek-out roads-less-traveled, which are often roads-more-graveled. It’s not the gravel that makes these roads special, it’s the primitive areas these roads usually lead through. Areas little changed over the last many decades, and used mostly by just a handful

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Search for Adventure

Mike Johnson — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 01:10:48 +0000

Part 2 After our chance encounter with the allure of primitive roadways we started looking at maps and satellite images trying to find gravel roads, creek crossings and dead-end roads that were not completely dead to a bicycle. There are not many of these features left in our area. Roads keep being “improved” and though once common primitive roads are

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A Chance Encounter with Adventure

Mike Johnson — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:13:12 +0000

Part 1 There’s a lot of hype over “Gravel Bikes” these days. I’m not a hype kinda guy. I’m more interested in what I’m interested in than what others tell me I should be interested in… the irony is, that over the last few years I, and others in the West Trails Bicycles family, have grown increasingly interested in riding

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Bike Adventure. Risk & Reward Part 3; After the Fall

Mike Johnson — Sun, 15 May 2016 12:07:29 +0000

When a “healthy” activity puts you in the hospital (A message to those brave adventurers who have fallen in the field of honor, as well as those who someday will) Fighting the good fight in a quest for health: I know that right now you are questioning the benefits of bike riding (or exercise of choice) and your

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Risk & Reward Part 2: Rugged Terrain Bicycling aka Mountain Biking (MTB)

Mike Johnson — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 02:43:06 +0000

I have a bike riding friend, to protect his anonymity we’ll call him “Rob”. Rob is a really good rider and a heck of a nice Guy. He rides road bikes and pushes himself hard. He started racing and moved quickly up the ranks. Whenever I mentioned that he should come out and ride with us off-road, he’d say something

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