The Weekly Ride #51 - From the gallery; Dr. Walker is IN; Flick Finds; Noobs; Matchmaking

Highlights from this week on YourMTB.com ...

HOT SHOTS: Featured photos from the YourMTB gallery

WALKER'S WORLD: What's he saying?

Ah yes, Walker's World, where you're always allowed to come out and play.

Move over Dr. Phil! Dr.Walker is IN, and he's got all the answers in his blog, As the Chainring Turns. He started off the week with some "big picture" thinking, dissecting the three biggest issues facing mountain biking today. He then busted out the couch and broke down your fear of making decisions, MTB style. Making a business/personal decision or navigating a trail? Same approach, according to Walker: analyze, measure risk, figure options, and GO!

And all this time we figured Walker's riding strategy involved only the last of those steps, repeated over and over again. Well, there's one thing you definitely don't have to weigh options about: listening to this week's new Masterpiece Podcast.

It can all be found by visiting Walker's World. Now GO!

YOURMTB AT THE RACES: Site members race and report

One of the new programs that has really taken off here on YourMTB.com is the race correspondent and free entry giveaway, where selected YourMTBers are given free entry into a race or event in exchange for reporting back with news, results, pictures or videos. YourMTB.com has teamed up with Granny Gear's 24 hour races and Mount Snow (Vermont) to offer free entry into races all over the country.

The next races on the calender are here! The 24 Hours of Big Bear and the first Iron Horse Downhill Series and Dual Slalom Night are both this weekend, so check out our correspondents' blogs, pictures and videos in the coming days.

FLICK FINDS: Enjoy these rides...

It's dirty. Foul. Nasty. Putrid. And squalid. It's the Filthy 48 Pro Comp, leading off the double feature. It's brought to you by community member burgerman, who put together this high flying dirt spraying movie goodness.










YourMTB member tfodds produced our second movie treat of the week. It's a first person look from him and his buddies at staircase riding in Horsetooth Mountain Park (Colorado).

NOOBS: Who's new?

(Psst! Post your profile pictures! We can't include you in Noobs if you don't have one.)

MEET YOUR MATCH: We're giving away SRAM schwag!

Feeling lonely? Fret no more. YourMTB.com is playing matchmaker by matching you with...well...a Matchmaker!

Thanks to the kind folks at SRAM, we have two free sets of Avid Matchmakers to give you. All you need to do is tell us why you need them. If your reason is the best and and most convincing, you'll get the Matchmakers and post a product review of them here on YourMTB.com.

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