Impacts of Mountain Biking

Environmental:

Skidding Culture is not Stewardship

User Conflict

Wilderness

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Speed

  • Be careful, and considerate
  • It usually takes about 2 seconds to begin to stop
  • To put it into perspective
    • 10 mph = 14.6 ft/sec, 28+ ft to stop
    • 15 mph = 22 ft/sec, 44+ ft to stop
    • 20 mph = 29.3 ft/sec, 60+ ft to stop
  • see this braking calculator, and this
  • These principles and distances are also important for trail design…more to follow

 

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