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Rider experience

  • Introduction

  • Rider experience is all about the rider’s experience during a mountain biking happening
  • It starts when informing about mountain biking possibilities in an area and it eventually ends when coming back home
  • This chapter focuses mainly on the trail building related aspects of this subject 
  • The trail builders’ job is to maximize the experience on the trails
  • Aspects of a trail relating to riders experience:
    • Flow on the trail
    • Nature
    • Great scenery
    • Obstacles
    • Trail features
    • Safety aspects
    • Flow control
    • Speed management
    • Break points
    • Start / exit points
    • Many more
  • Other aspects such as signage are highly trail related but only marginally covered by the trail builders themselves