Red bikes are for racing – but green bikes are for doing good

Trail builders. You hardly ever see them. But without the commitment and spade artistry of master trail builders, there is no mountain biking.

Truly the underappreciated heroes of mountain biking, you’ll never hear trail builders complain. They get up at dawn and start cutting, trimming and shaping trails. Almost unobservable on social media, trail builders just get it done. Season after season.

But trail building is not an art that is easily acquired. It requires a specific intuition about the terrain. An ability to rear topography and understand gradients. To 'see' a new trail in a wilderness area that looks wild to everyone else.