Mountain Bike Trail Maintenance Tools
5 gallon bucket shovel adze and a steel rake.
Mountain bike trail maintenance tools. We ve rounded up the best tools to create new trails and maintain existing ones so you can help dig for riding victory. By greg heil january 24 2012. Trail boss is a rugged packable trail building tool with durable handles and variety of head attachments including shovel rake rogue saw head to handle all trail building needs. Trail building and maintenance is an essential bit of mountain biking it d be a pretty dull sport if it wasn t for the people who take the time to shape tracks.
About up bike 1305 stepke ct traverse city mi 49684 833 2 wheels. Mountain bike trail maintenance 101. To kick it off check out a list of tools you ll need. Clearing of a trail for later trail maintenance.
A lot of tools that are used for trail building are also heavily used in wildland fire fighting and land management. The few times i ve gone out as a trail lackey for maintenance days it s always been the same 3 or 4 tools. While all the other tools have many common uses outside of the realm of bike trail building the macleod or mountain rake really isn t seen any where else but trail building with the exception maybe of forest fire fighting this tool is the holy grail of trail building tools. Building mountain bike trails is a very labor intensive task.
11 tools every home bike mechanic should own. Here s a list of basic tools that all mountain bikers should own at home to get them through the most common of repairs maintenance and to get the best experience when out riding. The tools of choice for this work are a pulaski and a mcleod. Follow this trail building series to find out everything you need to know about crafting mountain bike trails.
De bermed section of trail.