On the GMBN Dirt Shed Show this week, Martyn Ashton is joined by Steve Jones from EMBN and special guest Nils from Rider Resilience, to talk about the real value of MTB and how mountain biking, (or Road Bikes, Gravel Bikes, BMX, any bikes!) can help people facing adversity!
Rider Resilience is a not-for-profit community movement designed to support riders facing hardship through inspirational storytelling and funding of resilience-promoting projects.
🎧 To the podcast 👉 https://gmbn.eu/RiderResiliencePod
⏰ Timestamps 👇
00:00 – Intro
00:48 – Topic
08:40 – News
11:02 – Sickest Thing
11:49 – Hacks & Bodges
15:48 – Caption Contest
17:27 – Things We Liked
18:58 – On The Channel
20:27 – Bike Vault
Useful Links:
Watch Shorts on GMBN 👉 https://gmbn.eu/GMBNshorts
👻🎃 SCARY SAVINGS! 🛒 👉 https://gmbn.eu/50OffHaloween22
Submit your Photo and Video to us 👉 https://upload.gmbn.com/
Sign-up to our newsletter 👉 https://gmbn.eu/newsletter
What is the value of riding bikes to you?
Sickest Thing Shout Out:
📺 Oliver Watson’s HUGE drop 🍂
🔗 https://gmbn.eu/OliverWatsonDrop
Also, check out Rider Resilience 👉 https://gmbn.eu/RiderResilience
Watch more on GMBN…
📹 https://gmbn.eu/HauntedHouse
📹 Watch our Editor’s Choice Playlist 👉 https://gmbn.eu/EditorsChoice
📹 Watch our weekly show, The Dirt Shed Show 👉 https://gmbn.eu/dirtshedplaylist
🎵 Music – licensed by Epidemic Sound
All Love (Instrumental Version) – King Sis
Alpha Bae (Instrumental Version) – King Sis
Delusional (Instrumental Version) – spring gang
Gem (Instrumental Version) – Tyra Chantey
All Wound Up – Tigerblood Jewel
I Ain’t Fallin’ for That – Fox Morrow
Lonely Party (Instrumental Version) – Arc De Soleil
Peach Faygo – Jharee
Precious Cargo (Instrumental Version) – Mimmi Bangoura
Rich and Thick – spring gang
#GMBN #GlobalMountainBikeNetwork #MTB #MountainBiking #RiderResilience #RideItOut
The Global Mountain Bike Network (GMBN) is the world’s largest and fastest-growing online mountain bike channel and community – and your destination for the best mountain bike content in the world.
GMBN is dedicated to inspiring and unlocking your riding potential. Our videos cater to fans of every mountain bike discipline: from mile-munching cross-country (XC) riders, through adrenaline-fuelled dirt jumpers, gravity-hungry downhillers or aspiring enduro racers, and beyond.
Every day of every month, our ex-pro presenting team are on hand to entertain and inspire you while also providing a uniquely qualified insight into the world of mountain biking. Every week we deliver original daily videos that include:
Adventurous and entertaining features
Mountain bike skills coaching
Technical advice and guidance
Mechanical know-how to keep you rolling
A place for the riding community with our weekly Dirt Shed Show
Thanks to our sponsors:
Canyon Bikes: http://gmbn.eu/Canyon
Nukeproof Bikes: http://gmbn.eu/nukeproof
Orbea Bikes: https://gmbn.eu/Orbea
Park Tool: http://gmbn.eu/ParkTool
POC helmets and eyewear: http://gmbn.eu/POCsports
Crankbrothers Pedals: http://gmbn.eu/crankbros
Shimano Footwear: https://gmbn.eu/ShimanoShoes
Dainese Protection: https://gmbn.eu/Dainese
Ergon: http://gmbn.eu/ergon
Vittoria Tires: https://gmbn.eu/Vittoria
FSA: http://gmbn.eu/fsa
e*thirteen: https://gmbn.eu/EThirteen
Spank: https://gmbn.eu/Spank
Topeak: http://gmbn.eu/topeak
Garmin: https://gmbn.eu/Garmin
Muc-Off – https://gmbn.eu/Muc-Off
Wahoo: https://gmbn.eu/WahooTraining
Komoot: https://gmbn.eu/Komoot
Worx Power Tools: https://gmbn.eu/Worx
CamelBak: https://gmbn.eu/CamelBak
Watch our sister channels:
GMBN Tech – https://www.youtube.com/gmbntech
Electric Mountain Bike Network – https://www.youtube.com/embn
Global Cycling Network – https://www.youtube.com/gcn
GCN Tech – https://www.youtube.com/gcntech
GCN Racing – https://www.youtube.com/gcnracing
Global Triathlon Network – https://www.youtube.com/gtn
GCN Italia – https://www.youtube.com/gcnitalia
GCN en Espanol – https://www.youtube.com/gcnenespanol
GCN auf Deutsch – https://www.youtube.com/gcnaufdeutsch
GCN en Francais – https://www.youtube.com/gcnenfrancais
GCN Japan – https://www.youtube.com/gcnjapan
GCN Training – https://www.youtube.com/gcntraining
35 Comments
Was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin Lymphoma just over a decade ago and kept riding through treatment to keep some form of normality in my life. Now still in remission still riding the health benefits are immeasurable except when you have the inevitable crashes😂 love the Show guys thanks for bringing this to us 🙏🏻
#captioncontest Pictorial representation of how my brakes sound when it‘s wet.
Great show guys highlights were stotw my kind of riding and forget the trail police I thought free ride had no rules lol as it is Halloween if you want to be scared ride some of your local street spots At night Scary but fun speaking of rampage A big shout out. to all the medical stuff that helped Kyle strait off the mountain Hope the surgery went well and good mental health in your recovery get well soon bro
You only have one body. What's the point of keeping it in pristine condition… I'm going to wear mine out. (Making mediocre DH videos at 54 and counting).
I want the last thing said over my body… "Hey boss… is there any reason this brain in a jar is still plugged in…."? <CLICK>
This is spot on!
I had a mtb accident 14yrs ago resulting with a serverly broken ankle with many Complications including a ankle fusion but ending in a right leg below knee amputation and couldn't ride for 14yrs, have only just recently been able to start riding again and I feel like I'm alive again my whole world has changed it's like I've hit the reset button, mtb's were my life and I'm so very very happy that they are again (even if I am a little bit obsessed 🤪) nothing is keeping me off the bike again!!!
Is that Jerry can safe on top of fire !
Fuck yeah this is so real,MTB oughta be prescribed on the NHS, for it's mental and physical benefits
It's amazing to read these comments. Some serious inspiration in there.
Being a full time carer for my Schizophrenic wife for the last 14 years, mountain biking has basically saved me from the isolation, depression and lack of conversation that can really grab hold on occasion.
Having no hands is obvs a tad of a drawback on occasions, like at any point, in the air, ever, but the bruises are as never as big as the smiles, fade quicker and I set my own goals. I may get beaten by most on the downs, but I can hold my own on the ups. Work to your strengths and all that.
Thanks so much for this show, it actually speaks up for what to me is the most important thing in mountain biking, the positivity that comes with it.
If I dont ride at least once a week. I get irritated and agitated
i use my bike for my depression whenever i feel myself slipping i just get the bike out and push myself to go out on it rather than staying behind closed doors its been a massive help for me. if i could say one thing to people suffering its to just talk believe me it helps no matter how much your head tells you that nobody will listen they will so just talk and lets #rideitout together
Looking at the K.I.S. I'm somehow interested from a riders persepective. As a mechanic, I definitly don't want to see this thing in MY workshop. 😉
#CaptionContest Bride of Doddenstein
Amazing show guys well done must see viewing every Friday
#captioncontest Ugly old witch ordered dr. Doddystein to cut both brake hoses on little Annas bike for the absolute horror downhill on double black diamond …
#captioncontest On All Hallowtech eve, crank it out with some monstrous crew – people will be torque-ing about it for a scarily long time.
PS – Who took a picture on Anna first-thing in the morning?
#rideitout Getting out in the woods, the smells, the sounds, the feelings – be it on the bike or off it is an excellent grounding method, when your stuck inside your own head or stressed out.
#rideitout Is so very true! No matter how bad a day you've had, a ride will make it better! Also, Can't believe you super niced an MTB with a bell on it. @martynashton
I love the idea of Rider Resilience, as I myself have gone through a lot these last years and rediscovered Mountain biking as a way to keep on going
Will go on their site and share my story as well 🙂
My dad got me into bikes at a young age but since I was a kid I really never got into it until my parents took me on vacation and we were riding bikes to get places and haven’t had that much fun in a long time, I’ve been riding my bikes since and it really helped me make changes in my life like eating less sugar and not drinking, it’s truly made me feel like my life is back on track, thank you for the inspiring content as well🙏🙏🙏
#rideitout biking for me takes me back to times when life was much easier. I NEED the solace of being on top of a mountain with not other connections to distract me. The effort, work it takes to achieve a piece of mind is priceless. Where I live I can just park on a high peak or saddle and be the only human for miles and I feel really connected to life. I can’t live without it anymore.
#riderresilience / #rideitout Had a pacemaker installed years ago due to an underlying issue. After getting into biking/mountain biking, my yearly check ups show the pacemaker has never triggered. Extend the life, extend the battery on my pacemaker!! Can't get any better than that.
Bike that Pedals itself, Steers Itself and shifts for itself.
Next Tech is VR Goggles. MTB at your own Couch!!!!
Ever heard of the 11th step? If not , good. If so, you know. I'm a 4x cancer survivor, incomplete paraplegic and recovering alcoholic with PTSD. It really hits home when pros are describing all the same life issues I have. I think the healing power of GMBN is right up there with riding itself. My bike is faster than my demons. On a MTB I am nothing but a rider. Absolutely free. Thank You all so much!
#caption contest” THE frankinKLEIN it’s alive!”
Hey Martin it’s a 5Dev Spacely Sprocket
when lockdown hit a couple years ago the only reason i was able to leave my house was to go for a ride because it was something i could do alone and it was wonderful. it became my favorite part of my day and thats when i really got into riding in the first place. #rideitout
Motorcycle tech coming to MTB’s now. Recently we saw the first ABS on a bike, I suppose useful for the front wheel. Now a vague attempt at a steering damper. I get it on a steep head angled bike with next to no trail that does 150mph, but how ridiculous on a slack angled MTB. What next adaptive / skyhook suspension, traction control for mud, maybe even an IMU for lean angle ABS. Bikes are expensive enough without adding more things that we don’t want or need and which will probably break. Rant over.
#riderresilience after going through the darkest time of my life riding my motorbike and looking at the back of buses and thinking it looked like a good idea. I sold it and bought myself and moutian bike cycle to work every day and spend my time in woods as much as possible. It really did change my life. Some times pushing myself on hills miles what ever or just chilled riding looking around and taking in everything around me and enjoying that moment. I still many years later don't own a petrol vehicle it's now just life and long may it continue
My son is slightly autistic and my marriage is just holding. Taking him out on the trails helps him and me from frustrations and stresses to the point where we come back home more relaxed and grounded.
Wow, Neil certainly hit the right words about what MTB means to him. I first took up MTB in 2011 as a way to escape and forget, needless to say I have had many low moments in my life but when I hit the trail on my own, the sound of my bike as it skips the dirt, seeing the trees dance past me, my heart beats hard with every peddle stroke, mind becomes clear and focused. That's when I'm in the moment, my flow.
#RIDEITOUT
The Real Value Of Mountain Biking! It just means so much, to so many, in so many different ways, that the value of mountain biking can not be measured.
Mountain biking gave me a healthy connection to my sons – made many a memory with the boys that I will treasure for the rest of my life.
Amazing initiative Nils. I'd just like to say to anybody children with ADHD/Autism and severe anxiety mountain biking (and road cycling) really does help them regulate.
I enjoy the feeling I get riding my bike. It brings the same joy I remember experiencing when I was a child. Now I have more means to get the bike, parts and adventures I dream about. I have goals for how I'd like to ride and what skills I want to improve. I enjoy being in the woods away from everything, it gives me the recharge and head clarity I need to think and feel more confidently. It is just "happy" talking about, servicing and riding bikes. Priceless😃