Jessica Kingston
Jessica Kingston
Jessica is our expert consultant on all things connected to biking - gear, technique, you name it. Being a pro cyclist in the past, she knows exactly how things work in and around your bike. She's been with us from the start and has contributed countless pieces of useful information to our website.

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Slaughter Creek – Mountain Bike Trail
The Slaughter Creek Trail manages to be fairly technical while still being beginner friendly, which is not a combination you find in most other MTB trails. It’s a directional loop, and you will be sharing the singletrack with other users. As such, you’ll need good brakes and excellent bike handling skills if you plan ...
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Grandview Park – Mountain Trail
Grandview Park is a singletrack trail with a diverse terrain ideal for biking skill levels. It is family-friendly and has enough technical sections for intermediate and advanced riders. Grandview Park is a family-friendly short loop that flows ...
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Sycamore Trail – Mountain Trail
The Sycamore trail is the perfect mix of singletrack and double-track trail for all biking skill levels. It is a fantastic route for beginners who need to get used to their bikes. The Sycamore trail is an easy out-and-back biking route with a ...
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Top Shelf – Mountain Trail
The Top shelf trail is an easy, short singletrack that anyone, including children and beginner riders, can do. Keep reading for in-depth information about its features. The Top Shelf singletrack trail is one of the easiest bike trails in Iowa. ...
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Loomis Park Loop – Mountain Trail
The Loomis Park Loop is a popular biking route that links several trails in the famous Memorial Park. The loop is super-easy, with plenty of easy-flowing sections. The Loomis Park Loop is an easy singletrack trail with reduced overlap and ...
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Banner Lakes at Summerset Park – Mountain Trail
The Banner Lakes At Summerset Park is a trail system with the most hilly and technical sections in the Des Moines area.  The Banner Lakes at Summerset Park is a family-friendly out-and-back trail system. You can easily ride the entire 5.5 miles ...
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Cycling in Mauritius
With its many off-road paths, tracks, sugarcane fields and beaches, the Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius presents the opportunity for visitors to travel around this little piece of paradise in a far gentler, eco-friendly and cost-effective manner – by cycling! Mauritius is just 65 kms long and 45kms wide and with ...
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Pocahontas: Morgan and Lakeview Trails – Mountain Bike Trail
The Morgan and Lakeview Trail Systems are the most popular mountain bike trails for technical riding in Pocahontas State Park. These are singletracks characterized by rocky, root-filled treads with tight twists and turns, plus a decent amount of flowing sections, water crossings, ...
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Swift Creek Beginner Loop – Mountain Bike Trail
Opened in 2015, the 7-mile Swift Creek Trail System at Pocahontas has been a popular go-to spot for kids and adults who enjoy mountain biking. It contains multiple flow-style and progressive trails ranging from beginner to expert level. Several of them can even accommodate MTB riders. ...
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Cedar Hill Park Loop – Mountain Bike Trail
Cedar Hill Park Loop is a pump track-like section of singletrack that’s fairly new in Nashville. For a 3-mile loop, there are short inclines and plenty of payoffs when you eventually go downhill. It comprises a few named sections with different difficulty ratings, so you will get some variety. Most of the roots have ...