Wintergreen Barrier Breakers

5 Step Recovery Routine ⬇️💪

Recovery is where you experience the benefit from training, and a recovery routine helps to make the important things automatic. Here’s the routine of Barrier Breaker rider :

✅ Recovery smoothie: with 20g protein and 50g carbs, Sally-Ann Creed collagen, and as many micronutrients as possible.

✅ Massage gun: I use a Theragun because I’m too lazy to foam roll.

✅ Stretch: focusing on the legs, hips and back.

✅ Shower: (sometimes this comes first if I’m really sweaty)

✅ Finally, products: sometimes arnica, sometimes the magnesium lotion, and I try to use the hygiene spray on my helmet as often as I remember.

What’s your recovery routine? Let us know below ⬇️💙

📸: Paige Fiddes Creative

Speeding into the weekend 🤩

Which trails will you be riding on?

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Off season meant some other activities but it will soon be time for the good old muscle warm-up to come into play 😍

The team is wishing the fastest recovery ❤️

A go to for some temporarily relieve of sore and tired muscles 🤩

“It is the people you meet along the way and the views you get to enjoy that makes bike riding so special”

💥 7 tire pressure tips ⬇️

✅ calculate your ideal tire pressure using an online calculator or at a bike shop, whenever you get a new type of tires

✅ your back tire should have less pressure than your front tire

✅ tubeless tires need less pressure than tires with tubes, even if the tire width is the same

✅ you can adjust your tire pressure depending on the terrain you’re planning to ride in, eg you might want to lower your pressure if there’ll be soft sand

✅ lower pressure increases cornering grip

✅ tires lose pressure over time, make sure you check tire pressure regularly, especially if your bike hasn’t been ridden in a while

✅ never over-inflate: check the ‘max pressure’ on the sidewall of the tire

Share your tire pressure tips below!

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Ultimate favourites ☺️

- Before (warmup cream for sleepy muscles)
- During (chamois cream acting as a barrier )
- After (relief and recovery for tired muscles)

🌸 What we love the most about Spring? Earlier sunrises & later sunsets = more time on the bike 🥰

What’s more difficult? ➡️

1️⃣ riding with loose hair?
2️⃣ riding in denim shorts?
3️⃣ having to endure these terrible views when you ride bikes in Cape Town?

Vote below ;)

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VUKANI 🎉

Riding Chappies is scenic, but riding the Cradle with is a party.

Thanks guys 🥳

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