Mountain Bike, abbreviated as MTBs or ATBs (All Terrain Bikes) is a bike that are meant for riding on dirt paths or unpaved environments. They are more rugged than road bicycles, and can handle more strain.The tires of the mountain bike are wider and knobbier than road bikes, for more grip and shock absorption. Front [...]
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The Passportes du Soleil Mountain Bike Race
The Passportes du Soleil is an epic mountain bike race in the huge Portes du Soleil region of France & Switzerland which heralds the start of summer and the opening of the lift system. It takes place over the last weekend in June, and has evolved from an earlier event known as the “Freeraid”. Most [...]
Mountain Bikes – Cycling through the Rough
If you want to get into a fun sport that will allow you to get plenty of exercise, get into shape, and offer you challenges that you won’t find elsewhere – all while enjoying an abundance of nature – you might want to start thinking about mountain bikes. Mountain biking is a popular sport that [...]
mountain biking : How to make your bike run better
once in a while, I look at professional bike riders in magazines or on television and ask myself: "how do they make their work so well?" – Mostly, the differences between professional bikes and serious biker’s mountain bikes are not so substantial. The answer I am told when asked, and is also the answer which [...]
Women Mountain Biking: Looking Beyond The Risks
The old saw about women being the weaker sex has, in recent decade, come up for debate as increasing numbers of women have begun to excel at many of the sports which were once considered the exclusive provinces of men. Women have even begun to compete in extreme sports, including mountain biking.There is no anatomical [...]
Enjoy Mountain Biking in Breckenridge
The town of Breckenridge is named by USA Today as one of the top ten places to take kids on a bike. Cruising on Colorado’s mountain trails on a seat of a bike gives you first class tickets to glorious mountain views of the aspen trees, wildflowers and occasional mountain wildlife. Mountain biking is one [...]
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