Mountain biking

Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off of paved roads. It requires endurance, bike handling skills and self-reliance. It is an individual sport performed on dirt roads, fire roads, access roads, park trails and mountain trails. There are aspects of mountain biking that are more similar to trail running than regular bicycling. Because riders are often far from civilization, there is a strong ethic of self-reliance in the sport. Riders must learn to repair their broken bikes or flat tires to avoid being stranded miles from help. This reliance on survival skills accounts for the group dynamics of the sport. Club rides and other forms of group rides are common, especially on longer treks.

Related Topics:
Trail running - Bicycling

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It is roughly broken down into three categories: cross country, downhill, and freeriding. However all mountain bikes have a somewhat similar look, knobby tires, large round tubing, and usually some sort of suspension or shock absorbers. Mountain biking can be done anywhere from a back yard to a gravel road, but mountain bikers often prefer to ride trails they call singletrack, a narrow trail that winds through forest or fields. Mountain bikers describe a sense of euphoria that results from singletrack or downhill riding.

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