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2 unusual facts about mountain biking


Kings Tableland, New South Wales

The ridgetop fire trail itself is accessible to 4WD and AWD vehicles in good weather conditions, and is a popular MTB route.

Sooke, British Columbia

Mountain biking is growing in popularity in British Columbia, and Sooke is establishing itself as a destination for the sport.


Corrado Hérin

Hérin was involved with mountain biking during his career in luge during the 1990s, winning a bronze medal in the downhill event at the 1994 World Mountain Biking Championships in Vail, Colorado.

Edvandro Cruz

Edvandro de Souza Cruz (born July 19, 1978 in Ilhabela, São Paulo) is a male cyclist from Brazil, specializing in competitive mountain biking.

Holme Moss

It has often been used for domestic competition in British road racing and mountain biking.

Joe Breeze

An early participant in the sport of mountain biking, Breeze, along with other pioneers including Gary Fisher, Charlie Kelly, and Tom Ritchey, is known for his central role in developing the mountain bike.

Kateřina Neumannová

At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she participated in the mountain biking event.

Russ Mahon

It was there that Gary Fisher and Joe Breeze, among others, saw the bikes and developed them into the worldwide phenomenon known as mountain biking.

Šámalova chata

Šámalova chata is a mountain hut for bikers, skiers and tourists, situated at Nová Louka, a mountain meadow in Jizera Mountains (in Czech Jizerské hory) near the city of Bedřichov, district of Jablonec nad Nisou.

Snowshoe, West Virginia

While the area is still best known for winter activities, today the resort has extensive mountain biking trails, a popular golf course, wedding and convention areas, a number of summer outdoor activities, and also hosts a Grand National Cross Country racing event.


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Barkly East

It has been one of the few areas in South Africa where winter sports are pursued, and in summer fly fishing for Rainbow trout and indigenous Smallmouth yellowfish, trail running, mountain biking, ancient rock-art, tennis and the magnificent scenery draw tourists to the district.

Chipps Chippendale

Chippendale is generally credited with popularising singlespeed mountain biking in the UK - an idea he claims to have stolen from Bike magazine's editor Mike Ferrentino - and is a collaborator in The Outcast, an underground singlespeed fanzine.

Coed-y-Brenin

Five waymarked trails were developed by Dafydd Davis who was employed by Forest Enterprise as a Forest Sports Development Adviser, grew Coed-y-Brenin into a major UK mountain biking centre.

Colorado–Colorado Springs Mountain Lions

Snowboarding, skiing, rock climbing, bouldering, hiking, mountain biking, trail running, and lesser common slack roping and 4-wheeling are popular student activities at UCCS due to the proximity to Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, and the surrounding mountainous terrain.

Dafydd Davis

This was achieved, and in 2002 the International Mountain Bicycling Association announced Wales to be the world's top mountain biking destination.

Golden Secondary School

Courses include things such as skiing and snowboarding on the beautiful Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, mountain biking on many trails around Golden and the school also hosts many bantam and senior basketball, volleyball and soccer teams, and Boggle tournaments.

Jake Shields

Their activities included mountain biking, wild caving, snowboarding, clearing brush, bucking firewood, climbing mountains, exploring the high country, and wrestling.

Jon Fogarty

Fogarty lives in Bend, Oregon, where he enjoys mountain biking and outdoor training.

Karen Hanlen

In 2010, she switched from mountain running to mountain biking, buying her first performance bike on TradeMe.

Kokopelli Trail

The trail follows Mary's Loop through the Mack Ridge mountain biking area before crossing Salt Creek and entering Rabbit Valley.

Lisa Mathison

Her achievements in mountain biking won her a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) scholarship under the tutelage of legendary Swiss ex-pro, Chantal Daucourt, at the coaching facility in Aigle, Switzerland.

Martin Earley

After PDM left the sport, he rode for Festina, then switched to mountain biking by riding for Raleigh and then for individual sponsors.

Mayrhofen

Mayrhofen sits between the Penken and the Ahorn mountains which provide ski runs in the winter and mountain biking, hiking and paragliding in the summer.

Mountain biking in British Columbia

Vancouver Island, though not as well known for mountain biking as the North Shore, boasts a growing number of trails.

Nantahala, North Carolina

Other than kayaking, canoeing, and whitewater rafting, the Nantahala Outdoor Center offers a variety of other fully guided things such as: fly-fishing, hiking, nature photography, train rides, and mountain biking.

Peaslake

On similar terrain in the far east of the parish and borough is Holmbury St Mary which has been used in the latest edition of the London-Surrey Cycle Classic — both small villages are centres for hiking and mountain biking.

Sarah Falkland

Falkland currently lives in Beoley, Worcestershire where she enjoys walking and mountain biking in the countryside and horse racing.

Trout Brook Valley State Park Reserve

They were joined in the effort by Connecticut Fund for the Environment (CFE), Citizens for Easton, the Easton garden club, hiking and mountain biking groups, birding enthusiasts, naturalists and others including actor/philanthropist Paul Newman and his family.

Tylihul Estuary

Mountain-biking is also popular, and "Kalinovka" (informally called "the Jug"), located in the Gulf of Kairy is a popular paragliding site.