From ahwatukee.com
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Mountain Biking
A community portal about Mountain biking with blogs, videos, and photos. The sport requires endurance, bike handling skills and self-reliance. It is an individual sport which can be performed almost anywhere. There are aspects of... [more]
A community portal about Mountain biking with blogs, videos, and photos.
The sport requires endurance, bike handling skills and self-reliance. It is an individual sport which can be performed almost anywhere.
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 routes.
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There is no shortage of mountains in the Ahwatukee Foothills area, and Team LUNA Chix, a local women’s mountain-biking team, uses the advantage of the natural terrain to expose themselves to the challenge and excitement of the sport.
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They gather every Thursday evening, now that the weather has cooled, at Herron Park, west of Kalispell. Riding bicycles too burly to be for the road but too skinny to be mountain bikes, they spin laps around the park’s terrain, grunting up hills and bombing descents, occasionally jumping off the bike to shoulder it over an obstacle or up an incline too steep to be pedaled. The bicyclists are practicing a growing sport called cyclocross, a...
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From flatheadbeacon.com
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Successful mountain-biking techniques include anticipating problems, learning to handle steep grades, using momentum, and steering correctly. This article gives the reader tips on how to successfully improve their mountain biking skills.Contributor: Reginald HerronPublished: Oct 27, 2009
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From associatedcontent.com
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By Lamar MorrisExtreme sports requires special equipment. Good bike shoes are the overall most important piece besides a helmet when riding a mountain bike through grueling territory. Historically, the material for this sort of shoe was made of robust leather. Later on, it was changed since a good amount of bicycles no longer had the toe clip or strap, which is awfully almost like the tough rubber found on mountain bike tires.. Rough stuff...
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From theactiveadult.blogspot.com
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