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Guide to the history, bike types, fitness, riding techniques, bike anatomy and maintenance essentials.

The Mountain Bike Skills Manual is the ideal all-around introduction to the sport, covering the history of mountain biking from the 1970s to the present day; cross-country riding, including where to ride and facilities; competitions, core skills and techniques; the lowdown on all the available equipment; and how mountain biking will develop in the future.

Provides an introduction to the sport of mountain biking, along with information on the sport's history, equipment and maintenance, techniques, popular sites, safety rules, and champion racers.

Crested Butte, Colorado in the late 1970s still echoed the hammers of miners, not the rumble of knobby tires on singletrack. But that was about to change as a young blue-eyed man joined the CB mountain tribe, wrenched madly and transformed old paperboy cruiser bikes into some of Colorado's first mountain bikes. When the California klunker crowd showed up to test their fancy new bikes on CB's storied trails, Rust and his friends were ready and spun...

This books provides well founded instructions for mountain bike training while always taking discipline-specific criteria into account. All fundamental fields of training methodology are presented in a differentiated and well-arranged way including aspects of heart frequency-oriented training and periodization of training in different seasons.

Highlights the talents of some of the best street riders and dirt jumpers in the world. With a crew of riders breaking the limits on what people thought couldn't be done on mountain bikes, this film displays their lifestyles and passion for the sport.

"Ride the divide is an inspiring journey about the world's toughest mountain bike race, which traverses over 2700 miles along the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. The film weaves the story of three characters' experiences with immense mountain beauty and small-town culture as they attempt to pedal from Banff, Canada, to a small, dusty crossing on the Mexican border. The tests of endurance and the accomplished moments throughout Ride the...

Ace gets her mountain bike ready for the big bike race, but during the race Ace's bike chain comes off the sprocket, and a tire goes flat--luckily she has her tools with her to fix the problem so she can finish the race.

Sixth-grader Will is looking for an after-school activity, but when he joins the mountain biking club, his old friendships and values are challenged.