Mountain biking is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes.
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14 Facts About Mountain biking
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Mountain biking bikers ride on off-road trails such as singletrack, back-country roads, wider bike park trails, fire roads, and some advanced trails are designed with jumps, berms, and drop-offs to add excitement to the trail.
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Mountain biking named it a "mountain bicycle" for its intended place of use.
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In 2007, Klunkerz: A Film About Mountain biking Bikes was released, documenting mountain bike history during the formative period in Northern California.
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Cross country mountain biking focuses on physical strength and endurance more than the other forms, which require greater technical skill.
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Cross country mountain biking is the only mountain biking discipline in the Summer Olympic Games.
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Trail riding or trail biking is a varied and popular non-competitive form of mountain biking on recognized, and often waymarked and graded, trails; unpaved tracks, forest paths, etc.
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Mountain biking Bike Touring or Marathon is long-distance touring on dirt roads and single track with a mountain bike.
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Mountain biking bikes are generally used as many bike packing destinations are reached via forest-service roads or singletrack trails.
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Mountain biking bikers have faced land access issues from the beginnings of the sport.
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The review notes that "as with all recreational pursuits, it is clear that mountain biking contributes some degree of environmental degradation".
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Environmental impacts of mountain biking can be greatly reduced by not riding on wet or sensitive trails, keeping speeds modest so as to minimize cornering forces and braking forces, not skidding, and by staying on the trail.
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Mountain biking has been demonstrated to act as a human-mediated form of seed dispersal.
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Mountain biking bikes are not bound to any specific type of infrastructure and can therefore move freely between ecological environments acting as a connecting dispersal vector between habitats.
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