Lets face it the bicycle has generally been created as a multipurpose transportation vehicle able to tackle most ground surfaces for sometime. However the bigger idea of mountain bikes as an off road movement gained popularity during the 1990’s with folks around the world. Getting out into the back trails and hills of their areas and began to modify and craft beach cruiser style bikes to ride downhills and along trails more effectively.
Since that time the mountain bikes have become a household name. It now has a subset of bicycles types which include.
- Downhill
- Enduro
- Trial
- Cross Country (XCO, Marathon, XCS)
- E-bike
- Slopestyle
- 4 Cross
- Freeride
Each bike while sticking to its off-road base calls for slightly different geometries and suspension configurations to get the best out of each variant. There is a bike to suit anyone whether you take them off road or not.
Moutain bikes are know very common place and with that more trails and infrastructer for riding had slowly grown over the past 30 years. But in the 90’s it was more about the adventure of following a fire road, looking for trails in the forest. Tracks that were for moutain biking where more unkept and technical in nature. Over time as the popularity of the sport grew funding for trails in public owned areas have become greater.
There’s one thing for sure for those people who dont like riding on the road the moutain bike provides a place away from the hustle of the road network.
