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Mountain Bike

The biking industry received a shot in the arm in the form of a new subset of biking through the mountain bike. In the late 1950s and early 1960s the biking industry found that many people were using normal bikes that didn’t have suspension for biking in the mountains, but that they were doing it anyway.

The mountain bike is different from the road bike and BMX bike because of the emphasis on comfort. A good quality mountain bike is full suspension and tuned for the type of trails you’ll be tackling. A full suspension means there are both front and rear shocks. The seat of the cross terrain bike is closer to 90 degrees, due to the efficiency of that pedaling at that perpendicular angle. More extreme downhill mountain biking requires minimal pedaling, but maximum resistance to the hard impacts of a falling bike and rider require a seat that is angled back so that it level during your decent.

A mountain bike is also usually has a stronger and thicker frame because of the interest in survivability of the bike as a whole. If you were to consider taking a road bike off road in conditions anything like a downhill race you would bend the frame in half in less than five minute. For the same reason, you do not take the downhill bike to a road race, because you’d be passed by the more speed efficient road bikes. You can purchase custom mountain bike parts, which will help you perform your best.

 

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