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Mountain Biking

A mountain bike is a tough, high-performance bicycle used for 2 different types of racing, cross-country and downhill.

The name is a bit confusing and maybe "Off road bike" would be more accurate, but the name came about because the bicycle was originally designed for riding down mountain tracks and cross-country racing came later.

The prototype of the mountain bikes were first developed in Marin County, Ca., north of San Francisco in 1977.  Otis Guy, Gary Fisher, Joe Breeze and Craig Mitchell were the earliest designers, builders and promoters. In the early 1980s, a few Californian riders started putting derailleur gears on old balloon-tire cruisers and racing them down steep mountain trails and  roads. The bicycles they built were the 1st mountain bikes. Those California riders, such as Tom Ritchey, Gary Fisher and Mike Sinyard are now as famous as the labels on some of the more popular brands of mountain bikes.

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