page_title: Mountain biking
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mountain biking / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Mountain Bikers approaching unpaved section of Mulholland Drive, in Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park. Above Tarzana in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
context_page_description: Mountain biking is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain. Mountain biking can generally be broken down into multiple categories: cross country, trail riding, all mountain, downhill, freeride and dirt jumping.
  This sport requires endurance, core strength and balance, bike handling skills, and self-reliance. Advanced riders pursue both steep technical descents and high incline climbs. In the case of freeride, downhill, and dirt jumping, aerial maneuvers are performed off both natural features and specially constructed jumps and ramps.
  Mountain 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-off to add excitement to the trail. Riders with enduro and downhill bikes will often visit ski resorts that stay open in the summer to ride downhill specific trails, using the ski lifts to return to the top with their bikes.
caption: Mountain bikers at Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park
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