Mountain Biking with Adrenaline Junkies
Combine a Mountain Biking Adventure with Team Building, 4x4 Quads or with a School Adventure camp.
Countless Trails and farm roads in and around Cradock, offer endless vistas of wild and bird life.
Safe and challenging or safe and easy - your choice.
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Mountain biking entails the sport of riding bicycles
off-road, often over rough terrain, whether riding specially
equipped mountain bikes or hybrid road bikes. Most mountain
bikes share similar characteristics that underscore durability
and performance in rough terrain: wide, knobby tires, large,
round frame tubing, front fork or dual suspension (aka shock
absorbers). The durability factor means a far heavier bicycle
weight to rider ratio than their road touring cousins.
Mountain biking is roughly broken down into four categories:
cross country, downhill, freeride, and trials/street riding.
Each has differing levels of safety-consciousness with different
types of mountain bikes and riding gear.
This individual sport requires endurance, bike handling skills
and self-reliance, and the majority of mountain bikers ride
off-road trails, whether country back roads, fire roads, or
singletrack (narrow trails that wind through forests, mountains,
deserts, or fields). There are aspects of mountain biking that
are more similar to trail running than regular bicycling.
Because riders are often far from civilization, there is a
strong ethic of self-reliance in the sport. Riders learn to
repair their broken bikes or flat tires to avoid being stranded
miles from help. This reliance on survival skills accounts for
the group dynamics of the sport.
