Mountain Bikes

A word about difficulty levels.

First of all, these values are relative. I consider mountain biking to be just that -- MOUNTAIN biking. An easy mountain bike ride is still a mountain bike ride, and that means hills, and that means some heavy breathing. So I'll assume everyone has some amount of aerobic capacity. If you've been sitting on the couch dining on chips and Diet Pepsi for the past 10 years, even a ride listed as easy will be difficult for you. (I speak from experience here.)

The levels will be given as a range, easy to moderate, moderate to hard, hard to brutal. The easier side of the range is for those who've been riding a while. The harder side is for those with some conditioning, but who aren't yet in great shape. I'll try to be as consistent as possible, that way if you find my moderate to hard is easy for you, all the other moderates to hards will be easy for you as well.

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