Whats New in Downhill Mountain Biking?
There is a new twist to downhill mountain biking that has begun to gain in popularity in the last few years amongst the more daring riders. The concept behind downhill freeride mountain bikes is, that much like other extreme bicyclists, not only are they racing down the side of the mountain, but now they are doing tricks along the way. These bikes are a little taller than standard downhill mountain bikes and are built a little stronger. This sport started off with riders creating their own obstacles on existing tracks to give them new challenges to face. This resulted in some pretty serious injuries and forced many tracks to close down. Undeterred free riders started to look for anywhere that had a cliff or an overhang to jump off of and perform their aerial stunts from. This gave rise to an alarming number of serious injuries and made authorities take another look at creating tracks that could be monitored and were safe. Now it is commonplace to find both indoor and outdoor free ride
