BACK TO OUR ROUTES

Given how long bikes have been around for and how long people have been riding them offroad it’s hard to imagine that the mountain bike as we know it and the very name tag itself were not around since the dawn of the wheel. After all there weren’t exactly many paved roads back then (not that I can quite remember that far back).

Messing around with Frankenstein-esque contraptions and blasting them on the local trails while hopping over brick-high and planked ramps was something most of us did as kids. Ah, those were the days and seemingly so very long before these monsters actually developed into the glorious beasts we now ride.

Back then (and in the pioneering days of the Californian clunkers) it was all