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Mountain Biking is a relatively very new sport. But in the small amount of time it has been around, it has progressed at an amazing speed. In the past 10 years mountain bikes have gone from 20 pound cross country bikes, to 9 inch front and back travel bikes that can with stand humongous drops and abuse. The level of riding has also progressed to higher levels then ever originally expected.

For many years bikes have been the epitome of good to many enviromentalists around the world. They have none of the negative affects on the environment that cars do. They also help promote an active and healthy lifestyle. It is only been in the last couple of years with the introduction of this new "hardcore" style of mountain biking, that activists around Canada and the world have begun to speak out. Well it is true that mountain biking erodes the earth and kills important organisms in the soil, it affects the forests no more then your average hiker. Many of the studies and tests done have......

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