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Category: History of Sport

17. October 2019

A Short History of the Off-Road Bike (Part 4)

Contrary to the trend of the last decades the mountain bike surprisingly seems to be losing its appeal. At the same time, the road bike for unpaved roads is just being reinvented as a “Gravel Bike”…

9. October 2019

A Short History of the Off-Road Bike (Part 3)

When the road racing machine was the bike of the time, the modern mountain bike emerged and it is now probably the most prominent type of bicycle built specifically for riding off-road.

25. September 2019

A Short History of the Off-Road Bike (Part 1 – Continued)

Just as today’s bike magazines are filled with suggestions for off-road rides, the early cycle magazines printed descriptions of exceptionally good roads. Among the cyclists in England, the country of origin of the modern bicycle…

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