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Mountain biking

These days, you get different kinds of bikes for different kinds of riding. The sort of bikes they ride in the Olympics look quite different to these mountain bikes.

People who ride mountain bikes need strong bikes with many gears.

 

Mountain bikers also need to wear safety equipment, to make sure they are not hurt if they fall off.

Can you see all the different kinds of safety equipment that this rider is wearing?

The very first bikes weren't much used by girls, because their long skirts got all caught up in the spokes of the wheels.

Now girls can do anything, and this is a girl called Melissa racing in a mountain biking race.

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