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The Good Mountain Biking Guide

A new ‘encyclopedic’ mountain biking guide to England and Wales has been launched with the promise of a lifetime’s riding.
The Good Mountain Bikintg Guide is the most comprehensive book on mountain biking ever published and is suitable for beginners and experts alike. It is a huge book comprising 640 pages of tightly packed information covering every area in England and Wales that has access to great mountain bike trails. It is a book that every mountain biker should own.
For those new to mountain biking it shows trails that can be accessed close to home and experienced riders will spend many happy hours planning exciting rides in new places.
The Good Mountain Biking Guide features 700 route suggestions in 500 areas. There are over 300 superb action photographs of real riders on the trails and annotations of key trail features. The route summaries give over 17,000km of riding, enough to suit all levels and types of rider. An overview map of England and Wales shows every key mountain biking location and allows planning at a glance.
The Good Mountain Biking Guide includes detailed information and purpose drawn maps for both natural areas and trail centres. It covers all major destination areas such as The Peak District, Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, North & South Downs, Brecon Beacons as well as numerous smaller areas, many close to major towns and cities. The book will help plan riding of all sorts - from quick blasts after work, to day rides, mountain biking weekends and holidays across the whole of England and Wales.
Commenting on the launch of The Good Mountain Biking Guide Stephen Ross, of publishers Pioneer said “ We have had fantastic support from the mountain biking community in putting this book together and have been inundated with fantastic photographs and trail suggestions. There is some fabulous riding all over the country, sometimes in the most unlikely places. We are absolutely confident that there is something new for every rider in The Good Mountain Biking Guide”.