Over the past couple of decades, mountain biking really crossed the line of being just a family and friend’s recreational activity to now a big and popular and competitive sporting event. The rise to the popularity of the sport lead to the development of advanced, sophisticated and rider-friendly mountain bikes built for optimum on and off-road performance.
Today’s technology helped developers and manufacturers to make the best mountain bike for every riders, from beginners, advanced to professional bike riders.
Bikes can be very costly, that is the main reason why most starting or beginner bikers always get intimidated, or confused in choosing the bike to start to. This is clearly understandable, for most people think twice in spending big amount of money to something new like buying and riding bikes.
One of the important things to consider in buying mountain bikes is of course, the tire of the bike. Tires are the parts of the bike that make contact with the road, thus it should be selected meticulously not just for easy riding, but most especially for the rider’s safety.
For bike tires you have to think of two things – broad and knobby, these are the two qualities of a standard mountain bike tire. Tires are designed this way for better shock absorption and harder grip in hard terrains.
There are now a variety of tread patterns of tires available for various biking needs. Fully knobbly, front-specific, Slick street, street tires with a centre ridge and an outer tread, and snow studded, etc., these are some of tire patterns available in biking stores nowadays.
There are types of bikes that are perfect specific type of terrain and riding, tires that are designed to aid the rider in whatever weather and terrain there is.
Bikes like this always have suspension. Modern mountain bikes nowadays even have suspension on its front wheels, however most bikers really put full suspensions on their bikes for better riding in steep up and down terrains.
