One of the things I do with my time is write articles for Bite magazine. I'm currently writing one concerning mountain biking for its soon-to-be-launched sister publication, Bite Life. While doing this, it suddenly struck me - is mountain biking about to become the new skiing?
They do have a lot in common, after all. Both began as very fringey, extreme outdoor sports, progressively becoming more diverse, popular and accessible. The skier and the mountain biker each get to go fast under a combination of their own steam and the assistance of gravity; so you get that marvellous melange of healthiness and danger.
One difference is that mountain biking is several decades younger than skiing. Already, though, there's an abundance of mountain biking holidays you can go on in Europe, America and elsewhere. And actually, living in Scotland, there's not so much need to get on a plane to do mountain biking. We're very well provided for here.
Perhaps the truth is that I've been pretending mountain biking's like skiing in that I don't get a lot of chance to do it. That's not true of course, but I've certainly not been taking the opportunity to do it. Which is daft, because when I do it, I love it. Especially if I do it often enough to ensure that I'm fit enough to get up the hills without too much suffering.
So I guess mountain biking needs instead to be the new jogging.
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