| I buy and read lots of books. On biking these are the best I
have found over the years. I cannot guarantee these are the best for you, but at least you
will not get a total loser here. If the topics don't relate to you, use the search above
to find other Mountain Bike books.
Mountain
Biking in Spokane and Coeur d'Alene: by Martin Potucek. Forty rides
in the area, from paved to single track. A Falcon book, so it's well done, and
the maps and directions are reliable.
Adventures in
Idaho's Sawtooth Country: by Lynne Stone. Sixty three trips for Mountain
Bilers and Hikers. Grand Sawtooth vistas, any kind of terrain for riding. Good intro
material on mountain biking in the Sun Valley, Ketchum, Stanley areas. There are lots of
mountain bikers in this area so you won't be lonely, but there is so much land that you
can get away by yourself by riding a few miles further. Safety and etiquette, maps,
deciding what to take, boots and blisters, backpack gear, weatherproofing, high altitude
sun, insects, choosing a campsite, campfires, litter personal hygiene, precautions, going
solo, water, lightning, hypothermia, crossing water, mine tunnels and shafts, bears, and
many trails to use this intro stuff on. Highly recommended.
Mountain Bike! The Pacific Northwest: by Laurie and Chris Leman.
Eighty-two trips about equally divided between Washington and Oregon. For each
trip the following tips are provided: general location, elevation change,
services, hazards, rescue index, land status, maps, finding the trail, a good
drawn map, notes on the trail, and last but not least, sources of additional
information which often has telephone#s of ranger stations, which I highly
recommend you call before going because of tree falls, weather, bears on
rampage etc which they would know about. Too many times we have gotten to some
remote area only to find the area closed to all usage because of some detail
that we didn't think of. This book is a treasure of work already done for you.
Washington's
Rail-Trails: by Fred Wert. The author of this book has ridden all the trails
in this book and was instrumental in getting the Rails to Trails Conservancy going.
Includes coverage with a map, of the Centennial Trail. There are scabland rides to high
forested trails to the basalt cliffs of mysterious Rock Lake to the Snoqualmie tunnel to
downtown routes in Spokane/Seattle/Moses Lake/etc. This one is a keeper for those wierd
weather times when you need a wide flat trail.
The Mountain Bike
Way of Knowledge: by William Nealy. This is a very unique book. It is like
Zen of Mountain Biking in a comedy mode. I learned a lot from this book as it comes from
someone who has experienced it all.The stories are so funny that my whole family was found
rolling on the floor one day while I read it to them.
Bicycling Magazine's Complete Guide to Bicycle Maintenance & Repair (Including Road Bikes & Mountain Bikes):
The book is as exhaustive as its title indicates. Good diagrams.
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