The bike is on point.
Praised in the cities, where it has become an unmarked means of transport, the two-wheeler is now omnipresent in the French mountains.
A "velorution" which is sorely lacking in statistics, but is verified empirically summer after summer.
It is enough to take a look at the offer made available (creation of tracks and trails, weeks reserved for cyclists in the passes crossed by the Tour de France, etc.) to take the measure of the breakaway at the top of the discipline. .
Because if there has always been mountain biking, it has long appealed to a tiny part of the population, capable of swallowing kilometers of asphalt as a dancer or playing the hotheads on steep paths on a mountain bike.
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The latter, “
arrived at the end of the 1980s, marked a first turning point
”, indicates Julien Rebuffet, director of the national union of French cycling instructors: “
The discipline very quickly developed in the mountains on a model…
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