Carbon fibre is replacing steel and aluminium in products ranging from aeroplanes to mountain bikes.
They either bring their own mountain bikes--and repair equipment--or seek tour companies with long experience on the adventure trail.
The hotel provides Nordic walking poles, mountain bikes and hiking maps, and can arrange for a knowledgeable guide.
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Andy has now also set up a cycle hire business, with 14 mountain bikes stored in his garage.
Given over to mountain bikes, horses and hikers in the summer, the trails are groomed for skiing between December and March, weather permitting.
On a sunny, mild Friday afternoon in Buenos Aires, cyclists pedal down the bike lane on Calle Gorriti on mountain bikes, cruisers and identical yellow bikes.
Public use cabins are available there and adventurers with a whole day or two -- or access to mountain bikes -- may reach Eklutna Glacier.
Goats file through the scrub, an irregular column, with goatee beards, horns like the handles of mountain bikes and mad, golden, dreamy eyes, led by a ram with scimitar horns.
The point to be made against bikes of this sort (those in the Raleigh "Urban" range also fall into this bracket) is that they are rather like modified mountain bikes.
Estimates of the numbers of people who partake each week vary from one million to two million, and the city fills with mountain bikes, road bikes, fold-up bicycles and children on training bikes.
Mountain bikes designed for scrabbling along goat tracks or the heart of forests are as superfluous and unsuitable for our purposes as gigantic 4x4 off-road SUVs are on the school run.
People come here for all sorts of reasons: to ski, climb and hike on the mountains, to raft and kayak the rivers, to camp among the trees, or explore on their mountain bikes.
Scott Sports had bolted the U.S. bike market in 1997 after a buyout. (The firm got its start in Sun Valley, Idaho in 1958, selling the first aluminum ski pole.) Montgomery persuaded Zaugg to reintroduce the firm's road and mountain bikes in the U.S.--with him as a vice president of Scott USA. Zaugg, admiring Montgomery's confidence and connections in the bike biz, figured Montgomery was the ideal front man.
But for weeks, the couple shared photos online from their trek through Argentina, Chile and Peru, showing themselves posing beside their bikes on remote mountain roads, camping out in tents and smiling at the beach.
That's where the couple keeps their road, mountain, fixed gear and cyclo-cross bikes, a workbench and bins for a host of accessories.
People walked and rode their bikes -- Bergdahl's preferred way of getting around in his small mountain town -- and they stood for a solemn singing of the national anthem.
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