Mountain biking in the Himalayas Archive

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Mountain biking in India vs. Europe -A comparison

Posted on 25. July 2018 (27. July 2020) by Sarah Appelt

I started mountain biking in India: the Himalayas with their long ascents and descents, bad roads and wonderful mountain trails simply offer the perfect conditions for this sport. A road bike would be out of place here and so I sat down on a mountain bike for the first time eight years ago for a […]

Mountain biking and India? What’s happening on the Indian subcontinent

Posted on 25. April 2016 (27. July 2020) by Sarah Appelt

Shimla, once part of the Nepalese kingdom, later summer capital of the British and now university town and mountain bike stronghold! The queen of the so-called Indian Hillstations is the capital of the mountain state Himachal Pradesh and is located at 2100 meters above sea level on a ridge in the foothills of the Himalayas. […]