A New Year In Mountain Biking.

2013's finished and it was certainly an eventful year in mountain biking. Downhill showed the battle between Stevie Smith and Gee Atherton, Remi Thirion had his first surprising win in Vallnord, Andorra and Greg Minaar won the World Championships again, but at his home town in South Africa.

Racing also saw the start of Enduro which was an addition to the different types of races there are. Jared Graves had several wins in the enduro along with Jerome Clementz winning the whole series. 

29er's are sooo 2012, it's 650b wheels that are 2013's craze. Who know's what other crazy and game changing inventions will appear next; maybe they'll make a dropper seatpost that is hydraulic...what's that? They've already done that? Oh. Many people don't know whether these slight improvements in the smoothness of a ride are much of an advantage and are just taking the fun out of this casual sport. An E.I shock (made by Rockshox) is an electronic shock that can change the shock's performance in just 0.01 second. But it's got a whole load of silly batteries and computers on it. This is just taking things to far! Especially for a sport that 20 years ago people had just found out about.