Hi, and welcome back to my blog! After an extended winter break, were right back at it with new projects and, of course, new blog posts. The current project that I’m working on, this one, is going to be quite a bit different. Instead of doing a project then a post, this project is to write blog posts about something that we “Geek out” about. Over the next few weeks, you will be hearing a lot about a thing that I really love. The thing that I geek out about is mountain biking.
For those of you who don’t know what mountain biking is, it is more or less the most fun adrenaline rush that you can get. Mountain biking is when you ride a special kind of bike, that is built to withstand rocks, roots, and big impacts, on different kinds of trails/terrain. The trails can be steep and technical, smooth with jumps, and everything in between. The kinds of trails that you ride can also depend on the kind of riding you do.
You may be wondering how I got so into mountain biking that I’m now writing blog posts about it. Well, about 4 years ago I moved from Toronto to Vancouver. Before I moved, I had never even seen a mountain and I could still barely ride a bike. My dad has a friend out here that he hadn’t seen since college that is an extreme mountain biker. So, when we moved here my dad and his friend reconnected and my dad’s friend took him on a bike ride. When my dad got home he started telling me about the crazy trails and how fun it all was, then proceeded to buy a mountain bike. With how much that my dad was talking about it, I knew that I had try it. So I started saving money and soon enough I got my first bike. From the second that I took it to my first trail, I knew that I was hooked. Ever since I’ve been biking every chance and I just recently sighed up for my first bike races.
That’s the story of how I was introduced to mountain biking. Over the next few weeks more posts like this will be coming out with more information on mountain biking. If you want to see what some of my classmates are geeking out over, then press here and select a student in grade 8.