Mountain Biking — What about off-road riding in the Hudson valley?
We’re leaving the serious mountain biking for somebody else’s website. But for some ideas for gentle off-road riding, see Places for Families with Children. Actually when we started out riding, it was on mountain bikes, on trails and unpaved roads. Then we started to wander onto the public roads a little. Then we tried slick tires, and life hasn’t been the same since. Our feeling now is that the great road routes of the Hudson valley (see Favorites) are clearly superior to most of the mountain bike paths around here. We use knobby tires only when we travel to other regions. We rode all the routes on this website using 26-inch wheels with slick tires like Specialized Fat Boy 1.25-inch. Our advice to folks with mountain bikes in the Hudson valley: Take a course or at least read a book on how to ride effectively on the public paved roads along with the cars and trucks (see Links). The risks of riding on the public paved roads are real and serious, but those risks can be evaluated in light
