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| Mountain Biking Northern New Mexico: A Guide to Taos, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque Areas' Greatest Off- Road Bicycle Rides |  | Author: Bob D'Antonio
Publisher: Falcon
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 716,579
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0762728027
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.6309789
EAN: 9780762728022
ASIN: 0762728027
Publication Date: February 1, 2004
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Product Description
Mountain Biking Northern New Mexico gives fat-tire enthusiasts the skinny on the best rides around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Toas, Los Alamos, and the Sangre de Cristos. Readers can choose from scenic forest roads to hot singletrack. Cyclists can expect exhaustive and comprehensive trail descriptions of more than 40 of the region's greatest mountain bike adventures, from beginner to advanced. Included are high quality, digitally designed maps and accurate route profiles showing the ups and downs of each ride. In addition, detailed directions get cyclists to the ride without getting them lost. Detailed mile-by-mile directional cues are also provided with difficulty ratings, elevation gain, trail contacts, and much more. Black and white photographs round out this book's presentation. It's not just a mountain bike guide to Northern New Mexico. It's a guide to Northern New Mexico by mountain bike.
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 as good as it gets June 17, 2005
Jack Rawlins (Chico, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is as good as a mtb guide gets. The focus is small enough that it can really cover the 3 areas thoroughly, the advise is good, the trail selection is good, and the maps are...standard Falconguide maps, which are OK. D'Antonio doesn't make the mistake of underrating the technical difficulty of his trails. Two caveats: he omits the wonderful Horse Thief trail in Taos--go to Gearing Up bike shop and they'll sell you a stunningly good map; and he tells you to ride the Chamisa Tr in Sante Fe backwards--take his advice and you'll do all the dirt uphill and all the pavement downhill.
good overall but lacking important closure info April 20, 2005
walsh
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book has some great rides with good descriptions and directions. It is lacking some critical closure information that a NEW guidebook should have. For example, the Otero Canyon ride has been closed, but this book does not mention any access issues at all. Some similar problems on other trails.
 Missed by a mile September 1, 2010
mobettahbob
I have a huge collection of mountain bike guidebooks and I rate this as one of the worst. Before moving to Santa Fe I purchased this book and was given the impression that there wasn't much great riding to be had. When an author includes a paved bike path in a mountain bike guidebook you have to figure there isn't much out there. Since living here, I have found so many outstanding rides that were not even mentioned in the book. That is what often happens when an out of towner comes to write a guide. They get a few of the classics like the wonderful South Boundary Trail, but the locals don't always let them in on the goods. I gave it one star for including South Boundary. Otherwise, not much of an effort.
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