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Early Morning Mini car and Mega Bike A while back I said that over the summer I might sneak a mountain bike installment into this blog nonsense. What does mountain biking have to do with kiting? I’m not sure to be honest, they’re really very different activities. Biking builds strength and maybe more importantly endurance. Dh’ing (downhill riding) builds a lot of muscle both in the upper body and legs. I don’t do shuttle runs or lift access riding I either pedal up or hike with the bike up on my back. Anyway I ride bikes. I’m a better mountain biker than a kiter but I have a few more years in the saddle than I do the harness and those years have mostly been spent riding here in New England where we have of some of the most technical riding on the planet. As the saying goes for pretty much everything that people seem to do outside in New England “I you can do it here you can do it anywhere.” I used to live, eat and breathe mountain biking. I got my first bike when I was 16 y