Customer Reviews

Mountain Biking New York

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I purchased the book and was pleasantly suprised to see that this mountain bike book contains more rides within & around New York State than I have seen in bookstores. The book extensively covers each of the 79 rides with descriptions containing historical & environmental info. Perhaps the author studied the natural sciences at school. It shows. The photos are a good depiction of the rides. I have a family, but I also do some serious single-track and this book seems to cover it all. I recommend it to others.

This book is part of the problem, not part of the solution for increased access to mountain bikers. It ignores park management rules and regs (tons of illegal trails were listed in the first edition), and it totally peaved the local mountain biking community organizations (GORP, the Gunks OFF ROAD PATROL, and HUMbVA..the hudson Valley Mountain Biking Association)for harming some of the advocacy work they'd already done in the valley. Irresponsibly authored and represented. Needs major work.

This book provides detailed maps and explores the "ins" and "outs" of mountain bike trails of New York. It helps locate the trails and aids in having an enjoyable outing by telling you where to go. I recommend this book for all mountain bikers regionally.

Who is this guy Margulis? He ought to be writing self-defense books! This is a "low-conscience" offering that disregards the ecosystem, uses other undocumented sources, and is pretty hard to use in the field. I can't recommentd anything about it.

Ok, if you live in NYC and always go to Lake Placid on holiday then this is the guide for you. If you want a guide to NY state then forget it- it really does only cover the south east and the north east, about 25% of the state.

Since central NY is so chock full of trails it has not occured to me to get a guide, I just get on my bike and explore. I was given this book for christmas and looked with interest to see if there were any trails within a couple of hours drive that I might try for a weekend change of scene. This book contains nothing of interest to those who live outside NYC.