Mountain Bike

Definition: Mountain Bike

Mountain Bike

Noun

1. A bicycle with a sturdy frame and fat tires; originally designed for riding in mountainous country.

Synonyms: Mountain Bike

Synonyms: all-terrain bike (n), off-roader (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Mountain bike

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A mountain bike is a bicycle designed for riding off-road, either on dirt trails or other non-pavement type environments.

While cyclo-cross bikes already existed, the earliest ancestors of modern mountain bikes were based around frames from road cruisers such as those made by Schwinn. Gary Fisher is normally credited with introducing the first purpose-built mountain bike in 1979.

Mountain bikes have fat, knobby tires for extra traction, and are usually fitted with shock absorbers on the front fork. Sometimes rear suspension is included as well. Mountain bikes are also often fitted with bar ends on the handlebars.

In French a mountain bike is called a VTT (vélo toute-terraine: "all-terrain bicycle").

Commercial Usage: Mountain Bike

Domain	Title
Books	Classic Mountain Bike Rides: Thirty of the World's Most Spectacular Trails (reference) Mountain Bike America Boston (reference) Mountain Bike Extreme 2003 Calendar (reference) Mountain Bike Mania (reference) Mountain Bike!: Northern California (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Mountain Bike Action (reference) Dirt Mountain Bike Magazine (reference) Tutto Mountain Bike (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	1998 World Mountain Bike Champ (reference) Battle at Durango: The First Ever World Mountain Bike Championship (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Consumer Goods	Makita DK1032DLK Reciprocating Saw, Circular Saw, Hammer Drill-Driver Kit - Includes Free Mountain Bike, a $289.00 Value (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mountain Bike

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Photo Album: Mountain Bike

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Maj. Terrence Leary (left) helps Maj. Russell Fellers adjust the seat before taking off on the next 10-mile leg of a 40-mile mountain bike relay during the all-service Wilderness Challenge 2000. Leary and Fellers were members of the Air Force Pentagon tea.		Mountain bike race in the Coburg Hills. Credit: D. Huntington.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mountain Bike

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
mountain bike	123,224	santa cruz mountain bike	58
downhill mountain bike	18,051	k2 mountain bike	55
mountain bike magazine	831	full suspension mountain bike	52
mountain bike sale	807	raleigh mountain bike	49
mountain bike trail	738	schwinn mountain bike	45
mountain bike review	502	mountain bike marin	40
mountain bike part	420	diamondback mountain bike	34
rocky mountain bike	240	mountain bike fork	31
trek mountain bike	220	mountain bike component	30
mountain bike tour	196	haro mountain bike	29
giant mountain bike	175	fuji mountain bike	23
specialized mountain bike	171	klein mountain bike	23
gt mountain bike	142	huffy mountain bike	22
kona mountain bike	134	colorado mountain bike trail	20
mountain bike race	117	mountain bike for woman	19
mongoose mountain bike	104	intense mountain bike	19
mountain bike action	100	mountain bike suspension	18
gary fisher mountain bike	67	diamond back mountain bike	16
mountain bike maintenance	67	mountain bike retailer	15
mountain bike frame	65	barracuda mountain bike	14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mountain Bike

Language		Translations for "mountain bike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏دراجة جبلية. (various references)

Dutch		mountain bike (mountain bicycle). (various references)

French		vélo tout terrain (mountain bicycle). (various references)

German		mountainbike. (various references)

Pig Latin		ountainmay ikebay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Mountain Bike

Misspellings
	"Mountain Bike" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mountainbike. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mountain Bike

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-k-m-n-n-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: mountebank.
	-4 letters: ambition, antinuke, banknote, biennium, bunkmate, butanone, minutiae, mountain, munition, nominate, umbonate.
	-5 letters: ambient, amniote, automen, beatnik, biennia, bitumen, boatmen, enation, intimae, kainite, kinetin, manikin, manitou, mannite, mention, minutia, montane, niobate, niobium, nonmeat, noumena, outbake, outbeam, tinamou, tonneau, unakite, unmeant, untaken.
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