Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country roads and city streets, on boardwalks, beaches and paths through the park, the vehicle of choice for more and more Americans is the bicycle. But it is no longer just a sturdy ten-speed from Sears: bikers are buying everything from flyweight racers to meaty mountain bikes, from collapsible commuter cycles to three-wheelers for less steady senior citizens. The number of adults who ride regularly has jumped 70% in four years, to 17 million last year, according to the Bicycle Federation of America, and two-thirds of cycling converts are women. Says Jennifer Feldman, 23, a communications student...
...fastest selling model is the mountain bike, with upright handlebars, a roomy seat and tires like a truck's. "We can't seem to make enough of them," says John Mariotti, president of Huffy Bicycles, the country's largest manufacturer, "or charge high enough prices." Costs range from $150 to $3,000, the latter for a custom-made model. Today 5 million Americans ride mountain bikes, compared with 200,000 in 1983, and the BFA expects the total to climb 70% in 1988. Despite the name, more than two-thirds are used by cyclists bent on surviving the local potholes...
...most literal-minded mountain bikers are the "gravity" riders, who strip off the pedals, strap on a helmet, station themselves at the top of the steepest incline they can find and go like a bobsled. Says Scot Breithaupt of Palm Springs, Calif., a former motorcycle racer: "It's a bunch of death-wish riders pointing straight down the hill. It's dynamic!" Equally fearless are those riders near Vail, Colo., who take helicopters to the high country or ride the ski lifts up the mountains and then charge through the backcountry trails. "I got into mountain biking to escape," says...
...Mount Snow Mountain Bike School in Vermont teaches cyclists how to negotiate the loose gravel, mud surfaces and obstacles of mountain paths, as well as offering lessons in map reading and bike maintenance. "I thought I was just going for a bike ride on back roads in New England," says Connecticut Insurance Consultant Karen Daly, 29. "They teach you how to jump logs, and we rode through a ski trail with grass up to your waist, wildflowers...
EVERY SUNDAY MORNING DAVID Nelson's family attends church on nearby Williams Mountain, where his father Larry, a coal miner, was born 39 years ago. Inside the small Advent Christian church that his father and mother Joy, 36, helped build, David joins his brother Stephen, 7, and his sister Nancy, 13, in a Bible class. Later in the day, the family drives an hour and 15 minutes to another Advent Christian church at the top of a distant and twisting hollow. David's parents, who are licensed to preach, lead the service, which lasts nearly two hours...