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Gear: Bikes
Town and Country Rides
Whether you're jumping stumps on weekends or hopping curbs all week, this season's lighter, stronger frames, more absorbent suspensions, advanced ergonomics, and cutting-edge gear are tailored to suit your riding style. Here are our picks for the best two bikes for doing it up downhill or downtown. By Steve Casimiro
STREET LEGAL: Marin's Rocky Ridge ($1,240; www.marinbikes.com) exemplifies the sport's latest crossbreed, a mix of BMX and mountain rigs known as the urban assault bike, built for dirt but happy on pavement, too. It features a steep-angled top tube for easy escapes, five inches of front suspension, and eight-inch Hayes disc brake rotors that could stop a freight train.
 KING OF THE HILL: With five inches of suspension travel at front and rear, you won't find a better mountain bike than the Intense 5.5 EVP ($4,200, fully equipped; www.intensecycles.com). The EVP climbs phenomenally, bombs downhill like a wild thing, and takes country bumps with marshmallow ease.
Trick out your wheels with some of the hot new biking gear featured in the March issue of Adventure. Additional Excerpts
From the print edition, March 2005
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