GRAVITY ASSISTED MOUNTAIN BIKING
About Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking:
GRAVITY was established in July 1998 in Bolivia, after I had spent two months doing exploratory rides here while working with a mountaineering company as a guide and consultant. After two months of further research, we started with one of my Specialized Stumpjumpers and two Chilean hard-tail bicycles, doing rides four times a week.
It was quickly apparent that there was healthy demand for 1-day downhill mountain-bike tours here, so we set about accumulating bicycles as quickly as we could -- mail order, cycle tourists passing through, friends bringing them in from New Zealand, borrowing and purchasing from local bike shops, etc.
After a September 2000 trip to Interbike in Las Vegas, we negotiated a sponsorship partnership with Kona Bicycles and since then have been bringing in a wide range of mid- to high-end Kona bikes. This has enabled us to steadily upgrade our fleet, which now totals almost 100 near-new bicycles. Our fleet includes both front-suspension, hydraulic-disc-brake equipped mountain bikes in a range of sizes and full-suspension, hydraulic-disc-brake equipped bikes.
We pride ourselves on using Western guides, Western-quality equipment, and operating by Western safety standards. We've done these rides more often than anybody else and our clients love our trips. (There's a pile many many feet thick of customer feedback forms to prove it!)
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