Mountain Bike! Virginia, 2nd

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Summary: Virginia is for mountain bike lovers
Review: Porter has done an incredible job of ferreting out a wide range of supreme mountain bike destinations in Virginia. His conversational style of writing and accuracy make this book an indispensable guide for fat tire riders from beginners to experts. He covers the state from the coast to the mountain peaks like no other author has in a guide that offers information including difficulty level, length, and anecdotal remarks regarding any given area's history and natural history. If you have any inclination to pedal off the beaten path, Mountain Bike! Virginia by Randy Porter should be your first stop. And you, too, will agree that Virginia is for mountain bike lovers!

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Summary: Wildly lost in Virginia
Review: The rides tht Porter describes are fine but directions to getting there are terrible.

I spent a long frustrating time in the car on the Presidents Day weekend trying to follow directions that were completely inaccurate. You CANNOT rely on his directions to get to the start of rides. Either he has never been there or he has scribbled down directions without thinking properly. He assumes you know the roads of Old Dominian like a Virginian

Outside Harrisonburg he talks about turning off the 33 onto the 613 (fine that worked), then turning left onto the 612. WRONG the road number is the 763 that eventually links to the 612. This little eeror cost me 2 hours

Outside Staunton he talks about turning off for one ride 14.5 west on the 250 - fine. He then dsecribes the turn off to another ride as being 25 miles west of Staunton. WRONG. The 2nd ride is 14.75 west on the 250 and the turn off can be seen from the first. With another mis-direction he cost me another 2 hours. Luckily an extremely helpful person in Deerfield set me straight

If you want to use this book get a detailed map of Virginia and a GPS system