All Terrain Cycling becomes Mountain Biking
Earlier this month the US Library of Congress got their heads out of their asses and updated the subject “All Terrain Cycling” to “Mountain Biking” in their extensive catalog system. Perhaps they overhead ‘W’ talking about going out for a mountain bike ride one weekend and decided that had a better ring to it than an all terrain cycling ride 
As an interesting side note, the blog post linked in the paragraph above mentions that “mountain bike sales and participation are down” but the references mentioned actually paint a much different picture. Bicycle sales as a whole were down from 2005 to 2006 but from 2000 to 2006 sales have been all over the place (up one year, down the next). MTB participation, on the other hand, seems to be on the rise from what I can tell: the numbers show steady increases since 2000 and overall the numbers are up from 10 years ago. I predict when the 2007 numbers come in we’ll see further increases…
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February 12th, 2008 at 10:26 am
[...] The USA Today article actually starts by asking a rather silly question: “is it possible to have a mountain bike race without mountains?” Any mountain bike rider who lives in Florida can tell you there are plenty of challenging mountain bike trails in a state without a single mountain. Maybe things were better when mountain biking was called “all terrain cycling.” Why’d the Library of Congress have to go and change things [...]