Posted on August 4, 2015 by Greg Heil on www.singletracks.com

The metaphor of a child entertaining himself on a playground is often used in an attempt to express the sheer joy that we adults find in riding our bikes in the forest. Only, how often have you ever ridden a place that actually was like a playground?

Playgrounds generally consist of various features or toys that you can have fun on: swings, teeter totters, slides, jungle gyms, you name it. No one tells you the order in which you need to play with those items. And for some of the items, such as a jungle gym, you can play with it in a variety of ways, and no one can tell you which way is right or wrong.

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