About Us
M ission
The mission of MountainBikeTx.com is to significantly lessen the time you
spend searching the internet for accurate trail information for your area
and to serve as a gateway to anything else you may be looking for in the
realm of mountain biking. The less time you spend searching the internet,
the more time you have for doing more important things; like riding! Although
we will do our absolute best to provide the most accurate and concise collection
of information and available resources, much of our accuracy and relevance
depends on our visitors.
H istory
This website was made available in June of 2008 and is the final result
of my own frustration bouncing around the internet in an attempt to learn
about mountain biking and trying to find out where I could find decent mountain
bike trails in Texas. Starting out as a list of Texas trails for my own
benefit, I figured that this fairly comprehensive list (over 100 trails)
might come in handy for others, so I planned on passing it around through
various mountain bike forums to anyone who was interested. That plan changed
when I learned about using Googlemap to create a personal map; thus, the
Mountain Biking in Texas Googlemap became my project from November
2007 until it was announced to the public in January 2008.
The Googlemap seemed like a great idea, and still serves its purpose quite well; however, there were many questions raised about it (i.e. what do the icons mean, can you define what a tech level 3 trail is, etc.) and what little space Google provides for a description didn't really allow me to adequately address these questions. Thanks to the overwhelming success of the map, what was originally intended to be nothing more than one or two web pages on how to use the Googlemap snowballed into a sub-site of my personal website, PedigresPlace.com.
Previously known as Pedigre's Mountain Bike Resource, or PMBR, for short, the original website was functional at best, and the more I looked at it, the more it looked "low-budget." To make a longer story short, PMBR was a great start, but MountainBikeTx.com has become the vision I originally had for a Texas mountain bike website. A site I wish existed when I first dove into the addicting world of mountain biking.
I hope you find it as useful as I intend it to be. Ride on!