Single track (mountain biking)
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The term singletrack is used to describe a type of mountain biking trails. Single track is ideally full of tight turns and steep slopes, and can be either smooth and flowing or very technical, rocky and root-laden. It can be bi-directional or single direction loops.
Singletrack riding can be quite challenging from a technical standpoint, because small errors in riding can cast you off the trail into unridable terrain. Singletrack is a narrow trail, generally wide enough for one rider at a time. It contrasts with doubletrack (rarely used) or, more commonly, a fireroad.
Many mountain bikers consider single-track riding - riding on trails that are wide enough for just one biker at a time - to be the sport's pinnacle and the purest form of the sport.
