I found the magazine labicicleta.org, but can't tell if it's online only, or if there's a print version. Does anyone reading this know?

Nationwide

• mountainbike.org.mx
• Orbibike Park

• away.com: San Miguel de Allende
• Mexican Hideouts PARRAS DE LA FUENTE
• www.xpmexico.com El Portal de los Deportes de Montaña en México (still has trail information up, but has a four year old note saying they are changing servers on the front page...)
• Mexican Cycling Federation regional associations

Copper Canyon

• Joe's 2008 trip with some great pics
• keadventure.com Copper Canyon trip tour company
• Western Spirit Copper Canyon Tour tour company
• The Ride That Will Change Your Life Copper Canyon, Chihuahua
• Great write-up on mountain biking in Copper Canyon
• OWA leads tours in Copper Canyon
• Mountain Bike Bills trip to Copper Canyon

Oaxaca

• Mountain Biking Oaxaca's Northern Sierra
• Cycling through Oaxaca's streets
• Talleres de bicicletas de Oaxaca (bike shops of Oaxaca)
• 2006 Mountain bike tour of Oaxaca write up
• Oaxaca Mountain Bike Tour official page
• Bici de Montana, Oaxaca a Puerto Escondido. A very brief description of a six day trail around Oaxaca i'd love to find out more about!
• Mountain Biking Oaxaca's Northern Sierra by Carlos E. Cornejo

Ciclismo Michoacano
pdf calendar of MTB events in Michoacan

Working with advisors from Consultoria Balam s.c., IMBA has helped guide the construction and maintenance of more than 150 kilometers of trails in the town of San Nicolás. IMBA is also developing a second area in El Ajusco, which will be open to mountain bike use later this summer.

Today, the San Nicolás area comprises three downhill courses and various singletrack and doubletrack trails for cross country riding and racing. The El Ajusco area is currently constructing a 20-kilometer cross country trail with plans for further expansion later this year.

MTB Cancun & Riviera Maya is a local Mountain Biking group, created in 2007 to promote, practice and let everybody know the benefits of mountain biking in Cancun & Riviera Maya. We usually ride every Sunday, but we can offer also private MTB tours to different level trails, also visiting Cenotes, lagoons, Mayan Ruins, little Mayan villages and wild life all inside our Mexican Caribbean Jungle.

Information Gleaned From the Now Defunct mtbmexico.com Site

Cuetzalan - el Tajin Cloud Andrain Forest

("Bosque de Niebla y Bosque Lluvioso")

Ride to the magnificent Indian town of Cuetzalan (photos) at Puebla's Sierra Norte. Then cross to El Tajin archeological zone with pyramids.

This ride can be fitted for almost all levels of riders, basic route includes:

Ride from the semidesertic higher lands crossing "La Laguna Salada" (the salty lake) to Cantona archeological zone.

Stay at the hacienda hotel in the higher lands.

Ride 60 km through one of Cortez's journeys in "La Sierra Norte de Puebla"; crossing pine forests, Indian towns, semidesertic canyons, rain forests.

Visit the Cuetzalan's cloud forest private reserve ranch.

In addition, while in Cuetzalan, you can visit pyramids, water falls, caves or go bird watching.

Head to El Tajin reaching Papantla where Vanilla is grown.Next day go to the archeological zone in your own bike!

You can even extend the ride to the golf beaches of Chachalacas, and spend two or three more days there.

This is a uniqueride you will never forget.

This route can be added to our

Jewel Route, Pico de Orizaba to Xalapa, making an incredible epic one week ride. 295 km in seven days!

A Jewel route! Pico de Orizaba to Xalapa (4 days)

Begin riding at high altitude and experience manyclimates. Glaciers, pine forests, subtropical vegetation and coffee plantationsare what you will see in this 4 day adventure. You'll startat the headwaters ofrivers and follow them until they are full size rivers. And, you will be off road 95% of the time!

A 4x4 support vehicle will take us up thethird tallest mountain in North America, El Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltepetl)with a summit of 18,400 fasl. (feet above sea level). We will be dropped offat the alpine hut at 13,700 fasl and from there we pedal down 20 milesdownhill all off road. As we reach subtropical sierra (6,500 fasl) we willpass through small Indian villages and towns.

That night we sleep next toa 100 ft waterfall.

Our second day we will continue our journey to Coatepec, where coffee is grown and will spend the night there. Have a Langostinos Dinner (River Lobster) to celebrate our Epic 70 miles ride.

Tour Photos

Trip Details

Distance: 70 miles

Arrival & Departure: Mexico City International Airport.

Price: $530 per rider (groups of 4 to 7 riders), smaller groups (2 to 3 riders): $710 US$ per rider; Price includes transportation, ground support, guides, all meals (river lobster dinner),accommodations (three nights, double occupancy).

Optional: Last day river rafting; $50 US$

Click here for tour photos

Mexican Independence Route: Tour of the Colonial Cities:

Queretaro, San Miguel de Allende, Dolores Hidalgo to Guanajuato

Enjoy typical and historical Mexican architecture, following some of the routes used in the first stage ofthe Mexican Independence. Our mountain bike tour will begin in Queretaro, anancient but progressive city and continue to San Miguel de Allende. Afterspending some time in San Miguel we will leave in the afternoon to DoloresHidalgo, the city where Mexican Independence was born. The next day we willclimb the Guanajuato Sierra on ancient roads. These roads were used four hundredyears ago by horses pulling carts to move precious minerals from Guanajuato to Mexico City. The entrance to Guanajuato off road and follows the old mines and water reservoirs for the city.

Trip Details

Distance: 70 miles

Arrival & Departure: Mexico City International Airport

Layover Day: Enjoy aday in Guanajuato to explore.

Tour Map, Altimetry and Details:www.xpmexico.com/mtbi/independencia.html

Price:$600 US$ per rider (groups of 4 to 7 riders), smaller groups (2 to 3 riders):$800 US$ per rider; Price includes transportation, ground support, guides, allmeals, accommodations (five nights, double occupancy).

Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta

Classified as the second best ride in the world. Cross the western Mexican Sierra Madre, and celebrate like a spring-breaker in Puerto Vallarta.

We will pass the night in Guadalajara,leave early on our way to the mountains and ride for two full days to PuertoVallarta. We will sleep at the middle of the sierra in a modest but nice andtypical hotel.

Trip Details

Arrival: at Guadalajara International Airport departure: leaving from Puerto Vallarta the forth day, oroptional leaving from Guadalajara the fifth day (our van will ride us back).

Mexico City: Tour to Teotihuacan Pyramids, others

While in Mexico City, visit the Teotihuacan Pyramids in Mountain Bike. This 21 mile (mostly down hill) tour crosses: typical Mexican high platau fields, an old "Hacienda" (ranch) ruin, a 16thcentury convent (Oxtotipac), it finishes at the foot of the Sun Pyramid. We will ride in the mountains, far away from traffic and people. The ride is classified for beginners, i.e. for those that want some exercise, not necessarily for serious bikers.

We provide you: transportation to and from yourhotel, rental of bicycle and safety equipment, professional guide during the ride, box lunch, paid entries to the sites, mechanical support, first aid, insurance for medical expenses (in case of an accident only).
You need: to be in good physical shape, to have tennis shoes, shorts or jogging pants, wind jacket or jogging sweater.

Cost per rider: 120 US$

Rides For Lay Over Day In Mexico City

We recommend, for beginners:

• Tour to Pyramids (see above)
• Zempoala lakes, or
• El Desierto de los Leones Convent and Forest

For more experienced riders:

• Ajusco to Malinalco, this 40 mile ride was classified by the IMBA guys as an "epic ride"
• Circling The Sleeping Woman Volcano (Iztacihuatl), a 40 mile ride, 15 down hill riding up to 12,600 feet above sea level.
• Rio Frio to Pyramids, 43 miles ride, a good ascent in Zoquiapa National park and forest to 12,000 feet, then 18 miles down.
• Rides to never ending spring cities: to Cuernavaca, Oaxtepec
  or Tepoztlan; your choice.
• Ride to Xochicalco Pyramids from Mexico City.

View some photos of the Pyramids HERE!

I spent four days touring the mountains around Mexico with Eric while working for the International Mountain Bicycling Association in the summer of 1999. The ride from El Ajusco to Malinalco was oneof the most epic rides of my life. The trail, which features some of the most beautiful vistas in Mexico, is about 80km; dropping 4,500 ft. from the chilly pine forests above Mexico City, to "The Land of The Eternal Spring" in the valley below.

Judd Landon de Vall
International Advocacy Coordinator-International Mountain Bicycling Association
Nov. 22, 1999, Mexico City

The Pico de Orizaba-Xalapa trip was the best yet. I'd have to say that the combination of stunning scenery, physical challenge and camaraderie over three days will be hard to top. My prior two trips with Bike Shuttle, Ajusco-Lagunas de Zempoala and Rio Frio-Amecamca (with that amazing climb toward Iztaccihuatl), were great. But because they were one-day rides, they lacked that element of really getting disconnected from the day-to-day grind.

The Pico's glacier cap, the riveting decent to the valley below and the leg-screaming climbs to San Francisco and beyond have been etched in my memory, and probably my quadriceps as well. Theaccommodations were simple but more than adequate; the hot showers are definitely a necessity, and I don't think any of the others on the ride will disagree. The meals, particularly the dinners, were excellent. There's nothing better when you're hungry enough to eat a horse burger to get treated to back-to-back plates of fresh trout or enough langostinos to feed Chilchiuapan for a week.

Best regards
Richard Jacobsen
Correspondent, Reuters Mexico