Mountain Biker

Choose Your Own Adventure #172

by Edward Packard

Ute, Colorado, has some of the most awesome mountain biking trails anywhere in the United States, and you are psyched to be spending your summer there. In the mornings, you help your Aunt Sally out at her bed and breakfast inn, but the rest of the day you're free to tear up the mountain trails. But are you in good enough condition to enter the Ute Mountain Bike Racing Series--and make the other racers eat dirt?

Genres: Choose Your Own Adventure, Gamebooks

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Edward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. He was one of the first authors to explore the idea of gamebooks, in which the reader is inserted as the main character and makes choices about the direction the story will go at designated places in the text.

The first such book that Edward Packard wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure series was titled "Sugarcane Island", but it was not actually published as the first entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. In 1979, the first book to be released in the series was "The Cave of Time", a fantasy time-travel story that remained in print for many years. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well.

In 2005, Choose Your Own Adventure books once again began to be published, but none of Edward Packard's titles have yet been included among the newly-released books.

Reviews

[Colton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Exactly what it says on the cover, although there's also a random subplot about a gold mine. Most of your choices take you on a bike trip with friends or cycling cross-country for the big race. A little generic, but not bad.

[Michelle Hall · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story can end different ways depending on how you choose in several places throughout.

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

the adventures that I went through when I was bored I just read these books over and over again you would never get to the end of the story.