DiscTruckerMF I would suggest heading over to the mtbr forums. There's some good info here, but there's some really good technical info on a dedicated clyde subforum there. I trawled through there when I was entertaining the idea of getting into mtb riding about 6mths ago. Some really good info there that is backed up by experience and fact. I enjoyed the journey until I added up the cost of a good bike and found it was going to be a bit too expensive for me to get into. I race road and track and mtb was a bit too much to take out of the wallet.