Pahikara maunga, ko te ingoa Ingarihi ko "pahikara maunga", he whakarāpopototanga ko MTB. I ahu mai i te Hononga o Amerika, he tauira i ahu mai i ngā taiohi o Amerika e rapu ana i te whakahihiri me te taraiwa pahikara ki te mahi i ngā reihi tinihanga i ngā wāhi kore-rori i roto i ngā whakataetae motopaika. Ko te tangata tuatahi ki te eke pahikara maunga kore-rori he tauira i te Whare Wānanga o California, a James Finley Scott, ko ia te tangata tuatahi ki te huri i tētahi pahikara noa hei pahikara maunga. I muri mai, ka rongonui haere ngā hākinakina whakawhiti-whenua i Ūropi me te Hononga o Amerika, ā, ka whakatūria he huihuinga. I te tau 1990 i whakamanahia te hākinakina e te International Cycling Union, ā, i te tau 1991 i tū te Ipu o te Ao tuatahi. Ko ngā pahikara maunga he pahikara i hangaia mō ngā mahi kore-rori (puke, ara, mara me ngā rori kirikiri onepu, me ētahi atu), ā, ko ō rātou āhuatanga matua ko: ngā potae whānui, ngā kakau tika, te mimiti ru o mua me muri, me te eke pai ake. Ko ngā potae whānui, maha-niho e whakarato ana i te pupuri, ā, he mimiti ru hei mimiti i ngā ru. Kua noho te whakamahinga o ngā mimiti ru o mua hei paerewa i ngā tau tata nei, ā, kei te piki haere te rongonui o ngā waka me ngā mimiti ru o mua me muri. I tīmata ētahi pahikara maunga ki te whakamahi i ngā kakau iti, engari kua rongonui ngā kakau whakarunga hei pahikara maunga. He tino pakari, he ngāwari hoki te hikoi. Kāore he take ki te whiriwhiri i tētahi huarahi ina eke. Ahakoa he kopikopiko i te tiriti, he haereere rānei, kua whānuitia te whakamahinga. He pai ngā arotake, ka taea e ngā kaieke pahikara te tino pārekareka ki te eke whakamarie i runga i ngā momo taiao rori. Nā te pakari, te pakari, te āhua hou, ngā tae kanapa, me te pai o te eke, ka noho hei mea rongonui i roto i te tāone ngā pahikara maunga. He rerekē te ahua me te āhua o ngā pahikara maunga e whaia ana e ngā taiohi i ngā pahikara noa i roto i ngā wāhanga rerekē, pērā i ngā potae me te pānga whakangāwari, te ātete pai ki te ru, te anga pakari me te kaha me te pakari o ngā rauemi, ngā kakau kāore e ngāwari ki te ngenge, tae atu ki ngā pari pari. Ko te tuku ka taea hoki te eke maeneene, me ētahi atu, ka pai ake ngā pahikara maunga mō te piki maunga i waho o te rori me ngā haerenga.