Recently my partner and I bought entry level MTB bikes. Neither of us are daredevils and don't expect to do any racing, but we love being in the woods going to the state parks, so I got a Trek 820 WSD and she got the Trek Skye.
Took them out together for the first time this weekend and I discovered my lack of coordination in every day life translates right over into riding. I'm wondering if anyone else is uncoordinated, but managed to learn to do well on a MTB?
The other issue we had was when we went from the middle cog (what are those wheel things called?) which was number 2 to 1 to go up a hill the chain just fell right off. No big deal on putting it back on, but it's kind of a bummer when you've built some steam to go up a hill to be stopped by a missing chain. Not sure if this is a feature of a cheaper bike or operator error. I was on 2 and 6 and then flipped it over to 1 and the chain came off, not sure what my partner did. In case it matters our bikes have 3 gears on the left and 7 on the right.

