Hey Letitia - welcome to fray.

Hope you join in on our other discussions here, there are some pretty active mountain bikers (I, alas, prefer pavement to dirt)

You might also want to take a look at the forums on bikejournal.com once they're back up*, we had a pretty lively discussion about the plus 3 network there a couple of months ago.

(*At the moment the bikejournal.com site is down, it was apparently hacked a few days ago, but it should be back up soon)