After 4 days of road biking Mallorca nearly turned me into a fully blown roadie, until I hired a mountain bike. Multiply the road riding by ten and you get an idea of how good the mountain biking is there. The trails are all completely natural hiking paths through the mountains and olive terraces with fantastic views across the valley and out to sea. There is no specific routing or signposts and very few bikers but there is a leaflet available with information on where to ride. I hired a rock eating full-sus and headed for the black routes in the Soller Valley.
Incredibly rocky paths switchback through the olive groves eventually leading down to the sea and beautiful cove at Deia. The rock gardens are serious ones that would be at home on a downhill course, often steep and lasting several hundred meters, they are littered with huge unavoidable boulders and half meter high drop offs. The old men standing around picking olives and gossiping barely batted an eyelid as I went clattering past in a cloud of dust.
It was absolutely amazing riding but I was certainly glad of the full-suspension bike, you can ride so much more aggressively. Throwing the bike into the corners, launching off the drops and straight lining over the rock gardens. Awesome.
Roadies you are missing out!