Riding Tips

Browse our riding tips articles below to further your journey to becoming a great rider! We’ve broken these must-have mountain bike skills down into step-by-step instructions and progressions. Enjoy!

How to Corner Like a Pro, 7 Steps

Learning how to corner correctly will make riding a heck of a lot more fun while doing wonders to increase your speed and efficiency. To help you get ...

3 Keys To Using Your Front Brake Properly

I’m sure we’re all familiar with the feeling that we are about to take a trip over the handlebars. Most of us have probably even bought the ticket and ...

Introducing the Manual Machine

The manual is a useful skill for lofting your front wheel over an obstacle. Yes, lofting as opposed to lifting. Once you know how to manual you’ll start to ...

The Most Important Position

At the heart of every tremendous mountain biking trick you’ve ever seen on the trail, in that sick edit, or read about in a magazine is one common theme: ...

Crash Recovery, 5 Important Steps

We’ve all been there: you’re riding along some wicked-fast trail and the next thing you know, you’re on the ground wondering what just happened. If you’re lucky enough to ...

Going Up? Four Kinds of Climbing

There are lots of ways to skin a cat, and four ways to get up a climb. Here they are: use often, and in any combination you need. 1. ...

Home On The Front Range

A Learning Experience In Colorado By: Aaron Lucy | Lead Skills Instructor Recently, after a decade and a half of sun baked fire road climbs in Southern California, I decided it ...

How to Ride a Log Rollover

This skill is used rolling over a pile of logs. The face of the log pile can either be a small ramp made of logs or dirt. This ...

Why Getting Low Will Make You Faster

By: Aaron Lucy | Lead Skills Instructor One of my favorite components of a good Ready Position is riding with a low, flat torso. We humans (most of us anyway) have ...