Mastering Mountain Bike Skills
Mastering Mountain Bike Skills
Increase your speed, control, and versatility on the bike. Mastering Mountain Bike Skills provides detailed technical instruction for all mountain biking disciplines:
Cross-country
Downhill
Mountain cross
Free riding
Dirt jumping
Urban terrain
With top pro mountain biker Brian Lopes as your teacher, youll learn how to handle the bike better than ever, in any conditions, across all types of terrain. Key tips and special photo sequences throughout the book add insight to Lopes world-class instruction.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Will even improve experienced riders
Don’t be fooled by the 90s cover, this is an up-to-date manual for doing…manuals. It is informative, descriptive, and unlike many books in this genre, entertaining to read. The book was written by a rider that, with the help of Brian Lopes, transformed himself from an amateur to a semi-pro downhiller. I’ve been riding for 15 years, and I thought the only way I could get better or faster was either by taking bigger chances or upgrading to a burlier bike.
On my first ride after reading a portion of this book, I noticed an immediate improvement in control and speed. I was getting better front-end bite, and started working less on my skillset, and more on my mindset.
Highly, highly recommended for those that learn as well by reading as by doing or seeing.
5 Stars great info
I found all the information very constructive and useful and the instructions were easy to follow.
5 Stars great technical skill improvement
This book is great for improving skills in every point of mountain biking. Nothing goes uncovered! Its a great book for improving skills for all riders, no matter what your skill level is.
5 Stars Increasing your riding skils.
After a lot of years riding bikes we became to believe we know almost anything about but, it’s far to be true.
Usefull book for beginer to advanced bike user, a lot of hints and knowledges about how to do right and wrong things riding bike like a professional.
To me, the best paragraph was “do not use your brakes, let your bike cosat free”…top words. It’s hard to do but your bike riding style increase astonishing by doing that.
5 Stars Good wide coverage of bike skills
I’m a rider of intermediate skill and wanted to better understand some of the more intricate dynamics of mountain bike riding to further improve my riding techniques - this book does it in spade loads.
The book is well laid out and gives good step by step instructions as well as the reasoning behind why things are done.
Tips I found particularly useful are the various weightings applied to wheels, pedals and handlebars to load tyres for better grip, etc in certain situations such as cornering climbing. A lot of these things you can pick up with experience but if you know why in the first place some of these things become self evident before you pick up bad habits.
The language is a bit weird in places as some of the other reviewers have noted but this should not deter buyers looking for a good quality manual as the content is there and is really good. If you were a straight beginner some of the terms may be a bit alien but I think the book is more aimed at people like myself who have done a bit of riding and have a basic understanding of the terminology being used.
Go buy and enjoy…
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