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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!
4 Tips for Finding “The One”
A few reasons you might be looking for “The One”… Your friends are disappearing to seek new singletrack and you’ve been left behind plateauing with your boring old partner. ...
Top 10 Tips to Riding in Sand – Like a Boss
(Photo courtesy of First Tracks Productions) Riding in sand can be challenging and even a little scary, which makes it a frequently discussed topic at our desert teaching ...
5 Pieces of Bad Mountain Biking Advice
Maybe you’ve heard it, maybe you’ve even offered it. Advice given out on the trail can be downright terrible with frustrating and painful results. Here are the five worst ...
Rock (Squirrel?) Dodge Technique
Have you ever been riding down the trail, turned your front wheel to avoid a large rock and then BUMP, your back wheel hits that same darn rock you ...
How to Bunny Hop, Step-by-Step Guide
Want to progress your riding? Master your wheels lifts! All types of wheel lifts – front wheel lifts, rear wheel lifts, level lifts, manuals, pedal wheelies, stoppies and bunny ...
How to Ride Drops with Confidence
You’re smoking down some sweet single track and right as you nail that last high-speed corner you see your friends seemingly float down a steep drop. You choose the ...
5 Things You Can Do To Instantly Ride Better
Mountain biking doesn’t have to be all about going BIGGER and BADDER. Turns out, tuning up the little things is all it takes to launch your riding to the ...
Easy Guide To Floating Down Stairs
It turns out, perfecting stair-riding will help both your Urban Slayer reputation AND your ability to tackle technical singletrack. Mother nature (and trail builders) frequently throw stair-like features our ...
Learn to Track Stand in 8 Steps
Track standing is one of those old faithful mountain bike skills; reliable, practical and just a little showy. The track stand will help you to tackle technical sections of trails, ...
