This is the fourth part in the skill series brought to you by www.prorideguides.com. In this section we’ll be delivering the tips and tricks to help you drop off and hop over those difficult trail features. Taking on board these points will make you more controlled and consistent throughout all of your riding adventures. With [...]
Through blistering winds, freezing temperatures, rain, snow, sleet, and fog we fight for grip on the slickest of surfaces – mud, ice, and green rocks testing the traction between our tyres and earth. We’ve ridden through it all this winter, enduring the coldest and wettest conditions throughout, and still we keep coming back for more. [...]
We’ve all had an injury in biking some time in the past. Whether it’s a nasty pedal strike to the shin, or the unfortunate and unforgiving broken bone – I doubt there are many of us out there without a story to tell and a scar to back it up. I try not to think [...]
Every now and then I reach a wall in my riding- normally when the weather is repeatedly bad. So most of this year then… And what happens in those times, is I start making myself all sorts of challenges- they’re never to make me a better rider, it’s more the ‘I wonder if I can…’ [...]
A lot of people tell me I’m addicted to mountain bikes. I used to laugh it off, thinking they were talking out their back sides, or that they maybe didn’t have a hobby themselves, so just didn’t understand what passion was… But actually, the more I think about it I think they’re right. I’m completely [...]
Given that humans are bi-pedal- upright walkers on two feet- it’s amazing just how many of us ride bikes as a main form of transport. Even over walking. The mountain bike is one of- if not the most efficient modes of powered transport around. Unsurprisingly the contact patches we have on the bike provide us [...]
