Speed and Technical Mountain Bike Course

Our Speed and Technical mountain bike course is structured to coach you in more advanced mountain bike skills to improve your flow adn speed across obstacles, especially when riding challenging trails.

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Course Prerequisites

We would expect that you can undertake everything on the core skills course before coming on this course, in particular powered/unpowered front wheel lifts and rolling drop offs up to 50cm. If you cannot do these then we would suggest you take the core skills course to get the most from your day as these skills are required to develop your mountain biking prowess. You will also need a good cycling level of fitness to keep up with the group, (we would expect you are riding trails every week).

If you are unsure of your ability we would strongly suggest you take the Core Skills Course first.

What you will learn

The following modules are covered during the course:

- Bike set up and rider positioning
- Hill techniques (hill technique analysis as well as skills improvement techniques)
- Cornering (including berms)
- Pumping the bike
- Drops offs at speed and small jumps
- Manuals
- Bunny hopping
- Optional ride at the end of the day to put your skills into practice

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Course Details


All courses run 10am till approx 4pm

Cost: £70 per person (includes all instruction and Permit to Ride)

Intermediate MTB skills courses run at Woburn Trails, nr Milton Keynes. Please note we do not hire bikes out for this course, we would expect you to have your own mountain bike which you are more familiar with to get the most from the day.
We are running courses on the following days;

4th March 2012 - places available

15th April 2012 - places available

13th May 2012 - places available

10th June 2012 - places available

24th June 2012 - women only course - places available


Booking

Reserve your place and make your booking now!

As the courses are so popular we are now running a reserve list for each course scheduled, please contact us if you wish to be told of any last minute vacancies on any of our Speed and Technical Skills Courses.

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"I felt I learnt a huge amount on the day!! and was amazed about setting up seat position bars brakes...etc and that would help me so much when riding"   Dan (Oct 09)

"We all jump on bikes and ride, without giving much thought to the basics/theory, there is actually a lot to be gained from going back to "school"   Rafe (June 09)

If you have any queries on the course please see our FAQs.