MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice Articles

How to Hit Big Jumps and Drops On Your Mountain Bike, At Any Age!

A common email or phone call I get starts off like this, “Hey Gene, I’m a really skilled mountain biker, I don’t need your whole curriculum, I just need to learn how to do bigger drops and hit jumps better.” Since this is a common question I will give you a detailed...

Mountain Bike Pre-Ride Routine to Help You Ride Your Best

Most of my crashes and injuries have occurred within five minutes of throwing a leg over my bike, usually, because I wasn’t mentally “on my bike”. I was still worried/thinking about something that happened before my ride - Did I leave the stove on? Who won last...

MTB Strategies to get you Riding Smoother, Safer, and Faster

MTB Strategies to Deal with Limited Processing Speed and/or Limited Band Width. Regardless of your skill level, 2 of the biggest limiters you have as a rider are PROCESSING SPEED and BANDWIDTH. A lot is going on that you need to pay attention to - trail surface,...

MTB Strategies to Deal with Things That Limit You On Trail

Have you ever thought about what limits you on a mountain bike? I’m not talking about skills that you are or aren’t good at, what are the things that LIMIT you? A big limiter is TRACTION or lack thereof. With more traction, we could brake faster in less distance,...