Private Coaching

BetterRide Mountain Bike School, Mountain Bike Coaching and MTB Lessons

Have more fun and take your skills to a new level! Learn from the most experienced skills coach in the US.

Gene Hamilton is a licensed USA Cycling Expert Coach and has over 19 years of coaching experience including 12 years coaching mountain biking.  His coaching highlights include coaching many top pro racers (Ross Schnell, Mitch Ropelato, Lynda Wallenfels, Chris Van Dine, ..) and 100’s of riders who just want to get better. He is passionate about coaching and riding and a pretty good racer too, in 13 seasons as a pro racer he has won a Silver (2002) and two Bronze Medals (2006, 1999) at the UCI World Masters Championships. All mountain bike clinics, camps and private lessons are guaranteed to improve your riding or your money back.

“I wanted to thank you for raising the bar for my off-road skills this season. I can honestly say that you do a better job of explaining things than both of the skills clinics I have been at with Ned Overend or read in his book. For instance, he describes or shows you what you should look like and where the weighting should be on the pedals coming into a turn BUT you describe what it should feel like and where to look, how to turn the bike and you find yourself making the turn at the right pitch, balanced and weighted properly- he desribes the desired result, you describe the key factors to get that result. Honestly, by using about 6 key things that you taught me to feel and be aware of my skills shot up so much and so did my confidence.”

X-terra racer Peter Doyle, a few months after just one lesson.

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Mountain Bike Lessons with Gene Hamilton of BetterRide Mountain Bike School. Private lessons are at a new recession pricing of only $175.00/ hour with a three hour minimum. If you would like to add friends/family to your lesson each additional person (limited to two additional riders per private lesson) costs $30.00 per hour.

Mountain Bike Lessons with BetterRide Mountain Bike School Head Coach Andy Winohradski are only $125/hour with a three hour minimum. If you would like to add friends/family to your lesson each additional person (limited to two additional riders per private lesson) costs $30.00 per hour.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

The skills covered in each lesson will be based on your strengths and weaknesses, your goals and the length of the lesson. Listed below are some of the more important skills that we teach. For private lessons we can work on the skills you choose or have your coach decide what skills to work on based on his evaluation of your riding.

RIDING (and racing) SKILLS

  • The Core Skills of Mountain Biking
  • Visual skills, what to focus on as you ride the course
  • Body positioning, balance and how to handle different terrain, how to to ride in control and in balance
  • Cornering, how to corner like a pro
  • Braking skills, how to brake effectively and brake to go faster
  • Obstacles, how to wheelie while coasting, how to wheelie while pedaling (both techniques using skill and finesse not upper body strength)
  • Switchbacks up and down
  • Bike setup
  • Climbing skills

RACING SKILLS

  • Course inspection, its purpose and how to gain the most from it
  • Timing and creating a race plan
  • Physical training
  • Optimum arousal level, really amped up, calm and relaxed or some where in between, where do you perform the best? We will find out.
  • Visualization techniques to improve your racing before and after each run

Contact Gene Hamilton at betterride@gmail.com or call 970 261-1869 for more information.

How to Register for a lesson

Please email or call for more information. To sign up for the lessons click on the buy now button next to lesson you would like (paypal will charge you a $16-24 fee) or pay by check by sending a check to BetterRide, 7529 S. Turkey Creek Rd, Morrison, CO 80465 and email your intention to betterride@gmail.com or call Gene at (970) 261-1869.

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3 hour lesson one rider, with Andy Winohradski with Gene Hamilton
3 hour lesson two riders, with Andy Winohradski with Gene Hamilton
3 hour lesson three riders, with Andy Winohradski with Gene Hamilton
4 hour lesson one rider, with Andy Winohradski with Gene Hamilton
4 hour lesson two riders, with Andy Winohradski with Gene Hamilton
4 hour lesson three riders, with Andy Winohradski with Gene Hamilton