Mountain Bike Skills tips Articles

6 Years ago, I wrote an article with the title, “I was wrong! 29ers just aren’t as much fun!” (click here to read the article) and I caught A LOT of flack for it. Which is funny because at the time it was true. After 6-7 months of testing a bike I thought was going to...

I believe Myles Davis said something to the effect of, "the beauty in music is the space between the notes". I have realized it is the same in Mountain Biking.I stopped enjoying Whistler Bike years ago but I keep coming back. Hoping, I guess, that the...

MTB, Bermed Corners vs. Flat Corners: Another question I get all the time is some version of, “how is my technique different in a bermed (banked) corner than in a flat corner?”

As I explain in my camps a bermed corner (banked) is still a corner. That means everything depends on traction, speed and your goal. If I feel I’m going slower than the max speed that berm will allow and I want to gain speed, I’m going to keep my feet level and pump that berm to gain speed.

Depending on the steepness and traction I might even …

Life takes work, lots of work! I used to train so I could race well, then I stopped racing and stopped training, mostly due to nagging back problems.When your body hurts, it hurts to train and a downward spiral happens. You stop training which feels better but you get...