Mountain Bike Skills tips Articles

2019 is a great year to be a mountain biker! The industry is finally making bikes that are safer and more fun to ride than older bikes. Usually, year to year bikes don't change that much, but in 2019 the industry as a whole is catching on to some design ideas that...

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 …