Product Description
Mastering Mountain Bike Skills is the expert guide for riders who want to step up their game in any venue of the sport.
The advanced, detailed instruction in Mastering Mountain Bike Skills will improve your riding in every style including cross country, free riding, downhill, dirt jumping, mountain cross, and urban terrain.
With top pro Mountain Bike r Brian Lopes as your teacher, you’ll learn how to handle the bike better than ever, in any conditions, across all types of terrain. Key tips and special photo sequences throughout the book add insight to Lopes’ world-class instruction, proven skills, and technical know-how.
Review
Mastering Mountain Bike Skills describes itself as for anyone who wants to ride better, faster, or more confidently. It helps you master the skills to all types of terrain in almost any type of situation: cross country, freeriding, downhill, dirt jumping, bikercross, urban terrain, and even skate parks.
The book is well-organized and the topics flow well. Chapters cover bike selection and setup, balance, position, pedalling, pumping terrain for speed, braking, cornering, wheelies and hops, drops, jumping, speed lines, and racing.
With over 100 colour photos and diagrams of specific maneuvers and adjustments, the authors illustrate the important, yet often overlooked, subtleties of the techniques presented.
The book attempts to detail principles for beginners and experts alike, and overall does a great job.
A glossary would help. Authors and editors often forget that not everyone knows the meaning of the jargon words-such as rail and carve. Even if explained at first usage, a glossary of mountain biking terms would improve the book.
I read this book straight through, but it's one you'll want to keep out and refer to often as you ride, develop, and practice skills. There are great tips and tricks for people at all levels of skill and experience.
Verdict
This is one of the best books ever published on acquiring mountain biking skills, and contains great information about mountain biking skills, from one of the most skilled riders who has every lived. If you are a Mountain Bike r, get this book-even if only to look at the pictures.
Rating
Rating: 4/5
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