Skills Courses

LEVEL 1 CORE MOUNTAIN BIKE SKILLS – £75PP

This 1 day course is designed for riders who have limited off road experience. We go through all the basics from pre ride checks and bike set up, through to correct gear selection, tackling rough and rocky terrain as well as learning wheel lifts, track stands and much more.

• Pre-ride bike checks
• Bike set up
• Route Choice
• Spares & equipment to carry

• Correct gear selection
• Body position
• Ascending/descending
• Technical ascending/descending
• Tackling mud, gravel, small rocks
• Cornering
• Track stands
• Front wheel lifts

• Puncture repair

LEVEL 2 INTERMEDIATE SKILLS COURSE – £75PP

This course is aimed at those with previous off road cycling experience. You are ideally competent with the Level 1 skills or have attended one of our courses.

Skills such as steep and technical ascending and descending, bunny hops, step ups, cornering, drop off’s and more will be taught by your qualified and experience instructor.

• Bike set up (including front and rear suspension)
• Basic route planning
• Spare & emergency equipment to carry

• Steep ascents/descents
• Single track techniques
• Cornering
• Front & rear wheel lifts
• Drop offs (up to 30/40 cm)
• Bunny hops
• Step ups
• Attack/neutral body positioning

• Common trail side repairs

Keen to book? Please get in touch to request some dates. 

“Mountain Biking Skills Course 16/01/2017 at Dunster : absolutely brilliant. Perfect for someone like me whom new to Mountain Biking. 5hrs well balanced between actual riding and practising, as well as demonstrations and discussion. Dan (Instructor) very engaging, considerate, and put the small group of 5 at ease very quickly. Good fun, got wet and muddy, now know of some great trails around Dunster, met some nice people, excellent. Strongly recommend this course to anyone thinking about starting mountain biking”. Kevin 2017.