Mountain Biking Marin
The Ultimate Bike Experience

Bike Skill Clinics

For those intrepid adventurers that want to learn how to mountain bike, learn new techniques, improve their mountain biking skills or to challenge themselves with technical riding progressively and safely, Mountain Biking Marin has the perfect mountain bike skill clinics.

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Our clinics combine skills theory and practice through technical riding appropriately customized for you to speed up your progress. Mountain Biking Marin skill clinics include cross country, freeride and downhill riding instruction. The riding areas for instruction are determined by the technical ability and learning objectives of participants.

• Skill Sets I, II, III
• Pricing
• Schedule
• Equipment
• Transportation & Food

Skill Sets I, II, III

Our bike skill clinics cover the following three Skill Sets:

Skill Set I

• Bike fitting
  
• What to bring
  
• Basic bike maintenance
  
• Mounting and dismounting
  
• Pedaling and body positioning
  
• Braking: front vs. back/1 or 2 fingers?
  
• Gearing/shifting
  
• Basic climbing and descending techniques
  
• Trail etiquette

Skill Set II

• Skill Set I
  
• Fire road and singletrack riding
  
• Cornering techniques on uphill, downhill both fire roads and switchbacks (arms, legs and pedal positions)
  
• Advanced climbing and descending techniques
  
• Basic front and back wheel lifts
  
• Basic launching technique
  
• Basic rolling down technique
• Looking ahead to determine the riding lines
  
• Learning how to fall

Skill Set III

• Skill Sets I & II
  
• Handling tricks: wheelies, bunny hops, front & back wheel lifts
  
• Riding challeging obstacles: rocks, logs, stairs, drops, "skinnies", rock gardens, roots, ruts
  
• Dirt jumping: launching ramps, table tops, single jumps, double jumps