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Video: How To Side Hop – Essential Trials Skills For Mountain Biking

The side hop is a progression of the bunnyhop and they’re both essential mountain bike skills. Learning how to side hop won’t necessarily help you to ride faster but it will help you to get out of trouble when you’re out on the trails – especially in ruts.

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Video: How To Know Where To Bunny Hop

A simple bunny hop can be used in all manner of situations to help carry speed and also get you out of trouble. Neil shows you where to use this vital skill.

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Video: How To Pump the Trail for More Speed

When you get the pump right, you’ll know – it’ll just feel faster and smoother. Pumping is all about timing – you want to make yourself ‘heavy’ by pushing weight through the bike and dropping your heels as you come into a dip, before easing up as you come out again. It takes a bit …

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How to Choose a Mountain Bike Trail to Ride

“Ahhhh, the weekend approaches. Where shall I ride tomorrow?” For some people, this is not often a question of note as we have limited options next to the house, so we simply ride wherever is convenient.  But for most, there is a wide variety of choices within a day trip of home, and certainly when …

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Watch: 5 Ways To Improve Your Climbing

Climbing is usually the part of your ride you don’t look forward to, but it doesn’t need to be a struggle. Neil and Marc share some key tips covering your gear selection, power output, fitness and position on the bike to make the uphills more satisfying and help you save energy for the fun part…descending!

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