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Mastering Mountain Bike Skills - 2nd Edition [Kindle Edition]

Brian Lopes (Author), Lee McCormack (Author)

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Product Description

Mastering Mountain Bike Skills is your guide for riding better, faster and more confidently on all terrain. World champion racer Brian Lopes and renowned coach Lee McCormack provide you with all of the key techniques and skills you’ll need to take your ride to the next level.

This new and improved edition of Mastering Mountain Bike Skills provides detailed, technical instruction for every mountain biking discipline:

· Trail

· Gravity

· Aggro

· Racing

· and more

The high-quality photo sequences and demonstrations combined with race stories from Brian Lopes will give you the tools you need, whether you’re a recreational rider looking to rock the trails with friends or a rider looking to beat the competition. Let Mastering Mountain Bike Skills help you ride with more confidence and have more fun.

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Detailed technical instruction for cross-country, downhill, mountain cross, free riding, dirt jumping, and urban terrain from top pro mountain biker Brian Lopes.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 37920 KB
Print Length: 264 pages
Publisher: Human Kinetics; 2 edition (16 Feb 2005)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B004D2BD1Q
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #55,626 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #14 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Sports > Extreme Sports
- #28 in Books > Sports, Hobbies & Games > Cycling > Mountain & Off-Road Cycling
- #55 in Books > Sports, Hobbies & Games > Cycling > How to Cycle

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful

Something to learn for everyone 24 Oct 2005

By Blueshark

Format:Paperback

I purchased this book recently as I felt my MTB skills were somewhat lacking, particularly with regards to switchbacks, drop-offs and jumps. This book is well laid out, with fantastic photography, detailed instructions that are for once easy to follow in conjunction with the photographs. The book is also written with a huge element of humour, and I found myself laughing aloud at the comments and language. I have already gained some speed and control since reading this book, which in my humble opinion is an excellent addition to any mountain biker's library, whether you call yourself a cross country rider, a downhiller, weekend warrior or stunt king!

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Buy it, you'll learn something. 22 Jan 2008

By Mr. L. J. Counter

Format:Paperback

I've only been riding mountain bikes since this spring and a mate got me this for Christmas. I enjoy doing some off road stuff but most of what the book shows is well beyond what I'm likely to get into so I initially read it without expecting to get much out of it. Boy did I get a surprise. Within a week I'd managed to incorporate much of what is in the early chapters into my riding and I'm finding I've got a lot more confidence and am attacking the trail far more than I did before. As far as the later chapters go (jumping, dropping and such like) maybe one day it'll be something I want to look at but it's definitely fun to read about in the meantime.

As for the language, some of it is a bit Southern Californian but I managed to work my way round it. I'm still laughing about him suggesting that I might want to learn to "pump the backside".

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Good MTB technique biased towards downhill 25 Mar 2009

By Splossy

Format:Paperback

This is a very worthwhile book on MTB technique/skills. I would say it is quite biased towards the downhill/jumping/slalom side of things, which isn't surprising considering Brian Lopes' background.

So you get lots of good information on cornering fast, jumping, drop-offs and general stuff involving unweighting the front wheel (wheelies, bunnyhops and other BMXy stuff). What you don't get is info on riding mud, roots, tricky uphill singletrack with mixed obstacles etc, or long distance trail riding, or fitness training.

The info you get is very good IMO. I certainly started to understand how the writers integrate dynamic loading and unloading with almost all their techniques to jump, corner harder, gain speed, increase traction and more. I'd not thought of it like this before and it's spot on.

The language is a bit "gnarly dude" hip but even an old codger like me understands what they are getting at.

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A must buy for anyone owning a mountain bike

When I was first recommended this book by a friend I dismissed the idea completely offhand, wondering how much I could actually learn from sitting down with a book about a sport... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Dawson

Brian Lopes teaches well

I bought this book with the purpose of perfecting some aquired knowledge and also learning a few tricks. Both objectives were achieved. Read more

Published 8 months ago by camolas

Great book ... but practice makes perfect!

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Published 10 months ago by Ngm1scot

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I can not rate this book highly enough.

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The only mountain bike tutorial book worth getting.

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Excellent Book

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what a good book, within 2 rides of me reading it im more confident and faster xc,some of the terms used i didnt know so i looked them up on google no problem. Read more

Published 19 months ago by brett

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Published 21 months ago by votchy

Great book. A must for any Mountain Biker

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