mountain biking classes?

[ivorygorgon]

DH and I recently took the REI beginner MTB class. It was good and very fun, but it was also very beginner. We really didn't do too much. Basically rode the bikes around a lake. I enjoyed it, but if you have any experience you probably could go with the intermediate.

[PscyclePath]

What the LCI handbook says the "need-to-know" skills are if we should put together a class on mountains bikes are:

• Handling skillls
• Braking, and shifting gears
• Trail etiquette, specifically the IMBA rules of the trail
• Climbing
• Descending
• Suspension systems
• Lights at night
• Mtn bike lingo/terminology

IMBA does this annual event called "Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day," and our advocacy group is planning to host a couple of these events this summer and fall. We have a very nice little "gateway" singletrack trail at the foot of the Big Dam Bridge in North Little Rock, which will be a good place to hold it, and it's only maybe 10-15 minutes' pedaling away from the nicer stacked loop system over in Burns Park. State Parks & Tourism is also hosting an "Arkansas Trails Day" at one of the Forest Service recreation areas next weekend, so that's probably going to be my trial run at it. We'll see how it goes...

Tom

[Irulan]

What is "LCI"

just curious

[PscyclePath]

What is "LCI"

just curious

"League Cycling Instructor..." from the League of American Bicyclists. The curriculum focuses heavily on road and traffic cycling, but mountain bikers ride bikes, too ;-)

And in my experience over the past couple of years, mountain bikers do much, much better in the bike handling drills.

Tom