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