WOMBATS... I'd forgotten all about them. I chickened out of going to one of Jacquie's skills clinics a few years ago, even after getting an encouraging email from JP herself . Checking out their web site (http://www.wombats.org) I see she's offering one or two clinics a month in the Bay Area and Colorado. The clinics teach skills like track standing and wheelies, and are for either mtn bikes or hybrids. Maybe I'll steel my nerve and finally try a clinic, since after nearly 10 years of riding I still can't lift my front wheel...

And is it my imagination, but a few years ago I remember a picture of a group of wombats gathered drinking tea, with mtn bikes at their sides, naked and covered in mud???