Introduction to MTB – Absolute Beginners!
£50.00
Where: Glentress Forest, Peebles When: 9:30am – 12:30pm
**WARNING** Mountain Biking is highly addictive – You’ll get fitter and happier. You’ll make new friends and will probably find your inner-adventurer. There’s no limits to what you can achieve on a bike! You have been warned!!
Our half day Introduction to MTB – Absolute Beginners course is designed for women riders new to mountain biking. The coaching sessions are appropriate for riders at a beginner level and are designed to build confidence in a social and relaxed setting.
The three hour course focusses on developing core biking techniques in the skills area and on sections of the Green and Blue trails around the Buzzards Nest area.
Maximum of 6 places per course.
This coaching session focusses on generic bike handling and core cycling techniques that are all relevant to mountain biking and introduces the beginner biker to riding off-road on forest roads and trails. The emphasis is on developing good balance on the bike and safe braking to develop confidence and to ensure the fundamentals of MTB are in place
- The ready position (AKA “the attack position”)
- Braking
- Pedalling
- Gear selection
- Cornering
- Climbing & descending
- Developing balance for slow riding/stationary balance
In addition, we will learn how to carry out a safe cycle check, also known as the M-check, how to correctly fit your helmet and how to set up your bike to ride.
Is this course for me? You have limited or no experience riding bikes on off-road terrain and have not done much or any cycling on the road either. But worry not! This is a great place to start – getting the fundamentals in place before the bad habits start to form!
Every time you book a course or activity with Swift Trails we will donate £1 to either the Tweed Valley Trail Association or the Tweed Valley Bike Patrol.
We enjoy and benefit from a wonderful community of bikers here in the Tweed Valley who volunteer their free time to make sure the trails are maintained and safe to ride. They depend on voluntary contributions to continue their valuable work.
Tweed Valley Bike Patrol
The Tweed Valley Bike Patrol provides visitors to Glentress and Innerleithen Forests with the advantages of local knowledge, bike repair skills and emergency assistance from a team of skilled riders.
Tweed Valley Trail Association
The TVTA is a community group dedicated to the stewardship and development of the Tweed Valley mountain bike trail network.
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M Stewart –
Had a great day – good course for learning basic mountain biking skills. Great getting to learn techniques and also getting feedback as you go! Feeling more confident and will defo be back in Peebles for some ride outs! Highly recommend!
Susie Ferguson –
I would highly recommend the Introduction to Mountain Biking course. Lucy is a great teacher and gives clear and encouraging instruction, all in a comfortable and non intimidating environment.
Fi Burgess (verified owner) –
Highly recommend the Introduction to Mountain Biking course – it was great fun and pitched exactly right for me. Lucy covers all the basics in a friendly and knowledgeable way. I feel that I would now have some idea to tackle some runs by myself!
Eva P (verified owner) –
Great day out! Learned a lot. Covered all the basics, everything that was missing. I now have a much better understanding of what should I do and why. Lots of exercises to practice. Recommended to everyone who wants practice without pressure.
Dorothy (verified owner) –
The course really gave a great insight into the technique and theory of MTB, on the level I could actually understand and apply. It was a real confidence booster too. Thank you Lucy!