Mastering Mountain Bike Skills

i teach mountain biking skills clinics and i have found that this book is an excellent tool in teaching all levels of mountain bikers - beginner to pro. it is a very well written, fun to read, and highly detailed book that will help you overcome your current obstacles and help you to ride the drops you never dreamed you could.

As a rider starting from the bottom, this book makes it that much easier. Has all the answers you've been searching for in one location. The pictures in the book are useful in visualising the words and concepts, without detracting from the actual information.

Very well organised book, and easy to find the information you want. Which comes in handy when you want to refresh your memory on certain aspects.

Now its just a matter of hitting the trails and practicing.

By far the best book I have seen about technique in MTB. Actually, you can forget about the rest of the manuals out there that describe without much idea how to "do it". Read about it and... do it!

This is a good book, but it is a bit week on specifics of various techniques. It does have an element of unconscious competence coming through which is frustrating for intermediate riders like myself who need to be taught step-by-step.

It has great pictures but again some of the illustrations (e.g. big drops etc) don't really apply to anybody less than advanced riders, which makes it difficult for us intermediate riders to learn from.

Mountain bike is a new sport so accumulation of knowladge in this field is not so much. With this book learning very valuable techniques from a champion is easy and possible.