Mastering Mountain Bike Skills Techniques to excel in all riding styles by Brian Lopes and Lee McCormack - Ride faster with more confidence - Handle new types of terrain - Find your flow and have more fun See what readers are saying! The advanced, detailed instruction in Mastering Mountain Bike Skills will improve your riding in every style including cross country, free riding, downhill, dirt jumping, mountain cross, and urban terrain. Lopes' proven skills, technical know-how, and performance insights give you the tools to build and improve your riding repertoire in any terrain. Illustrations and photography of specific maneuvers and adjustments reveal the important, yet often overlooked, subtleties of the techniques presented, while sidebars and personal anecdotes provide insight to Lopes' world-class instruction. Mastering Mountain Bike Skills is the expert guide for riders who want to step up their game in any venue of the sport.
Click for sample pages What you'll find in Mastering Mountain Bike Skills Chapter 1 - Choose Your Weapon Chapter 2 - Become One With Your Bike Chapter 3 - Make Great Power Chapter 4 - Brake Better to Go Faster Chapter 5 - Carve Any Corner Chapter 6 - Wheelie and Hop Over Anything Chapter 7 - Drop Like a Feather Chapter 8 - Jump With the Greatest of Ease Chapter 9 - Flow on Any Trail Chapter 10 - Handle Crazy Conditions Chapter 11 - Race Like a Champ How Good Is Your Kung Fu? Index About the Authors Check out some sample pages. The particulars
About the Authors 
Brian Lopes has been a prevailing force on the professional mountain biking scene for more than a decade and is now recognized as the winningest professional mountain bike racer in the United States. He has earned nine National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA) Championships, four World Cup Championships, and two World Championships.
Since his teens, Lopes has dominated BMX, downhill, dual slalom, dual, and most recently bikercross racing. He is the most successful active racer on the NORBA circuit, regardless of discipline, and has held world records in bunny hopping and distance jumping. Along with exposure on the Outdoor Life Network, Lopes has graced the covers of every major mountain biking magazine, including Bike, Dirt, Bicycling, VeloNews, Mountain Bike Action and Mountain Biking, as well as received coverage in such mainstream media as Men's Health, Rolling Stone, and USA Today. Featured in numerous riding videos, Lopes even has a signature tire‹the Maxxis Brian Lopes Bling Bling Dual. Other career highlights include being nominated as ESPY's "Extreme Athlete of the Year" and serving as a stunt rider for the USA Network show, Pacific Blue. Lopes resides in Trabuco Canyon, CA, with his wife, Paula, and his American bulldog, Annie. brianlopes.com 
Lee McCormack is an experienced journalist, who has written for Bike, Mountain Bike Action, Twentysix, Flow and Mountain Biking. He also publishes leelikesbikes.com, a mountain biking Web site frequented by thousands of readers worldwide.
McCormack has won numerous writing and infographics awards at the state and regional levels and was part of the team that won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for public service. He enjoys all styles of riding from singletrack to road to dirt jumps, and was a competent Vet Expert downhill/slalom racer for several years. After writing this book he stepped up his game big time, finishing the 2004 season as the top-ranked expert downhiller in his age group. He plans to turn semipro for 2005. McCormack lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Tracy, and his three-legged Labrador retriever, Rufus. How to get Mastering Mountain Bike Skills You can find Mastering Mountain Bike Skills at major book sellers, or you can order a copy directly from us. Click one of these buttons for secure Paypal ordering.
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