Mastering Mountain Bike Skills - 2nd Edition

by Brian Lopes, Lee McCormack

Overview

Mastering Mountain Bike Skills is your guide for riding better, faster and more confidently on all terrain. World champion racer Brian Lopes and renowned coach Lee McCormack provide you with all of the key techniques and skills you’ll need to take your ride to the next level.

This new and improved edition of Mastering Mountain Bike Skills provides detailed, technical instruction for every mountain biking discipline:

·      Trail

·      Gravity

·      Aggro

·      Racing

·      and more

The high-quality photo sequences and demonstrations combined with race stories from Brian Lopes will give you the tools you need, whether you’re a recreational rider looking to rock the trails with friends or a rider looking to beat the competition. Let Mastering Mountain Bike Skills help you ride with more confidence and have more fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780736083713
Publisher:	Human Kinetics Publishers
Publication date:	05/04/2010
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	11.04(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

With over 15 years as a professional mountain biker, the name Brian Lopes is synonymous with American Mountain Bike racing. Since his professional debut back in 1993, Brian has been a constant presence on race podiums worldwide. With over 25 World Cup wins, four World Championship titles, and nine National Champion titles in both DH and Dual Slalom, Brian holds the most World Cup “wins” out of any male racer to date, and is recognized as the winningest American pro mountain biker.

In 2008 his winning-ways were recognized, as Brian was inducted into both the Mountain Bike and BMX Hall of Fame.

Having raced BMX for most of his childhood, Brian learned how to ride a bike at the tender age of 4, turning Pro at the age of 17 and competing in the BMX circuit for 7 years before channeling all his efforts to mountain biking. He has appeared on EuroSport, Universal Sports, CBS Sports, Outdoor Life Network and has graced the covers of every major national and international mountain biking magazine, including Mountain Bike Action, MBUK, Dirt, Bicycling, VeloNews, and Mountain Biking, and has received coverage in such mainstream media as Men’s Health, Rolling Stone, and USA Today.

Brian currently has various signature mountain bike products: TLD knee guards, Bell helmet, Kenda tires, WTB bike seat and a signature Sportsmobile design. Other career highlights include being nominated as ESPYs Extreme Athlete of the Year and starring as himself in Playstation’s video game Downhill Domination.

Lopes resides in Laguna Beach, California, with his wife, Paula.

Lee McCormack is the world’s leading technique instructor and uses his own sequential teaching curriculum to coach riders of all types and levels—from homemakers to pro downhillers—to ride better, safer, and faster. He is a journalist who has written for Bike, Mountain Bike Action, Twentysix, Flow, and Mountain Biking. He also publishes www.leelikesbikes.com, a mountain biking Web site visited by thousands of readers worldwide.

McCormack has won numerous writing and informational graphics awards at the state and regional levels and was part of the team that won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Lee has been a bike nut for over 20 years and enjoys all riding disciplines from single-track to road to dirt jumps and pump tracks. McCormack lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Arlette, and four children: Kate, Ian, and twins Finley and Fiona.

Table of Contents

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: Pump Terrain for Free Speed

Chapter 8: Drop Like a Feather

Chapter 9: Jump With the Greatest of Ease

Chapter 10: Flow on Any Trail

Chapter 11: Handle Crazy Conditions

Chapter 12: Avoid Injuries

Chapter 13: Race Like a Champ

 

What People are Saying About This

Geoff Kabush

Geoff Kabush, 2004 National Off Road Bicycling Association cross country and short-track cross country champion
The straight goods on how to ride your bike to its max. Brian Lopes, one of the great competitors of all time, teams with Lee McCormack to create an encyclopedia of cycling info that would be an incredible resource for someone looking to take their riding to the next level.

Hans Rey

Hans Rey, 1999 Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee
Brian Lopes skills are on the highest level in all the different disciplines and niches of the mountain biking world, whether it's 4 X, downhill, or cross country. Everybody can learn something from him to improve skills and techniques-even I have!

From the Publisher

"Undisputedly the best all-around world class cycling athlete."

USA Today

"I love to mountain bike after a long season of races like the Tour de France and the Tour of California. Mastering Mountain Bike Skills has helped me to ride more safely and have more fun on the dirt, which improved my skills on and off road."

Levi Leipheimer -- 3x Tour of California Champion, Tour de France Stage Winner

"Brian has amazing fitness and superb skills. I always step it up a notch when I ride with him, and I know that anyone who reads Mastering Mountain Bike Skills will see improvement too!"

Willow Koerber -- Cross Country Bronze Medalist, UCI World Championships 2009

"Mastering Mountain Bike Skills by Brian Lopes is an essential read for any mountain biker. The expertise, advice, and insight he shares in this book are guaranteed to take your riding to the next level.”

Steve Peat -- 2009 DH World Champion

Steve Peat

Steve Peat, 2004 World Cup champion
I have been racing against and riding with Brian Lopes for many years, and I can't think of anyone better to learn mountain bike skills from. He is the most competitive and well-calculated racer in the pack. You will definitely get faster doing what he says.