The Mountain Bike Skills Manual: Fitness and Skills for Every Rider
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Overview
More riders than ever are heading to the country on their mountain bikes. It's a sport that has exploded over the last twenty years, as people of all ages and walks of life are drawn to the thrill of the ride.
Written by rider, racer and trainer Clive Forth, The Mountain Bike Skills Manual is the best resource for anyone who wants to know more about the sport and develop their abilities.
It covers all the major disciplines including dirt biking, trail riding, cross country, 4X, enduro and slalom and is suitable for pleasure-seekers as well as the more competitive rider.
Illustrated with excellent step-by-step biking trick shots and covering everything from equipment and core skills to competitions and recreational riding, it's a book no rider will want to be without.
The Mountain Bike Skills Manual covers everything a rider needs to know, including the history of the sport, the bikes, where and how to ride, how to succeed in competition and how to get the best out of your bike.
Well-connected author and photographer will both help promote the book
With gorgeous full-colour design and step-by-step 'how to' photography this book will sit well with the other successful cycling books on the list
Clive Forth was one of the first riders to identify a gap in the market and develop a training programme for mountain-bike riders; he's widely involved with the development of the sport
Cycling keeps growing in popularity, and the International Mountain Biking Association (UK) estimate that 55% of all bike sales in the UK are mountain bikes
Check out the flip-book trick shots in the bottom right-hand corner!
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1 A brief history
2 The bikes
3 Recreational riding
4 Competition
5 Equipment
6 Skills and technique
Appendix
Glossary
Index
you'll probably not find a more comprehensive guide out there to the basics of MTBing.
Clive Forth is a top mountain bike skills coach. His best tips are in this 200-page book for budding bikers. Loads of clear advice and how-to-style colour pics get you slicing singletrack in no time.
This is a great book if you're new to MTB, or if you've been a few times but want to top up your knowledge before you get back in the saddle.
- Title: The Mountain Bike Skills Manual: Fitness and Skills for Every Rider
- Author: Clive Forth
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 1
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408196069, 9781408127322, 1408127326, 1408196069
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408196069
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:03:20Z
Clive Forth is a leading mountain bike racer and trainer. He competed in the first UK mountain bike series, took part in the World Championships and is currently part of the Extreme Endurance team. He now writes regularly for the UK's best-known mountain bike magazines - MBUK and MBR - and also for Descent World, an online magazine.