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Final Thoughts
Home » Mountain Biking » Essential Bike Riding Skills » Final ThoughtsThese two skills, though few in number, will add a great quality to your mountain bike experience. Learning how to wheelie and endo can improve your skills tremendously. The move involves good timing, speed, balance and confidence. Once mastered, this skill can be integrated into other aspects of your rides. As it turns out mountain biking is a sport centered on balance. We learn balance when we are children, yet when we become adults we don’t even give it a second thought. Mountain biking has a way of bringing out those childlike qualities we tend to bottle up when we become adults.
Riding flexed seems like a strange concept. Sometimes it is difficult to explain motion. However, most adults understand what a ‘ready’ person looks like. It is this same idea when mountain biking through technical singletrack. Remember, someone who is ready is hard to knock over. When you make tight turns on the trail and need to balance speed and control you will wish that you took the time to learn this skill.
Mountain biking is a beautiful sport. Not only does it take you to far away places, but it take you to new places as a person on the inside. You are forced to learn skills that enhance your riding experience as well as your life experience. The skills discussed will definitely make you a better mountain biker, they may even make you a better person. So let’s get out there and pop some wheelies.
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