Mountain Bike Skills

Brian Lopes, Lee McCormack

Human Kinetics, Mar 13, 2005 - Sports & Recreation - 196 pages

Increase your speed, control, and versatility on the bike. Mastering Mountain Bike Skillsprovides detailed technical instruction for all mountain biking disciplines:

Cross-country
Downhill
Mountain cross
Free riding
Dirt jumping
Urban terrain

With top pro mountain biker Brian Lopes as your teacher, you'll learn how to handle the bike better than ever, in any conditions, across all types of terrain. Key tips and special photo sequences throughout the book add insight to Lopes' world-class instruction.

What people are saying

Review: Mastering Mountain Bike Skills

User Review  - Richard Allen - Goodreads

Very good book. Well written in a nice conversational style, full of useful technical tips, pictures and diagrams. Easy to understand and practice the tips out on the trails

Review: Mastering Mountain Bike Skills

User Review  - David - Goodreads

Some good tips, but nothing earth shattering. The writing style is juvenile, but forgivable, considering the young audience that would typically read this book.

About the author

Brian Lopeshas 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, five World Cup Championships, and four World Championships.

Lopes started riding at age 4 and graduated to pro status at 17. Since then, he 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. Lopes has appeared on the Outdoor Life Network, has graced the covers of every major mountain biking magazine, including Bike, Dirt, Bicycling, VeloNews, and Mountain Biking, and has 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. He also stars in the mountain bike video game Downhill Dominationfor PlayStation. Other career highlights include being nominated as ESPYs Extreme Athlete of the Year and serving as a stunt rider for the USA Network show Pacific Blue.

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

Lee McCormackis an experienced 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 frequented 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. He enjoys all riding disciplines from singletrack to road to dirt jumps. McCormack has been an expert-level downhill and slalom racer for several years, and his riding has dramatically improved since working with Lopes on this book. In 2004 McCormack won several major events and finished the year ranked No. 1 among expert downhillers within his age class. He is now positioned to turn semipro in 2005.

McCormack lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Tracy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mountain Bike Skills
• Authors: Brian Lopes, Lee McCormack
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Human Kinetics, 2005
• ISBN: 0736056246, 9780736056243
• Length: 196 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Cycling