Read the all-time best selling MTB how-to book …

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

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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.

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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

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The particulars

• Now shipping!
• Paperback
• Approx 216 pages
• 8.5 x 11 inches
• Approx 40 illus/113 photos (we don’t just tell you; we show you)
• ISBN 0-7360-5624-6
• $21.95 U.S.

Now available in Spanish, Russian and Polish!

Spanish - www.edicionestutor.com - email daviddomingo@edicionestutor.com

Russian - http://www.motobook.ru

Polish - http://www.bukrower.pl

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.

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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, Arlette, two kids and three dogs.

How to get Mastering Mountain Bike Skills

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