BOOK: MASTERING MOUNTAIN BIKE SKILLS 2ND EDITION
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The all-time best selling MTB how-to book is back, bigger and better!
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:
- Cross country
- All mountain
- Downhill
- Racing
- Pump tracks
- Dirt jumping
- and more
The first edition has sold almost 60,000 copies in seven languages worldwide. The second edition is updated to reflect evolution in mountain bike equipment and riding styles, as well as Brian and Lee’s increased experience.
About the book
Published by: Human Kinetics
ISBN-13: 9780736083713
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Pages: More than 250. 60 more than the first edition
Photos/illustrations: hundreds
Available: Now! The book came out in May 2010, and it’s already helping people rip worldwide.
Customize: During checkout tell me whom to sign the book to.
Price: $23.95 + $5 shipping in the United States, $15 shipping outside the United States
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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 Completely new!
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 Completely new!
Chapter 13: Race Like a Champ
Glossary Completely new!
What’s new in this edition?
Great question. Lots of stuff:
Brian has a new emphasis in his riding. Less gated racing, more trail and endurance. That shows up.
Since the first edition came out, Lee has created a sequential teaching curriculum, and he’s been refining it for more than five years teaching riders of all styles and levels. That teaching mindset now informs the whole book. This edition does a much better job of teaching you how to ride better.
The whole book has been updated. Here is some of the new content:
- Suspension choice and setup
- 29ers
- Women specific bikes
- Customizing your bike for your riding style
- Saddle choice and fit
- Gearing options
- Body position - this informs the whole book
- Pedaling form and fitness
- Braking technique
- Keys to good cornering
- Hopping onto a ledge
- Pumping bumps and turns - new chapter
- Applying pump on real terrain - this also informs the whole book
- How far can you drop?
- How to case a jump safely
- Avoid injuries - new chapter with common mistakes and their fixes
- Top 5 MTB training exercises
- Dual slalom
- Super D
- 24-hour races
- Glossary - yeah, braaap is in there
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About the authors
With over 17 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 expert 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 publishes www.leelikesbikes.com, a mountain biking Web site visited by thousands of readers worldwide. Lee also wrote the book Pro BMX Skills with top BMX racers and coaches.
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.
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Mom and Dad Says March 3, 2010 @ 3:01 pm
Needless to say, we’re enormously proud of you. We’d love to take credit for all your accomplishments and for the Man you’ve become (notice we make that a capital M & for good reason), but as Dad’s old professor said, “protoplasm is tricky stuff” so we think you’ve mostly made yourself the amazing person you are. We were just there to encourage and cheer you on. So now do we have to buy another 3 dozen copies for all our friends?
Dean Says March 3, 2010 @ 4:14 pm
Man. Capital M. Well done bro!
leelikesbikes Says March 3, 2010 @ 5:53 pm
Golly, thanks.
Yeah Mom, maybe I can get you a *little* discount …
Matt Says March 4, 2010 @ 9:51 am
Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. When it comes to improving your mountain biking skills, this is way more cost effective than those lightweight upgrades everyone is itching to buy. I’ll let my friends know.
Jason Says March 5, 2010 @ 10:28 am
Who is the unlucky rider on page 202?
zach Says March 5, 2010 @ 11:50 am
Lee-
So stoked to see the final product. How can I get a signed copy?
zach Says March 5, 2010 @ 11:53 am
Lee-
So stoked to see the final product. How can I get a singed copy?
daniel Says March 5, 2010 @ 5:05 pm
Excellent!! Thank you for bringing light to the darkness!Your first edition and Pump Track Nation has improved my riding tremendously. Hauling mail, and braaping have taken on a whole new meaning! Thanks again for your work Lee!
leelikesbikes Says March 7, 2010 @ 2:58 pm
Thanks everybody. Everyone gets a signed copy — and Zach’s will be signed, “Dear sweet Zachy-poo …”
zach Says March 8, 2010 @ 10:40 am
I am so stoked and can’t wait to frame it.
Zachy-poo…..
Brad Says March 15, 2010 @ 6:39 pm
Lee, loved the first edition, dying for the second but paypal won’t let me ship it to New Zealand, any ideas?
leelikesbikes Says March 15, 2010 @ 9:28 pm
Strange: I’ve mailed lots of books to New Zealand. Let me look into this.
Adam Says April 28, 2010 @ 6:11 am
Super stoked! Almost May! I usually check the mail irregularly..really who wants bills! But I think I’m going to start checking the mail daily!
leelikesbikes Says April 28, 2010 @ 8:15 am
Me too! I’m waiting for the green light from the publisher. I’ll keep you guys posted.
Martyn Says May 5, 2010 @ 4:43 am
HI Lee
Ordered this newer version and its as close as personal tuition I can get at the moment.
jarinbrim Says May 10, 2010 @ 4:42 am
2008 events thus new tar google
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Piero Says May 13, 2010 @ 11:07 pm
Ciao is it ready for shipping ? Here in Italy we’re waiting for it since march…. we fixed it and now we’re waiting c.o.d. Ciao
leelikesbikes Says May 14, 2010 @ 6:50 am
Yes! There are stacks of envelopes and books on the kitchen table. We are cranking through the orders!
Judd Says May 28, 2010 @ 5:03 am
I got the new book tuesday. I am already on chapter 13. Thats 200 pages in 3 days. I haven’t read 200 pages in my life(exluding Mountain Bike Action of course). Your book is put together perfect. Lots of pictures and everything is explained very well and easy to understand. I’m already seeing the bad habits I’ve let creep in over the years go away. Have my first super D saturday and am stoked to use all the things I’ve read. Thanks!!!
leelikesbikes Says June 10, 2010 @ 7:17 am
This just in from Dmitri in Russia:
I received the book yesterday. I’m reading it right now, and in certain places it’s like pieces of a large puzzle that finally come together. I also get a strange feeling, not unlike that of being armed and armored — it already helped me in a ride.
By the way, now that I know what Braaaaap! really stands for (and I thought it was the sound of a loud freehub), our local interjection for that is like, Drrrrynnnn!
Thank you, and keep having great fun!
Dmitri
leelikesbikes Says June 15, 2010 @ 6:46 am
From Yeti in Switzerland:
Hey Lee!
got your book and finally found some time to start reading it. Though I’ve been riding and racing for years already I already found some ideas to work on my riding, specially the old bad habits. My girlfriend might be buying a Commencal Meta 5.2 tomorrow and I’ll be using your book to teach her the awesomeness of riding bikes fast! So thanks for this great book!
Cheers!
Yeti
Rich Says June 16, 2010 @ 5:12 am
I’m sat by the door waiting for my copy to plop through the letterbox Lee! I think the ink will still be wet!
Rich UK
Juice Says July 8, 2010 @ 7:47 am
Juice from Singapore:
Oh my god, i just recieved my signed copy of your book in the mail! A birthday present from my sis in law in NY. My path to enlightenment has been lit!! Hmm… now to build that altar for the book.
leelikesbikes Says July 28, 2010 @ 8:04 am
Lee
Just got the new mtb book, 2nd edition, yesterday and I’m pretty stoked to get workin’ on my skills. Having grown up on bmx racing and martial arts in my grom days, the references you make to both are easily relatable and entertaining. I’m 44 now and still try to practice my ride skills in a parking lot before I hit the trails and my buddies are makin fun of me. Every good martial artists practices form so combat is natural and responsive not reactionary. (it’s what I tell them cuz it sounds like bruce’s jeet kune do..haha)
Anyway, I only wish I lived near enough to take on a clinic. I used to race bmx,road, mtb,cross but shut it down when my kiddo was born. Now that he’s older my inner kid is somewhat awake and ready to get some chikenskin goin again! The hardest part is dumping old bad habits but at least I know exactly what they are. The book is a great read. I plan on takin it to the trails and review the skills in the car! Why not? I figure you’d be asking your students to do the same when your doin a clinic, right? I’d like to get my ride style down with a combo of BruceLee, JayAdams, and NicoVoullioz. Is there a pill for that?
Thnx
Rey Cruz
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Yeah Rey!
MMBSii is that pill.