Jiro Nakamura and his NorCal Bikeskills team will be on hand at the Fairfax Biketoberfest this Saturday, 18 October 2008. Be sure to sign up for the Bikeskills trail riding clinic starting at 8 a.m. The clinic will take place on Camp Tamarancho’s epic single track trails. You’ll finish in plenty of time to check out the Biketoberfest event where you’ll find an array of bike displays new, old, cool – and of course the downright weird – great food, and lots of fun for all ages. To sign up for the clinic, click on the schedule button above, or, contact Jiro directly at jiro@bikeskills.com. To get more information about Biketoberfest, go to http://www.biketoberfest2008.org/
Guaranteed Return on Your Mountain Biking Investment: Bikeskills Clinics
We may not have the cure for the macro economic environment anymore than we have the solution to global warming, but we think it’s fair to say that we can help you at a micro level. Not only can Bikeskills help you get a better ROI (return on investment) in your mountain biking, but, getting you to spend more time on your bike just might translate in to less time in your car or doing other things that aren’t nearly as earth friendly as cycling.
And as luck would have it, our most recent Bikeskills clinic had experts in both economics and ecology. Dr. Dmitry Livdan Ph.D., a UC Berkeley finance professor, and Duane Kubischta, the founder of Adventure Film Works, an action sports film firm that specializes in documenting ecologically sound sports practices.
In the Foreground, Dr. Dmitry Livdan Ph.D. looks to Duane Kubischta, founder of Adventure Film Works, to see if he’s buying what Bikeskills instructor, Jiro Nakamura, is selling. Read on to see what they concluded…
Key Fundamentals Driven Home: Elbows Up
There are a number of Bikeskills “Key Concepts” that will make you a better rider, a safer rider, and get you there faster than any other method. None are more important than keeping those elbows up.
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On-Trail Work: Switchbacks 101
Under the watchful eyes of Jiro and Bikeskills’ director of electrical engineering, Ed Becker, a student is guided through a switchback tutorial known as the Lawwill method. If switchbacks leave you frustrated in general, or you have a hard time with the complicated ones, Bikeskills has spent a lot of time developing instructional techniques that apply to all switchbacks. You can check out some of those techniques in our switchback video in the video clips page on our website.
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J-Hop: Just Maybe the Single Best Way to Supercharge Your Riding
Jiro Demonstrates what the J-Hop – named after Joe Lawwill – is all about, and what it can do for your riding control and safety. Want to see it in action? Learn how to do it? Find out about and learn how to do one of the most powerful tools in all-mountain cycling? Sign up for a Bikeskills clinic!
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Time For Single Track Fun: Putting the Skills Learned to Work
There’s always time at the end of a Bikeskills clinic to put those new and refined skills to the test and have some fun. And there’s no better place in Marin County than the downhill sections at Camp Tamarancho for rip and rail fun: all single track, 100% legal!
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Team Bikeskills and Epic Way Sports’ Newest Addition: Duane Kubischta
From left to right: Ed Becker Bikeskills NorCal, JP Sickler, Bikeskills Central Valley, Duane Kubischta, Epic Way Sports Director of Video Editing Services, and Jiro Nakamura, Bikeskills NorCal Operations Manager
Well, Duane was so impressed with Bikeskills that he decided to join our organization! Duane will be heading up Epic Way Sports’ (Bikeskills, Skiskills, Surfskills) rapidly growing video production projects. We’re really excited to have someone with not just Duane’s professional and educational background, but his committment to the environment and action sports as well.
As for Dr. Livdan, the economics expert, he seems to be a bit tied up with macro economic issues at the moment, but we will post what he has to say about riding bikes during economic ups and downs, so stay tuned!
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