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Take Your Riding to the Next Level: Registration for Bikeskills Clinics now open in Portland and NorCal

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Registration is now open for trail riding clinics in Portland, Oregon and Norcal. Improving your riding is the best upgrade you can make — build confidence and enjoy more of the trail faster and safer with our trail riding clinics.

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Sandy Ridge, Oregon

Sandy Ridge is one of the premiere riding destinations in the northwest. Join coaches Jason Van Horn and Inga Beck for our ‘Intro to Flow’ series, where they focus on the skills require to maximize fun on the flowy berms, rollers, rock gardens and jumps at Sandy Ridge.

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Bikeskills coach Jason Van Horn looking through a loose turn on the Rock Drop Trail at Sandy Ridge.

Tamarancho – Fairfax, California

Join Bikeskills coach Mike Haderer at Camp Tamarancho as our popular Norcal Trail Riding Series resumes. After working on and mastering uphill and downhill switchbacks, rooty sections and body position, you’ll be sure to enjoy this Norcal gem even more.

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Bikeskills coach Mike Haderer demonstrates downhill switch back technique.

Mastering the fundamentals of body positioning makes lines that once seemed difficult a whole lot of fun! We hope to see you at a clinic soon.

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Comfortable, confident and ready for anything — Bikeskills coach Jason Van Horn descends a rocky section of trail with a smile.
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February, 2014 Bikeskills Skills Clinic at Rockville

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Kevin makes his way through a rock garden at Rockville. He made amazing progress in the last year.

We’re posting a lot more photos than usual this month, mainly because we love how pretty it is at Rockville Park! What it lacks in overall mileage, it more than makes up for with its landscape and diversity of terrain.  Rockville Park serves up some of the most technical and advanced singletrack in the area, perfect for learning, practicing and applying new skills.

Rockville is a horrible place to ride. (not really!)
Rockville is a horrible place to ride. (not really!)
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Drone video featuring Greg Watts at the Aptos Jumps

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Bikeskills Videographer Ian Boyd has been dialing in his drone piloting skills— check out this video shot using his DJI Phantom Drone using a Zenmuse H3-2D gimbal mount and a GoPro Hero 3. Shooting at 2K 1080p mode, the flight time of the drone is about 8 minutes at 68 degrees f at sea level.

Edited in Final Cut Pro, Bikeskills instructor and pro dirt jumper Greg Watts does his thing at the Post Office Jumps in Aptos, California. Check out the video below, and subscribe to our YouTube Page for more great video content including how-to’s and more!

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February 3rd, 2013 Mountain Bike Skills Clinic Gallery

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Our January date was pushed back a few weeks due to rain, but our February date on the trails featured great trail conditions. We can certainly use a bit more rain out at Tamarancho, with trail building efforts on the new flow trail close to being finished. If you haven’t ridden out at Tamarancho before, join us for a clinic, or just come check it out! [Read more…]

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November 11 Tamarancho Clinic Gallery

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We’re getting our first major downpour of precipitation here in the Bay Area, and our indian summer is now definitely a thing of the past. On the flip side, it’s the perfect time to change a routine that has possibly gotten a bit stale. For us it’s time to tap into our indoor options a bit more, hit the climbing wall or the gym, and get our latest gallery posted. This one is from our recent November skills clinic at Camp Tamarancho. As you can see, the weather was amazing, and it was a great day to be on the trail working on new skills with great group of enthusiastic riders.

 

On a side note, our next clinic is now posted and open for registration! Unless it’s dumping, (in this event, we’ll reschedule) we’ll be talking more about techniques for conquering wet roots and rocks this time around.

If you did a clinic with us this year already, we’re changing up the format a bit so folks can repeat the classes. Stay tuned for more details!

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