Bikeskills NorCal offers Mountain Bike Skills Coaching for riders in the Bay Area looking to develop their riding skills. Our main trail riding series takes place at the Camp Tamarancho trail system in Fairfax, California.

Tamarancho is unique to Marin county in that the trails are on private land owned by the Boy Scouts of America. The trail system contains intermediate to advanced level single track designed and constructed specifically for mountain bikers by mountain bikers, and offers an experience unlike any other in Marin with diverse terrain features perfect for practicing and mastering riding technique. Whether you want to brush up on your switchback climbing or descending skills, high speed cornering, or build up your comfort level on rock gardens, you’ll have the opportunity to do it safely under the helpful supervision of our coaches.

Meet the team

Mikey Haderer – Instructor

If you’re familiar with gravity racing, you’re likely to have seen Mikey around, as his smiling face is a staple on the U.S. mountain bike race circuit. (click here for an interview with Mikey on VitalMTB.com)

Ian Massey – Instructor

Ian Massey is a Bay Area native, where he grew up riding and is well known in the Northern CA Mountain Biking  community. He is a Pro-level Gravity racer, Level II USA Cycling Coach and Certified Personal Trainer with 15 years experience racing mountain bikes in Cross Country, Downhill and Super D events.   In addition, he has over 12 of experience working in the Bike Industry and has done workshops for varied groups such as Team in Training, Kaiser Hospital, YMCA, and other private corporations. His passion is sharing his love and knowledge of biking and fitness with others, and also donates time with the local bike club the BTCEB as a ride leader for their group rides.

Email: ian@bikeskills.com 

Jason Van Horn: Location manager,  Web Manager, Instructor

 In addition to being our website manager, Jason comes to us with a broad range of experiences under his belt. He has years of experience wrenching and selling mountain bikes, and is a freelance photographer and writer that contributes to a number of cycling publications. During a stint traveling and teaching Trail Building Schools and Workshops as an instructor for the International Mountain Biking Association, he traveled the greater part of the west with Inga Beck, teaching sustainable trail building and riding some of the most choice trails from Texas to Saskatoon along the way. A trail rider at heart, on the rare occasion he lines up at the starting line, he competes at the expert level, but would rather ride jumpy flow trails in the woods with his buddies any day.
During the week he works as the Photography/ Community manager for a local Bay Area clothing company start-up and continues to volunteer with various non-profit mountain bike groups in the Bay Area and Oregon.

Read up on more of his adventures at www.bermstyle.com and www.Ih8bikes.com.
Telephone: 415-310-5880
Email: jason@bikeskills.com

Inga Beck – Marketing Cordinator

inga@bikeskills.com