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trail adults
Improve Your Mountain Bike Skills
Trail Adults – For adults interested in learning how to mountain bike confidently and safely or improving their mountain bike skills. This 6 week program is a combination skills training and trail riding. Each session begins with instruction on one or two mountain bike skills. Following instruction, you’ll ride the Loppet trails with your coach to practice your new skills! Trail Adults is a spin off of our ever popular Trail Kids program. Curious about what your kids are learning? Give Trail Adults a spin.
*New* this year – intermediate skill level offering.
This is different from our adult skills clinics. More practical application, riding typically 45-60 minutes each practice.
Skills you will learn:
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Fundamental Classes
This class encompasses a wide range of ability levels, whether your new to mountain biking, been riding years or somewhere inbetween. Fundamentals help establish balance, stability and control while riding. Let us help you become a more confident rider by teaching you body position, bike/ body separation, eye movement, steering, speed control, timing & coordination and pressure control. Here is a list of skills taught during the our Fundamentals Trail Adults.
- Neutral/Ready positions
- bike/body separation
- Braking
- Shifting
- Cornering
- Ratcheting
- Tracking
- Turning
- Climbing and descending
Progression Classes
Many of the Fundamental skills are the foundation for the skills taught in our Progressions. This class is for those seeking to step up there mountain bike skills and you have taken our Fundamentals class or clinic, received these skills from another organization or have equivalent experience. During the trail riding portion of practice we’ll session certain trail features if rider traffic allows. Here are the skills taught during our Progressions class.
- Advance techniques on many of the skills from the Fundamentals.
- Wheel lifts
- Front
- Rear
- Level
- Pedal assist
- Trackstands
- Drops
- Roll down lunge
- Lunge drop
- Stomp drop
Bike rentals are available through our Trailhead Adventure Shop. Cost is $75.00 per 6 week session.
Session II
Dates: June 23 – August 4 (no practice on June 30)
Days/Time: Mondays 6:00-7:30p
Ability level: Novice
Dates: June 24 – August 5 (no practice on July 1)
Days/Time: Tuesdays 6:00-7:30p
Ability level: Novice
Dates: June 25 – August 6 (no practice on July 2)
Days/Time: Wednesdays 6:00-7:30p
Ability level: Novice
Dates: June 26 – August 7 (no practice on July 3)
Days/Time: Thursdays 6:00-7:30p
Ability level: Intermediate
SESSION II
SESSION III
Session III
Novice
Dates: August 18 – September 29 (no practice on September 1)
Days/Time: Mondays 5:30-7:00p
Dates: August 19 – September 23
Days/Time: Tuesdays 5:30-7:00p
Intermediate
Dates: August 20 – September 24
Days/Time: Wednesdays 5:30-7:00p
Dates: August 21 – September 25
Days/Time: Thursdays 5:30-7:00p
Refund Policy
The Loppet will issue a full refund of the program fee minus the original processing fee up until 4 weeks before the program starts. Between 4 and 3 weeks from the program start date, a 50% refund will be issued. There are no refunds for any cancellations within less than 3 weeks of the start of a program.
If you have any questions, please contact lcw@loppet.org.
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