MARSHALL MADNESS x MT ALPHA BIKE CLINICS

Our beginner level clinic is for riders totally new to the sport of mountain biking or those who have a season or two under their helmets, but are still nervous about getting out onto singletrack. Our coaches will focus on the basic concepts of mountain biking: body position, braking and shifting, and trail scanning. Beginner participants need no prior experience, and the afternoon trail ride will center more around practicing skills and less on a physically taxing climb and long descent.

Our beginner-intermediate level clinic is designed for riders who have been riding for at least one season, feel generally comfortable on mostly green and a few blue level trails (local reference: most trails in the rattlesnake) but have experienced either a plateau or speed bump in their riding (walking switchbacks, struggling to gain speed going downhill, feeling out of control on more technical terrain etc). The intermediate clinic will return to and refine the basics of riding that riders continually use and rely upon. We’ll offer insights into feeling more in control and gaining speed, as well as taking steps to continue improving as a rider. Our trail ride will be more physical than our beginner rides, but we’ll have plenty of time for breaks on the climb and options to session sections of trail while descending.