5 More Essential Skills To Master On Your Mountain Bike

These are another 5 essential skills that you need to master on your Mountain Bike. You can do most of these anywhere and will help you become a better rider.

Another 5 essential skills here for you. Manuals, moving your body, braking, leaning in corners and trials skills. If you can master these, you'll be a better Mountain Biker in no time.

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[xenoph]

It wouldn't be a skills vid without Neil showing off his manuals :D

[rebeccamclaren]

Simple but effective tips. Stuff I was never taught even though I've been riding for years!

[AlwayzPr]

I've been working on keeping my outside foot low on turns, it really helps with cornering.

[bobert]

Yet again another excellent video with Neil showing off his skills :]

[MTBdropIN]

Super awesome, definitely took some stuff from this one!!!

[Lycosa]

Nice!!! Yep its classic, bending the bike or I mean putting it to the corner down... but body on the other side. calssic.

[aidenreynolds]

Currently sat watching this with a broken wrist as a result of going OTB. Might have been something to do with being a tad heavy on that front brake. If only this was shot a day sooner. 😂

[trials_bike-xuxf]

I need to work on all of these this year

[MrHaxann]

pump slide, pump slide. damn! you make it sound so easy

[respectablebogan]

Somehow I knew Neil would be showing off his (awesome) manual skills. :)

[CodyBrothwell]

Love your videos and I followed you guys everywhere in social media. I wish I could subscribe more than once to you guys.

[julen]

I think it would be more helpful if you'd use hardtails for beginner videos like this since they do behave differently than a fully. Still - brilliant selection of essential skills. I shall practice.

[callumnicol]

Pause the video at 2:19. Has The Don been to the pub again?

[chasethekid]

Be curious to see if you could do a expert level tips. Like Neal is running his cleats way back in his shoes. I've just started doing that and would be curious if there's anything else out there to do.

[vicentelongo]

Excellent video... Trying and trying but achieved, yet.. :).Can I asume that the pump down is not vertical to the pedals?..It is more with and down angle pointing to fork?.And I see in the video that during pumps you turn your uncles.. any consideration here?

[fredrikvestretandberg-joha]

I will use these tips when snow melts I live in Norway buy the way

[falllinemaniac]

Cookie cutters with the front wheel are great low speed technique drills.

[Markikuunn]

I can't manual, my 29er is hard to maneuver. Will keep practicing

[noahanderson]

GMBM Could u use a high travel bike like a Intense carbine 29c ( my bike ) for Cross country

[ti]

I can't do the manual :( Its really hard.