life is an adventure or nothing at all

Have you ever watched your friends or others at the dirt or trail parks and thought how do they do that?, maybe you got frustrated and thought never me and so on? Maybe it was a big drop? Or a proper bunny hop or manual (who does wheelies anymore, anyway? . Have you like me struggled to learn or find this information simply and accurately on the web. I did and often. I got frustrated. So I decided to try and do something about it. This is my story or more the story http://www.ibikeride.com a skills sharing website full of loads of posts and tutorials to move your game forwardUnsecure image, only https images allowed: http://ibikeride.com/images/stories/skills/fourcross/fourcross.jpg
I love biking and all disciplines of it, from freeriding, to downhill, trail, 4X the lot. I always have two to three new skills I am working on and I bike because nothing else has yet given me as much pleasure.

I am not a natural biker. I have basic balance and basic co-ordination, a bit of balls and am generally reasonably fit. It takes me a long time to learn new skills and a lot of practice. Like many though I persevere and enjoy the learning process and can't get enough of the exhilaration I feel when I eventually conquer something. Some people just watch others, copy and they are away. I need to see this too but I like many, need more in my learning style.

I am realy lucky though as I have great riding buddies who can show me how. The forums also are wonderful.
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I wanted to build two things to complement my riding buddies skill sharing, forum searches and the endless practice. I wanted simple well presented articles I could read and re-read that talked through skills and I wanted video tutorials to see it in action and all in one easy to find and navigate place.

I could not find this on the web so I decided 3 months ago to build this myself. The web has so many useful tools today, so when building this I didn't want a flat boring site that looked like a school book. I wanted to create a dynamic and fun environment where riders could come post their own skills and then share them easily between each other. So the site had to be very interactive and user driven. It also had to be inspirational (hence the trail videos section so you can see how these skills are put into practice). The site needed to be entertaining and fun too, absolutely. Anyway the site launched three months back and the site has been growing. The site is called ibikeride.com and can be found at..

http://www.ibikeride.com

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In essence ibikeride now is a meeting place where you can learn & share mountain bike skills & tech tips as well as kit & trails experiences. Whatever you are seeking there is a large library of video tutorials, articles & reviews. You can browse, comment on, rate & even post articles yourself. To give you a little taste the current skills articles cover things like:

Bunnyhop
Manual
Trials
Dirt/BMX Tricks
Endo's
Drops
General Riding
Ruts
Jumps
Shore
Pedal assisted drops
How to Fall
Up Hill techniques
Riding a Rock Garden
Steep Sections
Berms
Trail Building
Trackstands
Skidding
Cornering
Trials
Four Cross (4X) ...and so on


ibikeride is always looking for new articles and posts however small so please contribute if you have any to make this a really useful biking resource on the web and in essence to get more people into biking and for those of us biking already to get us to push our game forward. This is the sites ethos and aim.

to check it out please go to http://ibikeride.com

As a taster and well for fun here is my personal coverage of the Fort William World Champs. Covers 4X, downhill and trials.

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Thanks for reading. All suggestions really welcome

stumpy_dan
http://www.ibikeride.com