Finally, the Evening We've All Been Waiting For: Introduction to Jumps and Drops!

Get ready to take your riding skills to the next level with an exciting evening focused on jumps and drops!

We’ll begin by warming up with a review of wheel lifts and transitioning into wheel lifts at speed, followed by practicing bump jumps.

Roll Downs:
We’ll kick things off with my drop box, using it to practice rolling the bike down obstacles. This exercise will help you tackle similar challenges you'll encounter on the trails of DuPont and Pisgah, building your confidence and control while descending.

Drops:
Next, we’ll increase our focus on drops. Using my drop box, you’ll adjust your speed to explore different techniques for riding drops of all sizes. We’ll dive into discussions about when and why to adjust your approach, making sure you understand the finer points of safely and efficiently handling drops.

Bump Jumps:
We’ll take things up a notch by using my stunts to practice bumping both wheels over obstacles with a wheel lift. This technique is key for clearing smaller obstacles in a controlled, smooth way.

Jumps:
Finally, we’ll get airborn! Using my jump ramp, you’ll practice jumping both wheels off the ground. This segment will help you build skill, comfort, and control while flying through the air, boosting your confidence in your ability to clear jumps with precision.

Bonus! Purchase tickets to all four clinics in this series and receive 15% off a private lesson to continue your skills development one-on-one!

Slow Speed Skills: The Most Underrated Skill in Mountain Biking

In mountain biking, slow speed skills often don’t get the credit they deserve, but they’re key to riding well across any terrain. If you can master riding slow, it opens the door to riding faster with more control and confidence.

Track Stands:
Maintaining balance while your bike stays stationary. This skill builds core strength, balance, and bike handling, all of which translate into smoother rides on both technical climbs and descents.

Slow Tight Turns:
These are essential for tackling tight corners, especially in challenging areas like Pisgah National Forest. Whether you're riding uphill or downhill, these turns force you to maintain control at slow speeds, helping you prepare for more difficult terrain.

Cornering:
Mastering cornering is a game changer. In this clinic, we’ll focus on how to handle wider descending turns with precision, moving faster while still staying in control. We’ll also revisit the technique of braking through corners, ensuring you’re equipped to navigate turns safely and efficiently.

High-Speed Cornering:
Now, let's dial it up! In this session, we’ll push our speed through corners and notice how our body position and bike handling adjust as we increase pace. This is where you’ll learn how to push the limits of cornering technique, making adjustments to stay smooth at higher speeds while also refining how to brake effectively during turns.

Note:
While the terrain in this clinic may vary from the example photo provided, the principles we’re focusing on are universal. Whether you're riding tight, technical trails or fast descents, these skills will make you a better, more confident rider on any trail.

Bonus! Purchase tickets to all four clinics in this series and receive 15% off a private lesson to continue your skills development one-on-one!

In this session, we’re going to start getting our wheels off the ground! Along with learning how to perform wheel lifts, we’ll dive into which lifts are best for different situations and how they can progress into more advanced riding maneuvers.

We’ll cover:

• Standing Front Wheel Lifts to Bump Jumps

• Rear Wheel Lifts

• Pedal Wheel Lifts

• Level Wheel Lifts

If we have time after thoroughly mastering the lifts above and practicing them with obstacles at various speeds, we’ll tackle more advanced wheel lifts, such as endo’s, bunny hops and manuals/womanuals.

Let’s get ready to elevate our skills and have some fun!

Bonus! Purchase tickets to all four clinics in this series and receive 15% off a 3 hour private lesson to continue your skills development one-on-one!

Bike check, tire pressure and suspension setup. If the bike isn’t set up well, it doesn’t feel good and it isn’t very fun to ride! We’re going to start the first session in the series with a bike and suspension setup mini clinic.

Suspension Setup:

Suspension setup is often overlooked, but it's critical for performance, comfort, and safety. We’ll spend some time in this clinic dialing in your suspension settings, so your bike feels more responsive and stable.

FUNdamental skills: In this clinic, we’ll cover several foundational skills that build the confidence to ride well.

• Body Position: Proper body position is crucial for balance, control, and safe maneuvers like jumping, dropping, descending, and cornering. We'll focus on maintaining a stable and balanced stance to help you feel more confident on the bike.

• Braking: We’ll focus on braking technique, from modulating the brakes to avoiding skidding. Proper braking will help you stop quickly and smoothly, helping you ride faster with control.

• Shifting: The smoother your shifting, the less you’ll have to think about gears, allowing you to focus on the trail. We’ll give you a quick lesson in shifting so you’re always in the right gear at the right time.

• Cornering: Applying good body position and braking techniques will help you ride corners with greater confidence and control.

Bonus! Purchase tickets to all four clinics in this series and receive 15% off a private lesson to continue your skills development one-on-one!

The Pisgah 555 will test the strength and endurance of racers by challenging them to complete a 39.7 mile course with 7325′ of climbing and is nearly 100% Pisgah single-track. The course traverses some of the great Pisgah classics: Black Mountain, Turkey Pen Gap, Laurel Mountain, and Pilot Rock.

The Pisgah 555 is open to cyclists AND runners.

There will be THREE rest areas along the way that will be stocked with water, food (PB&J, fruit, salty snacks, sweet snacks, bars), and first aid. Racers may send drop bags to each Rest Area.

The Pisgah 555 will be held concurrently with the Pisgah 111!

KIDS MODULE | 1-DAY KIDS SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT MODULE

The 1-day Kids Module is a professional training module to further the skills and knowledge of PMBIA instructors.

The 1-day module is packed with value as instructors learn a multitude of tools to develop their teaching, including but not limited to; how to adapt their lessons for children of different age groups, kids-specific bike and equipment set up, risk management and concussion protocols, more strategies for guiding children safely on technical terrain, as well as explore techniques to help manage the behaviour and expectations of children.

While the Kids Module is a great way for Level 1 Instructors to learn more about teaching kids mountain bike programs, it also introduces some new teaching concepts, acting as great preparation for the Level 2 and 3 certifications.

The Kids Module also provides access to the latest PMBIA Reference Guide, Kids Module Booklet (complete with course-specific content), and the Kids Module Worksheet.

High-speed East Coast technical rocky rooty singletrack ENDURO racing in Pisgah National Forest, around Old Fort, NC with dizzying vertical descents to quad-crushing climbs, you will ride a roller coaster that puts this region on the map for the downhill minded. The venue is an actual Summer Camp. There’s a lake, pump track, post-race cookout, and more.  Choose bunkhouse or car/tent camping and spend the weekend racing and enjoying life!

The course starts in the shadow of the highest peak East of the Mississippi, Mount Mitchell, on the legendary Heartbreak Ridge trail. Stage one and two drop over 3000′ elevation in a combined 4.5 miles. Stage three follows with the most amazing trail that parallels Interstate 40… Kitsuma, and descends another 1300′ in 2.5 miles to the finish. Start/Finish and lodging at Camp Grier in Old Fort, NC (where the after-race party will be waiting for you).

The 2024 Pisgah Enduro will be a SUNDAY (one-day only) event. If you would like a full-weekend of racing and camping at Camp Grier join us for the Old Fort Fifty being held on Saturday!

If you are craving more challenges, be sure to register for the entire King and Queen of Pisgah series.

This intermediate/advanced clinic will focus on the North Mills River trails that are included in the Pisgah Productions 111K mountain bike race and the skills and maneuvers required to successfully ride all of the trail features. We’ll climb 5000, learn and practice a pedaling wheel lift and efficient climbing skills, session the technical root fields on Spencer Gap, refresh stability and balance at the top then session any technical features as needed on the descent down Spencer Gap likely sessioning the corners as well. From the bottom, we’ll take the never ending road to Fletcher Creek trail sessioning any features as necessary as well as working on applying skills such as terrain awareness and techniques such as standing front wheel lifts down fletcher creek. From the reservoir we’ll head over to the bottom of Trace Ridge and take that to the seldom ridden Yellow Gap trail to 1206 back to our cars. There is no pre-requisite for this clinic. There is a maximum of 6 riders for this clinic so folx get the benefit of small group instruction. Transfer/cancellation fee of $75.00 will be necessary if riders need to cancel or transfer registration of this clinic at any time after payment is made.

This intermediate/advanced clinic is for riders interested in riding Black Mountain trail in Pisgah National Forest more efficiently? Do you want to learn to take the technical lines with skill and finesse so you don’t waste so much energy and don’t have to walk or go around the technical features up and down the trail? Do you just want to spend a day in The Pisgah sessioning this awesome trail with other like minded and similarly skilled riders? This skill clinic day will include approximately two hours of skill and technical maneuver work off trail including bike and suspension setup, and approximately 4 hours of on trail skill and maneuver work with plenty of time to session features. This is the first in a larger series of clinics and will qualify as a pre-requisite for the August 3 Laurel Mountain->Pilot Rock skill clinic day and August 17 Black Mountain->Turkey Pen skill clinic day .The maximum number of riders for this clinic will be 6 folx so you will get the benefit of small group instruction. Transfer/cancellation fee of $75.00 will be necessary if riders need to cancel or transfer registration of this clinic at any time after payment is made.

KIDS MODULE | 1-DAY KIDS SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT MODULE

The 1-day Kids Module is a professional training module to further the skills and knowledge of PMBIA instructors.

The 1-day module is packed with value as instructors learn a multitude of tools to develop their teaching, including but not limited to; how to adapt their lessons for children of different age groups, kids-specific bike and equipment set up, risk management and concussion protocols, more strategies for guiding children safely on technical terrain, as well as explore techniques to help manage the behaviour and expectations of children.

While the Kids Module is a great way for Level 1 Instructors to learn more about teaching kids mountain bike programs, it also introduces some new teaching concepts, acting as great preparation for the Level 2 and 3 certifications.

The Kids Module also provides access to the latest PMBIA Reference Guide, Kids Module Booklet (complete with course-specific content), and the Kids Module Worksheet.

With seasonal trail Cat Gap slated to be permanently closed to bikes once the reroute is completed I thought it might be nice to get out there and session all of those hard moves that I love and our community is about to lose access to once the new trail is completed. There is also a super fun technical section of Butter Gap at the top we are going to lose to reroute and a few other sections along the way. I’ve been trying to get out on these trails as much as I can because it’s an excellent climb with some fun tech moves and I love the descents. Every time I’ve thought “I should do a last chance clinic!” So I’m gonna listen to that and do it. Join me!

With seasonal trail Cat Gap slated to be permanently closed to bikes once the reroute is completed I thought it might be nice to get out there and session all of those hard moves that I love and our community is about to lose access to once the new trail is completed. There is also a super fun technical section of Butter Gap at the top we are going to lose to reroute and a few other sections along the way. I’ve been trying to get out on these trails as much as I can because it’s an excellent climb with some fun tech moves and I love the descents. Every time I’ve thought “I should do a last chance clinic!” So I’m gonna listen to that and do it. Join me!

The Juliana Ride Out is back in Brevard! Join me at The Hub on Saturday, February 24th as they partner with Juliana Cycles to host a Rideout and demo day at The Hub and Pisgah Tavern. This will be a full day and I hope you can join us!

The Pisgah 555 will test the strength and endurance of racers by challenging them to complete a 39.5 mile course with 8100′ of climbing and is nearly 100% Pisgah single-track. The course traverses some of the great Pisgah classics: Black Mountain, Turkey Pen Gap, Laurel Mountain, and Pilot Rock!

The Pisgah 555 is also open to RUNNERS.

There will be TWO rest areas along the way that will be stocked with water, food (PB&J, fruit, salty snacks, sweet snacks, bars), and first aid. Racers may send drop bags to each Rest Area.