Event Categories
BEGINNER AND INTERMEDIATE
BEGINNER (Fundamental Skills)
Sydney Bike Skills BEGINNER mountain bike skills programs are designed to teach you the fundamental skills required to enable you to start mountain biking on a fire trail or a single track. We aim to improve your confidence as well as your skill level in this fast growing adrenalin fuelled sport.
A sample of the types of skills covered in the 4 hour BEGINNER course is provided below:
Four Hour Beginner Mountain Bike Skills Course
- Helmet check and bike safety inspection
- Correct riding position-the attack position
- Controlled braking including emergency braking
- Riding around small obstacles
- Slow riding and balance
- Cornering and flat turns
- Getting over small obstacles like roots and branches
- Correct gear selection
- Ascending and descending hills
- Roll overs and wheel lifts
- Ratchet
- Line selection
- Short training ride to put new skills into practice
- Tips on cleaning and maintaining your bike
Children under 18 years must be accompanied by an adult. All participants require a fully functioning mountain bike with knobby tyres (not slicks) and helmet. Front suspension on the bike is recommended. Gloves and sunglasses are also recommended. If you don’t have a bike, Sydney Bike Skills can assist you to rent one. Please make sure that you bring water, your lunch and sunscreen.
The course is limited to a maximum of 10 participants to ensure that everyone gets lots of individual attention. The ratio of coaches to participants is small,usually 1:5. All Sydney Bike Skills coaches are level 1 or 2 Mountain Bike Australia accredited coaches.
One on one lessons are also available. A 2 hour lesson costs $200. A 2 hour lesson with 2 participants costs $295 in total. A 2 hour lesson with 3 participants costs $395 in total. Gift vouchers are available. Please see testimonial below.
''In Feb 2015 I decided to do the Desert Knight Mountain Bike Tour, which takes place in the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park in Namibia in September every year. This unique adventure consists of five days of cycling covering 280 kilometres and a day of paddling along the Orange River. A key feature of Desert Knights is that much of the cycling takes place in the late afternoon and into the setting sun and rising full moon, set in spectacular landscape.
I had never ridden a mountain bike before! I had my first ‘lesson’ with Lisa in February and continued training with Lisa every week, until September. Lisa was outstanding – she prepared me in every way for the tour – she taught me technically how to handle mountain-bike terrain and mentored me on diet and fitness. For me, it was a wonderful achievement and a lot of fun, and I can only say I would never have done it without Lisa’s technical expertise, knowledge and mentorship.'' Clare Stirzaker 2016
All participants are required to complete a registration form before the course commences.
INTERMEDIATE
Sydney Bike Skills INTERMEDIATE mountain bike skills programs are designed to consolidate your basic skills so that you can move your mountain biking up to the next level. In addition to refining the basic skills; track stands, manuals, bunny hops, and negotiating a skinny are introduced.
A sample of the types of skills covered in the 4 hour INTERMEDIATE course is provided below:
Four Hour Intermediate Mountain Bike Skills Course
Helmet check and fit- Bike safety inspection
- Line selection
- Berms and flat turns
- Technical ascending
- Technical descending
- Manuals and wheelies
- Rear wheel lift
- Track stands
- Learning how to pump
- Negotiating a skinny
- Bunny hops and mono hops
- Roll downs
- Short training ride to put new skills into practice
- Tips on cleaning and maintaining your bike
Children under 18 years must be accompanied by an adult. All participants require a fully functioning mountain bike with knobby tyres (not slicks) and helmet. Front suspension on the bike is essential. Gloves and sunglasses are highly recommended. If you don’t have a bike, Sydney Bike Skills can assist you to rent one. Please make sure that you bring water, your lunch and sunscreen.
The course is limited to a maximum of 10 participants to ensure that everyone gets lots of individual attention.The ratio of coaches to participants is small,usually 1:5. All Sydney Bike Skills coaches are level 1 or 2 Mountain Bike Australia accredited coaches.
One on one lessons are also available. A 2 hour lesson costs $200. A 2 hour lesson with 2 participants costs $295 in total. A 2 hour lesson with 3 participants costs $395 in total. Gift vouchers are available.
All participants are required to complete a registration form before the course commences.
Sydney Bike Skills offer a comprehensive training package for schools that covers the fundamentals of bicycle riding skills and bike education. Apart from the benefit of being able to ride a bike safely and skilfully, and have a good knowledge of road safety rules, participants will benefit from increased fitness, improved coordination, balance and confidence. The program is also lots of FUN!
Instead of having to take your students off site and transport them to a location which provides this training, Sydney Bike Skills will come to your school and conduct a session, or series of sessions covering bike skills and safety that will meet the Board of Studies PDHPE syllabus requirements. This will save your school time and money and also provide students with an opportunity to practise riding their own bike and correctly fitting their own helmet. Sydney Bike Skills provides all the training equipment except the bikes and helmets.
The Sydney Bike Skills programs are based on the training materials provided by AustCycle which is Australia’s national cycling accreditation program. Go to: www.austcycle.com.au
The bike skills programs can be incorporated into a one off sports lesson, or into a series of progressive lessons tailored to suit the needs of the group. A typical one hour lesson covers the following skills and knowledge components.
Bike Skills Fundamentals - 1 hour lesson
- Bike and helmet check
- Safety discussion
- Correct riding position
- Riding in a straight line
- Riding around obstacles
- Cornering and hand signals
- Precision braking and emergency braking
- Balance and scanning to the rear
- Road safety rules
- Games and prizes
Sydney Bike Skills is the only accredited AustCycle provider on the Northern Beaches. All our instructors are qualified AustCycle instructors who have experience in teaching children.
This is what Jules McKenzie-Assistant Principal had to say about Sydney Bike Skills.
‘I recommend this program as this is an excellent support for bike safety units. The staff are very professional and extremely confident in their management of the students. My group would have happily continued their lesson for another couple of hours! ’
Contact Lisa for a personalised quote for your school.
Parents of participants are required to complete a registration form before the course commences.
Sydney Bike Skills can teach you how to ride a bike even if you have never ridden one before. Our teachers are experienced in teaching balance and coordination activities that can assist you to ride a bike confidently and with control. Lessons are available for children and adults.
''Thank you so much for teaching me how to ride a bike. I am 55 year's old so it's taken me a long time to get the courage to do this. You were a wonderful teacher, very knowledgeable with lots of patience and expertise. Thanks again Lisa ! Cheers." Melani Kypri 2016
All participants require a fully functioning bike and helmet. If you don’t have a bike, Sydney Bike Skills can assist you to rent one.
One on one lessons are available. The total cost for 3 lessons adding up to 3 1/2 hours of tuition is $330.
All participants are required to complete a registration form before the course commences.
Commuter Riding Safety Programs
If you are a bike commuter or planning to become one, this is the course for you. Corporate groups who encourage their employees to ride to work should consider providing this training for their workers. OH & S and Human Resources personnel can contact Sydney Bike Skills for a quote which is dependent on the number of participants.
''The feedback from our team was very positive for the delivery of the course. I was very impressed with the professionalism and the way your team worked in with our requirements/environment. I look forward to running similar courses in the future with Sydney Bike Skills." Adam Motum-Security Site Manager at UTS, Sydney
The two hour program covers the following topics:
- Choosing helmets and other cycling equipment
- Bike safety check and maintenance requirements
- General cycling skills-ideal performance
- Essential traffic cycling skills
- Safe cycling in traffic
- RTA road riding rules
- Dealing with accidents
- Bike security
- Planning your route-group activity
Contact Lisa for a personalised quote.
If you are an organisation looking for an alternative to the same old team building activities, consider using Sydney Bike Skills to plan a bike skills session which incorporates team building activities. This can be done as a mountain bike activity, or as a recreational bike skills activity.
Bikes and helmets can be provided as a part of the package. All of Sydney Bike Skills Programs can be tailored to a specific demographic, including women.
Contact Sydney Bike Skills to find out more about their exciting team building activities.
All participants are required to complete a registration form before the course commences.