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How to start Mountain Biking?

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    #32
    rizzodun
    Registered Users Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    nak wrote: »
    I don't think anyone posted not to go out with experienced riders. If you're referring to my comment about experienced riders forgetting what it like to be a beginner, I was just going on my experience - people regularly state stuff isn't technical. It isn't to them because they've been doing it for 20 years, but it can be to a beginner.

    It's great to learn from someone more experienced but you need to find the right group for you. I know someone who never went mountain biking again because an experienced rider tried to get them to ride an enduro stage they believed wasn't technical in Ticknock on a HT one of the first times they went out. Took me a while to find a group I was comfortable with and have learned a lot since.

    I stand corrected in that case, but from my experience while people I have been with have talked down some features, at the same time they wouldn't have put me in a position I wouldn't be able to handle.

    One of the best things about mountain biking is the people you get to hang out with in my opinion.


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    #33
    splanagan22
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭splanagan22


    ShadyAcres wrote: »
    I could take you mountain biking in Ballyhoura if you want. I'll give you a lesson on braking, gearing, climbing and descending. This would be aimed at beginners, nothing technical just a good day out.
    It would have to be either this weekend or next weekend Sat or Sun.
    I will be hiring a bike myself because I sold mine recently so I can go back to college in September.

    Anybody else interested in a introduction to mountain biking?

    Is be well up for this. It would have to be Sunday for me. I'd be renting a bike also.


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