TIPS, TRICKS AND MTB RESOURCES!
Below are a collection of videos that will help you understand you mountain bike better to ensure you have the best ride possible out on the trails.
HOW TO USE YOUR MOUNTAIN BIKE AND HAVE A GOOD RIDE
WHAT MAKES UP A MOUNTAIN BIKE!
GET TO KNOW THE PARTS AND COMPONENTS ON YOUR BIKE
SHIFTING!
understand your componets and how to use them.
Modern day mountain bikes use lever actuated shifters that can be found on the right handle bar that is perfectly positioned for your thumb. Those levers are clicked in to either shift the bike into a easier gear or harder gear. Clicking through gears is a useful tool to set the bike up into a gear positions that make riding most efficient based on your accent or decent.
For more info or help please watch the provided video to understand gears and shifitng!
tires!
understand tire pressure and how to check them!
All bikes have tires and each type of bike has a different optimal tire pressure. Mountain bikes like low tire pressure that provide lots of grip on the trail. Road bikes like high tire pressure for better speed and efficiency. Fat tire bikes like extremely low tire pressure and gravel bikes like to be somewhere in the middle. If you don’t know where to be, almost all tires list on the side wall what the optimal tire pressure for your bike should be
For more info or help please watch the provided video to understand tire pressure and how to put air in or out of your tires.
Tire pressure is listed by minimum and maxium, these numbers don’t mean that where they have to be pumped to.
SEAT ADJUSTMENTS
DROPPER POST, QUICK RELEASE, HEX KEY
Modern day mountain bikes use lever actuated shifters that can be found on the right handle bar that is perfectly positioned for your thumb. Those levers are clicked in to either shift the bike into a easier gear or harder gear. Clicking through gears is a useful tool to set the bike up into a gear positions that make riding most efficient based on your accent or decent.
For more info or help please watch the provided video to understand gears and shifitng!