Take your riding skills to the next level this year with mountain bike courses at our sister store Dalby Forest Cycle Hub. Develop your competence with the basics of trail riding; level up from the blue to the red route; or learn how to get big air over drops and jumps.
All of these courses take place in Dalby Forest, a beautiful natural landscape and managed forest that’s home to mountain bike trails at all levels, as well as providing a stunning backdrop for learning new skills. All sessions start from either our store in Low Dalby or at Adderstone Field, which is a few miles further along the Dalby Forest Drive.
Riding your mountain bike is safer and more fun when you’ve nailed the technical skills and built your confidence in your own abilities. Our range of mountain biking courses help you do both. Find out more and enrol below.
Every one of our trainers is a British Cycling-qualified instructor, so you can be assured they’re not only excellent at what they do but also fully accredited and safety checked. Let’s meet two of them…
Courses: Introduction to Mountain Biking, MTB Improvers, Ride the Red Route, private coaching sessions.
Mark is a highly experienced British Cycling coach, with additional qualifications in mountain biking leadership, and a coach educator for both British and Scottish Cycling. With Over 15 years’ experience of mountain bike coaching, he has been involved in the development of national and international coach education since the early 2000s. He also delivers our road leaders and mountain bike leader courses, plus off road coach development courses at Dalby Forest Cycle Hub. He has helped over 500 people improve their off-road skills.
Courses: Drops and Jumps and Enduro Skills.
Martin began riding bikes aged five, initially BMX racing and freestyle riding. Martin got his first mountain bike in the late 80s. He has competed in enduro and cross-country series but sessioning trails hard with friends was always the riding he enjoyed most.
He has competed in several different enduro and downhill events in recent years and still enjoys the odd skatepark session on either his dirt jump bike or BMX. Martin loves solving problems on steep and techy terrain.
Courses: Women-only Introduction to Mountain Biking, Women-only Improvers, Ride the Red Route, private coaching sessions.
Karen has ridden bikes as long as she can remember so it felt like a natural transition for her to start sharing the fun of riding bikes with others. She loves big days out in the mountains with fast flowy single-track and steep techy descents to challenge herself. She thinks guiding and coaching is incredible because she gets to do even more of what she loves, and can help others build the skills and confidence to ride more too.
Our mountain biking courses are open to riders of all abilities. The fundamentals courses are aimed at beginners and we have sessions aimed at every step up in ability, all the way to the highly technical black routes. More advanced courses do have a minimum skills requirement and participants will need to take part in an assessment at the beginning of the session.
Every course requires that participants wear a helmet and you will not be allowed to begin without one. Of course, you will need a bike that is appropriate to the course in question, with some more advanced courses requiring a full suspension bike. The hire fleet at Dalby Forest Cycle Hub provides high quality full suspension and hardtail Trek bikes.
If you don’t have your own bike or you’d like to try out one of our Trek Rail, Fuel EX or Roscoe hire bikes, we offer a 20% discount off the normal charge for course participants, but please book early to ensure a bike is available. Ring 01751 460585 and mention which course you’re booked on. Find out more on the Dalby Forest Cycle Hub website.
If you're considering investing in a new bike, browse our range of bikes online and then visit us in store to talk to our friendly, expert team about which bike could be right for your style of riding.
These are our mountain bike courses for people aged 14 and over, with a higher minimum age in some cases. For children’s bike training, whether they’re first learning to ride or looking to improve, visit the website of our sister store Dalby Forest Cycle Hub.
Get to grips with the basics in our core skills course. This is aimed at people who are looking for beginner mountain bike lessons or the more experienced rider wanting to learn the building blocks for skill acquisition. Learn about weight shift, cornering, and front and rear wheel lifts with our coaches who will help you get the most from your riding.
Duration: 2.5 hours
Cost: £44pp
Open to all riders aged 14 and above. Recommended for beginner and intermediate riders.
This is a hugely popular course which helps riders learn good technique if they’re just starting out on their mountain bike or wanting to bring on their own skills. The Women-Only Introduction To Mountain Biking features a mixture of technique coaching and building up skills on the trails under the instruction of our excellent coaches.
Duration: 2.5hrs.
Cost: £44pp
Open to all female riders aged 14 and above. Recommended for beginner riders.
Another one of our most popular Dalby Forest coaching courses, this session will recap on core MTB techniques and also help participants learn how to take on drop-offs with confidence while maintaining flow on the trail and descents.
Duration: 2.5hrs
Cost: £44pp
Open to all riders aged 16 years and above
This is your chance to develop your techniques for jumps and drops. This course, which is based at Dixons Hollow and Adderstone Field, is a great introduction to getting your bike airborne to clear jumps and trail features, giving you the confidence to overcome the mental barriers that some face when trying to go big.
Duration: 2.5hrs
Cost: £55pp
Open to all riders aged over 14 years. Recommended for intermediate riders.
This is another popular Dalby Forest coaching course which will be focusing on those ascents and descents on the red trail. This course focuses on techniques including weight shift and attack position to develop that essential flow on the trail.
Duration: 2.5hrs.
Cost: £49pp
Open to all riders aged 15 years and above. Recommended for beginner riders looking to ride the red or develop red grade skills.
Enjoy a full day with a British Cycling coach to help you level up your descents on this downhill mountain bike course. After an initial briefing and skill assessment, your coach will be working with you to develop your ability to ride at speed on steep terrain. This course will be pushing black grade trails in small groups with a maximum of four riders.
Duration: 6hrs
Cost: £150pp
Open to all riders aged 18 years and above. Prerequisites: Some experience of riding black-graded trails and riders must use their own bike (not a hire bike).
Looking for skills sessions to meet a particular need? Our British Cycling-qualified coaches will work with you to design a course that’s tailored just for you. All levels and skills are welcome, whether it’s a one-to-one private coaching session, a corporate event, team-building activity, birthday parties or other celebration.
If you'd like to know more about our courses, call us on 01751 460585 for more information.
