Ride With Us
Brief description about what ridings clinics are and who they’re for. Think of keywords such as mountain bike, women, small group learning, etc. This page includes Lessons/Coaching, Group Rides, Trail Building Days and Skills Clinics.
Rides, Coaching & Skills Clinics
Curious | Playful | Confident
These three words sum up our coaching philosophy. Whether you’re brand new to mountain biking or have been shredding double-blacks for years, your riding (and your love for singletrack) will benefit from keeping those three concepts alive in your riding.
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Curious
The thing that makes mountain biking so much fun is that the terrain is constantly changing. We encourage you to be CURIOUS about how your bike responds to those changes. There is no “right” way to mountain bike. Be curious about how little changes to your body position, speed, focus, and pressure change how you handle the trail. Don’t be afraid to play with little - or big - adjustments, for that’s the only way you’ll know what the result will be.
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Playful
Do you remember zooming your banana-seat coaster-brake bike around the neighborhood as a kid? When did we all get so serious? Mountain Biking should be FUN! During our instruction, we’ll remind you again and again to “get playful”, because when you focus too much on all the techniques and doing the “right” thing, your body stiffens up and it all goes to hell, and that’s not very much fun. Keep it playful. Have fun!
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Confident
A little instruction goes a long way toward building confidence - and confidence goes a long way toward better riding. It’s a cycle. If I get all up in my head and convince myself that I can’t make a technical climb, for example, I’m never going to make that technical climb, and in fact will quit before I even give it a real go. Being confident means you get out of your head and try what’s in front of you. We’ll never let you try any obstacle or feature that we don’t think you’re ready for - so have confidence in our assessment and believe you can do it! The other side of confidence is developing the skillset needed to ride the trails you want to ride. Once you learn and practice the foundational skills enough, you’ll have confidence to put them to the test on the trail.
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Progression not Perfection
This is a tough one for most women/femmes to embrace. Who doesn’t want to be perfect? (Me. Perfection is boring.) No matter how long you’ve been riding, you’ll never be “perfect”, so why make that a goal? The aim in our coaching is to show you PROGRESSION. Get a little bit better as the season goes on. That’s it. Just progression. Our curriculum for both group clinics and individual lessons is based on the science of progression. We introduce skills as building blocks - one at a time, and we don’t add another building block until you’re ready for it. This style of coaching helps us to not get overwhelmed or frustrated, and makes sure we still find mountain biking FUN!
Skills Clinics & Rides
Summer 2025
Our currently scheduled Skills Clinics & Rides are on the calendar below. If you see something that interests you, but you can’t make that time or date, please reach out to us. We’re open to adding more clinics this year if the demand is there!
Don’t have a bike? Thanks to a generous grant from an anonymous donor, we have three high-end full-suspension LIV bikes that you can demo. Contact us to see what we have available.
Group Rides
Tuesday Group Ride | Ridgway, CO | 4:00pm:
Join us every Tuesday for a FREE no-drop, social pace, women/femme only ride at the RAT Trails in Ridgway, Colorado.
Meet at the RAT parking lot on County Road 10. Wheels down at 4:00pm.
No-drop = we don’t leave anyone behind, even if you’re walking your bike the whole way.
Social pace = this isn’t a race - we ride at a carry-on-a-conversation pace.
Women/Femme = you identify as female, non-binary, or trans female. If you’re comfortable in this setting, your presence is celebrated.
Tuesday Post-Ride Social | Ridgway, CO:
After the ride, join us at the Colorado Boy Depot in Ridgway for a beverage and all-gender community social! (The dudes can come to this one. Unless they’re jerks.)
N/A beverages and local craft beer brewed on the spot are available for purchase.
Co-ed Rides | Western Slope, CO:
We hear you! Not all dudes are jerks. We’ll be working with our local chapter of COPMOBA to co-host some co-ed rides this summer in Ridgway and Montrose. There’s an excellent chance these rides will be followed by post-ride socials at a brewery. Check back here or on our socials for updates!
Skills Clinics
All of our clinics are capped at six participants each - that’s the sweet spot between being able to give each participant the individual attention you deserve and the fun of a group clinic setting. We also carefully screen all new registrations - if we don’t think the clinic you want to take is a good fit for your riding level, we’ll suggest another alternative. This allows the group to move forward with progression and makes sure you don’t get in over (or under) your head.
See our currently scheduled Skills Clinics on the calendar here. If you see something that interests you, but you can’t make that time or date, please reach out to us. We’re open to adding more clinics this year if the demand is there!
Don’t have a bike? Thanks to a generous grant from an anonymous donor, we have three high-end full-suspension LIV bikes that you can demo. Contact us to see what bikes we have available.
Lessons & Coaching
Not a fan of the group setting? We’ve got you. Contact us to book a private lesson to focus on one or a few specific skills.
Mechanic Clinics
Fix your own damn bike. That is all. Our mechanic clinics are hands-on (definitely bring your own bike!) and taught in a “just the facts” way. No geeking out or debating whether SRAM is superior to Shimano - just basic tuning and maintenance skills that we’ll do over and over until you feel confident. Even if you never work on your own bike again after attending one of these clinics, the fact that you understand how these systems work will make you a more confident rider.
