PROGRESSIVE DROPS

Riding natural or more technical trails is a great way of allowing your bike handling to keep progressing. It keeps you on your toes, makes you pay close attention to what’s coming up, and constantly challenges you in all the best ways. When making progress through rougher or less predictable ground you inevitably encounter different types of drops. Some of them are rollable slowly, others will be best tackled at speed. A lot of the time you won’t even know what lurks on the other side, so how do you handle that?

This month we’re going to look at drop offs specifically, and encourage you to think about the various types out there and what you should do differently on each one. Ultimately you want to get your riding to the stage where you can decide what to do at a moment's notice, so that even if you encounter an obstacle that you’ve never seen before you can execute the correct