HOW TO... HIT DROPS WITH CONFIDENCE
Whether manmade or natural, drops are a feature you’ll find on many trails. Some won’t reveal themselves until you start to ride faster – so that what you once rolled off, you now have to jump – but at some point, we all have to face them. Here, Grant ‘Chopper’ Fielder takes us through the kind of natural drops you’re likely to encounter on your local trails, while over the page, Matt Jones explains how to step this up and tackle the bigger manmade ones you’ll come across in bike parks.
1 NATURAL DROPS
about it, a drop is technically half a jump –
