All-Gender Cornering Clinic: Do you get hung up, lose speed, or lose control in corners? Maybe you’d like to figure out how to carry more exit speed? This clinic takes a deep dive into the skills needed for flat corners, berms, and even off-camber turns.
We’ll cover the following skills: body position & weight distribution, braking, and line choice. We’ll start by separating each one out to introduce and practice by themselves before putting them back together. We’ll also investigate the skills of inclination (leaning), angulation (bike/body separation), and rotation and how to treat those like “dimmer switches” to turn up or down depending on the shape, size, and speed of each corner.

Women’s Cornering Clinic: Do you get hung up, lose speed, or lose control in corners? Maybe you’d like to figure out how to carry more exit speed? This clinic takes a deep dive into the skills needed for flat corners, berms, and even off-camber turns.
We’ll cover the following skills: body position & weight distribution, braking, and line choice. We’ll start by separating each one out to introduce and practice by themselves before putting them back together. We’ll also investigate the skills of inclination (leaning), angulation (bike/body separation), and rotation and how to treat those like “dimmer switches” to turn up or down depending on the shape, size, and speed of each corner.

Women's Fundamentals Group Clinic: Gain control and confidence on the trail.
MTB Skills Factory presents a clinic to help you get started with intentional skills! This clinic is targeted for beginners who are looking to level up their bike control, feel more confident, and tackle more terrain safely. We will cover body positioning, braking techniques, efficient climbing, basic cornering skills, and speed control techniques with lot’s of practice time on trails in DuPont State Park

Visit MTB Skills Factory at the DuPont Forest Festival. Chat with us at the expo about how mountain bike skills instruction can help you ride better and have more fun. We're also hosting a kids mountain bike obstacle course with open play time at 11:30am and 1pm.

Building Blocks - Wheel Lifts: Break through to Intermediate Level Riding! Build your skills through learning or perfecting maneuvers that will help you have more fun, be stable on the trails, and increase your confidence on all terrain types. These shorter, bite-size clinics help you learn the maneuvers that lay the groundwork beyond the most basic fundamentals, so that you are prepared to learn new skills like jumping & drops or tackle new trails.

Building Blocks -Braking: Break through to Intermediate Level Riding! Build your skills through learning or perfecting maneuvers that will help you have more fun, be stable on the trails, and increase your confidence on all terrain types. These shorter, bite-size clinics help you learn the maneuvers that lay the groundwork beyond the most basic fundamentals, so that you are prepared to learn new skills like jumping & drops or tackle new trails.

Women’s Fundamentals for Jumping (at Chestnut Mountain Nature Park): Clinic for beginner-intermediate riders to dial in fundamental skills that will make ALL riding more fun, but specifically are important when you want to learn to JUMP. Focus on these skills FIRST so that you’re ready for a jumping lesson later.

Women’s Intro to Drops at Dirt Skrrts Bike Bash at Kolo Bike Park: Want to tackle drops at the bike park or natural drops out on the trail with confidence? This intro to drops clinic will give you to tools and ability you need to intentionally ride drops of different size or shape, with different slope approaches and landings, when approaching at different speeds. We’ll focus on the fundamental skills of press, poke, and absorb to be able to adjust how much we use each for different drops.

Women’s Intro to Jumping, Take Flight with Intentional Skills: Have you been eyeing the great jumps in the area and wonder: How do you even start doing that? Rather than just launching down the trail and hoping for the best, wouldn’t be awesome if you had a plan and understanding of the elemental skills needed to jump in control?

Maybe you are already hitting the jump lines but are having inconsistent outcomes. Sometimes it goes fine, but other times it feels weird and out of control. This intro to jumping clinic is designed to teach you the skills needed to evaluate the size and shape of any jump and understand how to tweak your skill application based on your speed.

Building Blocks - Rollers: Break through to Intermediate Level Riding! Build your skills through learning or perfecting maneuvers that will help you have more fun, be stable on the trails, and increase your confidence on all terrain types. These shorter, bite-size clinics help you learn the maneuvers that lay the groundwork beyond the most basic fundamentals, so that you are prepared to learn new skills like jumping & drops or tackle new trails.

Women’s Intro to Jumping, Take Flight with Intentional Skills: Have you been eyeing the great jumps at Berm Park and wonder: How do you even start doing that? Rather than just launching down the trail and hoping for the best, wouldn’t be awesome if you had a plan and understanding of the elemental skills needed to jump in control?

Maybe you are already hitting the jump lines but are having inconsistent outcomes. Sometimes it goes fine, but other times it feels weird and out of control. This intro to jumping clinic is designed to teach you the skills needed to evaluate the size and shape of any jump and understand how to tweak your skill application based on your speed.

Intermediate / Advanced Technical Trail Riding: This clinic is designed to help you break out of your intermediate level trail rider plateau. We’ll dive into the skills needed to tackle technical trail features with intentional control, allowing you to tackle roots, rocks, steeps, and off-camber trails with confidence.

Women’s Group Ride with Whitney (FREE): Join Coach Whitney Houck for this intermediate level group ride. Whitney will share a few riding tips along the way, but we’ll mostly just go for a ride. We’ll gather at the parking lot and make the pedal up to the Berm Park zone. We’ll ride a few laps there before continuing up the Papertown Express trail to the top of the mountain. We’ll ride down Ladybird or Wildcat (or maybe both!) back down to the Berm Park zone, before descending down Bear Country trail to the parking lot.

Intro to Jumping, Take Flight with Intentional Skills: Have you been eyeing the great jumps at Berm Park and wonder: How do you even start doing that? Rather than just launching down the trail and hoping for the best, wouldn’t be awesome if you had a plan and understanding of the elemental skills needed to jump in control?

Maybe you are already hitting the jump lines but are having inconsistent outcomes. Sometimes it goes fine, but other times it feels weird and out of control. This intro to jumping clinic is designed to teach you the skills needed to evaluate the size and shape of any jump and understand how to tweak your skill application based on your speed.

Buildable Skills: Break through to intermediate level riding. Build your skills while learning new maneuvers that will help you have more fun, be stable on the trails, and increase your confidence on all terrain types. These bite-size maneuvers lay the groundwork beyond the most basic fundamentals, so that you are prepared to learn new skills like jumping & drops or tackle new trails.
–Wheel Lifts (front, rear, level lift, pedaling wheel lift, etc)
–Slow speed maneuvers (ratcheting, track stand, slow speed tight turns)
–Rollers (absorbing for speed & stability, pumping for speed & fun)
–Braking for corners or steeps (want to go faster w/ confidence? Learn your brakes better–which one(s), when & how much to use!)

Intermediate Group Ride with Josh (FREE): Join our Head Coach Josh Whitmore for this intermediate level group ride. Josh will share a few riding tips along the way, but we’ll mostly just go for a ride. We’ll gather at the parking lot and make the pedal up to the Berm Park zone. We’ll ride a few laps there before continuing up the Papertown Express trail to the top of the mountain. We’ll ride down Ladybird or Wildcat (or maybe both!) back down to the Berm Park zone, before descending down Bear Country trail to the parking lot.

Fundamentals Group Clinic: Gain control and confidence on the trail.
MTB Skills Factory presents a clinic to help you get started with intentional skills! This clinic is targeted for beginners who are looking to level up their bike control, feel more confident, and tackle more terrain safely. We will cover body positioning, braking techniques, efficient climbing, basic cornering skills, and speed control techniques with lot’s of laps at the Berm Park zone of Chestnut Mountain for Practice!

Women’s Intro to Jumping, Take Flight with Intentional Skills: Have you been eyeing the great jumps at Kanuga and wonder: How do you even start doing that? Rather than just launching down the trail and hoping for the best, wouldn’t be awesome if you had a plan and understanding of the elemental skills needed to jump in control? Maybe you are already hitting the jump lines but are having inconsistent outcomes. Sometimes it goes fine, but other times it feels weird and out of control. This intro to jumping clinic is designed to teach you the skills needed to evaluate the size and shape of any jump and understand how to tweak your skill application based on your speed.

Women’s Cornering Clinic: Do you get hung up, lose speed, or lose control in corners? Maybe you’d like to figure out how to carry more exit speed? This clinic takes a deep dive into the skills needed for flat corners, berms, and even off-camber turns.
We’ll cover the following skills: body position & weight distribution, braking, and line choice. We’ll start by separating each one out to introduce and practice by themselves before putting them back together. We’ll also investigate the skills of inclination (leaning), angulation (bike/body separation), and rotation and how to treat those like “dimmer switches” to turn up or down depending on the shape, size, and speed of each corner.

Building Blocks - Slow Speed Maneuvers: Break through to Intermediate Level Riding! Build your skills through learning or perfecting maneuvers that will help you have more fun, be stable on the trails, and increase your confidence on all terrain types. These shorter, bite-size clinics help you learn the maneuvers that lay the groundwork beyond the most basic fundamentals, so that you are prepared to learn new skills like jumping & drops or tackle new trails.

Building Blocks - Wheel Lifts: Break through to Intermediate Level Riding! Build your skills through learning or perfecting maneuvers that will help you have more fun, be stable on the trails, and increase your confidence on all terrain types. These shorter, bite-size clinics help you learn the maneuvers that lay the groundwork beyond the most basic fundamentals, so that you are prepared to learn new skills like jumping & drops or tackle new trails.

Pisgah Project Day - Volunteer Opportunity: Join us for the biggest volunteer project day of the year in Pisgah National Forest! We’re taking the day off work and joining the collaborative efforts of all of the volunteer organizations that maintain trails in Pisgah for one giant day of projects to maintain trails, pick up trash, bridge construction, and more. Join us on a trail maintenance project and at the after-party at Oskar Blues!

Women’s Cornering Clinic: Do you get hung up, lose speed, or lose control in corners? Maybe you’d like to figure out how to carry more exit speed? This clinic takes a deep dive into the skills needed for flat corners, berms, and even off-camber turns.
We’ll cover the following skills: body position & weight distribution, braking, and line choice. We’ll start by separating each one out to introduce and practice by themselves before putting them back together. We’ll also investigate the skills of inclination (leaning), angulation (bike/body separation), and rotation and how to treat those like “dimmer switches” to turn up or down depending on the shape, size, and speed of each corner.

Women’s Intro to Jumping, Take Flight with Intentional Skills: Have you been eyeing the great jumps at Kanuga and wonder: How do you even start doing that? Rather than just launching down the trail and hoping for the best, wouldn’t be awesome if you had a plan and understanding of the elemental skills needed to jump in control? Maybe you are already hitting the jump lines but are having inconsistent outcomes. Sometimes it goes fine, but other times it feels weird and out of control. This intro to jumping clinic is designed to teach you the skills needed to evaluate the size and shape of any jump and understand how to tweak your skill application based on your speed.

Intro to Drops with Guest Coach: Jess Hana (@jessthemaker) If you are a mountain biker and on Instagram, chances are that you follow @jessthemaker. Jess makes some of the best funny videos about mountain biking that we can all relate to. Did you know that Jess is also a highly trained, experienced, and high quality skills instructor? We’re partnering with Jess to bring her coaching expertise (and humor) to offer this Intro to Drops clinic.

Looking to tackle the wooden drops in the skills area at Kanuga or eyeing up the rock drops on Hemlock Epoch? Learn how to modify your technique to safely tackle drops with different angle take-offs and landings, when approaching at different speeds. This clinic will start with fundamentals in the skills area and work up to intermediate level drops out on the trails.

Intro to Drops with Guest Coach: Jess Hana (@jessthemaker) If you are a mountain biker and on Instagram, chances are that you follow @jessthemaker. Jess makes some of the best funny videos about mountain biking that we can all relate to. Did you know that Jess is also a highly trained, experienced, and high quality skills instructor? We’re partnering with Jess to bring her coaching expertise (and humor) to offer this Intro to Drops clinic.

Looking to tackle the wooden drops in the skills area at Kanuga or eyeing up the rock drops on Hemlock Epoch? Learn how to modify your technique to safely tackle drops with different angle take-offs and landings, when approaching at different speeds. This clinic will start with fundamentals in the skills area and work up to intermediate level drops out on the trails.

Meet and Greet: If you are a mountain biker and on Instagram, chances are that you follow @jessthemaker. Jess makes some of the best funny videos about mountain biking that we can all relate to. Jess is in NC for a few days and wants to hang out with YOU!

Short Presentation: “How I became an accidental content creator and how to have more fun with your mountain biking.”

We’ll also have plenty of social time to hang out.

Women’s Intro to Jumping, Take Flight with Intentional Skills: Have you been eyeing the great jumps at Kanuga and wonder: How do you even start doing that? Rather than just launching down the trail and hoping for the best, wouldn’t be awesome if you had a plan and understanding of the elemental skills needed to jump in control? Maybe you are already hitting the jump lines but are having inconsistent outcomes. Sometimes it goes fine, but other times it feels weird and out of control. This intro to jumping clinic is designed to teach you the skills needed to evaluate the size and shape of any jump and understand how to tweak your skill application based on your speed.

Women’s Fundamentals for Jumping: Clinic for beginner-intermediate riders to dial in fundamental skills that will make ALL riding more fun, but specifically are important when you want to learn to JUMP. Focus on these skills FIRST so that you’re ready for a jumping lesson later.