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Mountain Bike!: A Manual of Beginning to Advanced Technique
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Product Description If you’re looking for the ultimate mountain bike guide for the totally honed, welcome to William (Not Bill) Nealy’s world. Nealy’s expertise (acquired through years of crash and burn) enables him to translate hard-learned reflexes and instinctive responses into easy-to-understand drawings: drawings that will make you a much better rider. Nealy’s cartoon illustrations combine insight with humor and knowledge with humiliation. So, if you are ready to shorten the learning curve and master the advanced techniques of mountain biking, get ready to have some laughs and log a few miles with William Nealy. Amazon.com Review At first glance, you may think that Nealy isn't serious about teaching riding skills. The hand-printed pages--colored with hilarious animations--give the guide a comic-book appearance. But instead of assaulting his readers with dry chapters on technique, Nealy leads his readers on an entertaining tour of the mountain-biking world and how to survive it. He explains how to bunny hop, how to downhill, how to ride powerfully, and how to crash with style. He also includes a "Stupid Bike Tricks" section. One trick, The Invisible Mountain Biker, explains how to jump off of your bike and let it glide, unmanned, across the path of frightened hikers. Note that Nealy advises against heaving your bike into a crowd of hikers. Existing laws prohibit it. Whether you're a pro who's ready to soar through flaming hoops, or the neophyte who's merely searching for the pedals, Nealy's guide is bound to be fun--and isn't that what mountain biking is all about? --Ben Tiffany From the Back Cover If you're looking for the ultimate mountain bike guide for the totally honed, welcome to William (Not Bill) Nealy's world. Nealy's expertise (acquired through years of crash-and-burn) enables him to translate hard-learned reflexes and instinctive responses into easy-to-understand drawings: drawings that will make you into a much better rider. Nealy's cartoon illustrations combine insight with humor and knowledge with humiliation. So, if you are ready to shorten the learning curve and master the advanced techniques of mountain biking, get ready to have some laughs and log a few miles with William Nealy. (7 x 10, 176 pages, illustrated) About the Author Author/Illustrator William "Not-Bill" Nealy lives in the woods outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his editor and permanent girlfriend Holland "Dr. H" Wallace and an assortment of dogs, lizards, pigs, snakes, turtles and amphibians. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The ultimate test for good leg technique is steep “pitch climbing.” While humping up a multi-mile fire-road upgrade is a test of mere endurance and shifting strategy, climbing a short, steep, irregularly surfaced uphill section of trail requires the rider to dynamically combine maximum power, maximum shock absorption, superior shifting and advanced lean techniques perfectly to reach the top still on the pedals. There are two divergent philosophies on optimal body position for serious climbing situations: 1) Climbing Seated School―these guys say to hunker down on the seat and pedal furiously to top any hill. 2) Climbing Standing School―these guys insist the climbing upright is the one true way to conquer all steep uphill stretches. Both techniques work pretty well and the rider who can master both styles will effectively double his/her options for approaching all climbing situations. Both styles have their drawbacks as well as strengths. Climbing seated. Arguably the best routine climbing technique, especially on loose surfaces, because your body position is centered and stays very stable, ensuring excellent traction. Climbing standing. Climbing upright successfully requires mastery of two basic principles: 1) Not shifting too low initially and during the climb, thereby losing traction and/or leg strength from spinning the pedals at excessive RPMs, and 2) having a perfect
