This challenge can be taken on anytime you feel like you need motivation to work on your bike skills. Fall, Spring, during injury, illness or a period you are limited in how far you can get away from home. It could also be while you are at a great spot for skills practice.
The 30 day bike skill challenge – 10 minutes a day
Log 10 minutes of skill work daily for 30 days. It works best if you put a specific skill or maneuver as your goal and do a bit of pre/post measurement. We have also seen it be looser without an obvious outcome goal aside from going to your practice location and playing for 10 minutes. You might be surprised what happens!
Get started and please tell us about it!
Put it on your schedule and give it a try! (And tag us on Instagram to get entered to win some prizes over the month.)
What kind of bike skills count for your 10 minutes?
It could be anything! We don’t just mean rad singletrack and wheelies. It could look like:
- Wheel lifts using parking lot markers (the paint strips or curbs)
- Taking your water bottle in and out of the cage
- Remounts and dismounts
- Cornering of literally any kind (for cyclocross video here)
- Trackstanding (you can even do this inside!)
- Taking off armwarmers (or legwarmers!)
- Log hops – 5 steps video is here
- Wheelies / manuals
- Mechanical skills like practicing fixing a flat tire
- Riding a pump track or rollers (video)
- Learning to Jump on a small ramp or kicker jump (video)
- Learning to hop barriers on a cyclocross bike
Bike skills project Videos
To get you thinking, we’re dropping a few of our favourite Bike Skills Project videos here, but feel free to do other drills.
