Learn to show off with Ryan Leech

Whether it’s stone-flicking with the front wheel, feeble grinds or brake-free skids, there’s always someone in the group who’s good at them – and it’s usually not any of us. Now, trials star and skills tutor, Ryan Leech has put together a video course (similar to his Learn to Wheelie in 30 days, and Ryan’s Baseline Balance Skills courses) on his site and he’s giving it away for free for Christmas.

Includes sneaky tricks to play on riding pals

Here’s a short video to give you some idea…

Can’t see the link? Click here.

There’s a whole raft of free video lessons, teaching you everything from crank-flips (shinpads advised) to ghost-riding. None of them will make you faster or more athletic, but all of them are good fun to master and impressive to behold.

Kind of like this?

The courses can all be found here on Ryan’s Website

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)