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Might have left it a bit late but we’ve not been on the bikes much this year and would probably benefit from someone telling us how to ride properly before we go to the Alps.
Any recommendations for Glentress / Tweed valley based?
Ridelines?
Cheers
Dirt school
Dirt school
Dirt school
You'll get a run of ridelines suggestions now but dirt school.
Cheers, they're the 2 I know of.
Are Dirt School particularly better or just that you 3 happen to have used them? Unfortunately they don't have availability but ridelines do have a private morning available for when we want.
Probably much of a muchness used dirtschool more.
I used both, preferred Ridelines
We did a private Ridelines, 2 of us.
No complaints and the techniques we learned from Andy meant we are able to ride pretty much any trail in the Valley.
I still ride with Andy's voice in my ear 😂
Andy Barlow at Dirt School. Worth every penny.
I've had a private lesson with DirtSchool any years ago - it was incredibly useful and Andy was a great coach.
I've also done my MBL 2 course with Ridelines and found Allan to be very good as well.
Not going to help but either of them will do a great job.
Andy Barlow at Dirt School. Worth every penny.
+1
We've booked Ridelines cheers.
Just because they happen to have a morning free next week that we can make.
I keep meaning to get around to some coaching, it's something we want to do a bit more of so might do another couple of sessions with them if it goes well.
Are there really only the two providers there?
Seems like an opportunity for another, considering the depth of talent and number of pros/semi-pros in the area.
Depends what you want. It's a while since I've been with either, but, to me Dirt School felt like coaching, you get a lot of useful things that you can take forward and practice and learn from if you apply it. Whereas Ridelines felt like teaching, I got less but it was much more immediately rooted and I went away an already better rider but with less tools to become better still.
I'm totally not a practicer, I ride bikes for fun and when I get better it's usually because I'm enojoying it, so how that played out was, jumping is my weakest skill because I'm not into it so I don't do it much. So I did the dirtschool day to learn how to jump, and I kinda did, but then I straight away went back to not jumping much because I'm not into it, and so I didn't really gain much. The tools basically got left on the shelf. Whereas when I did a similar day with Ridelines I came away from it already enjoying jumps a bit more, so I did more jumps- but I didn't really feel like I had much momentum.
Different approaches, both good.
