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Cycling Skills Clinic and Training Sessions at Davanti Cycling in Boulder, Colorado

Explore the bike-rider synergy

Why learning and practice riding skills is important:

  1. Ensure safe riding for yourself and others riding with you.
  2. Improve your confidence, control and balance on the bike
  3. Improve your bike handling ability
  4. Expand your comfort zone on the bike and in a group
  5. Learn how to react and empower you to command control avoiding freezing and panicking that can make things worse

Last but not least: The best rider is not always the strongest. Ability and skill can make you the winner.

LEVEL I
You will learn the following skills:
LEVEL II
You will learn the following skills:
  1. Entering/Exiting Pedals

  2. Riding a Straight Line
    • Riding while standing
    • One Handed Riding and bucket drill
    • Taking a drink
    • Getting Food from Jersey Pocket
    • Riding while looking back
    • Tire Sweeping
    • Riding to the Side
  3. Cornering (3 techniques: no pedal, pedaling, countersteering), cornering in pairs side by side with both hands on the HB

  4. Contact and maintaining control (only in pair and straight line)

  5. Wheel touching (just mention how to react )

  6. Paceline in a group (single and double line) – static

  7. Basic and Emergency Braking
  1. Track Stand

  2. Riding with no hands

  3. Cornering with 1 hand

  4. Cornering in pairs in one hand on the partner’s shoulder

  5. Contact and maintaining control in corners

  6. Wheel Touching – practice

  7. Echelon

  8. Continuous Echelon

  9. Large Group Echelons

  10. Time Trial Start

  11. Time Trial Turnarounds

  12. Taking a Feed & Musette

  13. Changing clothes keep riding with no hands

  14. Caravan Drills

  15. Pick items up off the ground

  16. Putting items on the ground

  17. Jumping Obstacles (Bunny Hops)

  18. Tumbling



Uphill and Downhill Skill Clinic

Date: Sunday May 23, Sunday July 18
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Meeting Place: Davanti Cycling Center, 2020 Pearl St. suite B, Boulder
Cost: $29/person

2010 Level I Skill Clinic Calendar

Level I skill clinic:
Date: Saturday May 8
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Meeting Place: Parking Lot inside Boulder Reservoir - 5565 N 51st St
Cost: $89/person


Purchase of USCF 1 day racing license is required to attend.

2010 Level II Skill Clinic Calendar
(coming soon)

2010 Skill Training Sessions Calendar:

May:
  • Every Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. - Riding a Straight Line
    (includes all the skills listed under number 1 and 2 in the Skills Table for Level I)
  • Every Thursday at 5:00 p.m.- Cornering
July
  • Tuesday July 20 and 27 at 5:00 p.m. - Riding a Straight Line (includes all the skills listed under number 1 and 2 in the Skills Table for Level I)
  • Thursday July 22 and 29 at 5:00 p.m.: - Cornering
August (coming soon)

Details

  • Meet at:Parking lot of Niwot High School 8989 East Niwot Road Niwot, Colorado 80503 -

  • Cost: $19/person/session - drop in is allowed

  • For more info email: luisa@davanticycling.com or call 1-888-348-5228

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