Guidare la mountain bike

Basic technique and advanced notions. Route and race management. The mountain bike is the bicycle of young people, the bicycle that reinvents itself; almost a provocation for purists. "Where can you go with this bike?" Just ask the question and a new, different journey begins. The one inside the woods, towards the top of the mountains, well beyond the asphalt roads, as far as balance on two wheels is possible. Or on the narrow paths behind the house. But MTB requires new knowledge, skills and cunning. At your first outings it's okay to improvise, but as soon as you get passionate you have to get serious. It's not just a question of equipment, but even more so of riding technique. Written with the passion and expertise of those who have been pedaling MTB for over twenty years, this manual leads step by step first to the correct psychological attitude to off-road and trails, and then illustrates how the most difficult routes and sections should be tackled, up to to arrive at competition techniques and the sophisticated use of technological instrumentation.