Mountain Bike Like A Champion by Ned Overend

Mountain Bike Like A Champion by Ned Overend

Improve your performance with these tips, techniques, and off-road tales from mountain biking legend Ned Overend.

At the 1990 world championships in Durango, Colorado, Thomas Frischknecht and I were locked in a dogfight. At the start of the fourth and final lap was a pitch of rocky, loose trail that went straight up the face of a ski run. My Swiss rival had been dismounting and running this climb while I stayed on my bike. On previous laps, I'd opened a little gap, so I knew this would be my chance. I attacked when Thomas got off again. He never caught me. To ride that steep trail, I had to use five climbing techniques. There's no reason why you can't make them part of your arsenal, too.

This book is loaded with Ned's secrets for a lifetime of great rides. It's destined to be a classic.--Juli Furtado, two-time world mountain bike champion

Ned Overend is the grand master of mountain biking. If you want to improve your skills, this is your source.--John Tomac, world mountain bike champion and 10-time national downhill champion

Edmund R. Burke, Ph.D., a leading expert on training and nutrition for bicyclists, worked with the U.S. national cycling team at the Olympic Training Center for more than 20 years. An endurance rider, he is currently professor and director of the exercise science program at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Ed Pavelka was executive editor of Bicycling magazine for 10 years and of Velo News for 8 years. He has written 20 bicycling books and holds two world records in ultra-marathon cycling. He is director of Internet content for Performance Bicycle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.