Mountain Biking

Before going mountain biking it is very important that you gather the right equipment. You would need: A helmet with a chin strap that can be tightened and untightened and a bike with working gears and brakes (if you are going out in the dark then it is safer to have lights on your bike). It is essential that you wear a helmet for safety.
Before we went, we were shown how to go down hill on grass and mud without skidding, but still going fast! Some other advise our instructor gave us was change into the lowest gears when going up hill and it made it a lot easier!
When cycling along the road be careful to stay on the left and give way to cars. The road is quite long and there is a steep ditch along the side of it so we had to be careful not to cycle into it.
If it is raining, you get very wet and stuff gets stuck in the chain, like twigs and leaves.
Afterwards we had to hose down the bikes and put them away, our instructor decided to hose us too!!!
By Hannah P7C