Top 5 Essential Cross Country Mountain Biking Skills

XC could be the most physically demanding MTB discipline, long distances and massive climbs are ridden at speed on lightweight bikes with not much travel and geometry designed with precision in mind, making the speeds XC riders descend at even more impressive! Here are Rich's top 5 tips for riding cross country.

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