What is RideLogic?

I created the RideLogic bike fit and skills system to help you live your best life through mountain biking. 

This system comes from my 34 years as a rider/racer and 21 years as a professional skills coach. It covers everything you need:

• Riding skills boiled down to simple fundamentals and movements. You won’t believe how easy riding can be. 
• Bike selection, fitting, and setup based on biomechanics and inarguable riding dynamics. 
• Mental, emotional, and spiritual habits. You’re only as effective on a mountain bike as you are as a human. We don’t skip the human part. 
• Mobility, strength, and fitness. Our approach is simple and actually doable by real people. 
• Choosing trails, interpreting terrain, and finding Flow.
• Proven training plans for optimal fitness, as well as access to full-time personalized training with a professional coach. 
• Creating true and lasting joy in your life, using your bike as the vehicle.
• Customized user paths to navigate the learning you seek.

Demoing emphatic riding in a full-day class. Every student nailed this line.

I teach the entire human. You’re more than a bundle of muscle memory. You’re a human being with thoughts, emotions, and past experiences. I understand the best way to help you ride (and live) better is to train the complete you.

RideLogic is simple. Any coach who gives you 76 steps for jumping doesn’t fully understand jumping or teaching. Rather than forcing you to ride down the trail with a decision tree of complications and critical timing, I make it simple to get out of your head and into your body. This is the most direct path to experiencing Flow. I base every riding skill on simple fundamental movement patterns. This makes everything easy to learn and infinitely improve over time.

RideLogic is coherent. I don’t believe in silos. Everything I teach makes sense as a whole. I teach universal human movement patterns that you refine every day. Then I teach you how to use those same movements on your bike. I’ll show you how to set your bike up to fit your body. The mental and emotional skills I teach serve you both on the bike and off.

RideLogic is scalable. Every other approach to riding teaches “beginner, intermediate and advanced” skills. Each level is limiting, and to progress from one to the next requires unlearning habits you just fought to learn. This leads riders from one plateau to another. How terribly confusing, frustrating, and potentially dangerous. I don’t believe there are levels to techniques. There are simply core fundamentals. The more refined a rider’s fundamentals, the faster, smoother, and safer they can ride more challenging terrain.

Once basic cornering makes sense, we apply the same notions to shredding berms:

RideLogic is measurable. Every detail of the RideLogic bike selection and setup method is backed by biomechanics and math. Everything we do when riding is boiled down to simple movements that are easily measured and assessed. When it comes time for a go/no-go decision on whether to ride off a 20-inch ledge, the decision is clear and simple. Full yes or full no. Say goodbye to the days of maybes and hoping for the best. Your body and spirit are too precious to roll the dice with.

Ridelogic is logically proven. There are a lot of voices in our sport — all telling you their complicated “method” is right and all the others are wrong. Convoluted or dogmatic explanations can be overcompensation for a lack of true understanding. Some of these people may ride at a high level, but they lack the awareness and ability to effectively teach skills. We’ve run our ideas by every physicist, physician, engineer, psychologist, physical therapist, clergyperson, mechanic, and athlete we can find, and everyone agrees: RideLogic simply makes sense.

RideLogic is built by a professional coach with a background in information design. Before I committed to this mission 21 years ago, I enjoyed two very successful careers that led to a Pulitzer Prize for me and millions of dollars for my clients. My entire career has been about making complicated things simple in writing, infographics, software design, video and business — and that mindset created RideLogic.

To air is human, to land safely is divine. Supervising some smooth flight:

RideLogic is the industry standard. I founded Lee Likes Bikes in 2002. In 2005 I wrote Mastering Mountain Bike Skills. Now in its third edition with hundreds of thousands of copies sold worldwide, it’s the definitive book on the subject. Over the past two decades, my ever-improving curriculum has served as the industry standard, being taught to tens of thousands of riders and thousands of coaches.

RideLogic lives and breathes. I continue teaching, learning, and improving. Anyone who’s codified their system and held it inert has closed their minds to a more complete understanding of the sport. Not me! I follow the scientific method around here. I test hypotheses all the time, and I constantly fold new learnings into what I do. You’ll notice we use the terms “teach-learn” and “learn-teach.” When minds are open, teaching and learning always happen together.

We are improving mountain bike culture. There are many wonderful things about the mountain bike community. We love our people! But there’s also a toxic, exclusive bro thing going on out there. Turned off by that? So am I. Let’s change it together. In our classes, our media, this site, and on the trail we are creating a loving, supportive environment for everyone who wants to find joy on a bike.

Everything I teach makes you a stronger, more capable, healthier, and happier person.

Welcome!

I am so committed to great riding, I invented the RipRow to teach perfect muscle memory. After some RipRow instruction, which is available in most classes with Lee, students get very good at riding — very quickly: