Pendle Panthers - CSP BMX

18/07/2026

Today was our final session before a well earned summer break for the coaches and volunteers.

It was an exciting morning with the big reveal of the money raised for from the Pendle Panthers mountain bike challenge. There'll be an official post but thanks to everyone involved and who donated.

During today's sessions the novice group practiced boosting up the landing ramps of the back line, going the opposite direction. They also played on the flat track working on their balance and a quick intro to jumping with a small kicker.

Intermediates pushed themselves in linking skills together to retain their speed from pumping and using it to boost jumps and carry into corners etc. A challenging but fun session.

Experts re capped on last weeks cornering drills, pumping into and out of corners, finished with a bit of jumping in the back line, with a couple of riders hitting these jumps for the first time..excellent progress on both drills 👌

Riders of the week:

Novice: Lorenzo & Carter
Intermediate: Reuben & Fergus
Expert: Ted and Freddie

Although we're (un)officially on a break, there's still things going on so keep an eye on the groups and socials.

Track maintenance day tomorrow, so if you can spare some time to help and give back to the track, it would be great to see you. There may also be a ride-out or two.

One of our riders will be racing tomorrow in Blackpool for the final round of the Region BMX series, have a great day Jordan.

Have a great summer break with happy riding, holidaying and safe travels.

Big love

Pendle Panthers

17/07/2026

A gentle reminder that we’re refurbishing the bmx track between 10 am and 1 pm on Sunday. The track will be closed. Apologies for any inconvenience.

As always if you fancy giving us a hand you’d be very welcome

Thankyou

16/07/2026

11/07/2026

Some great riding at this morning's sessions, these riders get more amazing every week.

With plenty of hydration breaks, advertisement free, we battled the warm weather.

The novice group progressed their pumping building speed into the various track features. May sound like we do the same thing each week but this technique unlocks everything and is so important to progress further.

Intermediates were learning and practicing manuals on the stepup with a few progressing them to the tabletop. Some even did manual's back to back, great to see!

Experts spent today’s session practicing pick up manuals into small and then bigger rollers, then moved on to an old classic - pumping out of berms using the small tarmac track then onto the 180 degree berm on the main track.. well done everyone..

Riders of the week

Novices: George and Edward and everybody else in the group chat
Intermediate: Eesa and Ted G
Experts: Noah and Harley

Big thanks to all the volunteers inc. coaches, parents, riders and anyone else involved. We couldn't do this without you 🥰

Enjoy the sunshine and keep hydrated

Pendle Panthers

11/07/2026

Reyt guys. The dates been set, bring any shovels forks etc but most of all Enthusiasm!! I’m hoping it won’t be as warm but bring water to drink, if anyone has a watering can and some means of bringing water down please bring some, this will be used to bind the material to the track. Thank you 🙏

05/07/2026

Saturdays panthers session

Our novice group kicked things off with exercises to develop safe braking and balance. Then we moved to the track, practising pumping down the inside line. Finally, we put our put our pumping into a different context by riding the track in reverse. Fun was had by all and it was great to see the children getting better at timing their “squidge and push.” ROTW: Hugo and Chloe, who both listened brilliantly throughout the session.

The intermediates had fun in the rain working on Manuals and jumping. We broke down the movements of manuals and ensured the riders were covering their brakes to form good habits. We finished the session off jumping.
ROTW Arthur and Thaabit
The experts worked on pick up manuals. Starting off on the outside line and gradually moving down the features adding different combinations of pump, jump manual.
ROTW
Ed
A brilliant if damp morning. Loads of effort and progression.

28/06/2026

Another scorcher at Mandys on Saturday. The novice group started by working on core bike handling skills with Slalom, balance beam, stop box tight turns and sprints. They then went onto the main track to put their skills into practice. The intermediate group worked on jumping and had a high speed game of cops and robbers.
Experts started with a manuals recap, then onto jumping inside line table tops, moving onto the hip line into back line big jumps..

Riders of the week,
Novices George
Intermediates Ted
Experts Betsy and Bradley
Congrats to all the riders for full commitment in protective gear on a hot day.

20/06/2026

Is summer finally here? Certainly was at Pendle Panthers BMX this morning ☀️🥵

The novice group built on last week's pumping session adding in the best lines into the rollers and berms to carry speed. They then paired up to race one another, their favourite thing to do I think lol.

Intermediates did a few challenges by making things more difficult during full pedal laps, opposite foot forwards and pump laps. They also looked at the best line through the first berm with Bodi.

Experts started off with backwards pump laps on both lines, then adding in jumps and manuals to different features, finishing off with a little bit of jumping the back line, which seems to be a weekly staple in experts..
Jordan was rider of the week, putting in way more laps than the rest showing real passion to succeed..

Riders of the week, complete with new certificates (thanks Lisa 😀):

Novice: Lorenzo & Joe
Intermediate: Fergus & Archie
Experts: Jordan

A huge thanks to all our volunteers, parents and riders for coming.

And thanks to @ Barrowford Celtic for the parking measures in place this morning for their tournament, enjoy.

Enjoy your weekends and happy riding.

Pendle Panthers

14/06/2026

A full day of riding today for Pendle Panthers.

We started the day at Mandy's with our usual Saturday morning sessions.

Both the novice and intermediate groups worked on their pumping technique.

Pumping not only allows riders to get around the track without peddling but also helps improve a rider's speed which can be used when racing and jumping etc.

The experts worked on manual combinations, then a full half hour in jumping the back jump line, everyone made progress, and a couple are getting very close to jumping the biggest hit, the 3rd 👍 well done everyone.. see you next week..

Riders of the week
Novice George
Intermediate Ted & Theo
Experts Joey

This afternoon we headed over to BMX club to practice our gate starts and some cornering.

The session included some of our newer young riders, a member who can ride but has never done a gate and the usual seasoned racers. Everyone did great and walked away with some huge smiles.

A huge thanks to Mid Lancs for accomodating us whilst also being busy doing a fine job of preparing the track for the forthcoming region BMX regional round 6 next weekend.

Just to top things off we had Coby racing the Gravity Mini Rd2 DH mountain bike at Llangollen, well done.

Have a great weekend and happy cycling.

Pendle Panthers

07/06/2026

Wow, a mega busy one today! In fact, a busy weekend for cycling!!

Our Saturday morning sessions ran as usual this morning but due to coach commitments elsewhere we only ran the novice and intermediate sessions.

The Novices opened up with pumping and then a track walk identifying the various features of the BMX track and what they could potentially use them for. Each rider had a couple of cones to mark which they personally felt were important. This was great to see and hear them explain why, and what they have learnt in previous sessions. They then rode the track, using the various markers.

The intermediate group wanted to focus on jumping and picked a nice jump between the trees to practice on. Quite a few of our Experts joined this session and helped mentor and provide their experience on what could help.

Some great sessions, rider input and progress by all.

Riders of the week:

Novice: Olek & Seb
Intermediate: Nathaniel #860 and Seb #638 (as chosen by the Experts 😀).

Great to see the more experienced riders helping people.

Just to add to the list of helpers, Bodi joined us and did some well needed track repairs. Big thanks for that.

Following the morning coached sessions we had a few head over to Manchester BMX club to race their Super Saturday series round 4. Some great racing and plenty of fun and smiles. A great day out.

Tomorrow we have a number of riders heading to Danny Harts Descend bike park to race round 1 of the Summer Shredders. Have a great day.

I think we've pretty much got everything there 😜

Have a great weekend

Pendle Panthers