Ladies AllRide Mountain Bike Skills

Ladies AllRide Mountain Bike Skills Est. 2010 - Women's mountain bike skills camps and retreats dedicated to building community around a life-changing sport. Let’s All Ride together soon! Trust us!

We help riders elevate their skills, have fun and get rad on mountain bikes. We welcome ALL walks of life - WFNB over 18. Est. 2003 ~ AllRide is really a message: We should ALL RIDE bikes to experience the joy, fun and life lessons bikes can bring into our lives. We want to help more people experience the power of mountain biking because it’s an exciting and challenging sport that is good for the mind, body and spirit and can truly change lives. ALL abilities, ALL skin colors, ALL body types, ALL fitness levels, LGBTQ+ non-binary, ALL walks of life, we want to see ALL people discover what they are capable of using mountain bikes as a tool. Professional mountain bike skills coach Lindsey Richter (formerly Voreis) has been coaching for over a decade and started Ladies AllRide in 2010. Along with her business partner Meredith Brandt and their team of awesome coaches, they aim to grow the presence of women in mountain bike communities across the globe through educational and motivational mountain bike skills camps. www.ladiesallride.com

Mountain biking is so much more than just riding a bike, it's a life-changing sport that challenges us and can show us what we're capable of (on and off the bike). It's a sport that can take us to spectacular places and it has brought so many awesome people into our lives. We aim to share this sport and inspire as many people who identify as women as possible to ALL RIDE bikes and live a life filled with adventure, self-confidence and fun. Ladies AllRide!! www.ladiesallride.com

We also offer private coaching for men, women and children through: www.gritclinics.com and Girls AllRide youth programs. Why take a clinic? No matter what skill level you're at, you can ALWAYS learn more. We will have you more excited about mountain biking than you ever thought possible. We teach you how to give your bikes LIFE!

🔥 When I shared what the mountain bike has taught me over three decades, your comments were so beautiful they helped ins...
09/15/2026

🔥 When I shared what the mountain bike has taught me over three decades, your comments were so beautiful they helped inspire this post. 💗

Different trails. Different goals. Different reasons for riding. Every one of them counts.

🚵‍♀️ We hope the mountain bike teaches you to ride your ride. To let fun be enough. To stop measuring yourself against anyone else. To start small, build your skills, quiet the negative self-talk and trust that your way of being a mountain biker is enough. 👏

At Ladies AllRide, we teach skills. But our camps have always been about more than bikes. They’re places to practice courage, find community, discover what you’re capable of and remember that you can do hard things. 💪

😩 The struggle is real sometimes.

🙅‍♀️ So is our strength.

What has the mountain bike taught YOU? Tell us below. Your lesson might inspire the next one! 💪💗

Hey Bend, OR PEEPS!!! LISTEN UP!!Are you just getting into mountain biking? This 3-week series coming up from our sister...
09/10/2026

Hey Bend, OR PEEPS!!! LISTEN UP!!

Are you just getting into mountain biking?

This 3-week series coming up from our sister company, Grit Clinics: Mountain Bike Instruction is perfect for you!

Your Grit Clinics coach will get you started with all the key foundational MTB skills you need. You’ll feel more confident setting up your bike, shifting, using your seat dropper, climbing, downhill cornering, braking, and navigating small trail obstacles after instruction from Grit Clinics.

This is the perfect, no pressure, no judgement setting to feel more comfortable on your mountain bike and meet some new friends!

Join us this Fall!
Wednesday 5:00-7:00pm
Sept. 23, 30, & Oct 7
Cost: $235
More info: [email protected]
Register here: https://www.gritclinics.com/2026-bend-bike-clinics.html #101201

I started racing in the ’90s, when we used “toe clips.” They were cages with straps that we shoved our feet into. How di...
09/10/2026

I started racing in the ’90s, when we used “toe clips.” They were cages with straps that we shoved our feet into. How did we get out of those when we crashed?! 😂

Then came “clipless” pedals, the oddest name in cycling because YOU LITERALLY CLIP IN. 🤣 They’re called clipless because they replaced toe clips. A cleat on your shoe locks into a compatible pedal.

For 20 years I swore I would NEVER ride flats. Not being attached sounded dangerous! I unclipped quickly, never thought about my feet and saw no reason to change.

Then knee surgery forced me to coach on flats. I was super pi**ed for about a year. 😂 But I stuck with it, and I never went back.

Here’s why:

1️⃣ MADE ME MORE CONSCIOUS OF MY TECHNIQUE
I coached women who were on flats but didn’t truly understand how to help them stay connected. Without cleats, mistakes became instant feedback. On technical climbs I’d instinctively pull up and send my knee toward my chin! I had to learn foot pressure, how to scoop the pedal up, ratchet and time my pedal strokes.

2️⃣ MORE CONFIDENCE
I LOVE chunky technical climbs on unfamiliar trails. Clipped in, I worried about stalling and not getting a foot out. On flats I know I can step off, so I’m willing to try more awkward moves without fear taking over.

3️⃣ MADE ME MORE AWARE OF DRIVING THROUGH MY FEET
Flats made my feet active participants instead of passengers. I can feel pressure travel through the pedals and into the tires. My moves are more deliberate, my traction control is better and my riding is more playful.

Can you do all of this clipped in? Yes! I just prefer flats now, and I also don't like twisting to get out of my pedals, it hurts my knee.

Like skiing and snowboarding, our feet help start the movement and the body follows. They do SO much to keep us balanced, connected and in control.

Flats aren’t for everyone, and they take practice. But once I learned the technique, they didn’t inhibit me like I was convinced they would.

Twenty years clipped in. One reluctantly angry year learning flats. Now I’ll try just about anything because I trust my feet, my skills and my ability to step off. 💪🚵‍♀️

🙋‍♀️ Team flats, team clips or curious about switching?

🚵‍♀️ For more than three decades, the mountain bike has been one of my greatest teachers.🩷 It has taught me that progres...
09/08/2026

🚵‍♀️ For more than three decades, the mountain bike has been one of my greatest teachers.

🩷 It has taught me that progress comes from practice.�
❤️ That fear is something we can understand and move through.�
🧡 That choosing hard things prepares us for the hard things we don’t get to choose.�
💛 That being hard on myself doesn’t make me better. Patience does.�
💚 That joy doesn’t always find me. Sometimes I have to go find it.�
🩵 And that helping other women believe in themselves has taught me to believe in myself.

💙 We don’t enter this world knowing how to handle every obstacle. We learn by doing. We make mistakes, practice, try again and grow.

💜 That is what Ladies AllRide has always been about.

❣️ Yes, our camps teach mountain bike skills. But the skills are the doorway.
👉 On the other side is self-trust, courage, resilience, connection, joy and the discovery that we are capable of far more than we believed. 🙌

🩶 Our camps give women a place to challenge themselves by choice, surrounded by people who want them to succeed. The lessons we learn on the bike come home with us into our work, relationships, difficult seasons and the challenges we never would have chosen.

🤍 After three decades of riding, learning, coaching, and building and running a business around helping others see what’s possible, the mountain bike is still teaching me.

And I’m still learning.

Ride Bikes. Be Happy. ❤️

❓What has the bike taught you?

09/04/2026

to Success: A$$hole Rocks Edition 🪨😂

I sometimes call loose, moving rocks “little a$$holes.” No disrespect to Mother Nature. 😉 But when they shoot your wheel off course and stop you dead in your tracks, what else are we supposed to call them?!

I chose the inside line of this switchback to add a little challenge. That meant riding straight through a pile of loose rocks.

One small cluster shifted dramatically and caused my rear tire to spin out and sent me packing.

And yes…almost a clam slam. 😳
Technical term. 🤪

But fails give us information! On the next attempt, I was ready for those little a$$holes to move:

🪨 I hovered out of the saddle for maximum maneuverability
👀 I looked where I wanted to go, not at the rocks trying to sabotage me
🤲 I kept my hands light so I could steer and allow the bike to adjust
🍑 I kept my hips available to move and add traction as needed
⚡ I used smooth, steady momentum to keep the wheels rolling
And…CLEANED IT! 🥳

We can’t control every rock, but we can stay loose, balanced and ready to respond when the trail gets a vote.

Progression, not perfection. And sometimes success means avoiding the clam slam. 😂


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🚵‍♀️ = Liv Cycling Pique X Adv SL
🩳 = Wild Rye

09/01/2026

🪨 Big rock roll edition!

🗿 Large rock rolls can be intimidating, and rightly so. The impact can feel abrupt, but staying fluid helps us remain in control.

💪 As the bike makes contact with the rock, bend the arms and stand up with it to absorb the impact. If the body stays rigid, or we enter too crouched, the bike can push our weight backward, causing us to stall, bounce off the rock or even tip back.

In the first clip, I approached at a moderate jogging pace. My momentum didn’t quite carry me across the top, so I used pedal ratchets (quarter pedal punches) to keep the wheels moving forward and the bike tracking where I wanted it to go.

⬇️ Before rolling down the other side, I lowered my chest and bent my arms to be ready to guide the front wheel forward onto the trail.

👉 This is a small, purposeful push, not a forceful shove into the ground. I’m simply showing the front wheel where I want it to go so it stays straight and doesn’t get stuffed into the loose dirt and turn on me.

👀 My eyes are always scanning ahead to what comes next.

⚡ In the next clip, Coach Erika carried more speed. Her momentum took her almost all the way across the top, but she did one small pedal ratchet to ensure the bike kept moving forward. She pointed the front wheel where she wanted to go, then prepared to guide the bike smoothly down the other side.

The goal is to stay fluid, keep the wheels moving and pilot the bike all the way over the feature. 🚵‍♀️

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