How To Pump - Mountain Bike Skills

Pumping is an essential skill for mountain bike trails - it smooths out transitions and helps you maintain, or even gain speed. Click here to subscribe to GMBN: When you get the pump right, you’ll know - it’ll just feel faster and smoother. Pumping is all about timing - you want to make yourself ’heavy’ by pushing weight through the bike and dropping your heels as you come into a dip, before making yourself ’light’ as you come out again. It takes a bit of practice, but try it out