British Cycling Mountain Bike Leadership Level 3 Assessment

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Overview

You’ll take this practical assessment over two days. The first day looks at personal riding standards, which will include an all-day mountain bike journey during which you’ll be able to demonstrate your MTB techniques, navigation, and trailside repairs.

On the second day, you’ll lead some clients in the Level 3 MTB Leadership terrain, where we’ll be assessing your leadership skills, group control, and organisational skills, self-sufficiency.

We’re surrounded by some of the finest mountain biking routes in Europe, with world-class single track routes, including the Gwydyr Forest trails and the Penmachno Trail right outside our back door. Other classic trails at Coed y Brenin and Coed Llandegla are only a short drive from our centre. Plus, there’s the iconic ride of Snowdon.

But you’ll also find purpose-built skills and coaching circuit and bike workshop facility with a wide range of tools and resources, plus maps to help you get the most from the area.

The Objectives 

If successful, you’ll be qualified to lead rides in accordance with British Cycling Level 3 guidelines.

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What to Expect

Day 1

Experience Required

You should have completed and logged your British Cycling L3 training and experience.

How Should I Prepare?

Assessment routes are commonly 40km + with up to 1500m of climbing, navigation will be in both forest and open mountain side, so it’s well worth getting out in the hills and forests to be well prepared for your assessment. You should also ensure that you have returned your completed home paper to PyB at least one week before the start of the assessment.

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