Minefield on Bike
Minefield helps improve bike skills such as balance, spatial awareness, and slow-speed maneuvering. Riders practice looking where they want to go rather than where they don’t, which is crucial for safe and confident riding.
Meet the Team: Highlands Composite and Ramapo-Indian Hills
Hold on to your helmets! This month, we’ve got a double dose of NICA community as we highlight two teams in our Meet the Team feature — Highlands Composite Racing and Ramapo-Indian Hills MTB.
NICA Advocacy Training with PeopleForBikes
NICA coaches and league directors help shape the future of biking in their communities. This virtual training by PeopleForBikes gives you the tools to advocate for safe, connected, and accessible places to ride. Learn how to support grassroots efforts and use PeopleForBikes’ resources to make a real difference.
Safe and Stylish: Why You Should Wear Sunglasses on Every Ride
Although you’re ready to go as you are, NICA recommends you (and your student-athletes) wear gloves and glasses on your rides. It’s not just to make you look rad, either. Today, we’re teaming up with NICA Partner Rudy Project to explore just how important eye protection is for mountain biking.
Practice alternatives when weather closes the trails
Late autumn and early spring are our sport’s “shoulder seasons.” Not too far from winter, they can be unpredictable when it comes to weather. Every coach expects to have to cancel practice now and then, but when early snow or ice closes the trails for a week or two, cabin fever sets in.
Riding with gratitude and riding for yourself
Most times you ride, you’re subconsciously assessing yourself based on the people around you. With so much external comparison, it’s easy to get caught up in the expectations of others instead of focusing on your own experience on the bike.
Male Coaches’ Role in Supporting Female Athletes and Coaches
Men play a critical role in creating great environments for girls in sports and for women coaches. Sports are so important to the development of young people and their coaches have a huge influence on that experience. Male coaches can be great coaches of girls and can support and mentor women coaches if they are intentional in three areas of their allyship.
Dear Gearhead: Edition One
Do you have questions you wish you could ask an expert in the cycling industry? Do mechanicals and flat tires throw you off your game? Does the spec section under a new bike read like another language?
Menstrual Health in Sports
Menstrual health in sports is a topic that deserves more attention and zero shame. Understanding how menstruation affects, and can be affected by sports is key to being a great coach who makes girls and women feel comfortable and included.
The Passing Game
The passing game, while simple, can be a great way to help your team feel comfortable with passing and communication on race day. Learn more!