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Bike Instructor Certification Program The Bike Instructor Certification Program offers professional training and certification for individuals who lead group rides or teach bike skills clinics.

The BICP is building on proven, successful methods nearly two decades in development.

10/09/2026

As Rampage celebrates 25 years, will be reflecting on his own history, competing in the early days of the event, and how it has shaped his riding career and work with BICP.

Stay tuned throughout the next few weeks to hear his story with the biggest event in the history of mountain biking!

Using BICP’s teaching methodology, the course prepares instructors for both road and gravel biking. It prioritizes safet...
09/29/2026

Using BICP’s teaching methodology, the course prepares instructors for both road and gravel biking. It prioritizes safety, skill refinement, communication, confidence-building, and group management.

09/09/2026

You can be a good mountain biker and still have a LOT to learn. 👀

Before becoming a coach, Tina Meinhardt already considered herself a skilled rider.

Then she went through certification and started breaking down the individual pieces behind the skills she’d been riding for years.

Suddenly, there was a whole new layer to mountain biking she hadn’t realized was there.

That’s one of the unexpected parts of becoming a coach.

Learning how to understand and teach skills can also expose gaps in your own riding, sharpen your technique, and ultimately make you a more confident rider.

Thinking about becoming a mountain bike coach?
This episode is for you.

🎙️ Episode 14, Should You Become a Mountain Bike Coach?, is out now!

Watch on YouTube or listen to Skills in Session wherever you get your podcasts.

SEND IT SATURDAY 🤘Where are you sending it this weekend?Local laps? Bike park day? Exploring somewhere new? Maybe gettin...
09/05/2026

SEND IT SATURDAY 🤘

Where are you sending it this weekend?

Local laps? Bike park day? Exploring somewhere new?
Maybe getting out for a ride with your crew?

Drop your weekend riding plans in the comments. 👇
We want to hear where the BICP community is riding!

09/03/2026

Great coaching takes energy. A LOT of it. 😅

You’re teaching, demonstrating, observing, encouraging, troubleshooting, keeping the group engaged, and paying attention to every rider moving through a skill.

And yes, sometimes you’re apparently quoting Gilderoy Lockhart along the way. 😂

That energy is part of what makes a great clinic feel fun and engaging, but constantly giving it can also take a toll.

In Episode 13 of Skills in Session, Travis Brown and Tina Meinhardt dig into coaching burnout, how to recognize it, and what coaches can do to protect the energy and enthusiasm they bring to their riders.

🎙️ Watch How MTB Coaches Can Prevent Burnout on YouTube or listen to Skills in Session wherever you get your podcasts.

Level 1 builds the foundation…Level 2 builds on it. 👏The BICP Level 2 Instructor Certification introduces 13 intermediat...
09/01/2026

Level 1 builds the foundation…
Level 2 builds on it. 👏

The BICP Level 2 Instructor Certification introduces 13 intermediate mountain bike skills, from advanced braking and steep descending to drops, pumping, bunny hops, and basic jumping.

But just like Level 1, being able to perform the skills is only part of the equation.

Level 2 challenges instructors to understand the mechanics behind increasingly technical movements, recognize more complex errors, build effective progressions, assess rider readiness, and choose terrain that supports safe, intentional development.

Because as the skills become more dynamic, the ability to teach them safely and effectively becomes even more important.

Swipe through to see the intermediate skills included in the BICP Level 2 curriculum. 👉

Ready to continue your progression as an instructor?
Visit icp.bike to learn more about Level 2 certification and find an upcoming course.

08/31/2026

Join us late September in Santa Fe, NM for a BICP Level 1 skills instructor certification.

08/27/2026

Being a great rider doesn’t automatically make you a great instructor. 👀

Coaching requires a completely different set of skills.

You need to know what to look for, how to break a skill into progressions, how to demonstrate it effectively, and how to recognize what’s happening when something isn’t quite clicking for your rider.

That’s what we dig into during the Bike Instructor Certification Program Level 1 Fundamental Skills Instructor Certification.

Over three days, you’ll build your coaching foundation while learning how to effectively teach all 16 Level 1 Fundamental Skills.

If becoming a certified MTB instructor has been on your radar, come learn with us at Rowdy Ryder Academy | MTB Coaching + Strength this September! 👊🚲

📍 Arvada, CO
📅 September 11–13, 2026
🎓 BICP Level 1 Certification
🔗 Head to the link in bio or visit icp.bike to learn more and register.

08/26/2026

Burnout doesn’t always announce itself.

Sometimes it looks like having a little less patience with your riders.

Going through the motions in a clinic you’ve taught 100 times.
Or realizing the coaching experience that once energized you has started to feel like autopilot.

Those shifts matter, and as Tina and Travis discuss, your riders can probably feel them too.

Recognizing the signs early gives you an opportunity to make changes before burnout starts affecting you, your coaching, and the experience you’re creating for your riders.

🎙️ Episode 13 of Skills in Session: How MTB Coaches Can Prevent Burnout is out now.

Watch on YouTube or listen to Skills in Session wherever you get your podcasts.

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3410 US Highway 65
Walnut Shade, MO
65771

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