Edmund Rice Community Services are in a unique position to offer the opportunity of a mountain bike mentoring program for teens (12 to 18 years old). The program will offer a fun, active, inclusive and supportive opportunity for teens to enjoy and learn about mountain biking. 

It will give participants an opportunity to learn...

• Mountain Bike Skill techniques.

• Safe Mountain Bike riding.

• Mountain Bike Maintenance and bike care.

• Mountain Bike Track building know how.

• Resilience

• Team work

• Communication

• Group decision making

• Making safe choices

• Expectance and understanding others

• Goal setting and perseverance to achieve them.

Participants will be riding with and guided by positive mentors, to help steer and guide positive choices and social interactions. The mentors will ride with the group, facilitating and showing positive, real time responses to situations, challenges and frustrations. The mentors will have an open ear to what the young people wish to learn and want to discuss. We will raise social topics from time to time in a gentle but well timed manner to stimulate thinking and discussion.

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Our group expectations/values.

• Turn up

• Participate

• Safe choices

• Respect

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Who is this program for?

Teens that have an interest in mountain biking and want to ride.

Basic riding level and fitness is helpful.

Currently we only have two male mentor/instructors so we can only enrol males until we find a female volunteer mentor.