Ride Hub: Bringing Mountain Bike Skills to Everyone, Everywhere

For more than two decades, Ride Technics has been helping riders sharpen their skills, from beginners tackling their first trail to elite athletes chasing World Cup results or Olympic medals. Founded by former professional mountain biker Dylan Cooper, the now Brisbane-based business has earned a reputation for precision, progression, and a deep understanding of what makes good riders great.

In December 2025, Ride Technics is taking that expertise further than ever with the launch of Ride Hub, a free online platform designed to make world-class personalised skills coaching accessible to every rider, anywhere.

From one-on-one to everyone

As Cooper explains, the idea behind Ride Hub grew from a simple limitation: there are only so many hours in a day and not everyone has the means to access one-on-one coaching.

 “We are taking advantage of technology to develop a personalised mountain biking companion that provides what on-the-ground, face-to-face coaching can’t always provide. Ride Hub contains visuals, personal guidance, and tools to learn at your own pace and in the way that you want, but still tailored to each individual.”

At its core, Ride Hub distils more than two decades of coaching experience into an interactive learning platform for people just starting on bikes, right through to highly experienced riders looking to finesse their technique. Riders begin by answering questions about their ability and goals, so they can choose the appropriate courses and progression pathway – based on their current skills and aspirations.

“We’ve used our coaching experience and expertise from the last 20–25 years to give people a refined walk-through of a particular sequence of skills to learn,” Cooper says. “Our coaching team is passionate about helping riders master new skills, build confidence and get more out of their riding – and Ride Hub aims to do this in an interactive online manner.”

With online delivery, skills coaching becomes a flexible process, available around the clock and across the globe. Without time or financial pressure of committing to one-on-one coaching, riders have the option to start with the base level courses, to ensure basic foundational skills are up to scratch, and ready to build on with more advanced techniques.

Building from the basics

Ride Hub’s video-based lessons, teaching points, and progression guides cover everything from bike setup and body position to trail etiquette and advanced skill techniques. But Cooper insists it’s in the fundamentals that are most important.

“For anyone riding at any level, what we’ve seen is that seemingly basic foundational skills are what people lack or skip at different points in their riding journey,” he says. “Even advanced riders – we see them racing, and surprisingly, what lets them down in performance is the basics. It’s the core basics that go out the window first under fatigue or pressure. Or for a novice rider who’s crashed, it’s often something like not having their bike set up properly or not knowing a key technique for handling trail features. It might be simple tweaks to body positioning, or movement on the bike. So those early skills are what we try to embed first, and everything grows from there.”

Ride Hub aims to give riders a structured, safe, and rewarding path to improvement – whether they’re learning to corner smoothly or nailing their first jump.

Making skills accessible

While the Ride Technics coaching model has always focused on technical precision, the move into an online environment has also been about access and equity.

“One of the aims of this portal is to make learning more affordable,” Cooper says. “The user gets a version of the one-on-one coaching we provide, but without having to fork out to pay for one-on-one rates, which isn’t affordable for everyone.”

It’s also a way to reach riders in regional and remote areas who may not have access to professional coaching.

“Not everyone has someone in their town or city to get instruction,” he says. “So rather than travel somewhere, this is taking it to them. It’s an effective, equitable skills development tool.”

And for those who may never have considered skills coaching, Ride Hub opens that door.

“Some people don’t like learning in a group environment,” Cooper says. “They might not like that pressure or just prefer to learn on their own. This is something they can do in their own time and space.”

How to use Ride Hub

Ride Hub is intially being launched for Bicycle Queensland members. It is free to access – head to the Ride Hub website:

To get started, you do need to create a profile. Ride Hub has been designed to track your progress and in the future will recommend places to ride, based on the online modules you have completed. Currently, the Foundations series of courses steer you through the basics – including safely mounting and dismounting your bike and key techniques around balance points when riding. The modules are progressive, with video demonstrations that highlight the key techniques, with lists of trouble shooting and explanations of why and when the skill will be relevant.

The website is mobile friendly, so it is easy to use on the trails – you can pause the video, rewind, and use the teaching points to progress at a pace that suits you. Had enough? Pop your phone away and get riding. One of the best things about the online tuition is that it is user paced – but importantly, it is paced in a progressive manner, making sure you get the basics right before progressing to more involved skills and techniques.

The Foundations modules cover all the mountain bike essentials, from how your bike and the trail should interact, line selection, cornering, jumps and even suggestions on specific strength and fitness. While the focus is mountain biking, these fundamentals work just the same for gravel riding, road riding or commuting. Further skills progression is coming shortly, with the Enhancements and Refinements series due to launch in early 2026.

A culture shift in cycling

When Ride Technics began, Cooper says, mountain bike coaching wasn’t yet part of the culture in Australia. That attitude, he believes, has started to change.

“People think you should just be able to ride a bike straight away, not realising that not everyone gets that opportunity early on. Unlike other sports, it’s not a default to get instruction. People often just wing it and then may only look for coaching after a few crashes or frustrations. Hopefully, with Ride Hub being publicised, it reaches people and shows that help is available.”

By normalising skills development as a part of every rider’s journey, not just elite athletes, Cooper hopes Ride Hub will make mountain biking safer, more enjoyable, and more sustainable for everyone.

While Ride Hub will launch with a mountain bike focus, Cooper confirms the framework is already designed to evolve and is partly why the project was named Ride Hub, not MTB Hub.

“We already have a children’s version in the back end that we’ll release later on,” he says. “And consistent with that, there’ll be a general bike riding course too. Some of the principles that apply to mountain biking apply to all riders (not just mountain bikers). This includes getting on and off the bike safely, braking, balance, being dynamic, awareness of surroundings, and bike setup. So there’s definitely scope for a general bike course to be part of this.”

As Cooper puts it, “We just want to get more people out riding well and enjoying their experience – the more people on bikes, the better.” You can access Ride Hub on all mobile and desktop devices from the middle of December.

The development of Ride Hub has been made possible through support from two Queensland Government programs: the Bike Riding Encouragement Program (through the Department of Transport and Main Roads) and the ActiveKIT Super Round (through the Department of Tourism and Sport).