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Ryan Leech Connection, based out of Vancouver, BC Canada, 
offers adult-oriented, comprehensive and effective online mountain bike 
skill training courses with interactive coach and ambassador support.

We believe in mountain biking as a lifelong passion, so incredible care is taken to combine
step-by-step theory and drills with physical and mental fitness practices.
Our mantra, Trail - Bike - Body - Mind - Flow, informs and inspires all the content we produce.

Ryan Leech established this online coaching platform in 2012 as a place to share the skills he developed during his 20-year career as a professional mountain biker.


Ryan Leech - Founder & Head Coach

Through his 20 year-long career as a pro mountain biker, Ryan performed thousands of stunt shows around the world with clients such as Cirque du Soleil, IMBA, and Crankworx. Ryan has been coaching mountain bikers since age sixteen. As an avid explorer of human potential, Ryan earned his certification as an Integral Master Coach™ which has radically influenced his ability to design adult-oriented mountain bike skill curriculums. Ryan created the Trials-of-Life school presentation, sharing his passion for riding at hundreds of schools. As a certified yoga instructor, he designed the Ride & Reach program, blending yoga & mountain biking with a retreat-style learning vibe. Ryan’s dedication and love of mountain biking is stronger than ever, and with his world-renowned and versatile riding abilities and reputation in the industry, it makes him one of the strongest ambassadors for the sport.

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Staff & Coaches

Carl Roe
User Experience & Mentor
Australia

Carl first tried mountain biking in 2007 and immediately abandoned the peloton. For 7 years he attacked the trails with roadie zeal, Lycra clad,...

Rob Walcer
Member Services & Mentor
Canada

Rob is an avid mountain biker and enjoys personal exploration and growth through cycling. Within his local community he is deeply involved with ...

Tom Hutton
Team Liaison & Skills Coach
United Kingdom

Tom is a self-confessed bike geek, map geek and lover of wild places who has been mountain biking for over 30 years, exploring pretty much every...

Kai Ashbee
Community Liaison & Mentor
United Kingdom

Kai is a fanatical rider that when not in the saddle is dreaming about the trails. Living within the South Downs National Park in the UK, she sp...

Griff Wigley
Special Projects & Skills Coach
USA

Griff Wigley, well-known as the Mountain Bike Geezer, is an avid year-round mountain biker, and dedicated practicer who learns alongside those h...

Rafaella 'Roxy' Wieschollek
Special Projects & Skills Coach
Spain

Roxy has been a Full-Time Guide and Coach since 2009. She's originally from Northern Cyprus and runs the Mountain Bike School and Bike Rental St...

Jeff Neitlich
Special Projects & Skills Coach
USA

At age 51, Jeff came across a promo for Ryan’s 30 Day Wheelie Challenge and decided – why not! Three months later he was riding wheelies through...

Russ Risdon
Skills Coach
USA

Russ is an avid traveler throughout North America, riding all the best bike parks and trails – mountain biking has fueled his life since 1988. H...

Elaine Bothe
Skills Coach
USA

Elaine discovered mountain biking late in life by racing but found her true passion was helping others ride safer, faster and with more confiden...

Peter Glassford
Skills Coach
Canada

Peter is a highly-respected Certified Cycling Coach who has been instructing MTB skills since 2000. His coaching clients are mostly busy, master...

Skye Nacel
Skills Coach
USA

Skye is the owner of Mocean365 which is a PNW based Movement and Adventure coaching business. His focus is split between teaching outdoor functi...

Lindsey Colla
Skills Coach
Australia

Lindsay is a mountain biker, mountain unicyclist and yogi. After 12 years of trials competition, he now enjoys MTB with trials thrown in for sty...

Jeff Mah
Yoga Instructor & Mentor
Canada

Jeff has been teaching yoga for over 15 years and lives at the intersection of art, science and spirit. Based in Canmore, Alberta, Canada, he ru...

Wacek Kipsak
Artistic Director & Mentor
Sweden

Wacek shares his passion for mountain biking through loads of riding, but also through artwork and writing. His runs a great instagram account.<...

Matt Barlow
Sports Psychologist & Skills Coach
Wales, UK

Matt has performed over a thousand mountain bike trials demos, across a ten-year career, at events such as the Tour De France, the Scottish FA C...

Scott Givens
Skills Coach
USA

Scott Givens has over 25 years of riding and competing under his pedals. After achieving the globally recognised BICP Level 2 Certification in 2...

Kate Nolan
Skills Coach
USA

Kate fell in love with mountain biking in 1992 and is a professional MTB instructor, backcountry guide and Trek Bicycles Women’s Advocate. Kate ...

Gareth Hanson
Skills Coach
England, UK

Gareth's love of the outdoors has manifested itself over the years (in no particular order) with rock climbing, snowboarding, kitesurfing & of c...

Molly Hurford
Cycling & Nutrition Writer
Canada

Molly Hurford is an outdoor adventurer and professional nomad obsessed with all things cycling, running, nutrition and movement-related. When no...

Mentors

Olly Atrawtillfour
Mentor
Germany

Olly is a Physiotherapist so loves learning new movements and training in a smart and sustainable way. A perfect fit for RLC! He discovered bike...

Graham Gedge
Mentor
England, UK

Graham’s took his first flight over the handlebars at age ten. Nearly five decades later he continues to hone his skills and can often be found ...

Roger Joys
Mentor
USA

Roger is in his mid-50s and a self-confessed ‘athletic nerd’ obsessed with learning. By day he manages software engineers and then moonlights on...

Kim Liss
Mentor
Canada

Kim is a lifelong rider across a variety of disciplines, including mountain biking, cyclocross and road cycling. More recently he took up BMX ju...

Charles Lopez
Mentor
USA

Charles Lopez Charles transitioned to mountain biking from skateboarding aged 50 and joined RLC almost right away. He’s now 53 and has h...

Sally Marchand Collins
Mentor
USA

Sally regularly transforms herself from a diminutive uptown hairdresser to a singletrack-shredding she-beast. In her first season as a professio...

Pat Mitzel
Mentor
USA

Pat started mountain biking back in 1990 on a BridgeStone MB-5. He rides year-round near his Minnesota home, switching to a fat bike and a 27.5+...

Tim Norris
Mentor
England, UK

Known as TimFromWales, Tim posts regularly on most social media platforms. In a sport full of adrenaline junkies and global locations that many ...

Matthew Pirretti
Mentor
USA

Matt has been casually mountain biking since 2013 but in 2018, everything changed when he attended an in-person clinic taught by Ryan Leech. Thi...

Michelle Roe
Mentor
Australia

Michelle has been mountain biking for over a decade and enjoys the climbs as much as the descents. She loves nothing more than watching an RLC v...

Josh Shulman
Mentor
Canada

Born in Ontario and settled in British Columbia, Canada, Josh has been a casual bike rider for most of his life. He spent 15 years in the culina...

Virginia Solomon
Mentor
USA

Virginia got into mountain biking by riding their kids bike in the woods behind their house, and got hooked by riding instead of studying in col...

Gianluca Spini
Mentor
Italy

Gianluca is always on the lookout for steps, stairs, walls, sidewalks and natural trails to hone his skills. Obsessed with challenging himself a...

Ira Weiny
Mentor
USA

Hailing from California Wine country, USA, Ira values a growth mindset for all aspects of life. He applies this to learning Banjo, Guitar, Swimm...

Gold Industry Partners

Ryan has developed long term partnerships during his time as a pro mountain biker, and those relationships have continued with this awesome online learning community.

In my senior years as a cycling industry pro athlete, ambassador, and advocate, I have the freedom to choose who I represent. I choose Shimano. I have visited their factory in Japan, have conversed and partied with their engineers, and experienced the pride and love they put in to their product. It shines through not only in the jewerly like appearance of their product, but in the crisp and unarguable functionality of their equipment. Though Shimano is a large company, they maintain a family vibe, and I am proud to continue contributing in my own small way to the big family company that drives most bikes on this planet.

Visit Shimano

Norco has supported my journey from young hot-shot trials kid to the introspective bicycle loving man I am today. Their staff have groomed me, influenced me, shared their passion for bikes with me. This company has been a family for me, they’ve opened doors, created opportunities, and co-created the Ryan Leech brand with me. Young bicycle talent simply cannot carve a career from their skills without dedicated industry support, Norco has done that for me, and I am forever grateful.
 
 

Visit Norco

Silver Partners

As a mountain biking grom in high school, I’d dream about having a Marzocchi suspension fork. Now, I have the privilege of inspiring that dream into the next generation of young rippers! My riding interests have exploded in recent years, so I’m delighted to drape my trials bikes, enduro bike, XC 29″ hard tail, 650b hardtail play bike, and All Mountain 4″ travel ripper with the best suspension platform on the market. It’s a delight to strengthen the Leech/Marzocchi connection after a few years of riding other companies products.

Visit Marzocchi

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