About Us

Hi, I’m Rohan.

The guy that loves teaching and riding bikes. After growing up in Perth, I’ve had the pleasure of basing myself for a number of years in the Canadian Rockies, the French Alps, and other destinations with amazing places to ride (bikes and snowboards). I’ve been able to do this as I worked remotely creating digital gadgets with companies like Garmin, Wahoo, SRAM, Mavic and Specialized, and training platforms like Strava, Today’s Plan. I’ve had the opportunity to ride with DH champions, pro road cyclists, epic mountain bike racers, bike designers and MTB YouTube sensations…and a whole lot of people who know the joys of getting out on a bike.

As a teenager I would build dirtjumps for my BMX, but it wasn’t until I was 26 and took a job with Garmin in Western Canada that I first tried mountain biking. And in real mountains. It was a big learning curve. I remember what it was like trying to learn the skills for mountain biking, and this is a huge help while instructing. In 2011 I trained for and achieved my first PMBI instructors certification, at Kicking Horse Resort in BC, Canada, under the direction of Paul Howard himself: the creator of the Professional Mountain Bike Instructor Association. Since then I’ve been honing my instructor skills helping improve the skills of riders of all abilities, and myself.

Covid was my reason to leave the mountains and return to Perth. Where I’m happily integrating into the amazing mountain bike community we have here, and enjoying the competition of WAGE and DH races (and grabbing some medals). Say hi if you see me.

Let’s ride!

Andy is another of our instructors with an exceptional grasp of the technical details of riding a bike, but you won't know unless you ask. Instead, you'll just soak up his joy to be riding a bike and be having a whole lot of fun working through what he is teaching. An engineer who was lucky enough to find himself in Dunsborough, Andy still helps build some cutting edge products but his passion is now to do more than his fair share to ensure absolutely everybody can enjoy his local trails. Kids, adults, families, friends, local, international, newbie, or decades of experience; Andy has done it all.

PMBIA Level 2 certified, and over 2000 hours of skills instructing experience. Always after more.

Instead of fully committing to the addiction of MTB while living in Canada like a whole lot of the Black Ram MTB crew; HJ lived her dream in Queenstown, NZ. Frothing mountain biking, and especially women's mountain biking; you may have seen HJ hard at work (and loving every minute if it) organising, guiding and instructing at WA Gravity Girls events over the last few years. With over 10 years of MTB experience she's super stoked on how many women are now riding...but won't stop until everyone knows how much fun it is once you've built up your confidence from the right skills instruction.

With her experience as a primary school teacher you can be assured that she'll make everything super easy to understand, and you can ask as many questions as you want without batting an eyelid. If you're just as crazy as she is, then ask about epic international bike packing adventures!

“That red guy”. If you’ve spent much time around the jumps at the Goat Farm you probably know Elijah already. Riding almost every day, he’s an MTB addict who progressed super fast as soon as he discovered the sport. Keen to learn everything he could about this passion, he quickly jumped into racing; winning the 19-29 year olds category in his first season and getting himself over east to race at Highline festival and in the open category at the Derby Enduro World Cup round to start the 2023 season.

After sharing his knowledge at the first WAGE Rider Development weekend he was keen to teach more, receiving his PMBIA MTB coaching accreditation and joining the Black Ram MTB Skills & Coaching team. 

Story to come. What do you want to know!?

Story to come. What do you want to know!?

Sam has been sharing the stoke of mountain biking as much as possible since returning to Perth. With a background in customer service and the fact that he is always smiling, he knows how to keep you happy. In a temporary break from managing bars, he moved to Whistler…and then discovered mountain biking. After becoming a Canadian Resident and getting bored with the trails they had over there, he decided it was time to step-up his game and get back to riding Perth trails (ok…Covid happened while he was visiting home).

You may have seen him around. In the bike shop. Leading KMBC social ride groups. Volunteering at Come and Try days. Or just offering advice at the trail head. He is a newly PMBIA certified MTB instructor, and brings a wealth of knowledge thanks to riding every day on world-class trails with many world-class riders. Beginner and Intermediate riders particularly value his insights due to having learnt jumping and riding offroad as an adult – he can relate!

Make the most of having him in Perth while you can.

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