Our Team

Dr Gareth Jones

Gareth is an accomplished bike handler, has certificates for coaching from British Cycling, Terra Method and has a PhD in behavioural health psychology with sport and exercise psychology expertise. Gareth is a natural coach with his professional / approachable style, his feedback is considered, accurate and his demonstrations are superb.

An experienced DH racer, an expert dirt jumper and a skate park frequenter, whatever your goals, Dr Jones has the skills and experience to help you get there!

Ben Newton

Ben is an accomplished coach and rider with a wealth of experience of coaching and guiding. Ben has an accommodating approach and is excellent at identifying your needs and creating plans to aid progression.

Ben has ridden all over the place, and as you can tell fr his picture, isn’t against the odd hike-a-bike.

John Paul Jones

John received his first cycling instructor certificate in 1998 and holds certificates from British Cycling, Scottish Cycling, the CTC and Whistler Bike Park.

He has guided for Ticket2Ride in Whistler, the Northshore, Pemberton, Squamish and Tyax. In his youth John was a multi disciplinary outdoor instructor specialising in mountain biking, kayaking and mountaineering. During this time he worked with a very diverse range of groups from probation and drug rehabilitation to schools and management groups. John also taught navigation at John Moores University.

After graduating from the University of Sheffield he began working as a geo-environmental consultant but was pulled back into the coaching world by Whistler Bike Park and hasn’t looked back since.

John is now a course conductor for The Instructor Development Program pioneered by Mike Johnstone co-owner of TerraMethod (with Tom Radke) and the training coordinator for Whistler Bike Park.