Mistress. Noun. Feminine of master.
Mountain bikes made to fit you.
Warm Embrace geometry helps you ride with more comfort, confidence and fun.
- Prevents the most common crashes (over the bars and washing out in turns).
- Upright, comfortable pedaling position puts minimal strain on your hands, wrists, elbows, shoulders, back and knees.
- Classically slack seat tube angle opens up the cockpit, gets more power from your hips, and reduces strain on your knees.
- Balanced body position keeps the front wheel tracking in turns and reduces rear-wheel kick on bumps.
The result is a bike that feels mellow and easy to ride. The bike industry’s belief that bikes can either be 1) comfortable and safe to ride or be 2) sick and have high performance is misleading at best. When you feel comfortable and safe, you feel confident. From that confidence you can enjoy new trails, keep riding with an aging body, pursue PRs, win races or hit bigger and bigger jumps.
Part of a complete system for mountain biking
Hello Friends,
My name is Lee McCormack. Some of you know me as the Lee in Lee Likes Bikes, the author of Mastering Mountain Bike Skills, that crazy nerd on YouTube, or the dude who led you on an epic journey of self discovery and shred in Moab, UT.
Over the past 22 years I’ve been obsessively pursuing the essential truths of mountain greatness. This journey has led me to write 11 books (the 12th is in progress), publish thousands of articles and receive millions of video views. I invented the RipRow training tool and devised the RideLogic systems for dynamic mountain bike fit and riding skills. In that time I’ve coached more than 10,000 riders of all styles and levels and trained 2,000 volunteer youth coaches. Nobody has devoted more brain cells to this mountain bike thing than I have.
I know exactly what riders need in order to feel comfortable, safe and confident. Mistress Cycles is the culmination of my work. It’s more than a bike. It’s a complete approach to your equipment, body and mind.
Each frame purchase includes:
A personalized fit consultation. If you buy a stock size, Lee will tell you exactly which handlebar, stem and spacers will make your bike fit perfectly. If you buy a custom size, Lee will work with you to devise your ideal frame geometry and tell you which handlebar, ste and spacers will dial it in for you. Your days of guessing and buying random parts are over. Value $149-$199.
Two hours of instruction. Yep! Even a perfect bike works better when you work better. Mistress bikes work great no matter your riding style, but they really sing when you use Lee’s RideLogic riding style. You get 2 hours with Lee in person (you gotta go to him) or on Zoom. Value $200-$460.
A year membership at the Lee Likes Bikes MTB School. This site has all the info you’ll ever need about bike fit, riding skills, physical training and mental training, plus direct access to me for feedback. You get half price for ensuing years. Value $199.
What other bike brand does that? None. When you buy a Mistress, I make sure your bike fits you perfectly, then I help you ride it the best you can.
Questions? Email me at lee@mistresscycles.com.
Lee
Here’s the NuWukkas hardtail working its way through a technical pump track. Behold the smoothness!
Learn more About Mistress Cycles.
Blog:
What’s it like to ride in the middle of your bike?
The most noticeably unique feature of Mistress bikes is that, compared with mainstream “patriarchal performance” geometry, the front of the bike is shorter and the rear of the bike is longer. This is obvious in our significantly longer chainstays. Many people ask how this affects the ride. Let’s get into this, shall we? Fore-aft weight…
How do Mistresses pump and jump?
I get this question a lot from Pinkbike readers. In the mainstream mountain bike media, we’ve been led to believe that cool, shreddy bikes have short chainstays and stodgy, cruisy bikes have long chainstays. That all started with Gary Fisher ‘s Genesis Geometry in the ’90s, and it’s become dogma. If you look at geo…
Why do Mistresses have single pivot suspension?
I get this question often. Here is my thinking: First, what is single pivot suspension? On most mainstream bikes you’ll see multiple arms and links and pivots that control the movement of the rear wheel and the behavior of the shock. Do these work? Yes! They give bike designers very fine control of the bike’s…