The newly developed Mountain Bike Skills course is located within Fairburn Activity and Conference Centre's grounds, allowing immediate access and egress to and from the Centre.

The skills course is not a scenic little bike ride, if that is your desire try the "Orrin loop".

The skills course is primarily aimed at raising the awareness of the core skills necessary to ride a mountain bike safely and successfully while having fun and raising the riders confidence.  The core skills are the riding positions used to distribute the body weight to its best advantage, braking, gear selection and cadence, steering and cornering, choosing the best line of approach and run off to and from an obstacle, climbing and descending various gradients.

The site has a variety of terrain from gentle slopes to steep little climbs and descents with a selection of challenging obstacles from "Nessie's humps" to the "Double drop" the Balance beams  and Seesaw all aimed to improve balance, awareness, skills and confidence.  There is always the option of the "Chicken run" for those that feel they are not quite up to the challenge, but they generally do try once they see their friends enjoying it.