A lasting piece of infrastructure from the 2019 Western Canada Summer Games will be a busy attraction this weekend.

The Swift Current Cycle Club is hosting it's first-ever mountain bike skills workshop at the Highland Coulee Trail on Saturday and Sunday.

Ralph Smith, a member of the Swift Current Cycle Club, said there is a variety of reasons the club wanted to host the event.

"One is obviously we want to promote cycling in Swift Current," he said Thursday afternoon. "We want to also promote safety in cycling, that's two good reasons. And the other reason is we've got an excellent course here... and we want to make sure it's being used."

The event will feature several 2-hour lessons taught by Eric Lett a professional mountain biker from Regina.

"It's basic skills for biking," Smith said. "It is for mountain biking but those skills transfer whether you're a casual user, mountain bike user, road bike user, or gravel user. All of those skills kind of transfer."

The workshop is open to any age and any skill level with registration on the club's website.

"Bicycling is really important to us as a society," he said. "Learning to ride your bike and having your bike is pretty much your first taste of independence and freedom because that allows us as children to get places that we had to rely on somebody else to take us. Biking is really something you can enjoy all of your life."

All SCCC members have their lessons covered by the club. For non-members over the age of 16, it will be $45 and for under 16 it will be $35.