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I am mountain biker for a long time. I ride 1- 2 times a week for 2-3 hours. During winter I ride on a mag trainer.

I trayd RPM and I like it very much.

I was wandering if RPM can be a good supstitute for real outdor MTB. Hard MTB session is more sited climb and at a lower cadence than RPM. Also longer.

Is any of the RPMs more suted for me, and witch one?

Is it possible to modify RPM session to be more like MTB, for example half of the standing climb (songs 3,5,7), I can do sited.

For example as I know MTB trainig can be separated (very raw): easy long distance (definitly not suted), long stady  tempo climbs (probably not), long intervals 7-15min,  short intervals 15s-2m.

As I can understand, RPM is very similar like combination of short and long intervals. 

Any comment on this. 

personally there is nothing like the real thing lol

get out there and ride. If it is a case of cannot go outside then something is better than nothing and yes RPM probably will help and certainly not hinder

I think Dan (rooster) could answer this one better!

Not a substitute, but a supplement to. 

 
I used to be a mountain bike and road bike racer and I find RPM a great way to train for both! When I do get out on the trails with some mountain bike mates, my fitness is up there as if I had been riding outdoors. 

There's a guy in one of my RPM classes who takes part in the British Mountain bike downhill series. He said RPM has been great training for the types of explosive sprint type pedalling (because of the interval based format) he has to do on some of the courses. Doesn't stop him falling off though!!  

I am a long time mountain bike rider and racer.  I started teaching 4 years ago and rpm has aided in maintaining my fitness through several extended injuries.   Now I am back on a full race schedule and have been very successful winning my last 3 races in the expert category.  I still teach 2x/week and find it is a great addition to my training.  My raaces are usually on Sun and I teach on Mon and Thurs so I use that class to flush my legs, just monitoring my HR and really working the spinning portions of the ride.  I have to do a bit of acting on the climbs so i don't overdue.  When it is not a race week, I hammer the ride.  I actually got my HR above lactate threshold today.  That says it all. 

I do think earlier in the season, you need more sustained climbing and tempo efforts but now that I am in race mode, the 1 minute hard efforts  are really good for power and high end aerobic abilities.  It is so much more fun to teach when i can let it all hang out.  That is what my participants want to see.

So yes RPM has worked very well as part of my training plan.  I usually ride an additional 8-10/week hours outside.

Hope that helps.

Loretta