How To Ride Tight & Steep Switchback Corners On Your Mountain Bike
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2019
- Switchbacks can be tricky obstacles to master as they tend to exist as a way to mellow out steeper, gnarlier terrain; meaning that by definition, they're a harder feature to ride. You need to use skill areas from all areas of your riding all at once to take them on successfully... looking around the corner, braking management, cornering, weighting the tyres and being confident all come into play. Sounds tricky right... it's actually not so bad!
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Neil took to the slopes of Finale Ligure for this lesson to improve switchback skills! Whilst the corners here might not be as infamous as the kind of switchbacks you'd find high in the alps or deep in the Himalayas, they're varied enough for some great demonstrations! Which of your mountain biking skills do you want to work on next? Let us know in the comments 👇
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How are you at riding tight and steep switchback corners? Let us know 👇
I am doing all right, but still learning
Trash
Absolute garbage. Been doing freeride for years now, learnt to deal with decent jumps and drops, but still suck at hitting switchbacks. Last time at a local pump track however I tried leaning the bike aggressively with my hands, and it seemed to work out well and decrease the turning radius. The video makes me feel that this is correct, since you are leaning the bike with both your hips and hands.
Still working on it, taking notes.
i guess I am pretty off topic but do anyone know a good place to watch new movies online?
Anyone else already know this stuff but still enjoy watching?
In the Chile's video they have the same tips...but i don't care 😄
Me
It just makes me want to ride more switchbacks. Whenever I finish a switchback section of a trail I just want to do more!
Lean the bike, keep your weight outside and look where you want to go. Some of the most important lessons I learned.
work break... GMBN is on
What a pleasure to see Neil surfing through those corners in a smooth and stylish way!
Every time Neil makes one of these corning tutorials I get a little bit better at cornering next time I'm out on the bike. Study. Ride Study. Ride.
Love how Neil does the regular outro stuff as he's bombing down the trail
outro commenting in FPV like a boss. There was a chance to hear the bike, the track, and through your voice, the effect on the rider. Nice, thx!
Nice to see your back on the beast
Neil makes it look so easy.
Great video Neil!!
Quality advice from the don 🤙🏻🤙🏻
Thank you for this video! I will be practicing
I was hoping there would be more info on the tight switchbacks that require an endo turn, this is the hardest turn in my opinion
Eyk On A Bike campared what we ride here, the trail in the video looks like autobahn.
When it's that steep you don't want to do endo turns.
Yeah these are rounded turns and not actually switchbacks. I encounter turns that come to a point and switch directions
Great video, can you do a part 2 climbing switchbacks , it’s something that’ll I struggle with
Me; IN ART CLASS LOOKING FOR STUFF TO DRAW
My headphones; use me,watch the GMBN video,be a rebel
I’m trying to master a trail called the impossible switchbacks, extremely rocky steep, and full of gravel
Nice work Neil. I like the progression in this video to more difficult examples. Here in Santa Barbara, CA, we mostly have the tight/steep/loose examples. I find the difficulty is quickly leaning from one side to the other as you go through the fall line apex. It takes a bold committment to throw the bike over. Any advice?
The Don makes it look easy.
I live in Andorra!!
That NUKEPROOF is cool .👍🏻
As inexperienced as i am,i love doing switchbacks, although that's well steep.Looks well cool though. 👍
I find left handers harder. I have trouble dropping my left hand to lean the bike and just feel unco on tight corners. Ok on longer ones though. Practicing and learning every day.
About your talk about body position at around 5 mins. I have a theory there. The engineer and motorcyclist in me says you have 2 things to resolve. Firstly, to go around a corner, your CoG based lean angle must be enough to match/provide the cornering force (basic circular motion stuff). The second part is about the bikes geometry. to go around a tight curve requires a higher lean angle to get the steering geometry working properly on the corner (that natural tendency for the wheel to turn as the bike is leaned over). Get both these right, and the bike goes round smoothly. It also means on a tight turn, you have to push the bike under you a bit to get the bikes natural turn radius to align with the lean your CoG needs. I think...
Niel is actually running flats!?
Nice
Nice! But what about switchbacks only managable on your front wheel only? Could help with some trails around my place to film.
My problem are those hikingtrail switchbacks. I've got 2 in a row at the finish of one of my favourite trail. It has some awkward roots. Tight trees at the entry and the exit, a fence seperating the trail from an old quarry, and the next one followong immediately with some steps in it aswell.
What an outro
to sum it up - look where you wanna go and pray to God you get there. Thanks Neil! :)
Nice🤘
I totally f’d my leg up on some switchbacks
I’m still working on body position for switchbacks. Feel like I need to drop my chest towards the bars a little when I get my weight back otherwise I feel like I’m sitting to high through the corner. Any comments?
Please say you got helmet can photage? Newer Rider and I don't have many switchbacks but some good corners on my local trails. I think helmet cam photage of this might help us all get a better idea of how you Should look at the exit of the corner.
Can you do a video with helmet cam photage on cornering?
Does this still apply to loose switchbacks? Out here in Mammoth with all the pumice and loose dirt, it is not grippy.
at what point should i use my front and/or back brakes efficiently?
Banked switchbacks? Those are just tight banked turns aren’t they? Steep switchbacks are hairpin turns with high risk for falling off the edge.
Exactly what I thought I was clicking on, something requiring a stoppie or nose pivot/endo... Not really much technique to banked corners other than "go fast enough to be supported by the outer edge"
gigpic yep. I was hoping for a nose pivot tutorial as well. I was learning those back in 1994 on The Way Up trail in Escondido, CA. Classic tight, rocky switchbacks with a sharp drop off. Couldnt make a few of them while keeping both wheels on the ground.
Exactly what I was thinking. The video should have used a natural trail not a bike trail to demonstrate what tight switchback technique really is
Neil looks badass.
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Dont know why,i have no more motivation to waching gmbn and they are still doing cool good best videos in the world... Need more trails, I will be champ im cross country my name petar
damn about such a bike I can only dream
Savings Account, invest for some years. It's attainable.
Would it better to lean into the upwards slope if it's a slower, steeper, much more narrow single track path with some stepped drops and littered with tree roots on a fairly tightly packed surface with some overhead branches towards the gnarlier exit? So you don't break your face in case you fall? How would you approach something like that? I should mention that I'm a novice.
Like ita lot. Did rock a little and made a splash mess
What’s the deal with skidding your rear tire . It use to be frowned upon because of trail damage. Are you in a bike park?
What about riding up tight steep switchbacks?
GMBN, you should do a series with a regular 30-45 yr old person who is a couple years into riding, and have Neil, Blake, Martyn do some coaching for a few days. I know of the perfect person. Lol
Which will be easier, long travel or short travel?
Random Stuff longer travel with no lock out is harder to pedal because you have more suspension and squish to deal with, if your are thinking of xc, get a short travel bike but if you are thinking enduro with more downhill, go longer travel.
It depends on the discipline
Switchbacks were once used with trains on steep mountain grades.
Easy on a 26er.
scary
It like in bmx if you go too wide your in trouble if you go too high on the BMX track your going flying over the top of the berm
Call video
My struggle is where I look, If I look to the tree in the middle of the corner I end there...
But if I look to the end of the corner magically I keep flowing :)
Me, kind of
mh, with that title i assumed you meant corners which you need to endo around. Everything thats rollable isn't tight IMHO
Palatine Painting anything you can stop or even have control on is not steep IMHO
are you talking about Champery 2011 where Sam Hill finished 7th and Danny Hart SMASHED everybody else, first place by 11 seconds... after the torrential downpour?! :P :P :P
First 4 Time's in a row
Evan Games mate u missed out on first sorry 😐
Someone beat you
Can you make a bike check?
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The paint scheme of the nukeproof hurt my eyes
Love the bike design ruclips.net/user/postUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L and functionality. It is hard to align the front tired to center the disk brakes. The brake wheel touches the stationery side of the brake caliper and pad. I aired the tire up to 40 psi as the markings say 40-60psi. Left the house for a few hours and came back to an exploded innertube.All in all it seems to be a good bike. Have not ridden it yet though so that's the max of my knowledge. Update, put a new innertube made sure the tire was set properly and it did the same thing in under 20 minutes as second pic shows.
These dont seem like switchbacks and seem more like rounded turns. Switchbacks come to a point and are a part of a lot of trails.
Not seeing the most helpful tip for me which was: get low...
I would always sit high through turns and couldn't get the sharp manoeuvrability I was envisioning.
Through the turns, despite other details, I'm lowering my center of gravity as much as possible while maintaining the other psychics
#askgmbn red sram calipers? Whats that all about?
Sram Code brakes are red
Im told they are pro only models id never seen red 1s before
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I steeped
I switched...
I backed...
Hello tree, nice to meet you, too. 🙈🤦♂️
🤣🤣🤣 same process I'd go through bro!
Who is the winner of the competition
Christian Nash watch the dirt shed show from earlier
Hey Christian, check out the Dirt Shed Show (Ep. 246) 😀
Third.
The switchbacks near me literally have walls caving in, it's so annoying because you're tires are like an inch to the edge.
I have been try to drift for 2 hours
That's a really long drift!
That turn at 4:08 would terrify me.
Is that a mullet bike?
Heart this comment if you like riding your bike
Two pairs of socks?!
If you don't need to Endo them, they are not switchbacks, they're tight turns
Wrong.
These aren't even tight though, you're lucky. You get hit with basically 180 degree angles in Colorado such that you have to get good at little Endo/manual adjustment turning maneuvers, it's nuts
And dump the bike so not to go off the cliff . Sometimes you have to bale
Barely explained it IMHO. Thumbs down
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