Came around a State forest road blind corner yesterday and found two stopped vans unloading a huge group of backpackers. There was no path whatsoever to pass without hitting a van, kid, or tree. I only avoided getting hurt and/or hurting a kid because my speed was low enough to slide to a stop. Thanks for spreading the news that it isn't just your equipment and/or god like skills that should dictate your speed.
it often is available visibility. if you are going faster than your visibility allows for a complete stop then you need to slow down. as you pointed out you never know what is just around that blind curve.
Yup that's the basic speed law - the first law and most important one. You must be going at a speed where in the current conditions if there's a stopped vehicle at any point including in the middle of the road around a blind corner and you can't stop before you hit it, you're going too fast. If it's slippery and foggy and pouring down rain that might be 10 or even 5 MPH.
If a car is going to fast in your lane no amount of slow speeds are going to do much.. other than possibly reduce the combined speed to them splashing a stationary object.
@@74KU the slower you are going the more time you have to try and get out of the way ...DUHH ....and the more time the other driver to swerve to avoid you too....huge difference between that and balls to the wall, no time to do ANYTHING
I am glad you mentioned how important it is to stay on your side of the road. I learned it hard way. 7000 km from home, 7 hours ride to first bigger city and in the country where it is impossible to get spare parts for a motorcycle. Fortunately I was not injured and had a great family that took me into their yurt for a day until van came which helped me to transfer my crashed bike to the city.
Just came back today from 30 miles of gravel, dirt and some sand on my Multistrada, 2 up. I remembered this tips 1/3 of the way in and it made the rest of the trip feel much more enjoyable! Relaxing and letting the bike do its job was key.
I second this - no need to prove anything or go too fast. Last season, I was tearing up a National Forest road (which doubled as a logging road) in Laird Park, Idaho. I came around a turn and nearly had a head on collision with a logging truck. My speed was way above necessary, and I nearly paid for it in a big way. The logging truck and I missed each other by inches. Keeping a cool head in an emergency situation is worthwhile. Limiting the possibility of an emergency is better.
Just came across this and I can say that this is some of the best motorcycling advice delivered in an authoritative and informative manner. The majority of this advice applies to normal riding too. Limiting factors, reading the road and relaxing, all great bits of advice.
@@MOTOTREK thanks Brett, it’s very helpful. I’m getting back on a bike after an absence of 7 years. I’m changing from a sports tourer (K1200S) to a GS Adv. I rode my K1200S in all weathers including snow. I’m looking to go off road or certainly gravel when I get the GSA. It was very interesting advice and I get what you’re saying. In snow it’s similar to be smooth. Snow riding isn’t a choice mind, it’s what happens when you’re an all year biker and you get caught out. The main problem on the roads in snow is the idiot drivers who have no concept of how hard it is to be smooth and relaxed. I shall be keeping an eye on your channel. My wife says I’m like a kid waiting for Christmas. I say you can’t even begin to compare a kid waiting for Christmas. After being bikeless for 7 years (it’ll be 8 when I get it) I’m far more excited than a kid waiting for Christmas.
Yep, great advice. Just the other day, a friend and I riding mountains of TN and NC on a one lane road. Pavement to gravel a lot of blind curves. Very rough roads. A young guy in a low rider tuner car just about took us out way over in the left part of the lane. Our right side was unbelievable. Thanks for all the great video and adventure riding advice and techniques.
Thank you Bret. I am touring Alaska and had promised to take my 11 year old daughter to Arctic circle and back. Your videos that i watched yesterday helped me do that.. My commuter bike is 650GS, but the rental gave me a 1200GSA.. i watched your video several times and the videos played in my mind every time i tense up.. thank you.. I will be watching all your videos..
Brent, thank you for all your advise.. I watched your video and headed straight out to my nearest service road to test my skills using your advise and it really helped.. Unfortunately for me, as I drove to the far end of the service road the road crews had just spread out a new layer of gravel and to my surprise on my way back nearly lost it after being sprayed with rocks from my tires that were almost buried in the thickness of the gravel in places. I was very scared riding in it and thankfully the road crew thinned this out the next day.. Awesome advise, thank you again Brent..
I totally understand being tense and focusing right down in front of you. Not that I’m advocating this but I certainly am much more loose, relaxed and look farther down the road after having one or two drinks but definitely no more.
Brilliant emphasis and sooooooo darn important. Ride relaxed! It doesn't subtract control, it amplifies it. May sound counter-intuitive, but it's true.
I did not know any of this stuff! I've been thinking about getting an ADV bike because it is sooooo uncomfortable when I find myself in the dirt on my stupid, slow Harley. I'm watching this over and over so I can memorize each bit of wisdom here
Oh man, your videos are the best! Although damn lose gravel road still freak me out at first, but after a half hour or so I'm relaxed enough to trust the bike and enjoy the bike "floating around"
I was hoping you would do a video on gravel riding. Seems like a hot topic. I am not an expert at all but I have ridden the TAT which is about 4500 miles of dirt roads, and have ridden in far northern Quebec on the most gnarly gravel roads you will ever see. I have felt uncomfortable on about 90% of those roads. What I have found that works for me is looking far down the road as you have suggested. Of course, you need to scan the road in front of you for pot holes, large rocks etc., but its very important to look ahead and just do a quick scan in front of you. I also have found that standing and letting the bike move beneath you is imperative. The more the bike drifts the more unnerving it is while sitting. The bikes movement is amplified while sitting. For me, I can relax much more standing and letting the bike move around. With that said, I find it a little sketchy standing while cornering, but I do find that I can control the bike in the corner better while standing, it just feels weird to me to have that weight up high. I can understand other folks opinion on the standing vs. sitting in terms of physics. I don't know what the "correct" answer is, I can only express what my experience has been. I am always looking for suggestions on this type of riding as it is a large percentage of the terrain that most adv riders face. I appreciate your suggestions and the effort you put into this videos. Some of the comments below are harsh and disrespectful. Its ok to disagree and discuss but no need to be nasty. Please keep making these videos.
Riding at Milican we would signal how many bikes were coming behind us when we met other crews. Not everyone does it, but it is a nice thing to help others out. I wasn't riding but driving on a mountain road whilst hunting with a buddy years ago in Arizona. We were not going fast, thank goodness, but a Ranger was speeding to catch a poacher (didn't have tags) who had fled a different Ranger. It really wasn't fun, and it was a huge cliff on one side, thank fully she went on the correct side of the road, even on the corner or it would have been game over. We had the hill side, she had the cliff side. She came to our camp a day later, and apologized (she recognized the truck), all is forgiven.
Thank you so much for doing this series of Adventure bike riding tips. I have always ridden Harley Davidsons and just bought the KTM 790 R Rally. I am like a fish out of water when I ride it. It is a completely different ride and feels so tall and awkward. Your videos have helped me a great deal. I am starting to feel a little more comfortable on it and am really enjoying learning to ride Adventure bike. Your videos have been a huge help in my learning curve. Thanks again.
I grew up at 11yo on a Yamaha, riding in the Lancaster desert. So later getting on the street, I had to unlearn sitting on top of the bike through turns. But that still comes natural on the dirt sitting and standing.
Here in Korea, people riding on the road are less than careful. And are even less careful offroad, where they think there isn't likely to be any traffic or police enforcement. I find, especially when going around a blind bend, particularly where the road is only one lane wide, I give a little blast of the horn. It has saved my life way more than once. Even if moving at a crawl, I would still get creamed by some SUV driver who thinks he's the only person in the universe, while he blasts around these tight bends.
Good tips. I’m experienced having been riding off road all my life but these five tips are SPOT ON and ESSENTIAL to master riding a motorcycle off-road. It’s quite different to road riding - take note oh and BTW really well explained!
Succinct video with excellent safety points, cheers. I live in NZ and ride narrow, very tight, (1st gear hairpins..!) twisty, gravel roads, which could be deep gravel, corrugated or scrubbed off just leaving a smooth clay surface. The outside of a bend is always deep gravel and often where you need to be to avoid a sideways ute or camper van coming around the bluff. Sometimes with a boat on a trailer swinging behind. Rule of thumb in addition to what is said in your vid is brake in a straight line, pick the safest / observant line and be in the right gear to ride the loose crap around the corner. A positive throttle keeps your underpants clean. Staying outside the CoG and weighting the outside footrest when standing is paramount to avoid stunting incidents. And yeah, relax. The bike won't fall over unless you make it do so. Most of our gravel roads are cambered, use the camber to minimise lean - increase grip. I love gravel!
Great video, as always. Other than standing up this is how I ride my Stratoliner 1900 cruiser on the highway. The technique is called counter-steering. Keeping your shoulders & head on a vertical line and pivoting at your hips maintains equilibrium & control and keeps sight lines open. Live your videos.
Great advice, thanks! I have not ridden gravel, and trail since high school in my dirt bike days. It's been all street for me since I struck out on my own with an XS Yamaha 500 (1980)! Feeling the call to get back to my roots so I'm looking at some different ADV bikes and these tips are very helpful to start getting my head back in that zone. I enjoy the channel so new sub from northern Minnesota. Peace.
Just great advice. Very simple and easy to remember. Can’t wait to see your other videos. I have limited time off road and really enjoy it but I do trend to do a lot of the wrong things. I’m usually trying to keep up with other riders who are much better than me and that’s why I make so many mistakes. I need to get back to the basics and learn to relax and keep my eyes up. Thanks again great job on the video
These tips are common sense but it's amazing how many folk still get it wrong..... Great video as usual Bret, keep it up, wish I could come on one of your courses, but it's a long way from the UK!!!
Another clear and very good video. I never have enough of your expert advices. Not to mention your style and the way you explain and demonstrate it. I want more videos please :-D
I struggle with the KEEP THE EYES UP bit on some of these here Northern California fire roads due to the potholes and otherwise poor condition of the trail. They might be paved, but only just. Or they may be hard packed unpaved, but with irregular sinks and cross-ruts. Seems at times more prudent to maintain a near-field sight line. Only to have the road smooth out, where speeds can increase as does the sight line. Until the next patch of these obstacles. Lather rinse repeat. More practice needed, and desired. Thanks for these videos. They’re study guides. Spring can’t come soon enough.
I always love your videos. Well shot and well spoken. The only thing I would personally like to see is more normal speed shots...maybe not instead of, but in addition to the slow mo's. I'm a comfortable 20+year mostly road rider with very little off-road, dirt, gravel experience. One of my biggest concerns is gauging speed on different off-pavement surfaces. To see normal speed shots from your perspective on the bike would be very helpful in gauging what is possible and appropriate speeds in those conditions. Just a thought for future shooting. Now time to go plan for the MABDR! Thanks!
Bobby Craig to be honest I often speed up when the pavement ends. Normally I am mostly limited due to sight line and stopping distance. In the pavement it is more often the posted limit rather than real limits of sight and response.
Ey Bret! I really enjoyed this video. I'm still a rookie riding off road (mainly because i don't know where to practice legally in catalonia), and i found this simple but essential tips really useful
Jack Burton taught me this back in 1986. *Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes."*
Good advise........vision is definatly key to keeping your butt out of unfixable situations......after more than 50 years hangin on to a set of handle bars I puzzled by your dark visor . Many years ago I got caught comming out of Cades Cove in the Tennessee mountains with a dark smoke visor I learned to carry sun and clear glasses but ALWAYS a clear visor yellow glasses help in fog also. Just an old riders two cents......
Thanks for all great videos. Long time dirt bike rider but new to ADV. I would be interested in your technique for loose gravel on tight twisty roads, ie the gravel dragon.
so much happy to mmet you,you are a great humanbeing with tremendous ability and connectivity with uws,i wish I can be with you and learn all skills withface to face..all appreciation for you energetic and enthusiastic passionate teaching i am overwhelmed with you love for us thank and love you sir
Good advice, on speed especially. Would like to see you apply these tips to less- maintained tracks where gravel, rocks, roots, pot holes and washouts are more commonly encountered.
Great stuff Bret. Loving all your videos. I particularly like your cool measured approach. Oh and very pleased to see the Channel Islands get a mention in your subtitles for riding on the left 😉 Neil
I love your videos. I'll have to watch them a lot of time to really learn what you teach for when I'll go off-road, but they are very helpful... Guess going off-road for the first time could be chilly :)
Привет! Теперь пересматриваю все твои ролики с переводом,с субтитрами:)). Супер!. Важная информация хорошо подана и не растянута по времени. Все успел сказать и показать за 5 минут. Молодец! Жму руку,дружище! P.S: Да,кстати,классная у тебя кепка:))
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I went down my first gravel road recently and your advice was a huge help. Thanks! Any advice on really steep switch backs? I had to do those on my second gravel road. I wouldn't say I was particularly graceful. I felt like I went super slow. Thanks again.
I just dumped my bike. I'm a advanced rider so it really surprised me. It was pavement and gravel. A car around a curve and a man and his children, so I completely lost my sight line. Keep your head up.
Thanks for the video and info. Love the channel. I am brand new to motorcycling just got my beginners. Quick question, by leaning out are you also counter balancing the bike, can you explain a bit more why you lean out off road? I guess two questions. Thx.
Have been following your videos. Great information and always to the point. I/ We are searching for some tips. In India many bikers travel from different parts of India to Leh and Ladakh. There are 8 to 10 water crossings on this route. Water cascades from The hills and goes across the road. The water level is usually to 2.5 feet. But as it gushes down 80% bikers fall . You may kindly check few videos Leh and Ladakh. Any tips will go a long way of how to negotiate these water crossings. If you are unable to find videos kindly inform and I will send some links. Regards.
Great stuff. I notice you are wearing a neck brace. I had one but found it uncomfortable and didn't like the limits it placed on head movement (when not crashing ;-)). I now wear an airbag vest (Helite), both on the street and off-road, although I don't go far off-road on my KTM 1190 Adventure. Which, if either, in your opinion, is a safer choice, the brace or airbag vest? Thanks. Wish I was close enough to take your riding courses.
Awesome video's just discovered your channel. I'm quite new to adventure riding and can't get enough of the video's. One question that's keeps lingering though, is what to do with ABS on dirt and gravel roads. I've heard conflicting stories on that subject and I'm keen to know your opinion.
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First video I've ever watched from this channel. I appreciate you getting to the point and not stretching it out to a 15-minute video.
Glad you liked it, Joseph!
Yep - should be more 4 and 5 minute vids in the world! Absolutely much more chance I'll click it! (and not have to speed it up to 1.5!) :-)
For real
Came around a State forest road blind corner yesterday and found two stopped vans unloading a huge group of backpackers. There was no path whatsoever to pass without hitting a van, kid, or tree. I only avoided getting hurt and/or hurting a kid because my speed was low enough to slide to a stop. Thanks for spreading the news that it isn't just your equipment and/or god like skills that should dictate your speed.
it often is available visibility. if you are going faster than your visibility allows for a complete stop then you need to slow down.
as you pointed out you never know what is just around that blind curve.
Yup that's the basic speed law - the first law and most important one. You must be going at a speed where in the current conditions if there's a stopped vehicle at any point including in the middle of the road around a blind corner and you can't stop before you hit it, you're going too fast. If it's slippery and foggy and pouring down rain that might be 10 or even 5 MPH.
"If you can't stop to avoid a car (going to you) IN YOUR LANE - you going too fast" - the very best words today. Thank you for your videos!!!
If a car is going to fast in your lane no amount of slow speeds are going to do much.. other than possibly reduce the combined speed to them splashing a stationary object.
@@74KU the slower you are going the more time you have to try and get out of the way ...DUHH ....and the more time the other driver to swerve to avoid you too....huge difference between that and balls to the wall, no time to do ANYTHING
I am glad you mentioned how important it is to stay on your side of the road. I learned it hard way. 7000 km from home, 7 hours ride to first bigger city and in the country where it is impossible to get spare parts for a motorcycle. Fortunately I was not injured and had a great family that took me into their yurt for a day until van came which helped me to transfer my crashed bike to the city.
Glad to hear you are okay, Tadej.
Just came back today from 30 miles of gravel, dirt and some sand on my Multistrada, 2 up. I remembered this tips 1/3 of the way in and it made the rest of the trip feel much more enjoyable! Relaxing and letting the bike do its job was key.
I second this - no need to prove anything or go too fast.
Last season, I was tearing up a National Forest road (which doubled as a logging road) in Laird Park, Idaho. I came around a turn and nearly had a head on collision with a logging truck. My speed was way above necessary, and I nearly paid for it in a big way. The logging truck and I missed each other by inches.
Keeping a cool head in an emergency situation is worthwhile. Limiting the possibility of an emergency is better.
Just came across this and I can say that this is some of the best motorcycling advice delivered in an authoritative and informative manner. The majority of this advice applies to normal riding too. Limiting factors, reading the road and relaxing, all great bits of advice.
Glad it was helpful, Peter.
@@MOTOTREK thanks Brett, it’s very helpful. I’m getting back on a bike after an absence of 7 years. I’m changing from a sports tourer (K1200S) to a GS Adv. I rode my K1200S in all weathers including snow. I’m looking to go off road or certainly gravel when I get the GSA. It was very interesting advice and I get what you’re saying. In snow it’s similar to be smooth. Snow riding isn’t a choice mind, it’s what happens when you’re an all year biker and you get caught out. The main problem on the roads in snow is the idiot drivers who have no concept of how hard it is to be smooth and relaxed. I shall be keeping an eye on your channel. My wife says I’m like a kid waiting for Christmas. I say you can’t even begin to compare a kid waiting for Christmas. After being bikeless for 7 years (it’ll be 8 when I get it) I’m far more excited than a kid waiting for Christmas.
Yep, great advice. Just the other day, a friend and I riding mountains of TN and NC on a one lane road. Pavement to gravel a lot of blind curves. Very rough roads. A young guy in a low rider tuner car just about took us out way over in the left part of the lane. Our right side was unbelievable. Thanks for all the great video and adventure riding advice and techniques.
Thank you Bret. I am touring Alaska and had promised to take my 11 year old daughter to Arctic circle and back. Your videos that i watched yesterday helped me do that.. My commuter bike is 650GS, but the rental gave me a 1200GSA.. i watched your video several times and the videos played in my mind every time i tense up.. thank you.. I will be watching all your videos..
Brent, thank you for all your advise.. I watched your video and headed straight out to my nearest service road to test my skills using your advise and it really helped.. Unfortunately for me, as I drove to the far end of the service road the road crews had just spread out a new layer of gravel and to my surprise on my way back nearly lost it after being sprayed with rocks from my tires that were almost buried in the thickness of the gravel in places. I was very scared riding in it and thankfully the road crew thinned this out the next day.. Awesome advise, thank you again Brent..
That's really important things you mentioned. The most important is relax and look as far as you can to get over tension
I totally understand being tense and focusing right down in front of you. Not that I’m advocating this but I certainly am much more loose, relaxed and look farther down the road after having one or two drinks but definitely no more.
Bret, you are doing a great service to those who ride and aspire to ride.....keep up the love., you have a great way of communicating. Thankyou
Brilliant emphasis and sooooooo darn important. Ride relaxed! It doesn't subtract control, it amplifies it. May sound counter-intuitive, but it's true.
I did not know any of this stuff! I've been thinking about getting an ADV bike because it is sooooo uncomfortable when I find myself in the dirt on my stupid, slow Harley. I'm watching this over and over so I can memorize each bit of wisdom here
Great advice. Especially with the the huge increase with SxS 's on the road. They seem to be what I come across more than ever here in Arizona
I like your simple and clear delivery of tips in your videos especially for a beginner like me. And you make it sound fun and safe at the same time !
Oh man, your videos are the best! Although damn lose gravel road still freak me out at first, but after a half hour or so I'm relaxed enough to trust the bike and enjoy the bike "floating around"
I was hoping you would do a video on gravel riding. Seems like a hot topic. I am not an expert at all but I have ridden the TAT which is about 4500 miles of dirt roads, and have ridden in far northern Quebec on the most gnarly gravel roads you will ever see. I have felt uncomfortable on about 90% of those roads. What I have found that works for me is looking far down the road as you have suggested. Of course, you need to scan the road in front of you for pot holes, large rocks etc., but its very important to look ahead and just do a quick scan in front of you. I also have found that standing and letting the bike move beneath you is imperative. The more the bike drifts the more unnerving it is while sitting. The bikes movement is amplified while sitting. For me, I can relax much more standing and letting the bike move around. With that said, I find it a little sketchy standing while cornering, but I do find that I can control the bike in the corner better while standing, it just feels weird to me to have that weight up high. I can understand other folks opinion on the standing vs. sitting in terms of physics. I don't know what the "correct" answer is, I can only express what my experience has been. I am always looking for suggestions on this type of riding as it is a large percentage of the terrain that most adv riders face. I appreciate your suggestions and the effort you put into this videos. Some of the comments below are harsh and disrespectful. Its ok to disagree and discuss but no need to be nasty. Please keep making these videos.
Riding at Milican we would signal how many bikes were coming behind us when we met other crews. Not everyone does it, but it is a nice thing to help others out.
I wasn't riding but driving on a mountain road whilst hunting with a buddy years ago in Arizona. We were not going fast, thank goodness, but a Ranger was speeding to catch a poacher (didn't have tags) who had fled a different Ranger. It really wasn't fun, and it was a huge cliff on one side, thank fully she went on the correct side of the road, even on the corner or it would have been game over. We had the hill side, she had the cliff side.
She came to our camp a day later, and apologized (she recognized the truck), all is forgiven.
Thank you so much for doing this series of Adventure bike riding tips. I have always ridden Harley Davidsons and just bought the KTM 790 R Rally. I am like a fish out of water when I ride it. It is a completely different ride and feels so tall and awkward. Your videos have helped me a great deal. I am starting to feel a little more comfortable on it and am really enjoying learning to ride Adventure bike. Your videos have been a huge help in my learning curve. Thanks again.
Very nice video, taught me a lot!
I grew up at 11yo on a Yamaha, riding in the Lancaster desert. So later getting on the street, I had to unlearn sitting on top of the bike through turns. But that still comes natural on the dirt sitting and standing.
Here in Korea, people riding on the road are less than careful. And are even less careful offroad, where they think there isn't likely to be any traffic or police enforcement. I find, especially when going around a blind bend, particularly where the road is only one lane wide, I give a little blast of the horn. It has saved my life way more than once. Even if moving at a crawl, I would still get creamed by some SUV driver who thinks he's the only person in the universe, while he blasts around these tight bends.
3:35 ...vision is controlling that speed, see the furthest point of road, everything else subconcciuss and active peripheral vision, great video!
I have so very much to learn despite having riden and raced dirt bikes for nine years.
These are solid tips from someone who's done a lot of miles.
Z Shark 22 years as a trainer doesn't hurt either
Maybe too basic a question, but...For a left hand corner where I lean the bike to the left and move my body to the outside, which peg is weighted.
Good tips. I’m experienced having been riding off road all my life but these five tips are SPOT ON and ESSENTIAL to master riding a motorcycle off-road. It’s quite different to road riding - take note oh and BTW really well explained!
Succinct video with excellent safety points, cheers. I live in NZ and ride narrow, very tight, (1st gear hairpins..!) twisty, gravel roads, which could be deep gravel, corrugated or scrubbed off just leaving a smooth clay surface. The outside of a bend is always deep gravel and often where you need to be to avoid a sideways ute or camper van coming around the bluff. Sometimes with a boat on a trailer swinging behind. Rule of thumb in addition to what is said in your vid is brake in a straight line, pick the safest / observant line and be in the right gear to ride the loose crap around the corner. A positive throttle keeps your underpants clean. Staying outside the CoG and weighting the outside footrest when standing is paramount to avoid stunting incidents. And yeah, relax. The bike won't fall over unless you make it do so. Most of our gravel roads are cambered, use the camber to minimise lean - increase grip. I love gravel!
Great tips Brett, I use these methods on dirt roads, you have to change your position and style accordingly to the conditions and surface.
Did this on my scooter and yeah standing and leaning outwards actually helped in having control on off-road tracks.
Great video, as always. Other than standing up this is how I ride my Stratoliner 1900 cruiser on the highway. The technique is called counter-steering. Keeping your shoulders & head on a vertical line and pivoting at your hips maintains equilibrium & control and keeps sight lines open. Live your videos.
Thanks for the comment, Kelly.
Consistently good content, Bret. I really enjoy these videos; right to the point and no wasted time.
Your content is very concise, accurate and informative
I’m glad you emphasized SLOW down! I drive a log truck over these roads (Oregon/Washington). Couldn’t count number of close calls.
Great advice, thanks! I have not ridden gravel, and trail since high school in my dirt bike days. It's been all street for me since I struck out on my own with an XS Yamaha 500 (1980)! Feeling the call to get back to my roots so I'm looking at some different ADV bikes and these tips are very helpful to start getting my head back in that zone. I enjoy the channel so new sub from northern Minnesota. Peace.
Good stuff, never too many reminders. Stay loose is the key, I've found this time and again.
I like that, "Take their 1/2 of the road out of the middle".
So true, some areas in NorCal we avoid due to the weekend warriors.
Just great advice. Very simple and easy to remember. Can’t wait to see your other videos. I have limited time off road and really enjoy it but I do trend to do a lot of the wrong things. I’m usually trying to keep up with other riders who are much better than me and that’s why I make so many mistakes. I need to get back to the basics and learn to relax and keep my eyes up. Thanks again great job on the video
Don't try to keep up, Randy. Ride YOUR ride.
These tips are common sense but it's amazing how many folk still get it wrong..... Great video as usual Bret, keep it up, wish I could come on one of your courses, but it's a long way from the UK!!!
I like these vids. Short, sweet and to the point.
Always worth the time watching these videos.
Another clear and very good video. I never have enough of your expert advices. Not to mention your style and the way you explain and demonstrate it. I want more videos please :-D
Very nice tips of offroad adventure bikes riding. Congrats. Thank you.
You are welcome, Paulo.
I struggle with the KEEP THE EYES UP bit on some of these here Northern California fire roads due to the potholes and otherwise poor condition of the trail. They might be paved, but only just. Or they may be hard packed unpaved, but with irregular sinks and cross-ruts. Seems at times more prudent to maintain a near-field sight line. Only to have the road smooth out, where speeds can increase as does the sight line. Until the next patch of these obstacles. Lather rinse repeat. More practice needed, and desired. Thanks for these videos. They’re study guides. Spring can’t come soon enough.
Thanks for these great videos and explanations. Greetings from the Bavarian Alps.
I always love your videos. Well shot and well spoken. The only thing I would personally like to see is more normal speed shots...maybe not instead of, but in addition to the slow mo's. I'm a comfortable 20+year mostly road rider with very little off-road, dirt, gravel experience. One of my biggest concerns is gauging speed on different off-pavement surfaces. To see normal speed shots from your perspective on the bike would be very helpful in gauging what is possible and appropriate speeds in those conditions. Just a thought for future shooting. Now time to go plan for the MABDR! Thanks!
Bobby Craig to be honest I often speed up when the pavement ends. Normally I am mostly limited due to sight line and stopping distance. In the pavement it is more often the posted limit rather than real limits of sight and response.
right words. no comment.
very usefull.
thanks to sharing of your experiences.
Ey Bret! I really enjoyed this video. I'm still a rookie riding off road (mainly because i don't know where to practice legally in catalonia), and i found this simple but essential tips really useful
Great advice! As a newb to adventure riding I’m great full for your help
Jack Burton taught me this back in 1986.
*Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes."*
We really shook the pillars of Heaven! The good ol' Pork Chop Express! I thought the same thing as this vid rolled. 🤣☝️
Good advise........vision is definatly key to keeping your butt out of unfixable situations......after more than 50 years hangin on to a set of handle bars I puzzled by your dark visor . Many years ago I got caught comming out of Cades Cove in the Tennessee mountains with a dark smoke visor I learned to carry sun and clear glasses but ALWAYS a clear visor yellow glasses help in fog also. Just an old riders two cents......
Patrick Szabo I always carry a clear visor but use the tinted visor most of the time. I see better with the tint. We all have our preferences:-)
Excellent informative channel, why would anyone dislike this?
Thank you for these great tips 👍
As the new owner of a heavily-laden 2013 XT1200Z Super Whale riding two up, my relationship thanks you
Thanks for all great videos. Long time dirt bike rider but new to ADV. I would be interested in your technique for loose gravel on tight twisty roads, ie the gravel dragon.
Peter Donaldson it's in the plans
Power slide.
so much happy to mmet you,you are a great humanbeing with tremendous ability and connectivity with uws,i wish I can be with you and learn all skills withface to face..all appreciation for you energetic and enthusiastic passionate teaching i am overwhelmed with you love for us thank and love you sir
Great video! Great content as always! I really think your tips will help me out this upcoming season. Keep the videos coming
Watched this few times in the past couple of months. Very helpful and to the point. Thank you very much !
Very good channel!! I got so many ideas and tips!! Great job!! Thank you so much!!!!
good tips. dig the funky drums.
Very good and correct information. Great Video
Great tips, great insights. Thank you for the information you share with people that are far from you and don't have the possibility to train
Good advice, on speed especially. Would like to see you apply these tips to less- maintained tracks where gravel, rocks, roots, pot holes and washouts are more commonly encountered.
We will... as soon as it warms up a bit. It was 40F degrees when we shot this video. Brrrr.
Also, have a look at our "Babyhead Hill - Cleman Mountain" video for extremely low-traction examples.
wham bam thank you mam !!!
need more like this
awesome
even for no adv riders great advice ....
As written below, excellent footage, great sound and good info!! Thanks for this video. Good stuff!
Great stuff Bret. Loving all your videos. I particularly like your cool measured approach. Oh and very pleased to see the Channel Islands get a mention in your subtitles for riding on the left 😉
Neil
I love your videos. I'll have to watch them a lot of time to really learn what you teach for when I'll go off-road, but they are very helpful... Guess going off-road for the first time could be chilly :)
RIDE RIGHT, thank you for talking about this very important safety tip
2upTogether people often forget they are using two way roads. This is even a bigger deal on single lane roads less traveled.
great tips, hugs from Brazil
Thanks for pointing out we should stay left in Australia :) - Good tips for a novice gravel guy. Thanks
Thx, Phillip!
Thanks for the tips
What kind of jacket is that I love it
Sedici?
This is my favorite Mototrek bike.
Привет! Теперь пересматриваю все твои ролики с переводом,с субтитрами:)). Супер!. Важная информация хорошо подана и не растянута по времени. Все успел сказать и показать за 5 минут. Молодец! Жму руку,дружище! P.S: Да,кстати,классная у тебя кепка:))
Excellent video. Thank you very much. I found these tips extremely helpful.
Great stuff! I appreciate your videos.
Thanks!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I went down my first gravel road recently and your advice was a huge help. Thanks!
Any advice on really steep switch backs? I had to do those on my second gravel road. I wouldn't say I was particularly graceful. I felt like I went super slow.
Thanks again.
Slow is good, Glenn!
Have a look at our U-Turn video, specifically the Low Traction section, which can apply to switchbacks too.
MOTOTREK Oh good! Yeah, I have watched that one a couple of times. It's excellent.
Thanks; i will share your nice video & tips with my rider friends; Cheers; Live long, Ride safe & Prosper 🖖🏼
Another great video, MotoTrek! Thanks again!!
Great video! Content is great and the production values are great. And its nice and concise too!
Thanks!
Really helpful content man. Love from Himalayas in India.
Hepa ve hi a. India a rawn kal na video ah te khan Bike khalh a thiam lutuk lo, inla Expert tur chuan
Very good advice.
I just dumped my bike. I'm a advanced rider so it really surprised me. It was pavement and gravel. A car around a curve and a man and his children, so I completely lost my sight line. Keep your head up.
Muchas muchas gracias por hacer los subtítulos en castellano , disfruto mucho de sus vídeos , gracias ✌️
Helo from México! Thanks for the tips! Aré Great!
I love that you ride an Older bike still haha. Awesome stuff.
Thanks for the video and info. Love the channel. I am brand new to motorcycling just got my beginners. Quick question, by leaning out are you also counter balancing the bike, can you explain a bit more why you lean out off road? I guess two questions. Thx.
Thanks for the tips. Very useful. Love Matt’s drumming.
Also like your large hat selection.
Very useful and helpful. Thanks.
Thanks for your videos!and what about with passenger?and what if the road has 100 km you have to go stand also? thanks.from Mexico
Have been following your videos.
Great information and always to the point.
I/ We are searching for some tips.
In India many bikers travel from different parts of India to Leh and Ladakh.
There are 8 to 10 water crossings on this route.
Water cascades from The hills and goes across the road.
The water level is usually to 2.5 feet. But as it gushes down 80% bikers fall .
You may kindly check few videos Leh and Ladakh.
Any tips will go a long way of how to negotiate these water crossings.
If you are unable to find videos kindly inform and I will send some links.
Regards.
Really digging these vids -- good stuff!
Great stuff. I notice you are wearing a neck brace. I had one but found it uncomfortable and didn't like the limits it placed on head movement (when not crashing ;-)). I now wear an airbag vest (Helite), both on the street and off-road, although I don't go far off-road on my KTM 1190 Adventure. Which, if either, in your opinion, is a safer choice, the brace or airbag vest? Thanks. Wish I was close enough to take your riding courses.
Awesome video's just discovered your channel. I'm quite new to adventure riding and can't get enough of the video's. One question that's keeps lingering though, is what to do with ABS on dirt and gravel roads. I've heard conflicting stories on that subject and I'm keen to know your opinion.
You make it look so easy 😁👍
Thank you
Nice video and advice!
Your videos are always so pointed, practical and perfect. Thanks for taking the time to do such a great job.
You're welcome, John.