Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Mountain Biking...
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Your sound Dude.... is way to far pitched out. A You stop screaming oir B yoiu put down the sensitive.
@@Fincher123 what
@@hle6391 microphone overdriven at your speech level.
Where is the size chart, I would like to buy a shirt but on my phone can’t find the size chart.😢
When will u take chandler biking
I wish I had knew up hill were a mandatory part of mountain biking..
Same
[laughs in ski lifts]
Yeah i also wanted to know that.
Laughs in owns a single speed Downhillbike and only rides park.
Uphill gives you the stamina for the dh tho so you need the climbs
The correct amount of sealant is where half the people tell you it was too much, and the other half tell you it wasn’t enough.
I wish I knew how much money this was gonna cost before I decided to get addicted 😅
Agreed. I thought my first $500 bike was all I'd ever need. Now, I'm on a $1300 bike.
@@SuperMgp11 yup, I went through the same thing and now I’ve moved on to a $2800 bike 😅😳
100% true!
One of the reasons why I converted from moto to MTB was that MTB was cheaper. It had to be, no motor, way less parts, right? Riiiight...
I started last June thinking a 2-300$ budget would do it for a used MTB, ended up with a 700$ used bike then 4 months later I bought a 7000$ carbon bike 🤪
Stretching is important. We're talking about stretching a budget here right?
😂
Paul: Does tire tests with fabien nikolai once
Paul the next week: drops tire psi by a lot.
I wish I’d known how much time I would spend watching RUclips bike videos
I wish I had known it was so much fun 30 years ago, I might have started earlier.
Don't worry, it wasn't as fun 30 years ago! Seriously though, biking has really hit it's stride...
@@SnootchieBootchies27 so agree! I bought my first mountain bike in 1988, and that bike and what is offered now are so incredibly different! The tech in bikes now is amazing. Folks new to the sport don’t appreciate indexed shifting, clutches, stiff light wheels, dropper tubes, tubeless tire options, disc brakes, etc, all ‘standard’ items on today’s mountain bikes.
These are good times for mountain bikers.
3:38 “The actual best place to start.... is on the manufactures website” 😂
Excellent video with great advice! Thanks Paul!
I’d like to add your first upgrades should always be your contact point : learn how to calculate your sit bone and get a proper width saddle for you, try fat vs slim grip and get good flats pedals with metals pins 🤘
After going out on an easy, flat trail ride for the first time since getting into it we rode about 12 miles total, and wow were they sore. I had no idea it was important to get a chamois! I do want to calculate the sit bones at some point too, but doing things step-by-step has been working well. Chamois and shorts came in the mail today, so I'm looking forward to being more comfortable!
I was riding for almost 1 year my XC/Trail bike in bikepark. Today i did a thing and went to look on some AM bike. Haha tomorrow gonna get it from the shop 😂I fell in love with that bike and had to get it 😁
Yup, cornering is super important and the place I’ll always need to either improve on or continue to practice so I don’t lose my ability.
Good one Paul! Enjoyed it and Keep them comming...👊🏼
Awesome Paul as always
Awesome vid man, totally hit the mark! Completely agree with the spend the cash up front to get good quality. That is one of the ones that people don't realize and it ends up biting them in the wallet.
Thank you very much for the video. Very informative!
must have dropper post!! Totally agree!! I never knew I needed one, til I got one this year, what a difference!!
I love the challenge of uphills I get a great sense of achievement from it
Very nice job Paul. The one thing I do differently is I leave the tire seated and take out the valve core and put in sealant with a plunger. A lot easier for me. I ride Maxxis and those tires are a pain in the azz to seat - at least with the rims I use.
Great ideas to think about...nice video.
Great video... Wish someone had told me these things when I started!
Really good video pal very helpful, especially for the « not lean back » part. I really thought somehow this was The advice for any kind of steep DH especially with rocks and roots, but I noticed it doesn’t always feel all’right! I’ll pay attention now and don’t go too crazy about it.
this was very helpful
I enjoyed your video. You had a lot of worthwhile things to say. I started mountain biking 40 years ago. If I created a video on this topic it would look quite different.
When hike-a-biking I put my shoulder under the top tube and carry it vs over my back and holding it with my hands. I find it a lot easier to pick up and set back down between hiking and biking.
Good stuff man.
I’m glad you mentioned your weight when talking about tire pressure, I weigh 235 and run more pressure than most.
I wish I knew it was too expensive for me xD
Half this stuff you can't really do without having some experience of riding in the first place.
Like bike fit, a newby isn't gonna know about good bike fit and won't know until they start riding cos you need to get a feel for it.
Or armour like kneepads.Its funny you mention that after the whole don't buy cheap when most shops you can get them from are online so you have to mess around ordering and returning til you get the right size which ends up costing a lot and is a big old mess around. Especially if they don't size for your thighs.
Or Tubeless tires. Why would i do that when so many folk say they end up with more punctures and leaks as it doesn't always fully seal and when tubes just work. or mayeb its just me as I never get punctures on tubes.
Or rebound? How do you know WHAT SETTING is right for you? I know you start at an initial point like mentioned BUT i can't tell the difference between one setting or another on my forks. It seems to make no difference at all.
Theres an awful lot of stuff in MTB that folk say is important but half the time i can't tell why its important or the reason isnt' something I experience at all so it sounds like marketing speak.
Haha great vid, whish I would of known about these long trips that never end because of mtb
I ride for the climbs. Love them 🥰
You monster! lol
Wish I lived in such a place as BC and had more time to ride.
Same ting every day week love it make it feel good
8:46 i agree with all my heart
Well, tire pressure depends on your wheelset too, I have a 26" bike, with no tubeless, and I weigh 63kg, if I use 20 psi each wheel I will be casing everything, every time, in fact, I do case a lot, and I use 25psi.
Now I put a moto inner tube in the rear wheel, and it's going much better, as it is thicker, but heavier.
stans tubless darts. makes fixing a hole a breeze.
Had a 1cm tall disposable blade in my tyre,2 darts and was gd to go
I would add that you should buy some lights and go riding with friends at night. If you are a busy as most of us are, having the option to ride at dusk or dawn really expands the riding calendar.
Useful tips Paul, thanks for sharing. How I dream of living the full time MTB life in Canada. Did you find it easy moving to BC ?
New to this channel and mountain biking. If he's right about tire pressure I'm way off.
I wish I'd have known that moving to a place with no mountain biking was a really bad idea. Looks like you've got one thing very right Paul.
4 spokes! Great tip :)
Climbing with a EMTB is always fun
Flexibility is only important if your sport requires it and it some cases (running) increased flexibility can decrease efficiency. There is also no research showing decreased injury rates from post activity stretching and it has no effect on soreness. Dynamic stretching is good and doesn't decrease efficiency..
Honestly, after many years of mountainbiking i still ride tubes and ~2.5 bar front and back. There are different reasons for that. im around 110-115 kg at the moment, want to come back down to around 100 kg though. so i feel like i can feel the rim hitting roots way too often even when i go down to 1.8-2 bars.
the other reason is that my bike is around 8-9 years old now and was around 2000 CHF (~2200 USD). So i'm only gonna do what is necessary to keep it running until i buy a new one.
For reference to readers: 2.5 bar is ~36 psi. 1.8 bar is close to 26 psi.
Cornering👍🏻 Yup!!! I’m the guy that jumps, drops... then fails on the corners 🤦🏼♂️
Totally agree Paul 😂🤙
Group lessons are so cheap too, and you get borderline pros or ex-pros teaching you most of the time in the advanced courses, such a good option
Where the hell do you get lesson in teh UK?
@@kudosbudo I'm in NZ sorry
I wish I knew to take apart and measure my whole bike, especially if you buy one in a lower budget like I did and find out exactly what parts you have, an example of this for me is that I found out I actually have a straight steerer fork and ball bearing headset while my frame has a tapered headtube.
It really doesn't help that most manufacturers often miss out exactly the piece of information you are looking for!
I run 8 psi with dh tubes for heaps of grip and I don't get punctures but I do hit the rim sometimes
thank you so much for teaching us..really wanna get into mtb as well... Hope that the situation get better.. and really we can all hit the trails..thank you Sir. May i kindly ask ( i do not have a mtb yet) does a full lock out on the front and back suspension on all the time hurt the suspension.
Hey Paul, great video. Quick question. I just started mountain biking a month ago and I got forearm pain. How can I avoid that? Thanks.
9:15 Trailforks requires a paid subscription for mobile usage, the free alternative is MTB Project which has almost all features.
No it doesn’t, you can still use an area for free. I’d you travel a lot then you should really just buy it, it works a lot better than other apps.
@@PaulThePunter It does, I just got back from BME's enduro race where the race course was on Trailforks and could not load it without paying.
After talking with some people, they said that it's free for your home trails only.
I wish I knew to do some research before I bought a bike. Know what air vs coil forks are, what hydraulic disk brakes are not mechanical. Know what a good 1x drivetrain looks like. try and find a good deal guys dont buy blind because your eager to ride. Trust me
this video is great
You should do a video on how to figure out what's the best tire pressure for someone.
if you don't know it yet, i highly advise taking a look at this, enduro-mtb.com/en/what-mtb-tire-pressure/#toc_pressure%20chart its probably the best guide out there, at least that i know of, and it not a long and boring read, is actually pretty entertaining, enduro mag makes a lot of good content by the way.
Shem Shem Great article, thanks for sharing. Now I know my tire pressure is WAY too high!
Hi Paul, I'm a local coach here in our place and I always teach a "no lean back policy", I was bashed though but it doesn't matter, leaning back is the number 1 recipe for disaster. Can I react to this video?
How fast fitness comes depends on various reasons.. Even if u r on decent fit already, but are over 40 at age , it take little longer. But at the same time u surely have some age related patience..so I keep up training even its hard longer.
Just got a One up dropper to replace my Reverb, and I think I've got you to blame for keep banging on about them.
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couldnt have said it better, when i first started I looked at those expensive helmets and scoffed at the idea that someone would actually spend that much. now, I'm scattering trying to find the right gear to ride (I had a random growth spurt and had to sell all my gear and now that I've got the chance I want to get the right equipment)
I feel like this vid is a baby from a late night video chat we had while drunk 🤘🏼😂🤘🏼 I love it!
I especially like the 4-Spoke Sealant hack 💪🏼
Idk how I feel about this, perhaps mountain biking is buying a bike and adventuring in the woods and learn this shit as you go
I just broke my fist crank bearing. fun! lolol
i run 60 psi and its perfect for freeride
35 years riding and I still don't wash my bike. Water is a vehical for dirt. My parts last longer. And cover you rear shock to keep the dirt out.
OK, a couple of questions after watching this. What model of Kenda tires are you using? I've had good luck with them, but no down here, Seattle area, carries them. I'm almost 60, don't give me that 34 and hurting crap! LoL
One thing you missed: YOU'LL GET HURT EVENTUALLY IF YOU'RE FULL GAS ALL THE TIME
I found that out my second time going
More than once.
No. You'll get hurt eventually, period.
I heard Beano helps with Gas
You can utilize gas for climbs
I bought a second-hand average full-sus 3 years ago, and I can relate to most of your tips. In addition, 3 things I wish I'd learned sooner: [1] the value of a proper pair of MTB flat shoes, [2] the added confidence that comes from a good front tyre, and [3] 'heavy feet' technique is more important for avoiding arm pump than searching for the perfect grips
So whats the heavy feet tech actually entail cos everyone says do that but not why?
@@kudosbudo I'm sure you could find a good explainer from an expert, but here's my take: 'heavy feet' is mainly just a way to have 'light hands' which is the more important part. [1] Your hands need to have a good grip on the handlegrips, AND have the ability to modulate the brakes with one finger - doing that while ALSO supporting a lot of bodyweight through your arms is a very hard combination for your muscles (causing arm-pump and other problems). [2] For proper bike-body separation and for using your arms to absorb bumps, it's better to have light hands so that you can more easily push the handlebars down/up as you hit dips and bumps. [3] heavy feet is also a sign that your bodyweight is centered over the crank, which is ideal for stability.
In terms of how to do it, it's pretty easy to practice, just adjust your body position until you don't feel much pressure of your hands on the grips - I did this on regular streets (flat & downward slope) so that I could get the feel of it without obstacles/surprises.
ps. To be clear, this about not having too much weight on your hands, but you still need a firm grip on the handlegrips
Get bike shoes from the beginning!!! I was using old Nike skate shoes that flex with each stroke. Wasted so much energy and the upgrade to stiffer mountain bike shoes was an unbelievable difference.
Yep.i was using old Reebok hi tops.invested in some 5 10s...money well spent even though they are not cheap
Thanks a lot for the life hack I mean the four spokes ;-)
What is the digital pressure tool you're using?
I love all your content Paul, but I gotta push back on the stretching. By all means, if it feels good, do it, but just don't do it too hard. Stretching does not warm up muscles, and you should really only stretch warm muscles, so stretching after a ride is better than before, but again, actual studies show there's not much benefit unless you're trying to get more flexible (but things like decreasing injury, or doing away with lactic acid, are pretty much bunk, even though most people think it's common knowledge). The best way to warm up is with lighter versions of what you'll be doing, so like an easy climb is great to get the blood pumping, and then some dynamic movements (like leg swings, hip circles, arm circles, etc) will do a lot more to get you ready to ride than bending down and touching your toes.
Keep up the awesomeness!
I rode 30 km without back break on quite technical terrain and my lord was I a little scared
Maxxis tires are running for $75-89 each these days. Mtb indeed is getting unaffordable in many ways. Went Continental for the first time.
hey quick question what front mud Gard do you have
Why did you buy the giant trance x vs all the other choices? Pivot Trail429, Switchblade, Ibis, Litespeed, Specialized? What do you think of the suspension design and ride quality of the Trance X? Are the stock wheels junk?
explain exactly how to wear Padded Chamois shorts and is chamois cream worth it??
Hey Paul, what front mudguard is that ? Are you riding a trance X 3 ?
How often do u service your shocks and break
Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Mountain Biking:
1. Tires are magnetic to thorns
2. Tires are made as "tough" as a balloons
ok my suspension fork already has wear marks after 2 weeks of usage from being brand new.
okay.... Im a freerider,i have a propain tyee and i run 35 psi front/rear.... and sometimes i think its not enough xD
I’m the same age and stretching is key
I am 52...no need to stretch here I just start the ride steady
If I had a wheel sponsor I’d run 20psi in the back too lol. I destroy 1-2 rear wheels a season tho running around 28-30psi normally. Weight 175lbs.
It is really cool
the tipp that you get only good in skiing/bikinig if you take a teacher is only right if you start "late" with this kind of sports. If you come very early (2- 4years) in touch with this sports you often learn to feel in a natural way what your bike/ski wants from you.
Paul, where did you get that Giant hat?!
What bike stand do you use
I'm getting creaks on my bike and I've oiled the chain. So frustrating/annoying
30 psi or as Sam Pilgrim calls it, a flat tire
witch open face helmet do you use?
I used to run 40 psi and still get pinch flats. I've been at this a while... Also, if your fork stanchions have wear marks, it's far too late, you've already done irreparable damage.
Is there anything you can do to prevent this? Like some sort of maintenance? Or is it just normal wear and tear
@@shaunmathew1640 yes, the regular servicing of your fork. Changing the oil regularly, replacing the seals once in a while. My roommate had his fork for the same amount of time as me. We both ride a lot. I serviced my fork at least once a season, sometimes two. He did his twice over the course of five years. Mine was in perfect shape still, his had stanchion wear.
6:05 AMEN
What is that angle meter app you've been using?
"Use that front brake" - Proceeds to squeeze the rear brake... hahaha little error there ;)
They are probably installed the brit way (or moto as they say)
I wish I knew how sore it was to get a pedal off the shin before I got addicted 🐍
I wish i knew that for the best mountain biking experience, you actually need mountains, i live in goddamn Holland !!
I live in Denmark, most of it is flat like a pancake 🙄🔫
@@Mr450pro Well, in that case i'm not planning a biketrip to Denmark either.
Dang, I have climbed thousands of times and it still sucks LOL
Is that a Cannon down rigger mic boom? Disco ball hanger? Haha
Sir what type your MTB helmet
Setup amazon smiles to donate to your local IMBA/Trail association. Super easy.
this is the video that explains all of Hong Kong uncle riders problems
I hate the term "closed" for suspension dials. What if it is reverse thread? The manual should specify closed is clockwise. You cannot assume these things especially when the threads are not visible.