After many years of riding dirt. I had these skills down, but I did not think of how it was done part. Now 25 years later, with 80% all street, muscle memory is gone, and relearning has been very difficult. Especially after two back surgeries. My brain says, "I can this," the body says, just give up. So at 71. I appreciate your teaching methods. Thanks for doing this
As a beginner (30s adult) this is incredible. Thank you for the long winded explanations. I ride with experienced riders and noticed them doing these things all the time, but I had no idea how or why. I am in week 3 of your progression course, im not as balanced as I once thought I was lol.
Agree, slow extended explanation works best. Late 40's rider trying to teach my girls. By far the best explanations for people that have some balance and or athletic ability, which is needed I've found for trail/Enduro riding.
Love hearing that there are a lot of new adult riders. I hope you get even half the enjoyment I do from the sport. I'm 67 and have been riding since I was a kid. And I'm still a kid everytime I ride. It's like a time machine.
This is my first season riding a dirt bike and I cannot thank IRC and Rich enough for posting this stuff. Turns out it's tough starting new hobbies as an adult 😅
Very well made video. What I like most here is that you not only show what to do in slow motion, but you are talented enough to show what not to do. This is worth a million words. Subscribed!
I just want to add that there are a lot of "older" riders out there. I had a dirt bike as a teenager, then bought another dirt bike at 56. Almost 40 yrs between dirtbikes. You know what, I can pretty much keep up with the folks I ride with. Not the fastest, but fast enough for me. The thing is, don't let age keep you from riding. Side note, the majority of riders I know run at least one IRC tire. The most popular is the VE33s on the rear. When talking to the folks I meet at the trails, IRC Tire youtube channel and Rich Larsen pop up all the time. The experienced riders frequently say, "You gotta check out the IRC channel. Good riding tips". I hope one day to meet Rich and shake his hand.
I'm in my 50's, and spent nearly all of my 20's and 30's riding in the dunes where these lessons aren't as critical or pronounced. Basically, it was just roll on the throttle and carve away. Now that I am older and riding trails on a TW200 (I know... old man bike), I am finding the need to be a more technically correct rider. Many say that riding in sand is tough, but because I learned to ride sand first, and it's all I've ever known, it seems easy... and a transition to hard pack feels like I am on ice. Very uncomfortable at times. Your lessons have been amazingly helpful in feeling secure and planted on the bike when riding hard pack. Thanks for taking the time to be clear and detailed in your lessons. I will take long-winded teaching over dumbed-down abbreviated lessons every time. Excellent video!
To all the new riders watching and learning from Rich's expertise and excellent teaching ability, keep practicing! I can say from experience when you have been using bad technique for 20 years it is VERY HARD to retrain your brain. Add a few whiskey throttle moments here and there and being able to clear a small log standing up seems like a pipe dream.
I think I figured out how guys like Jean Michale Bayle and Ron Lechien got so smooth and fast. They did not train off the bike very much. What I did when I got tired was to do other exercises, (running, bicycling, rowing machine), to get into better shape. What they did when they got tired, is figure out how to ride the bike to not get tired. That is how they got so smooth and fast.
Thanks a lot for this! I just got into enduro trail here in Brazil, and i will try my best to master these techniques, Your slow-mo explanations are awesome!
I'm an avid watcher of your videos but this one helped me understand mistakes I've been making all along. When you showed what happens when your body is back going up the obstacle it hit me. That's why I almost lose it even though I've made it over the obstacle. Can't wait to ride again and practice proper body position.
As always great break down of what each part of the body is doing in relation to the bike. I’m 56 and this has been so helpful with getting me out of my bad habits. Cheers Rich
I also notice that on the bigger obstacles, your front tire is still moving upward before your back wheel hits the obstacle. That helps the front end to not drop too fast, as it has to change direction, as it is still elevating, before it can drop.
Your videos and precise description about the required techniques are amazing good...!! It is really helpful the way that you described everything and break it down in pieces that a beginner can understand it. Thanks !!!
Been doing ten week fundamentals videos for twenty wks now. I get laughed at for not just unloadn and ripn off but oddly enough i spend more time now watchn people destroy tires burn up clutches and over heat the four strokes. Haha thanks rich for all these videos
Despite hearing alot of bashers, I have alot of respect for the stock IRCs I had on my bikes .I just replaced with Dunlop 605s on my 250 rally but only because they were half the price, I may have made a mistake but we'll see.
member the VE33? i'm 63 y/o, used it waaaay back. still do, studded (done at home) and not studded. IRC stuff rocks. Rich has this video nailed. he's your modern day Dick Burleson w/ the "attack position", as we called it. head over bar, elbows bent, leave room for a push over the top so yer arms dont get yanked. Rich knows- dont listen to me, just watch his stuff. we didnt have this tutorial back in the day of air cooled bikes and no interwebs (just Dirt Bike mag and Super Hunky). you guys should feel lucky. just watch his videos, this is really good stuff, esp "side hill". (this is VITAL for the gnar, watch it). watch n learn and you young guns will be able to pass us old farts in the steeps and gnar. braaaaaaaap! see ya on the trail. - kev, "901GM"
This was great! I have omitted to pay attention to this. Thank you! Btw, I've also got myself a trials bike and it makes learning things for the enduro bike soooo much easier!
This one was just extra good. I feel like it just put so many steps together in a memorable way that made sense... it was like the opposite of a kaleidoscope. All these fractured ideas suddenly coalesce into something understandable! Take that algorithm! This is ENGAGEMENT! all should hear this message! Go forth and PREACH! to the dirty dirty Dirtbikers!
Notice also at min 3:12 that his handle bars are not rotated so far forward that the ends of the grips are pointing up, (pointing down is the natural hand position), which makes it easier to keep your elbows up. And his levers are pointing down slightly so his fingers are in line with his straight(er) wrists and elevated elbows. This is the rational set up of the 80's and 90's, before freestyle got big. Most pro MX riders today have adopted a freestyle handlebar set up (very forward, for freestyle leg trick clearance), and with out a berm, the feel in the corners is greatly reduced. I have never seen so many pro MX riders drop the bike in a flatter corner like I see today. I would love to see how many fall in a real, clay (does not rut up), off camber corner, but such a corner does not exist on a modern MX track. "Old school" was more rational, and I think in every industry. I see we are entering an era of irrationality. I just thought MX would be the last to go irrational, so it is a generational issue. I think this younger generation was taught in school that their parents are old fashioned, or even stupid. So they are starting life from scratch, and were not taught how to think.
I practiced this technique you thought and used it on a race this weekend and it was so cool...I ride a KMX 125 but I beat the crap of Beta 300 and KTM users during the obstacle courses...it was really so much fun to beat them on a small.bore...hahaha! Thanks for the tip...do more videos on these types of hacks...techniques
@IRCTireUSAMoto thanks for the detailed explanation. This is definitely a basic, muscle memory thing that I am working on. Doing it wrong results in greater consequences for someone like me who has a short inseam. Riding goals!
actually we don't get weight away from rear tyre when we lean forward at obstacle because bike is standing up as we are so basically we're vertically over rear tyre getting stil good traction. Great vid.
So different from MTBing. You would put your chest into the bars and right at the obsical you would explode upwards to lift your front end, then lean forward for your rear wheel.
Greetings from Puerto Rico and thanks for everything you teach. At some point you could teach how to tune the suspensions. I am a Mountainbiker and I am a fan of suspensions and I know that it is vital to have a comfortable and efficient run. Thanks a lot for everything. both with sprints for my weight and with sag for me. More would be like getting carried away in the compression and rebound of both. I'm adjusting little by little, letting myself be carried away by how they behave and what I know about mountain biking, but it's not the same. (2023 Beta 250rr with KYB front suspension upgrade).
Once again a masterclass in providing us mere mortals comprehensive and easily understandable guidance. The best content a person trying to better themselves could ask for. Many thanks ☺️
@@IRCTireUSAMoto Your video reminded me of at least two articles I read in Cycle World during the 1970's when I was 13 or 14 years old. Obviously it was not in video format. These articles used pictures of a guy on a Yamaha DT175 going over fallen trees, doing a steep uphill, doing a steep downhill, and going down into and up out of small creeks. Those articles were invaluable to me back then. 🙂
When I am tacking smaller logs or logs with a slope - it is all fine, smooth mini jump over, but when logs a bigger (like half the size of the front wheel) I start getting very nasty kick from back suspension. And when applying more throttle it even worse. Is anyone experiencing same issue? And maybe has any ideas how to fix it?
After many years of riding dirt. I had these skills down, but I did not think of how it was done part. Now 25 years later, with 80% all street, muscle memory is gone, and relearning has been very difficult. Especially after two back surgeries. My brain says, "I can this," the body says, just give up. So at 71. I appreciate your teaching methods. Thanks for doing this
As a beginner (30s adult) this is incredible. Thank you for the long winded explanations. I ride with experienced riders and noticed them doing these things all the time, but I had no idea how or why. I am in week 3 of your progression course, im not as balanced as I once thought I was lol.
Awesome to hear your working through the progressions! I’m stoked to help!
Coming from a beginner rider at 43. 👍🫡
@@reddirtmoto4841 I'm 44 😇
Agree, slow extended explanation works best. Late 40's rider trying to teach my girls. By far the best explanations for people that have some balance and or athletic ability, which is needed I've found for trail/Enduro riding.
Love hearing that there are a lot of new adult riders. I hope you get even half the enjoyment I do from the sport. I'm 67 and have been riding since I was a kid. And I'm still a kid everytime I ride. It's like a time machine.
This is my first season riding a dirt bike and I cannot thank IRC and Rich enough for posting this stuff. Turns out it's tough starting new hobbies as an adult 😅
Great video. Most important for an older rider like me to get the techniques right, to avoid unecessary injury and stress on the body.
Very well made video. What I like most here is that you not only show what to do in slow motion, but you are talented enough to show what not to do. This is worth a million words. Subscribed!
I just want to add that there are a lot of "older" riders out there. I had a dirt bike as a teenager, then bought another dirt bike at 56. Almost 40 yrs between dirtbikes. You know what, I can pretty much keep up with the folks I ride with. Not the fastest, but fast enough for me. The thing is, don't let age keep you from riding. Side note, the majority of riders I know run at least one IRC tire. The most popular is the VE33s on the rear. When talking to the folks I meet at the trails, IRC Tire youtube channel and Rich Larsen pop up all the time. The experienced riders frequently say, "You gotta check out the IRC channel. Good riding tips". I hope one day to meet Rich and shake his hand.
Thanks so much for the kind words! Maybe I'll see you at a clinic! I really appreciate the support!
I'm in my 50's, and spent nearly all of my 20's and 30's riding in the dunes where these lessons aren't as critical or pronounced. Basically, it was just roll on the throttle and carve away. Now that I am older and riding trails on a TW200 (I know... old man bike), I am finding the need to be a more technically correct rider. Many say that riding in sand is tough, but because I learned to ride sand first, and it's all I've ever known, it seems easy... and a transition to hard pack feels like I am on ice. Very uncomfortable at times. Your lessons have been amazingly helpful in feeling secure and planted on the bike when riding hard pack. Thanks for taking the time to be clear and detailed in your lessons. I will take long-winded teaching over dumbed-down abbreviated lessons every time. Excellent video!
To all the new riders watching and learning from Rich's expertise and excellent teaching ability, keep practicing! I can say from experience when you have been using bad technique for 20 years it is VERY HARD to retrain your brain. Add a few whiskey throttle moments here and there and being able to clear a small log standing up seems like a pipe dream.
The slow motion video is very helpful and helps me better understand each step in these complex maneuvers. Great stuff Rich!
This series is gold, keep making them. I never cared much about the tires I run but I’ll be buying a lot more IRC from now on to support you guys.
The slow motion really helps along with the instruction.
I think I figured out how guys like Jean Michale Bayle and Ron Lechien got so smooth and fast. They did not train off the bike very much. What I did when I got tired was to do other exercises, (running, bicycling, rowing machine), to get into better shape. What they did when they got tired, is figure out how to ride the bike to not get tired. That is how they got so smooth and fast.
I feel attacked 😂 thanks for the checkup!!
Haha! I only say it because it’s true!
Thanks a lot for this! I just got into enduro trail here in Brazil, and i will try my best to master these techniques, Your slow-mo explanations are awesome!
One of the best tutorials for beginers I've ever seen. Thanks!!
this dude should have his own video tutorial, he is the best one I found in RUclips
Well I’ve put over 200 out on this channel 😁
Thanks for sharing all these tips. The best content I’ve found with lots of details. (I’m from Belgium, beginner, 37 years old, sherco 300 SE factory)
Great to hear! Thanks for watching!!
Thank you so much for these videos! 30 year old beginner here and I appreciate them SO much!
Wow very informative, I’m a first time 51 year old dirt bike rider Thanks for breaking down like you did!
I'm an avid watcher of your videos but this one helped me understand mistakes I've been making all along. When you showed what happens when your body is back going up the obstacle it hit me. That's why I almost lose it even though I've made it over the obstacle. Can't wait to ride again and practice proper body position.
That’s awesome man! I love hearing that!
Best, most pedagogical videos! Thanks!!
Work, Summer Heat, windy Hot Days, Knee pain, leg pain and Yard Chores SAP my 501 Husqvarna time... Videos like this Inspire me to ride... Thanks
Wow. I'm watching this at 10pm and want to go out riding to practice it. Thank you Rich. I love your work👍
I love how you break this down so scientifically. Well done
As always great break down of what each part of the body is doing in relation to the bike. I’m 56 and this has been so helpful with getting me out of my bad habits. Cheers Rich
Always enjoyable and educational! thank you. Cheers from OZ
Excellent breakdown as usual rich.. thank you for your knowledge 🤙
Appreciate it!🙌
I also notice that on the bigger obstacles, your front tire is still moving upward before your back wheel hits the obstacle. That helps the front end to not drop too fast, as it has to change direction, as it is still elevating, before it can drop.
100% on point as always!! 🤘
🙌🙌
Thank for sharing your ideas,.. I've Manny learned... God bless
Excellent tutorial. The slow motion reviews really help. Great video.
Great stuff. Watched several times in order to apply it properly. Many tks
Your videos and precise description about the required techniques are amazing good...!! It is really helpful the way that you described everything and break it down in pieces that a beginner can understand it. Thanks !!!
That was great! Thank you.
Great video and info. and great explanation !!
You are the best coach. Period. ❤
Brilliant, thanks, just Brilliant
Great breakdown of this important technique, thanks!
I’ve started the 10 part series.
I find your style very patronising… but Crikey you are always spot on ! Good information.
Many thanks
You’ve said that twice now. Both times you pad it with a compliment. Weird
@@IRCTireUSAMoto Maybe overly sensitive?
Thank you and may God bless you!
Thank you too!
Been doing ten week fundamentals videos for twenty wks now. I get laughed at for not just unloadn and ripn off but oddly enough i spend more time now watchn people destroy tires burn up clutches and over heat the four strokes. Haha thanks rich for all these videos
Good stuff! Soon you’ll be smoking everybody!
wow what a great breakdown of the movements, kinda naturally have done this but never connected the dots
Great instructors 👍
Thank you Rich.
No worries!🙌
Despite hearing alot of bashers, I have alot of respect for the stock IRCs I had on my bikes .I just replaced with Dunlop 605s on my 250 rally but only because they were half the price, I may have made a mistake but we'll see.
I’ve been doing this wrong for years. Thanks for something to work on.
Stoked it helped!
This is so helpful, thank you
Another brilliant explanation!
The full series of videos are incredible helpfull men, thank a lot for them !!
Got broke buying my first bike and got no money left for lessons xD
Excellent insights!
I’ve just been hanging onto my YZ250 for dear life struggling to figure out how to accelerate hard.
Now this makes sense.
member the VE33? i'm 63 y/o, used it waaaay back. still do, studded (done at home) and not studded. IRC stuff rocks. Rich has this video nailed. he's your modern day Dick Burleson w/ the "attack position", as we called it. head over bar, elbows bent, leave room for a push over the top so yer arms dont get yanked. Rich knows- dont listen to me, just watch his stuff. we didnt have this tutorial back in the day of air cooled bikes and no interwebs (just Dirt Bike mag and Super Hunky). you guys should feel lucky. just watch his videos, this is really good stuff, esp "side hill". (this is VITAL for the gnar, watch it). watch n learn and you young guns will be able to pass us old farts in the steeps and gnar. braaaaaaaap! see ya on the trail.
- kev, "901GM"
This was great! I have omitted to pay attention to this. Thank you! Btw, I've also got myself a trials bike and it makes learning things for the enduro bike soooo much easier!
Good instructions in a timely video! Thanks?!
Every time worth watching! Thx!
Appreciate the support!
This one was just extra good. I feel like it just put so many steps together in a memorable way that made sense... it was like the opposite of a kaleidoscope. All these fractured ideas suddenly coalesce into something understandable! Take that algorithm! This is ENGAGEMENT! all should hear this message! Go forth and PREACH! to the dirty dirty Dirtbikers!
Haha! You’re the man Mitch! Best comment ever pumped you liked the video! 🙌
Great advice
as always great tips. Now to go practice them
This was awesome man. New subscriber ✌🏻
Thank you made me realise my stand up position on the bike is wrong.
From the wag of the tail it looked like your 4 legged coach approved your form.
Your videos are gold. I’ve learned a lot and have applied most of the tips. Thanks!
Glad you like them!
I need that backyard!
Notice also at min 3:12 that his handle bars are not rotated so far forward that the ends of the grips are pointing up, (pointing down is the natural hand position), which makes it easier to keep your elbows up. And his levers are pointing down slightly so his fingers are in line with his straight(er) wrists and elevated elbows. This is the rational set up of the 80's and 90's, before freestyle got big. Most pro MX riders today have adopted a freestyle handlebar set up (very forward, for freestyle leg trick clearance), and with out a berm, the feel in the corners is greatly reduced. I have never seen so many pro MX riders drop the bike in a flatter corner like I see today. I would love to see how many fall in a real, clay (does not rut up), off camber corner, but such a corner does not exist on a modern MX track. "Old school" was more rational, and I think in every industry. I see we are entering an era of irrationality. I just thought MX would be the last to go irrational, so it is a generational issue. I think this younger generation was taught in school that their parents are old fashioned, or even stupid. So they are starting life from scratch, and were not taught how to think.
Wow this is super helpful. Thanks Rich!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!!
Thank You Rich. Another helpful video explanation. Nice work mate.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I practiced this technique you thought and used it on a race this weekend and it was so cool...I ride a KMX 125 but I beat the crap of Beta 300 and KTM users during the obstacle courses...it was really so much fun to beat them on a small.bore...hahaha! Thanks for the tip...do more videos on these types of hacks...techniques
Thanks a lot
thank you!!
Awesome video! You put so much though into this that you should really write a book on technical riding.
That would be cool!
Thank you so much for this great video and very helpful I will try this. Thanks man
Great as always, thank you. Now I just need discipline and some abandoned place nearby to do the drill
Go for it!
Great video,thanks :)
Wow, looks just like my cousin’s backyard. Say hi to Charles for me. Great videos by the way!
Haha it is!
Thx for video, end best regards for you dog from me and my labrador Bady 🤗🐶
@IRCTireUSAMoto thanks for the detailed explanation. This is definitely a basic, muscle memory thing that I am working on. Doing it wrong results in greater consequences for someone like me who has a short inseam. Riding goals!
I get horrible arm pump. Will try this.
great content and bring me back to basics as i begin to prepare for a new season
Glad you enjoyed it!
actually we don't get weight away from rear tyre when we lean forward at obstacle because bike is standing up as we are so basically we're vertically over rear tyre getting stil good traction. Great vid.
Yep
yes i agree with all, you are the best teacher and master ever🤙
I appreciate that!
@@IRCTireUSAMoto long live brother, be wealthy, be safe,be happy
This is motivating! Time to push some logs out with the tractor and practice this stuff.
Love hearing it!!
mantap .... free teaching by irc😁😁
How did the RUclips algorithm know I've been doing this ass backwards?
thanks
Nice track 😜😎
So different from MTBing. You would put your chest into the bars and right at the obsical you would explode upwards to lift your front end, then lean forward for your rear wheel.
very helpful info, really appreciate it.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the support!
It just feels so foreign seeing your front fender. Especially when coming from a dual sport that I just casually ride around trails and the street.
Greetings from Puerto Rico and thanks for everything you teach. At some point you could teach how to tune the suspensions. I am a Mountainbiker and I am a fan of suspensions and I know that it is vital to have a comfortable and efficient run. Thanks a lot for everything. both with sprints for my weight and with sag for me. More would be like getting carried away in the compression and rebound of both. I'm adjusting little by little, letting myself be carried away by how they behave and what I know about mountain biking, but it's not the same. (2023 Beta 250rr with KYB front suspension upgrade).
I second this!!
We’ll see what we can put together!
Awesome
Top content
Thanks for watching!
I've seen front tire stop rider Flys over handle bars or hits chest on bar.
Once again a masterclass in providing us mere mortals comprehensive and easily understandable guidance.
The best content a person trying to better themselves could ask for.
Many thanks ☺️
Very well explained! I need one of them electric trials bikes, stinking fire season is killing me.
Definitely!!
Very good presentation. Good new riders should be growing on trees after watching this video. 🙂
I hope so!
@@IRCTireUSAMoto Your video reminded me of at least two articles I read in Cycle World during the 1970's when I was 13 or 14 years old. Obviously it was not in video format. These articles used pictures of a guy on a Yamaha DT175 going over fallen trees, doing a steep uphill, doing a steep downhill, and going down into and up out of small creeks. Those articles were invaluable to me back then. 🙂
When I am tacking smaller logs or logs with a slope - it is all fine, smooth mini jump over, but when logs a bigger (like half the size of the front wheel) I start getting very nasty kick from back suspension. And when applying more throttle it even worse. Is anyone experiencing same issue? And maybe has any ideas how to fix it?
The dog should be more prominently featured in your videos. ;)
Can I ask what tire model is that one on your right, on the table? Looks great
M5BEVO
I get arm pump so fast and my legs get so weak so fast. In pretty bad shape I think
I had to do a lot of stretching. My hamstrings were tight which brought me out of proper position
Agreed!!