How To Get Faster In The Trails - Dirt Biking
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2020
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I’m going to give you guys some tips to help you become faster in the trails. The first and most important thing I can tell you is to STAND UP. Your body positioning is going to be the key to success and as you get faster and more comfortable on the trails, you’re going to see that you’ll be moving your body a lot on the bike. You need to be able to move around quickly and efficiently and standing up is the best way to do that. It’s important to stand through corners, up and down hills, and through rough terrain. Avoid sitting down in situations that make you uncomfortable. You might feel like you’re slower when you first start trying to stand up all the time but I promise you that if you power through, it will make you a faster and better technical rider in the long run!
So this brings me to STAND UP CORNERING. So many people slow way down and sit down for corners. This is probably what slows people down the most in the trails. I’m going to show you guys some tricks to help you corner more quickly and safely standing up. The first trick is all to do with your body positioning and where you’re putting your weight. In order to rail a flat, loose corner without washing out or falling into the corner, you’re going to need to get your weight to the opposite side that you’re leaning the bike. So as I turn to the left, my body is slightly out to the right to counter balance the bike as I lean it into the corner.
The next tip is once again all about body positioning and using your body weight. Many riders are afraid to stand through flat corners or corners with no berm because of a fear of washing out. To help prevent a front wheel washout , you can weight the front tire. In order to do this, I get my upper body forwards over the bars, still keeping my legs central on the bike. You don’t want to bring your knees forwards. This completely unweights the rear end and puts you in a weak, vulnerable body position.
The next thing I want to talk about is the gear your ride in. Lots of people are in the habit of reving their bikes out, especially people who ride two strokes. I like to go up a gear or two because it’s smoother, more energy saving, and in turn, it’s faster. If you can get comfortable using your clutch a little more and riding in the lower rpms, you’ll be smoother and quicker in the trails in no time. Right now I’m in and out of 3rd and 4th gear for the most part, clutching in the corners when I need to rather than down shifting.
So we talked about standing up and why it’s important, we talked about ways to help improve your stand up cornering, and we talked about riding a gear higher to smooth things out. Stay tuned for part two for more tips to speed up your trail riding! Thanks for watching!
Always looking as far ahead as possible on the trail is one of the first things you should learn to do to ride faster.
This. Everything Megs said was solid advice but this one has to be in there as well.
Definitely, some years ago me and a friend were telling this to a guy that had just started riding enduros.
Your body automatically copes with what's happening with the bike you concentrate on picking a line on what's coming up on the going.
It's like your brain is working independently of your body.
Great feeling when it's all flowing,
then you suddenly have an off...The joys of riding enduros.
Learning to ride faster is bullshit, need to learn how the bike reacts and adapt to it, the speed will eventually come the more you ride
While standing up!
Saw one of your videos like 2 years ago and I still consider you explain way better than 98% of man riders on RUclips. Congratulations, continue doing your stuff. My sister is a fan too and like the way you explain and understand you better than other people on RUclips
Your advice has been really helpful as a 50 year old guy trying to keep up with my son (15 years old) who is getting faster every week on the single track.
Straight to the goal no bla bla!!! I love this, very instructive!!! Nice video.
Hello Megs, just wanted to say that the content and the way you present your videos are of real value to people like myself. You manage to entertain as well as educate, I have learned loads, Thanks, Chris....
chris mckay Thanks so much for the great feedback Chris!
To prevent a front wheel washout while turning, DONT use a Kenda Trackmaster!! lol
Thank you Megs for all your nice videos and advices. I just started enduro 3 months ago at 51 after many years of mountain bike, I would say with an engine it’s quite different !
I will never become very good and very fast, but I am improving myself each time, and the most important I have a lot of fun. I really enjoy watching your videos and try to learn from them. Explanation are very clear, almost understand everything and for a french native language I appreciate to be capable to ear you without huge effort.
Wish you the best and also lot of fun with bikes 😀😀😀
What a great series of videos ! Thanks Megs, and standing while I ride has made me such a better rider , thanks
THAT LAST CLIP WAS LIT! 🔥
Really started trail riding about 2 years back and just riding/getting a feel for things has gotten me significantly faster. Really to me seems like getting a 'feel for dirt' and how bikes react under you as well as the 'flickability' of a bike that really doesn't exist as much in my street riding (how I started riding motorcycles). Which yes totally goes to your body positioning tips, as I'm learning how to 'move' on a dirt bike, it's easier to handle and quicker. There are things I can recover from now due to body positioning that would have meant I was going down before.
I'm a dude but a smaller dude so always appreciate your 'short biker tips', I actually lift my bikes onto the stand by the front wheel due to you. One of these days I'll try your pivot turn, braap on! :)
Did Meg's Enduro Riding clinic and she is an awesome rider and teacher. Highly recommended.
Good to know-going to one in a month!
Hey awesome video. Very helpfully. I started up some trail riding last year and i got to say it’s an amazing sport. Lots to learn and the part where you mentioned to lean the opposite direction on a turn really helped. I see the mechanics of that. Hope to see more of your videos.
A youtube video that got straight to the point and delivered. A rare find indeed. Thanks for the great tips.
Awesome tips for the trail ! Thanks for sharing this with us!! 😎👍👍
This was super helpful. Thank you
Thanks Meg.. I'll definitely put that to use. I started riding again at 46 and loving it.. I dont have single track in my area but lots of trails and I spend over 10 hours a week on the bikes. ( both 2018 KTM Sixdays 4 and 2 strokes) I have to get my but standing. 220 lbs of old bones get tired quickly lol
Thanks meg this was a huge help!
Great tips Megs, I have been advocating my slower friends ride up a gear and flow more, keep the great tips coming ! You ride awesome!
Love all your videos and tips meg ! Your one of a kind inspiring woman !! Keep it up ! I hope i get to ride with you one day !!
Great video Meg! And nice tips 👍🏻
Great tips and nice work on improving the production quality of your videos!
Excellent vid! Thanks alot.
Such an impressive video. Blessed place to ride it the woods.
Great tips 👍 can't wait to try them thanks.
Very straight forward explanation. Simple but huge tips. awesome!
Yeah! Great advice!
Hi, Megs. I totally believe you when when you say to stand up. I feel like when I stand up I’m gunna go over the bars on rough or unfamiliar terrain.
Excellent tips!!!
great rider and great tips.
You totally answered some things I’ve been wondering about. My standing is fine until I hit corners and then I question if I should stand or sit motocross style. Stand it is!
nope!!!!! sit & rip in the turns!!!! stnading does have it's place. Just not everywhere as shown. Seeing that thousands of people out there are eating up loose advice as it were solid. Inspires me to make content that comes from race knowledge not casual cruising !
Your videos are always awesome. Thank you, it's easy
Thanks a lot! ☺️
Just turned 50, been in this game a long time! Riding/racing in the Pacific Northwest for decades. Your clear explanations and practical applications are some of the best I've seen. I watch and read everything out there and your riding tips are far beyond most out there. I love Lafferty, Watts, old school Dave Woods, and of course Barry Morris. Thanks for the great content and keep it up!
come on man.......! you know that is some bullshit! You just sayin that cause she is a pretty lady! Her advice actually is not that practical. You cannot always stand up.
Great video! Keep em coming!
It’s hard getting use to standing on corners but I’m getting a hang of it I spend 3 hours a day after work practicing.
I'm late to the party...... great video. I need this type of instruction! Blessings...... David
You are so darn talented. Sharing with us is awesome. Thanks. COVID has got me on the couch. I will Patreon when back to work..
Wow Megs you are a beast. I just got a new klx 300r and its my first dirt bike (at age 39). So here's a sub!
Great tips!!! Love it!~
Great tips!
Thanks Meg, I'm a master c rider trying to improve this video will help.
I recently got promoted to senior b class. Keep practicing and your riding will improve 💪🏻
Thanks for this video. It will help me with riding off-road with my Yamaha Tenere 700
those were some great tips and even better riding 💪🏾 i get nervous standing up a lot because i am short also and like to be able to throw my legs out in case of a fall but i have to get over that
Props to megs braap vids. But also to the other men in the comments good job accepting help or advice from a woman haha myself I honestly respect woman more than men that are doing a male dominant activity (dirt bikes shooting guns driving semis being a mechanic etc) love the content keep it coming! Haha
Good video keep doing what you are doing awesome channel!!!
That was awesome really dig that video always looking for info on riding that helps a lot next time out Def going to try I just subscribed two thumbs up ty doug from gunnison CO
Thanks newbie here enjoyed this vid!
the greatest improvement in speed I ever got was because i was being chased by a mother moose.
😂👌
I thought you were going to say boar or angry dog 😅
😂😂😂😂
Oh god... a bear would be terrifying. Instant boost
Great content!! Like it
For me, getting faster comes with practice and building more confidence while developing skill.
Lol. I was thinking stand up just before you said it.
Ride a CR500in the woods, like I have been doing for over a decade.
Thats plenty fast on the trails..
My roommate is building a 89 cr500 haha gonna be sick
He might want to add a flywheel weight. It has about as much flywheel effect as a Zippo lighter.
Consider suspension work mandatory. '89 was the first year for inverted forks, and there were some major issues with them (aluminum shavings in the fork oil and internal galling) Might want to look for a set of '93-up forks.
I added an oversised front disc.
Slow on the trails, too much weight bro you don’t need power on trails you need light weight. I ride a 2019 te150 on trails way faster due to lightweight
Great video 😎
Awesome tips... and nice little bounce off the tree at the end too! :D
Great video
Just came across this in 2023.. awesome stuff!
thanks for the lesson dude!
Damn just what I needed rn
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Great tips from a fellow TX300 rider!
Very interesting. A lot different from street riding. I have a lot to learn about this. Some of it is opposite what I learned about aggressive cornering on street bikes.
Thanks Megs 🏍🇨🇦
Cheers great tips
I am rom Brazil and your videos is very good, thanks
Well done.
Nice move megs braaap.🥰
Love love love 👍
Very informative
Awesome video, but I agree. Riding out front is most important. If your riding looking at the front tire your gonna over compensate the steering and eat it. Your body will get in line with your eyes always
Yes! Like riding a BMX bike…but BIGGER!
Keep and safe always idol Megs🤝🏍️
Thank you❤
Oh my lawd you would smoke me on a trail great tips thank you for the advice
I thought the same thing🤣
Yeah she's really good.
This helps~ 👍
Brilliant
amazing video
Thank you!
The whole standing-all-the-time thing has eluded me so much. It feels so wrong. Getting on the power, I have to wrench myself forward with strength. On the brakes, I have to heave myself back with strength. In every other turn, I'm taking up so much space on the trail that my helmet is constantly thwapping brush and branches. Using the shifter and rear brake both put me off balance when standing. All that just takes care of itself when sitting. I use a TON less energy, which is important because stamina is my #1 bottleneck. I do stand for bumps though. Anytime things get gnarly I stand or at least heavily weight the pegs, and let the bike deal with its chaos until I'm ready to sit again. At speed on a trail, that does usually mean I'm standing something like 40% of the time; it's just not my default.
All that said, I really don't do technical type riding. I appreciate and admire those who have absorbed modern trials techniques into their riding style, but I don't run into the log crossings and other one-wheel-approach obstacles that reeaally benefit from the trials-inspired form. I grew up taking flowing trails with whoops and rocks, as well as high-speed dirt fire roads. I was taught to ride sitting in turns and standing for bumps, and that on bikes with ye olde short-travel suspension where sitting on whoops would result in a guaranteed Flying-W situation. So I get the value of standing, just not ALL the time.
Exactly. Agree with everything you said. Standing for her is much easier cause she is vertically challenged at I think 5"3". As a result her CG is MUCH lower than a tall rider. At 6' when I stand my arms are near vertical and have very little leverage on the bars. Any obstacle hit with the front will send you over the bars unless of course your knees are really bent and sitting back. It's the unseen obstacles that do that. Yes I stand through really rough stuff etc, but do not all the time like some riders.
you get it bro what im tellin all these folks. her advice is like luke warm bath water! Not really what anyone want or needs! If this practice of standing all the time is a widely used practice in woods racing. Well then....... I feel like i ought to dabble in some woodsies! I'd love to go ripping by dudes struggling to stay up! As i smoke by them in a natural riding/attack position.
@@dustyrock1 riders who stand ALL the time do not finish 1st.
Totally agree with the Not Standing 24/7 crowd. Im MUCH faster sitting, and have kind of adapted a style where i hover my ass over the seat over rough stuff, pushing down on the pegs. That keeps u from getting bucked and still keeps you in position to shift quickly and slide forward on the seat to really slide into/power out of faster corners. I did recently put on Steg Pegz though, that helps save a lot of energy on hill climbs and faster rough terrain where standing is better
you gotta think tho all that standing and sitting is using more energy than just standing MOST of the time. if your going from sitting to standing for bumps on most trails you'll get burnt pretty quick. Thats like doing 2 hours of squats (or however long the ride may be). Learn to use your brakes and shift standing up...simple. if you keep on the balls of your feet and get used to the motion of moving your foot to do a shift or brake, instead of trying to feel it through a thick ass boot, you'll feel much faster and be able to ride for much longer. This was my issue for a long time, but trying to keep up with your fast ass friends in the woods you gotta learn this stuff. Cheers brother and ride safe.
Looking ahead is a major one
Thx for the tips and tricks I am so slow on the trails on my 85 2 stroke ya I sit down but I ride in the cow Pasteur and there is ruts every were I am scared I will go over the corner
You go girl & hold it on.
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Awesome tips, made a huge difference in my ride today. I rode faster than I ever did..
I'm so glad to hear that! Thanks for taking the time to let me know! :D
I recently signed up to be a Patreon, haven't looked into the "extras/ behind the scenes" stuff, I'll have to do that soon :)
Great 👍 vid , I always stand up when riding and my mates reckon I’m pretty quick , a few of my friends sit down a lot , one place we ride is light sand and small Mabel type surface one of my mate on his WR450 hates this ride as hie washes out the front end a lot ( due to sitting down in corners and motorcross style in the bends ) I have a question do you support sitting down going up steep snotty hill climbs ? as I see quite a few riders do it to get traction on the rear wheel . I’m also short like you I’m 5/4 .
Usually falling in in sand corners happens because of lack of throttle sitting is fine in my opinion as long as the corner is smooth if it's bumpy you want to stand up, if the trail you riding is rough you want to stand up if it's party bumpy you want to stand the whole time because constantly transitioning between sitting and standing takes to much energy
Well.said.
Thanku
Wow nice
Thanks for the lessons, what brand tire do u like especially the front , to help with cornering better ?
Hi you are amazing lady rider😊😊😊 ... Your new subscriber from philippines
That girl can ride!
I do the complete opposite, no wonder I suck, thanks Meg! :D
No problem! I'm happy to help! 👍🏻
I resemble that comment :)
My Huskys 1st and 2nd gears are like creeper and I'm using 3rd and 4th all the time now and clutch the hell out of tight turns and its alot more manageable, pulls like a tractor and launches like a rocket🤙still working on the standing corners its hard because of years of MX being drilled into my head but its coming together
Awesome! What gearing do you use? Mine is 14/50 and in the tight stuff I find that I am using the clutch just to keep the rpms up. Lugging is a challenge...
As a kid that has not been riding long, your videos are a big help 🙂 thank you 👍
#KEV12
I prefer standing up as well, however, our singletrack here is so overgrown and bushy that you can't stand up very often for fear of getting destroyed by limbs, twigs, and leaves. Sitting down gets me beneath most of it.
Question: When I weight the outside peg in a turn for example left corner, weight the right peg standing up, my bike wants to turn right toward the weighted peg and I'm fighting it through the turn. Same with a right corner weight the left peg, bike wants to go left. It seems like a ballet move and I can't seem to find that balance point. I realize it's difficult to teach via text but give it a shot :-) If you are riding straight ahead and weight a peg the bike will turn towards the weighted peg which makes sense.
Great vid, waiting for part two or did you hide it under some other name?
❤ nice
What would you suggest on 90 degree corners that start out flat, then you corner into a steep downgrade ?Like 45 degrees.
Hi Megan .. I watched some of your vids, very informative. I’m a short rider, how tall are you if I may ask ? Just to compare what I’m doing in some handling situations with your performance in these vids.
Great comments 👌🏼👌🏼
braaaaap!
Hey meg's. Love your videos. What is the patreon deal?
Thanks for the tips I need all the help I can get lol...
No problem!
Elbow armour before you even start!