Do what you do NOT do well!!!!
If you want to improve as an Enduro rider, or any offroad riding, then you need to practice what you don’t do well as often as possible. Your goal should be to “own it”. Practice until you have got it under control and then own it, practice it until everyone else is asking you how […]
The Wheelie… so Cool!!!!
The Wheelie is very cool but also quite an essential skill to learn. Now there are two varieties of wheelie, the long, balanced, gloriously flashy wheelie that just screams “I’ve got skills” and then there is the get the job done wheelie. Fortunately for us, the Get the job done wheelie is all we need […]
SETS, TRANSITIONS and comfort levels.
We talk alot about SETS and TRANSITIONS on this site. So what exactly is a SET or for that matter a TRANSITION? Well your bike sits on two big pogo sticks, suspension front and rear. But then that sits on tyres which have movement in them and above all this is a human body that […]
Body Position, think Kama Sutra for the Dirt-bike.
Know you positions, sort of a Kama Sutra of the dirtbike world.
The Myths about rubber that endanger our lives.
Ok, there are so many things said about motorcycle tyres that are just not correct and may lead you into trouble, if not, at least into wasting money. Some of the biggies are: you need the sportiest tyres you can get, the softer the better for maximum traction. a tyre is good until the tread […]
Treadwalk; nothing like a dog walk. Things get scary if you don’t understand it. An Essential Skill.
Cars oversteer bikes treadwalk, its the same thing but expressed differently and as bikes don’t have a differential its a very important thing to learn about.
To Weight or De-Weight? That is the question
Ever tried pulling yourself off the ground using a skipping rope under your feet? Guess you understand the need to de-weight then :-).
Crazy, Hectic and Madly Calm. It’s the only way.
The first thing to learn, is the hardest thing to learn and will take the most time. But you need to learn it and concentrate on learning it continually until you have become a master. It is the difference between always struggling and calmly leaving everyone behind. Riding on the road, I coach often, that […]
Facedown in the mud, Dirt-bikes by Definition
I’m not a famous Dirt biker. But I am a rider with an inquisitive mind that has broken down how I learnt NOT to suck on a dirt bike.
The Tyre Pressure Delimma
what pressure are you on top of? why? did you consciously choose, do you know the trade offs?
