Your sessions with Lucy are the reason I signed up on Patreon. As I newish offroad rider, haven't found such detailed, well explained basic instructions elsewhere. Seeing her do multiple runs with her thoughts and your feedback is also very helpful. Thanks!

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

2 ай бұрын

Me too. And his complete lack of arrogant machismo.

I think MTB is the best school to learn going downhill in gnarly rocky slopes.

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@Bomberboy92

Жыл бұрын

+10000 on MTB being a great method of a lot of dirtbike techniques

Good advice, thanks!

This is another clear video, Llel, and thanks for your skill at explaining. Watching this video reminds me of your MiniTip Mpnday from last year (“Teaching my girlfriend how to accelerate hard”) where Lucy practiced moving further forward on the bike while accelerating hard. That’s the tip that helped me climb steep stuff.

Ahhh you'd love Colombia-trails just like that one-but through stunning coffee plantations! Once I get the heath sorted-that drinking coffee of the back of the Beta will be made!

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

Thank you for this. Would be nice to see one on going up the same hills with the steps!

As always another great video

Fantastic video. I always find these so helpful. 👍👍👍

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

Glad to help

One on one offroad training , can't beat that . Good job on that second run down the trickier side . I take it you found your way home .

Thanks a lot !

thx for sharing your knowledge with us. I love riding uphills but hate going down :)

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

I am the total opposite!

@hymek7017

Жыл бұрын

The reason I prefer up to down is, on the way up if you need to stop you can kill the power, pull the clutch and stop safely. On the way down if you get into a low grip situation and need to stop, you can't turn off the gravity and with no grip there's no brakes and no control.

Thank you!

I live in Greece and have a 1997 Serow XT225. Brilliant bike. BUT…the driveway from my house to the road is (1) very steep, (2) has a hairpin bend right in the middle and (3) has a crumbling, really torn up loos concrete and gravel surface especially on the hairpin. Oh, and then another bend at the bottom. Result: it's a nightmare for me to get down every time and the more I think it's a nightmare, the worse it gets, of course, so I go rigid, lock up my arms, forget to steer, target fixate. etc. A few days back the inevitable happened: the front slithered, I panic-grabbed the front brake(!) and the bike went over trapping my leg underneath. Stupid me-I was not wearing the right footwear and smashed up my ankle pretty nastily (off to see the orthopaedic guy today); not broken but I suspect torn or over-stretched tendons and ligaments. Rather amusingly, though, as I was lying on the ground my Apple Watch helpfully said "It looks like you've had a fall? Is that correct? Would you like me to call someone?". Being terribly British and polite, as I was trying to lever the bike upwards so I could get my leg out (the footpeg had jammed into my ankle) I was saying "Thanks so much, Siri, but I'm fine so no need to call anyone right now." Obviously all this happened at about 2mph. Just goes to show that stupid things can happen at very low speeds. Mostly, I'm ok with reasonable downhills on sketchy surfaces, but throw in that hairpin and it all goes to shite. I can see that I should have let the bike have more speed and just deal with the surface, but I have a fear in the back of my mind that if I let her run a bit freer, I will lose traction again when I try and brake before the turn at the bottom. Aged 62 and still learning the hard way ;-). And through excellent videos such as this.

Lucy is awesome!

Great technique

What helped me most with tackling downhills is when someone told me that the bike will get down the hill by itself (gravity) and the front tyre will deflect off objects to find the path of least resistance. So any unnecessary input into the front bars by the rider like arm tension or over-braking is only going to make things worse.

cool!

Thanks a lot! 👍😊

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊

Downhills are scary still working on it!

Nice video Llel. Downhills are my nemesis, I’m really concerned about loosing control of my speed. I live in the Alps so we have plenty of hills around here. I have no issues blasting a Mountain down them but on my motorbike I’m much more cautious. I feel I have very little control of the back brake compared to my MTB. I’ve seen a left hand rear brake lever available for my 701. Do you have any experience of this set up?

wow .. i think She's better than me .. .-) almost .. well done

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

🤣

Should I have to switch off The ABS for this kind of steep downhill with lots of loose gravel?

Its scarry some how,you should looking down the trail at the same time look forward for the safe line..

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

It’s easier if you hold it wide open like 11x jcr

Would be great to see this done on BMW adventure bikes. You tend to do the hard bits on smaller bikes.

@richardsimpson3792

Жыл бұрын

And no one can work out why????

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

A little bit just because of bike availability. :) When we filmed this we only had the T7 and it was pretty tall :)

@ajadudu

Жыл бұрын

@@BrakeMagazine Having been on two ORS, it made me stick with my 'big' GSA for all terrains, while my friends tell me "life would be much easier on a 'smaller' bike" - great course by the way. So if you could please do more technical rides on fat GSAs :-) to show 'haters' :-) :-)

So...clutch engaged, or disengaged? Front brake...yes, obviously, but back brake?

@BrakeMagazine

Жыл бұрын

Great question. We cover this in the basics video if you're unsure. The clutch disengages depending on speed really. For this kinda thing, normally you'll be going slower than the speed of first gear. To stop stalling you'd disengage. On a bike WITHOUT linked brakes, always use both if you can. :) Hope that helps!

@richardsimpson3792

Жыл бұрын

@@BrakeMagazine Thanks! Do you ever go down 'dead engine' and use the clutch to engage the engine as a brake...or is that really stupid? I love the respect and kindness that you and your GF have for each other...in all seriousness you should do relationship courses for young men in between the motorcycling ones.

@sergia6513

Жыл бұрын

@@richardsimpson3792 it's not stupid at all, hard enduro pros do that in 2strokes and use the clutch drag to their advantage.

@miro_s

Жыл бұрын

I find application of the rear brake going down steep stuff gives you a lot more confidence you can control the speed no matter what.

@sampy1975

Жыл бұрын

Some other important stuff - try to hold your body weight by pointing your feet in / hold bike with legs. It drains much less energy from your arms. Start with small descents and work your way into harder stuff. Game changer - look at where you want to go not where you don’t want to hit