Great until the “IMAGINARY AND NON-EXISTENT” thing called a CENTRIFUGAL force. Read a physics text for gods sake!!!!!!! You had it going when mentioned INERTIA. That isn’t a force either, so good on ya for not saying that. It is the tendency to maintain straight line motion. Your feet feel the centripetal force thru the bike to your feet and Newtons 3rd law says your feet must exert the same force on the pedals …. That’s where we “think” there’s a force pushing us outward (centrifugal). But it’s just our inertia being overcome by the force from the bike crating the centripetal acceleration. There is NO acceleration of any kind of the imaginary centrifugal force balanced the centripetal force ( the definition of Newtons 2nd law-if there’s an unbalanced force, an acceleration will result)
Another big reason why i see so many wash outs is the lug size the tread. The noticed that i would wipe out a lot on super packed dirt with my trail bike, but not so much with my xc bike. I realized that for super packed dirt, large knobs actually can give you less grip if knobs aren’t digging in very far, vs a xc tread that has smaller knobs but more of them, so you have in general more contact area on the ground. It’s like riding a dirtbike on the street, those large lugs aren’t gonna help much with cornering on asphalt. (I know it’s not the same but it’s just an analogy)
At this point, I'd watch Ben and this production crew critique and explain paint drying. You all are an entertaining and informative lot. Keep up the work.
Super appreciate this video. Just last week, I broke my leg and had to get nine screws and a plate put in because my foot got caught on a wash out and was turned 180 degrees backwards in the fall. I then had to self rescue hurting the leg more...in all honesty I am feeling pretty fearful to get back on the bike. Although I was crying while I watched this video because it brought up a lot of visual aspects of the fall, I think I am understanding what I did wrong...definitely went in with way too much speed, making me miss the line.Thank you for this...the timing and information impeccable!
They didn't go out of their way to annoy you, so it's more memorable. Too many advertisers think they need to essentially yell in the viewer's face to get you to pay attention when I just find that off-putting.
The tire weighting can be a bit tricky since it's nonlinear. Sometimes putting more weight on a tire increases the grip, sometimes it just overloads all the grip you can get. Either way though, keeping it centered is the answer.
New to "How to Bike." Just mending a broken rib due to an extreme washout. I wish I had watched this video two weeks ago. Ben, you make me LOL. You really should consider hosting a talk show.
I did it gonig around a flat curve on the local family trade and snapped my collarbone in half. I'm 6 weeks post surgery am able to finally ride soft/cross country style stuff for awhile. I can't wait to get back on the jumps!
I am feeling lucky : washed out twice the same day (one on each side). Just a few bruises and scratches thanks to my protection. Best recovery to the injured ones. Ride safe!
Your first definition is more of a rain out, not a washout. A washout is also a reference to soil movement due to a sudden rush of water, causing the ground to sluff or slip in various volumes. Possibly a closer match to the sudden loss of support? But nice try Ben, you might get the next one right. 🤣
Tire preasure is my recipe to try to be faster than any one in XC BUT that means that I sucks going down or in fast and loose corners= no grip, not easy to turn. But avg speed is high.
Watch these wipeouts I remember the backroads days before burms and prepared bike paths. On a dirt road making a sharp turn you'd lean off your bike placing your weight on the inside of the turn keeping your tire tread as level as possible on the grave, dirt or mud. Have wheels become fragile?
Yep, washed out recently on a blind flat corner with a small puddle perfectly placed at the apex of the turn. Never saw it until it was too late. Full speed and was a full slip and slide into the brush.. couple of nasty keep sake scars for my troubles too… No way to save it. 😑
I'm going with when you cross a river the force of water can knock you off your feet, you've been washed out and you fall inwards. Exactly the same happens on the corner, your wheel has gone out from under you and you're falling to the inside.
and when you get old you snap your right thumb sliding out on your left side even though your right thumb never came off the bar or touched the ground & you type this with voice to text
on the fly i decided to jump into a berm, instead of squashing the jump, i misjudged the amount of support, came in sideways, full wash out, surgery and 6 months reeducation, because of a rash decision on a bad day
A guy I met and rode with for the 1st time did the same thing. He was wearing a half shell and jacked the side of his face up. He has gravel, sand leaves and twigs stuck to his raw face. After seeing that I alway ride full face when going hard. Hope you heal up well🤙
It's just like saying "that trail was crazy" or " that trail was insane" the trail isn't literally crazy or insane it's meant as a phrase to show or imagine how you feel or felt
@@mishaknyazev2799 I agree, I'm making a parody of the controversy they got in on their podcast making fun of average riders. I love blue trails, just jesting them :)
Sometimes I feel like weighting the front too much in very soft soil can cause the oh shit drift to almost wash out pucker 😂 with the front. Sometimes it seems unweighting the front through sandy sections works better and never tapping brake
3:05 - you rolled over a foot long piece of wet flat wood. Your front slid a bit and your rear completely let go on the same piece of wet wood. You couldn’t roll over that with any steering input at all and not “wash out.”
Just finished great video… my lesson is don’t go race speed at kitsuma after it rains 😢just pulled 2” piece of a root out of my bar from my last washout 11 days ago in the pisgah enduro. Still have root imprint on ribs, got under my chest plate wahhh wahhh.. sun is out ride time 🎉
In my case, it's usually pine cones. I could swear that these small rolly boys jump out and expertly place themselves under my front tire at the absolutely worst of times. Bastards!
Find the biggest front tire that will fit between your fork legs and put it on. Screw the weight, nobody reading this is competing for a spot on the World Cup XC grid.
everyone knows, in a drift you turn your wheel to the oposite side so... if you know you will fall its simple just counter force it to the other angle so you straight up the bike... simple as that (─‿‿─)
