Brake Like a Boss | How To Bike Season 2 Episode 4 

Ben, you are just freakin awesome! Awesome humor mixed with excellent teaching! You are a natural teacher!

I want to learn how those freeriders whipsplash their tails left and right while going down

I happened on an impromptu front brake learning session. I rode up my usual hill… and found out my back brake was glassed after a previous day of ridiculous brake intensive riding. Had to ride the entire thing on my front brake only. A learning experience for sure😂

Good pointers and I love it that you mess around and make this fun to watch!

Like. Then watch. Then share. Then go biking. I love my Cathro-routines 😉 Stellar video, as always.

I learned front brake control when my rear brake exploded halfway down a long descent on the way home. Had to swap the front pads out after that one.

I have watched both seasons covering all episodes with out having a bike😌😅. You are sharing priceless information and i look forward to practice when I get my first bike. Thanks 🙏 Ben😍 @pinkbike

Thank you so much for this video. I did a full superman OTB while on a trail I had no business being on (I'm very new to mtb), going too fast and panic squeeze the breaks. Hearing, "ya just need to practice" but no guidance on how to practice was frustrating. This is super helpful.

correct brake there m8

Thanks Ben for these amazing videos!

Brilliant. Nearly all of my riding buddies believe that locking up the back brake and skidding is a controlled and efficient way of descending. The same guys are scared shitless of the front brake. I’m gonna share this to them all. Cheers Ben

Love your videos keep up the great material

i love this series so much

This video is great! Master Ben's presentation is awsome :)

Best yet!

You have good energy 👍

Ben Rocks!!

More than likely this series has already been recorded but I would like to see how to add style to my riding! Like wheeling between rollers or wheeling while downhill riding. Also how to endo turn, drift/barp/shrap/whatever you call it Love the serie 🤘

Always good to get out and practice your cathronetics exercises 😜🤘

I think one key thing that wasn't on the script is: pump the ground while heavy braking in the brake zone. It increases grip, but you have to time the brake with the pump.

Your videos crack me up😂 fun times

great and informative video on braking, made greater by these bits: 1:11, 2:00, 2:04, 11:09

Sorry to interrupt ! But I must admit it's the funniest video I have ever seen ! You made my day and more !

It's funny that left front and right rear is the most correct and accurate way...😅✌️

These "How to.." are a real great.. =)

Bikes were invented by Karl von Drais a German guy and as here in Germany front is left and rear is right that's the right way. Front right rear left is like using miles to describe distance.

Nice video and educational too, thank you. P.S. Whole Europe uses left brake for front wheel and right one for rear...😊

Your brakes are the wrong way :) lol , Amazing video!

Personally, I removed the front brake altogether and just run a 203mm Shimano Saint on the rear... way more fun.

I rode for many years. Since childhood. The only way to get those specific traits and feelings is to ride, alot!

Just adding a little “sauce” regarding front brake on left or right! LOL 😂

What is the app to compare videos? Great video btw

Right rear easy to remember, here in the USA, enjoyed the video though.

This Guy needs an Oscar!

spicy comment about how your levers are on the wrong side

2:00 it IS the correct way as it's the same way it's on motorcycles 💀

I am smashing that comment section fo you!

1:58 ROFLMAO so true I live in Canada and I rode motocross before I ever got on a pedalbike, man I did a endo first time pulling breaks I was thinking its just like a motorbike right side front left being no clutch on pedal bike should be rear oh boy was I mistaken.

Brakes I didn’t recall any brakes on my bike. I better go check hold on. Hey yeah, there are some things on the wheels they might work not sure.

Yeah.. the "right way" :D

but what about using brake squat to increase rear wheel grip and actually go faster?

How could I have forgotten the organic ABS replica :o

Damnit that was pure fkn gold right there! I was looking for ways to improve my braking and this was what i needed to hear. Pinkbike needs to get Ben a huge increase in pay. His value is unmatched

I did 70kph on a dh road here on our local roads, no breaking sure helps

braking the front wheel using the right hand, I couldn’t expect anything diffent from people who drives in the left side of the road. 😂😂😂

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The problem is over speeding in tricky sections. This usually ends in Friday fails video = Panic or more like a FFFFF...k + brakes + try to save with a controlled crash, skid or what ever comes to you brain in that moment.🤯

I just tore my rotator cuff how can I ride DH one handed?

Front brakes packing down the front suspension throwing you forward, packing down the suspension more over bumps is the worst.

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which santa cruz is that?

Hardly even ride anymore just watch for Cathro content

How do you not use brakes on steep turns?? I can be off the brakes in flattish turns, but anything steep, the bike picks up so much speed 😕

but our bike manufacturer setup the brakes reverse, left for front & right for rear brake🤔

Love these videos , and ' HA' it IS the correct way ! Gravel rash to the face while trying to impress a girl in Salou when I was 14 is testament to this fact.

Rear brake right side of handle bars is correct not the rear brake on the left side of the bars seems like instant death

I like is ratfro.

switching between the NA way or brakes and motorcycles is messing up my muscle memory big time :(

any updates on the $kidcoin

Ben cathro For prime minister

back brake on the right because u usually pull the back brake harder and more often and most people have stronger right hands.

Drive and brake on the wrong side! 🤣

How to brake. Pull levers. Why brake? To slow down. When to brake? Preferably before you crash. Too early and you're a noob. Too late and you're a sender. Just right and you have a seat with the 3 bears, just sippin' on some porridge.

You should talk more about using the brakes independently of each other. Entering the braking zone I actually apply my front brake fractionally before my rear brake, and then depending on the exit, I smoothly release each brake separately as the respective wheel gets to the apex. You could call it trail braking but I like to think of it as... "release each brake sequentially to give the tire the grip necessary to hold the turn". 1. Enter braking zone, Front brake comes on VERY strong first, then the rear modulating to maintain the rear from sliding 2. As you get to the apex and decide it's time to come off the brakes, you will begin to lean the bike 3. As you lean the bike the front tire will require you to release the front brake to "give" more of the total available traction to turning and less to braking 4. Completely off the front brake now as it has passed the corner of the apex, you begin to let off the rear, maintaining grip and juuuuust barely dragging the rear depending on if you want to rotate the rear tire or not through the corner 5. Off the rear brake now you are though the corner!

Me, riding an UK bike for the first time = 🤕

BRAKES: Right is Rear!😅

Just ask Remy Metailler.

I don‘t brake on ZWIFT

Did I miss Season 2 Episode 2?

Ben is it true that the reason why the back brake is on the left because of motorcycles? If that's the case let me remind everyone that it's actually the way they are on scooters, motorcycles have the rear brake foot pedal. Stop riding a scooter.

Brakes = Euro way - Haa

I was just wondering why is it at other countries and places tend to put their brakes on the opposite sides that we do here in the US I'm also a motorcycle rider so I agree that when you're comparing it to a motorcycle it makes more sense to have the brakes in the same side but is there any reason other than that I also hear a lot of writers from the UK say that it just makes sense or that it's the right way I was just wondering the reasoning to me it seems for the consistency between other types of vehicles and bikes

good video. But your brakes are the wrong way around 😇😅

APPROVED! Left brake is rear, right brake is front!

Sorry not correct way. Rear, right both start with an R. Left, front both have an f. Makes it much easier to remember for newbies. Great video though

THATS THE WRONG WAY

I watch you ladies and all you do is skid. I have a great idea let's make a video where we lie like schmuckpuppets and say we don't skid as if we had a lick of riding skill which obviously we do not.

Is this bike good for down bull racing ?

SkidCoin for the win! Shut up and take my money!

INVEST IN SKIDCOIN NOW!

As an American, I ride a motorcycle so my brakes are set as such. Not like a pleb like all new Covid riders.

Front on the left side Rear on the right