How To Ride Tight & Steep Switchback Corners On Your Mountain Bike

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Switchbacks can be tricky obstacles to master as they tend to exist as a way to mellow out steeper, gnarlier terrain; meaning that by definition, they're a harder feature to ride. You need to use skill areas from all areas of your riding all at once to take them on successfully... looking around the corner, braking management, cornering, weighting the tyres and being confident all come into play. Sounds tricky right... it's actually not so bad!
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Neil took to the slopes of Finale Ligure for this lesson to improve switchback skills! Whilst the corners here might not be as infamous as the kind of switchbacks you'd find high in the alps or deep in the Himalayas, they're varied enough for some great demonstrations! Which of your mountain biking skills do you want to work on next? Let us know in the comments 👇
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@gmbn 4 года назад

How are you at riding tight and steep switchback corners? Let us know 👇

@solbel5207 4 года назад

I am doing all right, but still learning

@thatguyattheskihill6946 4 года назад

Trash

@romank4905 3 года назад

Absolute garbage. Been doing freeride for years now, learnt to deal with decent jumps and drops, but still suck at hitting switchbacks. Last time at a local pump track however I tried leaning the bike aggressively with my hands, and it seemed to work out well and decrease the turning radius. The video makes me feel that this is correct, since you are leaning the bike with both your hips and hands.

@SouthwestSasquatch 3 года назад

Still working on it, taking notes.

@brandonwesson2329 2 года назад

i guess I am pretty off topic but do anyone know a good place to watch new movies online?

@jakebraun6376 4 года назад

Anyone else already know this stuff but still enjoy watching?

@FhargaZ 4 года назад

In the Chile's video they have the same tips...but i don't care 😄

@beshock3654 4 года назад

@fillfreakin2245 4 года назад

It just makes me want to ride more switchbacks. Whenever I finish a switchback section of a trail I just want to do more!

@jerryvolpini7987 4 года назад

Lean the bike, keep your weight outside and look where you want to go. Some of the most important lessons I learned.

@tonyrgnash 4 года назад

work break... GMBN is on

@underbikedoverconfident1142 4 года назад

Every time Neil makes one of these corning tutorials I get a little bit better at cornering next time I'm out on the bike. Study. Ride Study. Ride.

@martinm711 3 года назад

What a pleasure to see Neil surfing through those corners in a smooth and stylish way!

@iaincarter2599 4 года назад

Love how Neil does the regular outro stuff as he's bombing down the trail

@melwalshmtb9121 4 года назад

Me; IN ART CLASS LOOKING FOR STUFF TO DRAW My headphones; use me,watch the GMBN video,be a rebel

@davidbahr8510 4 года назад

outro commenting in FPV like a boss. There was a chance to hear the bike, the track, and through your voice, the effect on the rider. Nice, thx!

@beardedvikingmtber 4 года назад

Quality advice from the don 🤙🏻🤙🏻

@wayneboyz2158 4 года назад

Nice to see your back on the beast

@cameronlesley2428 4 года назад

Great video, can you do a part 2 climbing switchbacks , it’s something that’ll I struggle with

@tonyboughman8050 4 года назад

Nice work Neil. I like the progression in this video to more difficult examples. Here in Santa Barbara, CA, we mostly have the tight/steep/loose examples. I find the difficulty is quickly leaning from one side to the other as you go through the fall line apex. It takes a bold committment to throw the bike over. Any advice?

@heididietzman6670 4 года назад

Thank you for this video! I will be practicing

@lwittrock1 4 года назад

Great video Neil!!

@ericthatcher 4 года назад

Neil makes it look so easy.

@eykonabike6196 4 года назад

I was hoping there would be more info on the tight switchbacks that require an endo turn, this is the hardest turn in my opinion

@MilatovichFamily 4 года назад

Eyk On A Bike campared what we ride here, the trail in the video looks like autobahn.

@wes95z28 4 года назад

When it's that steep you don't want to do endo turns.

@sebastianwhalin743 Год назад

Yeah these are rounded turns and not actually switchbacks. I encounter turns that come to a point and switch directions

@googuser7193 3 года назад

I’m trying to master a trail called the impossible switchbacks, extremely rocky steep, and full of gravel

@richmoore9640 4 года назад

The Don makes it look easy.

@Oslegend71 3 года назад

As inexperienced as i am,i love doing switchbacks, although that's well steep.Looks well cool though. 👍

@rinajana826 4 года назад

That NUKEPROOF is cool .👍🏻

@majorbadidea 3 года назад

to sum it up - look where you wanna go and pray to God you get there. Thanks Neil! :)

@DazzaOnGoogle 4 года назад

I find left handers harder. I have trouble dropping my left hand to lean the bike and just feel unco on tight corners. Ok on longer ones though. Practicing and learning every day. About your talk about body position at around 5 mins. I have a theory there. The engineer and motorcyclist in me says you have 2 things to resolve. Firstly, to go around a corner, your CoG based lean angle must be enough to match/provide the cornering force (basic circular motion stuff). The second part is about the bikes geometry. to go around a tight curve requires a higher lean angle to get the steering geometry working properly on the corner (that natural tendency for the wheel to turn as the bike is leaned over). Get both these right, and the bike goes round smoothly. It also means on a tight turn, you have to push the bike under you a bit to get the bikes natural turn radius to align with the lean your CoG needs. I think...

@solbel5207 4 года назад

I live in Andorra!!

@johanneskasper4775 4 года назад

Nice! But what about switchbacks only managable on your front wheel only? Could help with some trails around my place to film.

@WaechterDerNacht 4 года назад

My problem are those hikingtrail switchbacks. I've got 2 in a row at the finish of one of my favourite trail. It has some awkward roots. Tight trees at the entry and the exit, a fence seperating the trail from an old quarry, and the next one followong immediately with some steps in it aswell.

@MM-nf9zp 4 года назад

Niel is actually running flats!? Nice

@RideAlongside 4 года назад

Banked switchbacks? Those are just tight banked turns aren’t they? Steep switchbacks are hairpin turns with high risk for falling off the edge.

@okatbikes4917 4 года назад

Exactly what I thought I was clicking on, something requiring a stoppie or nose pivot/endo... Not really much technique to banked corners other than "go fast enough to be supported by the outer edge"

@RideAlongside 4 года назад

gigpic yep. I was hoping for a nose pivot tutorial as well. I was learning those back in 1994 on The Way Up trail in Escondido, CA. Classic tight, rocky switchbacks with a sharp drop off. Couldnt make a few of them while keeping both wheels on the ground.

@nickhumby7601 4 года назад

Exactly what I was thinking. The video should have used a natural trail not a bike trail to demonstrate what tight switchback technique really is

@OniTengu 4 года назад

Nice🤘

@Geetarman69420 4 года назад

I totally f’d my leg up on some switchbacks

@brookproductions. 4 года назад

What an outro

@martosbasslines1984 4 года назад

I’m still working on body position for switchbacks. Feel like I need to drop my chest towards the bars a little when I get my weight back otherwise I feel like I’m sitting to high through the corner. Any comments?

@roamingwolfpack 4 года назад

Please say you got helmet can photage? Newer Rider and I don't have many switchbacks but some good corners on my local trails. I think helmet cam photage of this might help us all get a better idea of how you Should look at the exit of the corner. Can you do a video with helmet cam photage on cornering?

@beshock3654 4 года назад

Dont know why,i have no more motivation to waching gmbn and they are still doing cool good best videos in the world... Need more trails, I will be champ im cross country my name petar

@nextpeakproductions 3 года назад

Does this still apply to loose switchbacks? Out here in Mammoth with all the pumice and loose dirt, it is not grippy.

@trembleroco9727 2 года назад

at what point should i use my front and/or back brakes efficiently?

@99desi9n Год назад

Would it better to lean into the upwards slope if it's a slower, steeper, much more narrow single track path with some stepped drops and littered with tree roots on a fairly tightly packed surface with some overhead branches towards the gnarlier exit? So you don't break your face in case you fall? How would you approach something like that? I should mention that I'm a novice.

@phillippitts6294 4 года назад

What’s the deal with skidding your rear tire . It use to be frowned upon because of trail damage. Are you in a bike park?

@Danil-Crypto 4 года назад

damn about such a bike I can only dream

@br9760 4 года назад

Savings Account, invest for some years. It's attainable.

@lukerlaforest4039 4 года назад

GMBN, you should do a series with a regular 30-45 yr old person who is a couple years into riding, and have Neil, Blake, Martyn do some coaching for a few days. I know of the perfect person. Lol

@yayeet1766 4 года назад

Neil looks badass.

@gmbn 4 года назад

😎

@charlenemccullough2293 Год назад

Like ita lot. Did rock a little and made a splash mess

@shaunmtb6988 4 года назад

Which will be easier, long travel or short travel?

@levinelly9056 4 года назад

Random Stuff longer travel with no lock out is harder to pedal because you have more suspension and squish to deal with, if your are thinking of xc, get a short travel bike but if you are thinking enduro with more downhill, go longer travel.

@thomasmarshall7570 4 года назад

It depends on the discipline

@markking8274 4 года назад

What about riding up tight steep switchbacks?

@christherailfan5851 3 года назад

Switchbacks were once used with trains on steep mountain grades.

@arielnightwalker 4 года назад

It like in bmx if you go too wide your in trouble if you go too high on the BMX track your going flying over the top of the berm

@lfmedin 4 года назад

My struggle is where I look, If I look to the tree in the middle of the corner I end there... But if I look to the end of the corner magically I keep flowing :)

@hellojrod 4 года назад

Easy on a 26er.

@mikieson 4 года назад

scary

@pitbullgermany4048 4 года назад

I steeped I switched... I backed... Hello tree, nice to meet you, too. 🙈🤦‍♂️

@themoroccanbikepacker1956 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣 same process I'd go through bro!

@jimholmes5385 4 года назад

Call video

@aldomaresca9994 3 года назад

The paint scheme of the nukeproof hurt my eyes

@solbel5207 4 года назад

Me, kind of

@evan2079 4 года назад

First 4 Time's in a row

@levinelly9056 4 года назад

Evan Games mate u missed out on first sorry 😐

@levinelly9056 4 года назад

Someone beat you

@0harris0 4 года назад

are you talking about Champery 2011 where Sam Hill finished 7th and Danny Hart SMASHED everybody else, first place by 11 seconds... after the torrential downpour?! :P :P :P

@rey11able 10 месяцев назад

Love the bike design ru-vid.comUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L and functionality. It is hard to align the front tired to center the disk brakes. The brake wheel touches the stationery side of the brake caliper and pad. I aired the tire up to 40 psi as the markings say 40-60psi. Left the house for a few hours and came back to an exploded innertube.All in all it seems to be a good bike. Have not ridden it yet though so that's the max of my knowledge. Update, put a new innertube made sure the tire was set properly and it did the same thing in under 20 minutes as second pic shows.

@CptObius 4 года назад

mh, with that title i assumed you meant corners which you need to endo around. Everything thats rollable isn't tight IMHO

@killingaurapvp3178 4 года назад

Palatine Painting anything you can stop or even have control on is not steep IMHO

@imjamiekroll 4 года назад

Can you make a bike check?

@gmbn 4 года назад

here is a video where you can see the full bike 👉 gmbn.eu/newbikeday

@core-i7413 2 года назад

The switchbacks near me literally have walls caving in, it's so annoying because you're tires are like an inch to the edge.

@KerryFairbanks 10 месяцев назад

Not seeing the most helpful tip for me which was: get low... I would always sit high through turns and couldn't get the sharp manoeuvrability I was envisioning. Through the turns, despite other details, I'm lowering my center of gravity as much as possible while maintaining the other psychics

@sebastianwhalin743 Год назад

These dont seem like switchbacks and seem more like rounded turns. Switchbacks come to a point and are a part of a lot of trails.

@venithaherarth1488 4 года назад

Third.

@christiannash251 4 года назад

Who is the winner of the competition

@levinelly9056 4 года назад

Christian Nash watch the dirt shed show from earlier

@gmbn 4 года назад

Hey Christian, check out the Dirt Shed Show (Ep. 246) 😀

@agoessetiawan8559 4 года назад

request indonesia subtitle

@benstark4698 4 года назад

I have been try to drift for 2 hours

@morbly 4 года назад

That's a really long drift!

@richday5520 4 года назад

#askgmbn red sram calipers? Whats that all about?

@rupedog 4 года назад

Sram Code brakes are red

@richday5520 4 года назад

Im told they are pro only models id never seen red 1s before

@jeanmcnamara636 4 года назад

Heart this comment if you like riding your bike

@kenbeech4940 4 года назад

That turn at 4:08 would terrify me.

@marquezo Год назад

Is that a mullet bike?

@TheGoobsters 4 года назад

These aren't even tight though, you're lucky. You get hit with basically 180 degree angles in Colorado such that you have to get good at little Endo/manual adjustment turning maneuvers, it's nuts