As a beginner (30s adult) this is incredible. Thank you for the long winded explanations. I ride with experienced riders and noticed them doing these things all the time, but I had no idea how or why. I am in week 3 of your progression course, im not as balanced as I once thought I was lol.
Agree, slow extended explanation works best. Late 40's rider trying to teach my girls. By far the best explanations for people that have some balance and or athletic ability, which is needed I've found for trail/Enduro riding.
Love hearing that there are a lot of new adult riders. I hope you get even half the enjoyment I do from the sport. I'm 67 and have been riding since I was a kid. And I'm still a kid everytime I ride. It's like a time machine.
After many years of riding dirt. I had these skills down, but I did not think of how it was done part. Now 25 years later, with 80% all street, muscle memory is gone, and relearning has been very difficult. Especially after two back surgeries. My brain says, "I can this," the body says, just give up. So at 71. I appreciate your teaching methods. Thanks for doing this
This is my first season riding a dirt bike and I cannot thank IRC and Rich enough for posting this stuff. Turns out it's tough starting new hobbies as an adult 😅
Very well made video. What I like most here is that you not only show what to do in slow motion, but you are talented enough to show what not to do. This is worth a million words. Subscribed!
I'm in my 50's, and spent nearly all of my 20's and 30's riding in the dunes where these lessons aren't as critical or pronounced. Basically, it was just roll on the throttle and carve away. Now that I am older and riding trails on a TW200 (I know... old man bike), I am finding the need to be a more technically correct rider. Many say that riding in sand is tough, but because I learned to ride sand first, and it's all I've ever known, it seems easy... and a transition to hard pack feels like I am on ice. Very uncomfortable at times. Your lessons have been amazingly helpful in feeling secure and planted on the bike when riding hard pack. Thanks for taking the time to be clear and detailed in your lessons. I will take long-winded teaching over dumbed-down abbreviated lessons every time. Excellent video!
I just want to add that there are a lot of "older" riders out there. I had a dirt bike as a teenager, then bought another dirt bike at 56. Almost 40 yrs between dirtbikes. You know what, I can pretty much keep up with the folks I ride with. Not the fastest, but fast enough for me. The thing is, don't let age keep you from riding. Side note, the majority of riders I know run at least one IRC tire. The most popular is the VE33s on the rear. When talking to the folks I meet at the trails, IRC Tire youtube channel and Rich Larsen pop up all the time. The experienced riders frequently say, "You gotta check out the IRC channel. Good riding tips". I hope one day to meet Rich and shake his hand.
Thanks a lot for this! I just got into enduro trail here in Brazil, and i will try my best to master these techniques, Your slow-mo explanations are awesome!
To all the new riders watching and learning from Rich's expertise and excellent teaching ability, keep practicing! I can say from experience when you have been using bad technique for 20 years it is VERY HARD to retrain your brain. Add a few whiskey throttle moments here and there and being able to clear a small log standing up seems like a pipe dream.
I'm an avid watcher of your videos but this one helped me understand mistakes I've been making all along. When you showed what happens when your body is back going up the obstacle it hit me. That's why I almost lose it even though I've made it over the obstacle. Can't wait to ride again and practice proper body position.
As always great break down of what each part of the body is doing in relation to the bike. I’m 56 and this has been so helpful with getting me out of my bad habits. Cheers Rich
I think I figured out how guys like Jean Michale Bayle and Ron Lechien got so smooth and fast. They did not train off the bike very much. What I did when I got tired was to do other exercises, (running, bicycling, rowing machine), to get into better shape. What they did when they got tired, is figure out how to ride the bike to not get tired. That is how they got so smooth and fast.
Your videos and precise description about the required techniques are amazing good...!! It is really helpful the way that you described everything and break it down in pieces that a beginner can understand it. Thanks !!!
This was great! I have omitted to pay attention to this. Thank you! Btw, I've also got myself a trials bike and it makes learning things for the enduro bike soooo much easier!
I also notice that on the bigger obstacles, your front tire is still moving upward before your back wheel hits the obstacle. That helps the front end to not drop too fast, as it has to change direction, as it is still elevating, before it can drop.
Been doing ten week fundamentals videos for twenty wks now. I get laughed at for not just unloadn and ripn off but oddly enough i spend more time now watchn people destroy tires burn up clutches and over heat the four strokes. Haha thanks rich for all these videos
@IRCTireUSAMoto thanks for the detailed explanation. This is definitely a basic, muscle memory thing that I am working on. Doing it wrong results in greater consequences for someone like me who has a short inseam. Riding goals!
This one was just extra good. I feel like it just put so many steps together in a memorable way that made sense... it was like the opposite of a kaleidoscope. All these fractured ideas suddenly coalesce into something understandable! Take that algorithm! This is ENGAGEMENT! all should hear this message! Go forth and PREACH! to the dirty dirty Dirtbikers!
I practiced this technique you thought and used it on a race this weekend and it was so cool...I ride a KMX 125 but I beat the crap of Beta 300 and KTM users during the obstacle courses...it was really so much fun to beat them on a small.bore...hahaha! Thanks for the tip...do more videos on these types of hacks...techniques
Despite hearing alot of bashers, I have alot of respect for the stock IRCs I had on my bikes .I just replaced with Dunlop 605s on my 250 rally but only because they were half the price, I may have made a mistake but we'll see.
Greetings from Puerto Rico and thanks for everything you teach. At some point you could teach how to tune the suspensions. I am a Mountainbiker and I am a fan of suspensions and I know that it is vital to have a comfortable and efficient run. Thanks a lot for everything. both with sprints for my weight and with sag for me. More would be like getting carried away in the compression and rebound of both. I'm adjusting little by little, letting myself be carried away by how they behave and what I know about mountain biking, but it's not the same. (2023 Beta 250rr with KYB front suspension upgrade).
member the VE33? i'm 63 y/o, used it waaaay back. still do, studded (done at home) and not studded. IRC stuff rocks. Rich has this video nailed. he's your modern day Dick Burleson w/ the "attack position", as we called it. head over bar, elbows bent, leave room for a push over the top so yer arms dont get yanked. Rich knows- dont listen to me, just watch his stuff. we didnt have this tutorial back in the day of air cooled bikes and no interwebs (just Dirt Bike mag and Super Hunky). you guys should feel lucky. just watch his videos, this is really good stuff, esp "side hill". (this is VITAL for the gnar, watch it). watch n learn and you young guns will be able to pass us old farts in the steeps and gnar. braaaaaaaap! see ya on the trail. - kev, "901GM"
actually we don't get weight away from rear tyre when we lean forward at obstacle because bike is standing up as we are so basically we're vertically over rear tyre getting stil good traction. Great vid.
Notice also at min 3:12 that his handle bars are not rotated so far forward that the ends of the grips are pointing up, (pointing down is the natural hand position), which makes it easier to keep your elbows up. And his levers are pointing down slightly so his fingers are in line with his straight(er) wrists and elevated elbows. This is the rational set up of the 80's and 90's, before freestyle got big. Most pro MX riders today have adopted a freestyle handlebar set up (very forward, for freestyle leg trick clearance), and with out a berm, the feel in the corners is greatly reduced. I have never seen so many pro MX riders drop the bike in a flatter corner like I see today. I would love to see how many fall in a real, clay (does not rut up), off camber corner, but such a corner does not exist on a modern MX track. "Old school" was more rational, and I think in every industry. I see we are entering an era of irrationality. I just thought MX would be the last to go irrational, so it is a generational issue. I think this younger generation was taught in school that their parents are old fashioned, or even stupid. So they are starting life from scratch, and were not taught how to think.
Once again a masterclass in providing us mere mortals comprehensive and easily understandable guidance. The best content a person trying to better themselves could ask for. Many thanks ☺️
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When I am tacking smaller logs or logs with a slope - it is all fine, smooth mini jump over, but when logs a bigger (like half the size of the front wheel) I start getting very nasty kick from back suspension. And when applying more throttle it even worse. Is anyone experiencing same issue? And maybe has any ideas how to fix it?
@@IRCTireUSAMoto Your video reminded me of at least two articles I read in Cycle World during the 1970's when I was 13 or 14 years old. Obviously it was not in video format. These articles used pictures of a guy on a Yamaha DT175 going over fallen trees, doing a steep uphill, doing a steep downhill, and going down into and up out of small creeks. Those articles were invaluable to me back then. 🙂
So different from MTBing. You would put your chest into the bars and right at the obsical you would explode upwards to lift your front end, then lean forward for your rear wheel.
