This video will make you better on any downhill | MiniTip Monday 

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!

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

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!

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

Good advice, thanks!

Lucy is awesome!

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

Thanks a lot !

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 .

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.

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

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.

Thank you!

cool!

As always another great video

Downhills are scary still working on it!

Great technique

Thanks a lot! 👍😊

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

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

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

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.

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