@@rmatvmcVery useful tips, It will be great to have some ATV riding tips, there are plenty for dirt bikes, but almost nothing for atv riders, so Rocky Mountain can do a lot to help on this subject. "save the sports quads" :)
It seems like about 30% of dirt bike riding involves pointing your toes in. My toes rest at 45+ degrees out, so straight-ahead for me is like pigeon-toe stance for most people. Like, imagine your brake lever was inside the clutch cover; that's what I have to do to reach it. So it's great to hear more and more ways that I need to twist my legs around backwards in order to ride properly.
Im Ben, living in Holland. I like your videos on RU-vid. I'm 50 years old, and go riding again with my son's. So I needed some fresh up, you give me just what I need to remind how to feel good on the suzuki rmz 450. 👍🏼 Keep up the good work Kris 😃👍🏼
Kudos RMatvmc for bringing KK onboard with these easy to understand tip videos. Just one more reason why I continue to choose RMatvmc for all my 2wheel order needs.
Just getting back into this again I am now 26 haven’t done it for 7 years picked up a new yz250 and I can’t believe how much I really didn’t know lol awesome videos
Johnathan Camarillo since this comment I put 38 hours on the bike and finally feel at home on it got slow wheelies dialled and jumping and riding have improved most of all! Of course not without a few bumps and bruises on both the bike and me lol
I’m headed to the track tomorrow to practice just this! It wasn’t groomed after this weekend, which was the busiest I’ve seen the track, and it is FULL of ruts. I’m awful at cornering and always ride out of ruts and feel like the rut is pulling and pushing me. Hopefully I can pull out of the parking lot just a little bit better after some practice
That's the perfect mentality! Take something you're uncomfortable with or not that good at and practice! Just really focus on the steps he talks about. And you don't have to go full speed right now. Focus on technique and speed with follow! - Chase
Rocky Mountain ATV MC The weighting the outside peg tip helped me finally quit fishtailing out of corners. Helped a lot in my race this weekend. And thanks for the Race Gas guys. I told my lady she can tell her friends I’m pro now but she just rolled her eyes.
Good job work with the motorcycle,the forks and shock is you friend don't fight the suspension,I think that's probably the biggest thing about motocross is the massive amount of suspension that has to be managed mostly by being in the right body position by moving and not putting too much weight on either the front or the back the bike for starters...thanks for helping out the youngins...you know the youts...it all about weight management moving it around at the right moment,good show nice and clear presentation...I going riding see ya..
kingdme switch as needed. you might operate shifter or brake with foot completely off the peg. Get used to riding on one foot. Then you can tap the brake or poke / pull the shifter as needed while balanced on your opposite leg. You'll have a much more sensitive rear brake foot as a result if you are not planted on a peg. That's what I find at least.
I had a pro tell me to point my toes in. And by that he meant your toes are pointing toward your bike so that your knees are gripping the shroud. When Keefer is saying point them in does he mean the same thing? Or the opposite. By watching his hands I’m getting that he’s saying to point your toes away from the bike, right?
he means the same thing and it doesn't make you grip with your knees as the inside leg of the way your cornering should be extended out with your toe pointing inwards it help you to lean the bike in more and the ball of your foot should be pushing down on the out side peg this gives your bike mor traction to the tires more down force = faster cornering speed you can also use your elbows to get the bike leaned over better
Kris, can you talk about cornering on mountain roads w/o a true line? How can we prepare for loose gravel or pea size rocks in a turn - or is it possible w/o squaring off the corner?
@@rmatvmc Kris, one other thing... why is it that the newer bikes need to run tire psi so low (I have a DRZ400 and most of those guys run 8-10 in the dirt). It seems to me that the high center of gravity is becoming a problem with extended suspension. The "washout" on the front tire seems to be the REAL problem - or is this a technical riding error on my part?!!
@@RantzBizGroup Every tire carcass is a little different. Some need more and less PSI. You could run 8-10 PSI in a tire if you really wanted to but you'd want to run a tubeliss, mousse, or ultra heavy-duty tube to avoid flats. This also depends on terrain. On a track, running PSI that low would lead to the carcass of folding on you and you'd feel like you have even less traction. There are things you can do with bike setup to help get more weight on the front for better front end feel and traction i.e., less sag, different off-set triple clamps, fork height etc. It could also be a technique problem as well. Not being forward enough on the bike, running your forks too stiff and other things.
@@rmatvmc MAN, did that EVER WORK!!! Just went out and practiced this technique on the road as though I was in the dirt... SUPERB, I could feel the bike respond perfectly to holding the corner!! Thanks again!!!
What a lot of these videos miss is what to do when it doesn't work out, when you do miss the rut, when the bikes jolts you, another bike takes your rut, etc.
If your toe is out, thats because you're not gripping the bike with your thigh anymore... I'd rather focuse on the reason, not a cause. REASON is you're not holding onto your bike with your thighs. CAUSE is, your toe will point away.
I think he more means sliding out from a loss of traction trust me this improves your corner speed more down force to the wheels = more traction = faster corners the reason you don't sit back on the fender is because you have to have weight forward to stop the front end washing out that's why you extend your inside leg out and sit further up a bit closer to the tank this puts weight on the front but since all your body weight is to the front of the bike you don't have pressure to the rear wheel so it will spin and loose traction to compensate and keep the weight distribution to both wheels as best you can you use the ball of your foot to weight the outside foot peg to load the rear suspension and put mor down force to the rear wheel that should explain it better to you
When you know nothing... Its sometimes best to stay quiet . My suggestion to you would be, take your motorbike and go and practice some hill starts on an adverse camber . First try with legs off the foot pegs , then try one foot on the outside peg. See what you think!
It's Competitive edge Hesperia, CA. Racetown 395 is about 10miles down the same road...which is called Sunrise mx now. Lucky for me, I live between both parks off the same road.
