Bike Handling Skills To Help You Ride Better
Video Overview & Insights
After watching this video you'll have all the tools and info to be able to track stand, endo, manual, pump, bunnyhop and wheelie. Using these bike handling skills will help you unlock new lines and speed when riding down the trails, and hopefully turn a few heads in the car park! Blake and Neil break down each skill individually to give you a better understanding of how they work.
I’m just getting into mountain biking, but I commute a good deal on a motorcycle. The idea of dipping the bike into corners while keeping a neutral body position transferred directly from riding a motorcycle. I initiate the lean with counter steering. I haven’t heard anyone in the mtb community address this concept, but the principle is the same for trail riding.
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0:00 - Welcome Back You Beautiful People!
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0:18 - How To Track Stand On A Mountain Bike
1:14 - How To Endo On A Mountain Bike
My best trackstand is 13mins and 26 second. Learned it on fixed gear bike and gets better on mountain bike.
2:04 - How To Endo Turn On A Mountain Bike
2:45 - How To Manual On A Mountain Bike
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3:55 - How To Pump On A Mountain Bike
5:11 - How To Bunnyhop On A Mountain Bike
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Seriously though, that kind of video really helps me in getting more creative for teaching. With English as a 2nd language it also helps choosing the proper therminology
6:08 - How To Wheelie On A Mountain Bike
7:07 - How To Corner On A Mountain Bike
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I find that leaning the bike is also very useful in flat, high-speed turns when the grip is not the best. Can you illustrate how to navigate this situation when the terrain is loose over hard or just powdery? These conditions give me the creeps.
Have you already mastered any of these skills? Which one are you going to try and learn first? Let us know in the comments! 👇
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Always love your alls videos! Now just waiting on the weather to practice so I dont look like a no talent ass clown out there!
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I'd say it's safer/less scary to learn all of these with flat pedals, not just bunny hops! I'm a huge clipless pedal fan but you can bail from flats much faster!
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I am an old guy… When did they start calling wheelies “manuals”?
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You guys make it look so easy. My efforts a bit more....ok SO much more awkward and bad! Fancy a teaching clinic in the States? 😂
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One tip I’ve learned to add with leaning the bike (and I saw you guys doing it in the video… not sure if it was a conscious effort or not) while moving your hips to the outside, also pivot them slightly to point to the inside of the turn. It gets your knees ready just in case there’s a little bit of slippage
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Great vid as always! Despite the fact that there are many tutorials on the Internet (and even from your own channel), I would be extremely happy to see a detailed 2024 edition about each of the tricks that you described. especially bunnyhop and wheelie. But! with a greater emphasis on beginners. for example, in my case, I try to devote time to practice, but when doing a wheelie, I fall on my side and I can’t do a bunny hop high or at low speed. I will practice more, but I think a video from you with a tutorial for COMPLETE beginners would be very useful to many and would generate a large number of views! thank you again for your videos and efforts, wonderful channel
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I used to commute to work on a bike. I had the old front clip pedals and would track stand at traffic lights waiting for the light to turn green. 😁
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Back in the day we had to learn to wheelie on bikes with coaster brakes ( pedal backwards to brake ) so we basically had no brake to cover, all balance. We could go for miles like that.
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I still love bunny hops the most, if you can whip it out slightly, it's just a bit of fun. I like to call it the whipped bunny. My manuals are getting better, wheelies slowly getting better. It's all fun though.
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