Been riding out with my friend on our local trails and he decided to fully commit and ride this roll down.
What went wrong?
by u/OniSakaa in MTB
by OniSakaa
Been riding out with my friend on our local trails and he decided to fully commit and ride this roll down.
What went wrong?
by u/OniSakaa in MTB
by OniSakaa
26 Comments
Looks like your trail prep team forgot to remove that tree.
Tree came out of nowhere I guess
Looking further ahead is usually something most people don’t do, especially when you’re doing something that’s slightly outside your comfort zone. Also, when you’re riding in sandy conditions, it’s helpful to stay centered on the bike (looks like you shifted back quite a bit), otherwise your front wheel may lose traction when turning. Try to look ahead and keep your weight centered between legs and arms. You’ll get it next time!
Get off the seat! Should be standing on most terrain where you aren’t pedaling
You need to get your butt off the seat. By standing up, it allows your legs to be shock absorbers and reduces the impact at the bottom of the drop. Even if it’s not a jump, it’s still a sudden change in direction. If your butts on the seat, all the weight transfer is now handled by the bikes suspension. Foot slips off because of that likely.
Less braking, more turning.
You’re way to stiff. You need to research “mtb attack position.” Legs over the bottom bracket. Heels down. Hips hinged with your arms bent and head right over the handlebar. Arms and legs utilized as suspension to absorb the transition at the bottom
Get off your seat, your suspension cant work well with you entire body weight on your seat. Always ride features off your seat
Head up, stand up, pedals flat even weight on both, drop you heels, get your ass over the seat, work on loosening up your body
You fell over
When the butt comes into contact with the back tire things can go south.
Looked at the tree, therefore hit the tree
Tree
pretty impressive fully committing on such a roll. standing up should help you get there.
Life went wrong, my friend.
Take a few lessons, it will be massively beneficial for you. There may be a local mtb group that puts on clinics that you can attend
Look where you want to go and look up
Don’t look down, look in front of you where you go. Study the obstacle first before sending it.
Look where you want to go not at the obstacles. You will always go where you look. You fixated on that tree and drove into it. And stand up.
I’d say total absence of confidence on you and your bike.
If you’re to new to MTB, don’t worry, it takes time and practice.
Otherwise, no excuse. You drink a beer before (and after) riding and you’re good to go.
Too busy thinking about how the footage was going to look …
In the mighty words of the ” George of the Jungle ” theme Song, WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!
Stand up and the lack of confidence instead of turning you locked up
1) Always look at where you need to go rather than the obstacle, otherwise you’ll run into it.
2) stand up and be off your saddle on such features.
3) learn to brake
Target fixation happened. Also stand up..
Wasn’t looking where they were supposed to be heading?