Standing Technique Every Beginner Adventure Motorcycle Rider Needs to Know!
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2021
- If you ride Adventure Motorcycles or are thinking about buying your first big twin off-road adventure bike - then you need to ensure you have good fundamental riding technique to stay safe and enjoy the ride! In this video we cover the fundamental standing position for off-road riding. Adventure Motorcycles are big, heavy and unforgiving - this requires good technique in order to handle these machines. This riding position allows you to utilise the suspension of the motorcycle effectively and move the body around the bike ensuring maximum control and balance.
The goal is safe, enjoyable riding - let me know your tips in the comments below!
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Leave your tips for the standing riding position in the comments below! Ride safe and have fun 🤘🦅
You have a very clear, confidence inspiring way of presenting information. Makes it seem simpler and easier than a lot of other videos.
Thank you for these very detailed instructions…really helps someone like me (Asperger’s) understand how to position each body part on the bike.
Makes sense. Thank You both 👍
Great video,
. Very helpful.
Damn! That's an exceptional note to remember.. Great dad and son!
Excellent video, super-helpful
excellent lessons ,brilliant skilla nd perfect communications love twins j dadd and son regards
Good video and standing tips. Glad to see you back at it again on UA-cam!
Thanks mate! Good to be back creating and hoping this new focus on skill building will help bring some value to people! Thanks for watching!
Great videos
This info is huge! Well presented as well
Thanks!
Great video, thanks. from Australia.
Thanks for watching :)
good advice. enjoyed the video.
Thanks for watching mate, appreciate the feedback!
Great video! I've felt clumsy and awkward at times off-road on my KLR 650 and I'm looking forward to trying these tips! P.S. Brakes, people- not breaks!!😄
Literally in the same situation
Great video. I would add pinching shoulder blades. It keeps the elbows up and strong and keeps the hips unlocked.
Yeh, that’s a good addition, pinching shoulder helps so much.
@@TheMotoBarista credit to AJ.
@@KingFriday274 yeh dude, he is an excellent coach. He breaks technique down and explains ‘why’ better than anyone else.
Thanks for the great videos. I am transitioning from a Harley cruiser to a Honda dual sport and having a great time but I am not used to being so active on a bike. My biggest problem is throttle management when standing up as I tend to whisky throttle on the bumps which leads to control issues. Do you have any tips for a new off road rider? Thanks
I'm no expert in any way, but for me adjusting the handlebar position and my riding position helped with this exact problem. I adjusted the handlebar position a bit more upright (Mototrek has a great video of how to fit your bike). I also have raisers that put the handlebar a bit further away from me since I always felt like the handlebar is too low and my upper body was too much "on top" of the handlebar. Gripping the handlebar too tight and putting too much weight on the handlebars might also cause this. Again, I'm a newbie myself but this is my personal experience.
I'm transitioning from a lifetime of sport bikes to a KTM 690 enduro. I've found that keeping my hands ON TOP of my grips, elbows out and flexed with a fairly straight line down through wrists and back of hands helps a lot. As well as maintaining a very loose hold on the grips, and one or two fingers over the levers. The tighter you grip with your legs, the looser the upper body can be. I haven't nailed this yet, but getting better with lots of practice!
Hi! Thanks for the video and sharing these tips. I am a begginer in off-road adventure riding. Could you please tell me how to grab the handlebar, should I grab the front brake with my fingers? Cheers
Hey mate, you want your hands to be lightly gripped on your hand handlebars (don’t squeeze hard). Ideally you are riding with 1 or 2 fingers resting on the clutch and brake levers - this will help relax your grip and keep your access to the levers much faster.
Cheers mate! Your answer clarified my doubts in this regard. 👍🏻
Hi not sure if you can help me I’m quite tool and struggling with the standing position so much so that I feel like giving up at times I always feel like I’m going to go over the bars when I stand and Rock backwards and forwards under load it doesn’t feel safe at all and when I go to stand I feel way heavier than usual and after a few hours lose the motavion to stand on the bike
This will not go away any time soon. Everything about standing up is clunky at first. Can be solved with practice though. This was (and still is) my practice routine.
0. Setup your controls. Angle your hand controls a bit ( don't drop them to a ridiculous degree ) and if wearing mx boots, adjust your clutch lever a couple of notches upwards. We're not professionals so do consider handlebar risers if you are tall ( or older/ out of shape ), just be mindful of the dissadvantages.
1. Practice each thing at a time. Stand up on the balls of your feet while the bike is just putting around.
2. Practice transitioning from sitting to standing to sitting while the bike is putting around.
3. Practice moving your right foot to the rear brake and pressing it gently.
4. Practice some figure 8s standing up and the bike is putting around.
5. When comfortable with these ( using ZERO hand controls ), move on to the throttle. If your throttle is twitchy or if you're new, do this in 2ND gear while slowly accelerating or engine braking. Observe you want to move your upper body a bit forward before accelerating and a bit backwards before engine braking. Do this a lot ( in second gear ). When comfortable try doing it in the much twitchier 1st gear and try getting used to that ( and probably fail, particularly when accelerating ).
6. At this point you have to practice shifting. Since you're already used to second gear, you can practice downshifting first. And since it's downshifting, you can ignore the clutch for now and just get used to the foot movement.
7. Once you can reliably downshift without the clutch, introduce the clutch and get used to the compound motion.
8. Upshifting is your next target. Getting that mx boot foot to fit under the lever will take a bit of trial and error and the same can be said about controlling acceleration in 1st gear. This is by far the hardest part to do imho. Repeat until bored of the motion.
9. Combine the above into a flat course. Figure 8s, straight line with shifting, u turns, etc. Repeat untill bored out of your skull with it.
10. 9 but on a light trail.
How do you operate the rear brake & gear shifter in the standing position without compromising the balance??
Practice. You have to get used to moving your feet to and from the controls.
Have a Q and hope you can help. I’m good with all of this except for one thing - I can’t take it for more than a few mins at a time. I think there’s something off with my geometry or bike setup like bar height? It’s like I’m in some weird semi-squat position and knees can’t take it for too long. It would be like planking for some period of time. Either I’m doing something wrong or maybe this is normal and I need to build my stamina? It does t seem like anyone talks about this or complains out it so I must be doing something wrong
Hey mate, you shouldn’t be feeling the burn in the quad muscles, it should be mainly glutes and hamstrings.
What might be causing your squat position is that you are bending at the knees and your hips are tucking below your tail bone.
Instead you want to focus on collapsing at the hips and pushing the hips backwards.
This is an aggressive riding position so it does require fitness too. Glutes, hamstrings and lower back in particular will be burning up!
@@TheMotoBarista super helpful. I’m really fit - cardio and legs thx to cycling. Could be better on core and upper body strength though. Interesting that there should be some burn - and just getting it in the right spot. I’m trying to bend at hips, push butt out back, bend elbows and have chest and head over bars.
With the bicycle, I’ve had a professional bike fit where they help with geometry of bars and stem and all that. I think I might need that for the dual sport. Does everyone just experiment on their own? I might need to find some local help.
How do you maintain a stable position when breaking? When I stand up and break I struggle to maintain my balance -I'm being thrown forward. thanks
Trying shifting your bum further back by crouching lower during harder braking. Also ensure your knees are digging into the shrouds of your bike as grip, turning your toes in slightly helps achieve this.
Squeeze the bike with your knees.
I have bad rugby knees ,not easy to stand up on my bike
I can understand the benefits of standing on the balls of the feet, but It feels little sketchy standing on the balls of the feet. I am panicking a little bit while breaking, cause the feet is away from the controls.
Does it feels this way in the beginning?
any tips for that to go away? I am practicing it.
Yes it will feel weird at the beginning like you said. The best thing to do is practice at a slower speed so you can get used to moving your feet to the controls and back to the pegs.
A good way to do this is to find an area where you can practice a figure of 8 or a little turn track.
You will eventually get used to it and then notice how much better it is!
@@TheMotoBarista 🙏🏽 thanks for replying 🖤
Use Ankles and knees as suspension. His ankles were too collapsed imho. But everything else on point.
Agree, I think he was being a bit lazy demonstrating 🤣 on the toes/balls of feet like springs is where it is at. Good spot 👌
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Jesus that looks uncomfortable. That awkward half bend
Grab the bike with the knees or let the bike move freely under me?
I think both, from the knee down your legs are pretty much part of the bike aside from a little bit of movement in your ankles. But thats just my thoughts as im brand new to offroad riding starting yesterday
I think 98% of the riders of any type of off-road motorcycling that I know would have the lowest hanging fruits of improving in their body position.