How to Set Up Handlebars & Basic Dirt Bike Controls - Best Motocross Tips to Ride Like a Pro!!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Want to be a better, faster, smoother dirt bike lovin' motocross rider? Well we can help! We know it's important to start with proper bike set up and this video shows you how to set up your 5 main basic dirt bike controls:
1) Handlebars - Properly adjust the bars for your height.
2) Clutch Lever - Down or Up? You decide.
3) Front Brake Lever - Make sure your most powerful brake is accessible.
4) Shift Lever - Find the best set up to shift smooth and efficiently.
5) Rear Brake - Make sure it's right to optimize braking success.
Let us know which set up tip works for you in the comments below!
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Motorcycle riding is inherently dangerous. This video was filmed on a closed course with a professional rider with years of riding and teaching experience. The Mx Factory and all related personnel are not to be held responsible for any injury resulting from attempting these techniques. The bottom line is wear safety gear, take it slow, have fun, and consult a riding coach when necessary. The bottom bottom line, DON'T BE DUMB.
I just picked up a crf150rb as my first bike a month ago I’m 16 and already hitting some jumps thanks to you videos!!!
i have crf150R And im 13
HirveäHenri nice bro ive got a big wheel and she rips an easy 80mph
Simple things that get overlooked! Cheers guys
What tool is he using?
Can I ride with you guys got no one to ride with
You guys know what you doin, just jumped back on a dirt bike after 30 years so I can ride with my boy and your vids are really helpful, even for an almost 50 year old fella...thanks heaps and eagerly awaiting your next vids!...cheers from Oz!
Some of my best riding memories were getting roosted by dad's cr500 he bought to dock around with me. You get 2 attaboys and a fuck yeah. Cheers from Cali
I work at a Powersports dealership as a bike tech and you’re not supposed to criss cross the pattern when you’re tightening clamps. The style clamp in this video is called a stepped clamp or pinch clamp. If you look closely one side of the clamp is thicker and one is thinner (stepped) you always tighten the thicker side first and follow up with the small side which pinches the clamp tight on the bars. The clamp in this video should have the thick side on top. Also there’s markings on bars and clamps so no needs to sharpie your bars. Just friendly advice!
great video , nothing will happen if he tighten the clamp criss cross ... I also work at a dealership as well!
@@monton5440 Which is why I work on my own bike. ThrillBilly is right for that style clamp.
For me, watching this was a, “Ok and a Ohhhhhhh!” Love these videos! Keep being awesome!
Thanks for watching and glad we can help ya!
Adding an extra washer outside of the Nord-lock washers like you have done will prevent the Nord-lock washers from working properly. Which is a bit sad, as they are some great engineering in action.
I’d do anything to have size 10 feet. Size 14 riding boots are freakin huge.
Please I want to buy one dirt bike from your factory to start wheeling
For bar position I remember years ago watching a video of a guy who sat on the bike on a stand, closed his eyes and swung his hands down 3x-5x. Where he was reaching was where he wanted the bars. I didn't describe it 100% but that video helped me a lot with my bar position. Great tips in this video as well!
i have one problem, if i adjust my rear brake lever with those nuts i loose break pressure...brake doesn't grab or how should i say it
The part where you’re describing wrist positions with the levers is spot on and that’s actually how you should choose your bar bend and then bar position. Once those are set, then adjust the lever position.
If you’re riding in the attack position and your wrists are tweaked inward or outward, you’ll lose strength, injure the joint and possibly go numb.
Ask me how I know.
How do you know?👀
@@DonGH297 he musta went numb before he could respond.
@@americandude3825 🤣
Can you guys do a video on clutch control on a 2 stroke and starts on them?
I stuggle even more with the clutch control on the big 4 strokes like the Yamaha WR450 with either stalling, or it run away slipping or go to fast because it has to much power to fast at even the lowest of the low rpm. Easiest bike I had for slow technical difficult terrain was a 2 stroke KX125 MX bike from 1983 and I almost never stalled that one and never used the clutch because it was just to hard lol.
Diego Brah it's the same
This video was very helpful for me because I keep tapping the rear foot brake without me knowing and it slowed me down a lot! Thanks for the good tip
The modern boots I bought have no feel at all. I want to be able to feel my brake and shift lever, so I switched to a pair of Adventure boots, (TCX Baja GTXgortex). They are as protective as a good boot of the late 80's, which I raced with for a decade with no troubles, nice and light, but I would not want to get t-boned or get my toes sucked under the peg. Just doing aggressive trail riding now, and would want more protection for MX,---but I know I will crash less when I can feel the controls, so I had to add that in the safety factor too. You can separate a shoulder, because your boots are "sense less", like a lobster exoskeleton on your foot.
Loved the vid guys. Alot of good advice you guys are honestly making me show my dirtbike so much more attention compared to my street bike but its well worth it though motocross is way more fun thanks for the vids looking forward to the next one
Anthony
The 80's was the "age of reason" for MX. The freestyle came along, rotated their bars forward for more foot/trick clearance,---and the entire industry adopted the freestyle bar set up. Go back to the 80s and early 90's bar set up and stop riding like a little girl in any corner with out a berm. Chase Sexton crashed at the last 2022 national, (the one James Stewart, "Bubba's World" did a show on, but even James missed the elbow by Chases side.) We are entering an age of irrationality, and nobody can explain rationally why the bars are rotated today. Not even Jean Michale Bayle. Irrationality,--is your future. My elbow(s) will never drop below the bar even with full throttle, because my bars and levers are set up properly now.
I have been watching your videos but don’t have any bike to get started
Freakin' love this channel.
And we freakin' love you :)
@@TheMxFactory 😗😗😂
Cut your hair bud
Dope video bro just getting into Enduro and look forward to make some time to come take some classes 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿💯💯💯
The ends of your grips should be pointing down a bit, and their grips about over the gas cap as you look at the bars from the side. (pull the bars back!)
This set up he is running is actually a freestyle set up,---that his generation adopted with out thinking for riding, and the entire industry, (new generation) adopted it with out thinking at all.. Reed some Gary Bailey for the bar set up with "reason".
Definitely the buffoonery leader of the MX channels! Nay, of all the motorcycle channels. Also you guys put out very smart vids, so that’s a double plus.
Love your videos. I'm getting back into riding a dirt bike after 20 yrs. Your vids are very informative.
robert lambert so how’d it go?
As a beginner, I didn't even this stuff was adjustable and mattered. Thanks MX Factory!
High bars are actually a freestyle set up. Look at the racers bars of the late 80,s and early 90's, and lever position. You will have better control of the bike, and crash less. This guy is following,--no thinking, and the entire industry adopted a free style set up,---because we follow with out thinking.
Those frame guards are nice, where can I purchase these? Great vid BTW very informative 👍
I am a noob at dirt bikes thanks for the set up tips 👍🏻
me too
I’m 6’1 and I roll my bars forward substantially and my levers more downward than most
What about those with risers that can be moved back and forth. I didn't see any advice on that
You dont criss cross bar clamps my boy front 2 back
5:15 tf dude that’s a circle
gtfo
Nice vid!
A "How to jet your bike" would be interesting
I love your teaching
What do I do if I only have one nut if the back break
good explaination for rookies! ;)
i love this video. i'm just a newbie in dirt bikes and really enjoy this kind of content! thanks so much for sharing!
You know on the Pro Taper bars (that came stock with my 2019 YZ 250 2-stroke), and those number lines on the bar between the clamps? The numbers on the bar have a 0 in the middle, some likes to a number 2 on each end. People today set the bar up (rotating the bar forward), where the 0 is in the middle of the top clamp. Rotate your bars back so the far "2" is at the center of the clamp, and point your levers down by 15 to 30 degrees, which ever lets you keep your elbows up (sitting or standing, on the gas or off.) The level levers are nuts. Your brake lever is so high, for example, you get done with braking, can't "re-grip' the throttle because your finger is still on the lever, then you give it gas and drop your elbow to your waist. Good thing the baby tracks today are smooth. Look at the 80's set up and early 90's. It is like that for a reason The bars are high today because of freestyle.
Your future is going to suck if you follow, instead of figure out why.
Grip ends should point down, (nature hand position it was designed for), or level at the very highest. The grips should be over the gas cap when looking at the bike from the side of the bars. Now go see how much easier it is to get over the bars for things like flat corners. You will have much more control of the front end, and it is much easier to keep your elbows up.
This is a freestyle set up, (for trick clearance),---and the entire industry (world) is irrational today.
Really good but i don't have a bike 😭
Lol same
Am I wrong or was there already marks on the bars and bar clamp?
Yes, you're correct. But sometimes remembering where the bar was gets a person confused. So marking it is just simpler.
Should I cut 1/4-1/2in off my stock bars on a new CRF250F? I know this is an older video, but would love to get a response from MXF. I’m 5’7” and they feel too wide. I just ride dirt roads/trails, not even scrambles & no plans to race. TIA!!
I’m trying to get into riding and think a Yamaha TT-R125 would be good for myself. Where should I search for bikes I’m in Canada and looking used
On the Brake Pedal side....
I took the two metric screws out of the Pedle itself. Stacked a pair of 7 small THIN Dia. steel washers with a longer metric Allen head screw back in. I micro'ed the pedal up. Stock seemed Low. Any thoughts here?
Would like to hear some advice on bar width? I also have a newer husky and stock bars are 33in. I am 5’9, do you trim your bars or just rock the stock width?
Why does he have gloves on
2:34 PAUSE ...Art!
I moved my clutch up so it was a little uncomfortable so I wouldn't use it as much is that a good idea?
Hi there. Im a taller rider on a yz250f. Ive been having issues with my arms tiring out quickly. It’s mainly my fitness but a mate told me that im quite tall so i have to move my handlebar clamps to the other holes and get handlebar raisers. Would that help?
Probably not. You are not relaxing. Let me share a trick with you. Have you ever noticed that a rider can be super talented, and not even cross train, (Lechien and Bayle are 2 that come to mind). The reason is, when they got tired, they figured out ways to ride and not use energy, instead of hitting the gym. When they got tired, they figured they were doing something wrong and corrected it with their riding technique. That is how they got so smooth. #1 rule, if you are not relaxed, you are doing something wrong. :)
When you say in line with the forks do you mean the hand grips or the bar bend its self because thats a good inch or two difference with the sweep
"If you have shorter fingers it'll be hard to get to... Is exactly what she said. Yes I know Im a child...
The best channel on YT, thank you so much guys, you are making very very Good job here 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
oke. thanks. was missing bits of information.. im gonna change some stuff.
What bars are they ?
The best video on youtube on setting the controls and handlebar, you should add "handlebar" to the title
Hey guys do you consider neutral as grips in line with fork legs? I'm taller and riding more enduro so guess want to go a bit forward of that? 👍🏻
my ktm 300 tpi cant adjust shift lever upward it hits chain real pain in the butt
Hey quick question, what bar bend are you running ?
Enjoy your videos. It' great to see someone who still has a sense of humor in this day and age
I CANT STOPPPPPPPPPP
2:30 me in my whiskey throttle days lol that reminded me so bad hahahaha i used to whiskey throttle and couldnt reach the lever. Im happy you put this one!
these videos are sick thanks for putting suck hard work into them!
OMG....DO NOT use red loc-tite....EVER!!!!
Unless you NEVER want to remove that bolt.
You can remove them with heat, but there are a lot of parts that you really don't want to heat to 400 deg. F.
There are a lot of yahoos on YT. I think for the most part, we would be better off figuring stuff out ourselves. The high bar set up is a freestyle set up actually, and they would all have more control of their bike if they stuck to the age of reason of the 80's.
Barretts
No retention spring on brake lever? Any reason?
What kind of bars is that he has on protaper what?
That is definitely not how to tighten your bars Honda wants u to tighten the front side of clamps then the side closest to the rider u should end up with the clamps touching in the front and a gap in the back
That depends on how the clamp is made. For the style you are talking about, you can see one end of the clamp is longer than the other, and those are made to tighten the closed end, then torque the other bolts. But my clamps have no difference on the clamping piece, so I set them up with equal gaps (visually), and torque them down.
Pssst---it is not the right way to set up your handle bars either. This is how stupid we are today: That is a freestyle set up that the entire industry of new generation adopted,---and they are slower in any corner with out a berm, and will crash more often.
@@EarthSurferUSA well to me it makes way more sense if top clap is all waY seated to the bottom clamp on one side less likely to loosen and it almost creates a hing locking bars in place. If u have space on both sides soon u get any loss in friction bars going to move way easier. But I digress any one tight your bars however you want .
perfect instruction . you should re post , a lot
Hahaha
2 nuts
What kind of bars are those
Red loc-tite on the shift lever ? not blue?
P
What Handlebar bend do you use ?
Thank you for the advice I just bought my Kawasaki 230 and riding it with my knees almost touching the handlebars standing up not thinking that I can move this forward. Just adjusted them tonight oh man the difference is night and day so much better thank you!
When you are standing, your knees should be over the foot pegs, or a bit behind them.
What type of seat is on your bike?
3:14 ''How far they are 'ran' in '' ?
what is traction control on a bike?
everyone has pro tapers bars it seems
love the memes :)
100% agree with the settings.
you could have mentioned these things (dont know the name in english)to set the bar higher.benefits,good or bad and so on?
Very true, we'll have to make more videos to address those things. Thanks for the suggestion.
What tool is he using?
How tf do you keep one finger on the break when your using the throttle
practice , aint that hard when u get used to it
Those bars on that bike look nice and low. Any chance you know what bend it is? My windham/rm mids are a tad tall.
I think EVO Carmichael
@@TheMxFactory thanks muchly. Ill give them ago.
what type of handle bar is that? an EVO?
👍🏼
Love the vids
This dude is rad
what type of bend are these handlebars???
EVO
i want that wrench
I have watched this video a few times, always refreshing to remember things for those of us who don't get to ride every day.. VIDEO SUGGESTION: can you make a video where you show the differences using and not using Traction Control (TC) in different scenarios? Like sand, hard pack, uphill dry, up hill mud or slippery, how does it affect for wheelies or jump landings or other things where TC can get in the way, if your recommend it or not and why and for how. Also on my KTM it has the MAP settings 1 and 2 (normal and aggressive). Maybe give general comments on it? I know the aggressive (2) revs up faster for sure but not sure if does affect gas consumption overall or wears out the engine faster if you don't ride to hard? For sure if you ride hard it does all of that but for novice's maybe not that much? Great vids, really like your channel and content... also hope to keep seeing more of the "pointing out" what went wrong videos and keep showing examples on your normal videos on the good way and the bad way with your arrows, circles, etc. Super good!!
Great suggestions, thanks for the feedback!
Good lessons.
5:30 anybody else notice that part with KTM on it.
They use the same parts ktm and that are basically the same bike
Got em in several locations on my FE 350
Big on the inside of the exhaust, on the manufacturers vin tag etc.
Basically, KTM is like Toyota. Husqvarna is kind of the Lexus. It has more expensive bling parts but the same basic frame and motors.
KTM is wise in doing this.
A huge part of manufacturing is the tooling cost. Using the same molds, wiring and other parts as well as suppliers, gives them a lower overhead. As far as EPA regulations, since the EPA bases how strict their regulations are on sales numbers, it allows them to stay in at lower numbers by splitting the brands while using the same tooling and plant.
KTM
Husaberg
Husqvarna
Gas Gas
Lol
Is there a app to level your levers out the same cus I’m a perfectionist and I need them the same.
It’s all feel in the end for us.
@@TheMxFactory Love the vids, keep em up. Friday fails are too good. lol
The Mx Factory why is engine kill on the same side as clutch out of reach of thumb ?
Because we don’t want to accidentally hit the kill button while riding.
The Mx Factory dont you have to hold it for a second or 2
Yes, but getting it out of the way from your knee in a corner or any other body part is just a way to prevent killing it when you don’t mean to.
Okah I need help moving my rear brake down and in the video it says to move them too bolts to adjust it and my dirt bike does have that
What kind of bike do you have?
The Mx Factory I have a Suzuki Jr 80 2002
The Mx Factory PLEASE HELP WITH THS promblem MY BIKE DOESNT HAVE THE ADJUSTMENT IT HAS A CASTLE NUT BUT ITS DOESNT HAVE ADJUSTABLE BOLTS
it´s hard to say without pics
go to a forum and ask there or you could ask guys on the track,maybe someone knows or can figure it out by looking at it
ok i forgot the obvious,ask your suzuki dealer ^^
Whats your Protaper handlebar bend?
EVO
The Mx Factory Yes. is it Carmichael bend?
Traction control?...
Just comes on newer models. It activates different engine mapping when switched on.
Come to Conroe Texas
Erick Perez lol I used to live there but I moved to Kentucky
7:07
hey tyler whats the point of tightening in a criss cross pattern?
+dunkin 102 When tightening bolts in a criss cross pattern you avoid tightening down one side of the clamp too much. If you only tightened down one side of the clamp, then the other side, the clamp may be uneven and leave the bars a chance to slip. So criss cross just makes sure the clamp is evened up and keeps the bars tight.
exactly what we would say! :)
by the way we like your vids! really good done! greetings from germany to you
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+Cody Haverfield 5 stars!! We'll take it 👍🏻
do you even ride bro?