Going to use these tips to help me on my favorite flow trail. Always looking to improve! Have her on more often because she explains everything very well.
What's helped me progress is having one, or a few local trails that I ride over and over again. A lot can be learned from riding a wide variety of trails, and that is certainly fun, but once I have a trail completely muscle memorized, I have found that I can unlock another level of speed and laser focus on techniques like popping over rough sections and fully committing to corners. This might seem obvious, but my impulse is to always go on a different ride from the one I went on last time, and do one big loop instead of lapping a trail over and over like a race track.
Incredibly well timed video, I have just built up a new Stumpy which was a huge upgrade in performance, allowing me to carry more speed up to the approach of these doubles. Ben’s tips have helped heaps and I am stoked to try these ones out. Keep ‘em coming!
Thanks Ryan and glad this landed on your screen! Something for everyone. Just the other day I finally hit a trail double I've been eyeing up for over a year, felt so good to commit and freaking do it! Enjoy the new bike -Christina
🤡 The comic relief of the Trail Mystic 🧙♀ was hilarious 😂🤣 please 🙏 more of that. U gotta keep expanding that character. The instructional was fantastic too. Keep them both coming. Thanks for the help. Aloha y Mahalo.
I really like your approach to the triple. Jumping all three may be pretty cool and all, but then you will have way too much speed going into the corner. So rolling the first one then doubling seems smarter to me and you won't have to brake so hard going into the berm thus carrying more speed coming out.
There was even someone in the video that doubled the first 2 and rolled the last one, looked sick but that tiny space between rollers spooked me out and I wasn't about to try it haha I like the smooth runout of the berm option. Cheers! -Christina
this kinda stuff (tricks of the trade) isn't really talked about as much as it should be - hope to see more PB features like this. Most of the fun I have is scoping out sidehits on trails, away from the main line.....it's a good way to spread the fun
Of all things it was the "Boost Dealer" bit that hooked me. I think after you learn how to 1) hop/unweight, and 2) pump, -every obstacle (like roots and rocks) becomes an opportunity to gain speed by using that combo.
4:55 Eggzitting. Nice one. These MTB tips are golden, you should host a 5+ part series on pumping speed, most people are unaware you can pump berms and rock lips for speed too.
if you have the power, energy and speed in the legs to effectively pump 2 rollers, that will often actually be faster than doubling them. You get 2 slopes to generate speed on rather than 1 (and you don't hit the upslopes if pumping and unweighting effectively) and make less vertical distance in most cases so it's a shorter line too. This does all depend on your jump trajectory and the length / depth of the rollers though.
For sure! We were in the bike park that day so had to be suuuper careful hiking up trail but always worth stopping and even measuring features and gaps. I like to compare sizes then I feel more confident because I've done something similar before. -Christina
Is the best way to gain these points of confidence to have a bike that: Has a shallow seat post angle Has a limited dropper distance Has a 69º slack angle Has 21mm internal wheel widths running pre-boost hub widths Has a front derailleur which sometimes likes to throw a chain between sprockets Is this the best way?
@@shredthetrack6858 nothing against Christina she’s great and probably rides better than me too , I just think Cathro’s technique explanation and videos are even better than GMBN’s technique videos too. Fun,informative and simple.
@@pinkbike A ugly troll is all he is. Ignore. //// Great Job Christina, it's also great to have you do this as there are lots of young women riding /learning and they need role models too!
More Christina on the channel! Really great presence and personality when given the space like this
Going to use these tips to help me on my favorite flow trail. Always looking to improve! Have her on more often because she explains everything very well.
What's helped me progress is having one, or a few local trails that I ride over and over again. A lot can be learned from riding a wide variety of trails, and that is certainly fun, but once I have a trail completely muscle memorized, I have found that I can unlock another level of speed and laser focus on techniques like popping over rough sections and fully committing to corners. This might seem obvious, but my impulse is to always go on a different ride from the one I went on last time, and do one big loop instead of lapping a trail over and over like a race track.
Super good info! And I totally know what you mean by the laser focus and speed gained by riding a trail you know. Keep enjoying -Christina
Incredibly well timed video, I have just built up a new Stumpy which was a huge upgrade in performance, allowing me to carry more speed up to the approach of these doubles. Ben’s tips have helped heaps and I am stoked to try these ones out. Keep ‘em coming!
Thanks Ryan and glad this landed on your screen! Something for everyone. Just the other day I finally hit a trail double I've been eyeing up for over a year, felt so good to commit and freaking do it! Enjoy the new bike -Christina
🤡 The comic relief of the Trail Mystic 🧙♀ was hilarious 😂🤣 please 🙏 more of that. U gotta keep expanding that character. The instructional was fantastic too. Keep them both coming. Thanks for the help. Aloha y Mahalo.
Thank you for appreciating our efforts haha you'll likely see this character again -Christina
I really like your approach to the triple. Jumping all three may be pretty cool and all, but then you will have way too much speed going into the corner. So rolling the first one then doubling seems smarter to me and you won't have to brake so hard going into the berm thus carrying more speed coming out.
That's why we have brakes
@@brianwilson6542 🤦♂️
There was even someone in the video that doubled the first 2 and rolled the last one, looked sick but that tiny space between rollers spooked me out and I wasn't about to try it haha I like the smooth runout of the berm option. Cheers! -Christina
@@pinkbike Keep on shreddin' ✌️
this kinda stuff (tricks of the trade) isn't really talked about as much as it should be - hope to see more PB features like this. Most of the fun I have is scoping out sidehits on trails, away from the main line.....it's a good way to spread the fun
Of all things it was the "Boost Dealer" bit that hooked me. I think after you learn how to 1) hop/unweight, and 2) pump, -every obstacle (like roots and rocks) becomes an opportunity to gain speed by using that combo.
This is realy good thank you Christina!
Cheers! I hope it can help a few folks for sure, and it was fun to create -Christina
it's so much fun gapping roots
4:55 Eggzitting. Nice one.
These MTB tips are golden, you should host a 5+ part series on pumping speed, most people are unaware you can pump berms and rock lips for speed too.
Ohhh love that! thinking outside the box! There's really no topping out and so many things to practice. Thanks for the idea -Christina
Christina influences me to wanna hit the gym! If I was as jacked I'd be able to send it harder like her!
if you have the power, energy and speed in the legs to effectively pump 2 rollers, that will often actually be faster than doubling them. You get 2 slopes to generate speed on rather than 1 (and you don't hit the upslopes if pumping and unweighting effectively) and make less vertical distance in most cases so it's a shorter line too. This does all depend on your jump trajectory and the length / depth of the rollers though.
Nice video! I want Ben an Christina together!
@pinkbike cant wait for the next season of Pinkbike Racing documentry. is it comming soon?
Next we want a video of you hitting all the whistler triples and quads
Wow, what a creeper, just hanging around in the woods 😂
Cool.
Wow that new Fox helmet looks so damn good
Is this at Whistler?
What if you want to triple that?
Can you get enough air with a bunny hop on a ramp shaped like that?
For sure I think the right rider could. it would require some extra pop and precision on lading but it's possible -Christina
Review the tempo and meta v5
Also, it’s worth the effort to stop, get off the bike and actually walk parts of the trail that look like potential boost lines.
For sure! We were in the bike park that day so had to be suuuper careful hiking up trail but always worth stopping and even measuring features and gaps. I like to compare sizes then I feel more confident because I've done something similar before. -Christina
@@pinkbike Indeed, stopping midway is like stopping on a subway track - very hazardous duty
What helmet is she wearing? That looks sick.
Is the best way to gain these points of confidence to have a bike that:
Has a shallow seat post angle
Has a limited dropper distance
Has a 69º slack angle
Has 21mm internal wheel widths running pre-boost hub widths
Has a front derailleur which sometimes likes to throw a chain between sprockets
Is this the best way?
damn it her arms are amazing ... i wished i had biceps like those
#Nice! More girls into the fray? 👍🏻😍
Can't fool us Chappetta, we know you were the Creeper.
🇺🇸☕☕😳🏜️
Nice video , But We need Cathro to explain riding technique videos.
I think she did a great Job explaining. And it is good do have different ppl to explaining Things. Christina is a absolut shredder.
@@shredthetrack6858 nothing against Christina she’s great and probably rides better than me too , I just think Cathro’s technique explanation and videos are even better than GMBN’s technique videos too.
Fun,informative and simple.
Cheers for the compliment and I agree Ben is good, but as they say "different strokes for different folks" -Christina
Booooo Christina is rad
@@pinkbike Cheers Christina , nothing against you or you style , thank you for your hard work in explaining.
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They need to fire this women
Why? Cause she rides better than you?
@@ls66 lol she would probably smoke his a$$! I like the Freudian slip of him saying "women" instead of "woman".
Thank you -Christina
@@pinkbike A ugly troll is all he is. Ignore. //// Great Job Christina, it's also great to have you do this as there are lots of young women riding /learning and they need role models too!