6 Essential ADV Riding Techniques That Will Improve Your Off-road Performance
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Welcome to another video in our Adventure motorcycle training series. Today we are talking about 6 adv riding techniques that will change the way you ride dirt for the better.
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Hello.
First point:
Here when we ride, we tilt one mirror so you can see behind while standing.
Keep the other mirror in its normal position to see behind while sitting.
This helps for not getting rear ended and also to keep pan eye on your riding buddy (he still there?)
Second point:
What does a group do when one guy (maybe the last one) is no longer visible.
First rider to loose view stops. So the rider in front of him stops. En so on. Then the leader turns back and drives slowly.
As he passes, each rider queues in behind. All the way back until everyone is back in the group.
Cheers
great tips, thank you, cheers V!
Really sound advice delivered in clear concise fashion. Not a word wasted and the footage complimented the dialogue perfectly. Great job, bro.
Thanks for saying so! Now if I/we could just get it all done in 1 take : )
Well said
And no stupid inappropriate music like with that guy with the funny cap.
You just have to get out there and do it. I rode faster this time in gravel on my T7 and felt the suspension take over for the first time. So much fun to ride a little faster and moving with the sway of your line and the reaction of the bike. I love motorcycles!
Thanks for the great and useful lessons!
Enjoyed your class in the field ❤👍
I really love your videos and thanks for the reminders that you've given us here we all should be practicing them
Dolly, thanks for that note, and enjoy the most fun practice I know of : )
Good stuff. One of my favorite channels.
Great instructions and advice. Thank you.
Thank you very much for this video. I found it very useful. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧
Hugely helpful. Thank you
Great video guys thank you
Nice info. Thanks
Great tips. 👍
Excellent video! And spot on points! Really appreciate you mentioning that this is actually a public road, and local people need to use that road to get from point a to point B. Great video to remind people to be the ambassadors of their hobbies or their craft want to be good citizens too!
Outstanding video. Thanks, Eric!
Very welcome!
This was just awesome. I'll be saving this one and going back to it. You can never have too much training. Thanks for all you do. This one's a gift.
Thanks very much for saying so, Eddie. Now in development, we're creating checklists folks can download so that when they come across "interesting terrain," they might look for features that they can practice these techniques on. So stay tuned, and RIDE on!
Wonderfully done! Your easy going presentation style makes the tips you give approachable for an average adv rider like myself. Thank you!
Glad if it was helpful! See you out there, and thanks for saying so.
I adore this tenere..the most good looking adv
Great tips, Eric!
Greetings from Brazil.
Thanks for the positive note. Greetings from Oregon :)
Great advice...
great teaching with warmth and beautyful explanation..thank sir
Super helpful! Clear advice without unnecessary fluff.
A perfect video for a perfect lesson. Bravo.
Thank you! 😃
Excellent video. Thanks for the great info. Always easy to follow and understand!
We are having fun making these, so thanks for following along and for the positive feedback.
Looking far as possible is so important. It's not that long ago when I got on bike for long timer. I wondered that why riding felt so awkward. Got that I have think this all from the basics and remembered and realized that I was looking way too close. It's remarkable as it increases your balance at the same time. Also when you begin to look into turns you'll get feeling that you're almost not doing anything.
I definitely learnt from it 🙌✌️🥳
your videos are awesome, such good quality. and obviously helpfull
Thank you!
Great video, and I love doing skills work in that same area that you shoot these videos. You asked viewers to share any tips: I just came back from Rawhyde Intro Plus 3 day training. One subtle but important tip/skill I came away with involves low to medium speed tight turning on the big adventure bikes. Turning the head in the direction of the turn is important and was something I already had well integrated to my riding. But at camp they showed the importance of pivoting your outside foot on the peg and pointing it into the direction of the turn...this really frees up the hips to turn and get more to the outside and off the center line of the bike and the chest and arms to turn more directly at the intended direction of travel. It also helps you press the outside knee into the tank for better feel and tighter turning. I found the combining the foot pivot, along with the head turn was the key to me easily making full lock turns at low to medium speeds on dirt and gravel terrain. Good riders like yourself probably do this instinctively, but for me and other intermediate level riders this was a new concept/skill.
Great video, I believe you can do a seperate video just on emergency stops / breaking and avoiding collission with obstacles after and before breaking.
Good idea, thanks. Indeed, there’s so much to consider, and it’s such an important one, we should dig a little deeper into this. On our “to do” list. Thanks.
I got Vince Vaughan vibes! Great tips!
Excellent video thanks. One of my learners asked me about the risk of burning out the bike's clutch yesterday, so it'll be great to forward this video as confirmation.
Yeah, none of us wants to do it, and especially if it’s a dry clutch, the burning smell can be quite evident. Let’s keep as much heat as possible out of that clutch pack, but sometimes, it’s just necessary. Thanks for sharing.
I've always liked my clutch close and tight especially hill climbing
Always great info.. Thanks very much..
Thanks. More ahead.
Thanks for the tips! Now to go practice them! Great video!!!
Dr. Lee, thanks for that note, and congrats to you and Matt and the family on the empire! Come ride with us in Baja this winter, or here in Oregon next summer, and keep an eye out for our motorcycle training "RIDE Ranch" plans as well. --- Eric
Very good explanations just to the point
Thanks!
Very nice 👍 thank you and 🏍greetings👍
New follower ❤❤❤
Great video explaining and demonstrating offroad riding techniques; just what I've been looking for. Thank you.
I'm new to offroad riding after 25 odd years of not having a road bike; had the odd road bike ride since then.
I'm struggling with confidence and so riding defensively, hesitating to try some techniques. Your video demonstration and explanation is encouraging. Thanks so much.
Thanks for saying so, and fortunately, practice = riding at this point, and so life is pretty good : ) Have fun.
Great tips for practicing. I’ve got some simple trails here where I can set up a slow slalom and circle for throttle work. Just gotta get out there right.
Thanks for saying so, and heck yea.....practice makes perfect! Or close enough to it anyway :)
Awesome advice. Thanks! 👌👍
Glad it was helpful!
I really appreciate that unexperienced and experienced drivers can learn more and more with your explanations! Me, I am a bloody nooby, learning from Videos and getting the right mindset before start trying things out! Very happy to have those videos! Thank you!
Glad to help, and practice makes perfect : ) Everyone's a nooby at some point, and we only get better at riding with time. RIDE on!
Lovely video , I’m from india with lotz of great off-road . This video is actually very helpful
Great stuff. I kind of grew up off roading bikes out of necessity rather than pleasure. I lived in a small town and any trips back and forth involves rough unpaved roads and sketchy short cuts and water crossings. I have recently developed the hobby of adventuring and finding new terrain and stuff. Theres so many of these things you talked about that came natural to me, things like shifting the body around to keep the bike's momentum going. But theres small small things that we amateurs miss out on that you get learn from a professional, so thank you for these.
Thanks for saying so, and great that you have what sounds like natural fundamentals for most of this stuff. Some of us dream of growing up in a place where it meant riding dirt to get into town : )
Thanks for explaining how to steer with the rear wheel by slipping the clutch! Looking forward to trying it.
So fun, once you're out there buttering some slides.....have fun : )
I’m glad you said, you don’t need to be standing. I don’t stand a lot. I was a flat track racer when I was younger, a long time ago. But I stand when I’m going over a long or a jump.
Using more revs to increase engine breaking and overall throttle responsiveness.
Great video mate.
Great tips once again Eric. I pick up my new black 2021 Yamaha Tenere this week, just like the one you were riding in the video. Thanks again for the tips & safe riding! Cheers, Ronny
Also have the same 👍👍
Enjoy that Fun Machine, Ronny! What a great, great bike and value. Lots of good times ahead for you, thanks for sharing.
Nice video love it!
Thanks!
Went off roading for the first time Monday, got to one part with some bad ruts and panic and braked went down. Now I know I should stand and power through. Going to get some real moto boots and try again once my ankle heals.
ABS info was super helpful - I've experienced a couple slower than expected stops in dirt, appreciate you connecting the dots again... Thanks
Glad if the info helped. Definitely a real-deal, how ABS elongates stopping distance in the dirt. Thanks for watching and the note.
oh sweet t700, but those blinkers are huge!!
Excellent
Thanks mate, doing a major solo trip that’ll involve some off road. While I’ve done trail riding it’s slow and steady type 😂
Good stuff Eric. I always learn from your videos. Did I see a Harley Pan America in the Ride Adventures' fleet?
Butch, thanks for the note, and yep, next video up, two weeks from today, we publish the first review on the Pan America. Hope the leg is doing well.
Thank you from KSA.
Thank you too, for watching. Bring some riders over to Oregon and the Pacific Northwest and some amazing dual sport riding!
Great video, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! Glad if any of it helps anyone.
U make that t7 look like a little toy !!!! Thanks for sharing 👍❤️🙌
In some ways, it sure is a toy : ) Thanks for watching.
G’day mate great video, thanks for the tips! I know it’s a bit of a way (lol) but it would be great if you could run some courses down under, in Oz! Maybe after COVID?
Fred, thanks for that note, and please keep an eye out for the announcement of RIDE Adventures Training, just ahead : )
Great video
Thanks!
You have a real talent in teaching, Eric. Thanks a bunch for the valuable info you provide for free!
Thanks for saying so, Daniele, I hope the info helps anyone and everyone. We're having fun making these (until we schedule filming dates during surprise heat waves, and flies like the one at 9:05 land on my head while I'm trying to concentrate : ) ----- Eric
Great tips
Glad you like them!
Thank you sir
Excellent advanced level lessons.
🙏🇮🇳😊👍
Thanks, more similar videos ahead!
Hey, just wanted to take a moment to say thank you, your Videos are clear, concise and easy to understand. I am new to Motorcycles ( I dont own one yet but am placing my order for a KTM 390 Adventure in November). Im pretty excited. the bike however wasnt the hard part to decide................. its all the luggage and riding gear that im having difficulty with. I will check more of your videos to see what you cover in those areas. Again, thanks and I look forward to more of your informative videos!!!!
Charles, thanks for watching and for saying so, congrats on the 390 when you get it, and welcome to the limitless possibilities within adventure riding : )
Excellent video relaxed and good basics. I've got an AT and one of the handiest is mastering tight street turns. I would like for you to show a standing next to the bike doing a 180 from a tight spot. Thanks for sharing
Thanks, we love making these videos. And although it didn't include exactly a "standing 180," we did make a video on 4 Ways to Turn Around Your Motorcycle Video: th-cam.com/video/UGEBC2WHsgw/w-d-xo.html
@@RIDEAdventures Really appreciate you getting back to me about my query. Checked out the link you sent re four ways to turn around and subscribed. Your presentations are excellent. Had to laugh at the failures you showed.. cheers
@@kiwiadventurer, thanks for joining us, pardon my crashes : ) and RIDE on!
Nice video sir 👍
Thanks! More ahead.
Nice job god bless
Good review
Thanks!
I had a crash on my 1090 a couple days ago. Hit a log at 25-30kph and threw me off onto my hip and shoulder. I need to practice alot more on maneuvering my weight and getting comfortable on dirt. This video is great and ill be out practicing more.
Glad it sounds like it wasn't too bad, but yea anticipating such like that sure can go a long way to fluidly making it over. Thanks for sharing.
Great, useful video. Great host.
Thanks for saying so!
Really good vid
Thanks!
I start to learn skills with lightweight dualsport and later upgrade them on heavier machine
Thanks for these GREAT tips! They need to be practiced to be learned, but the video expanations and demos were excellent.
All of these dynamic techniques where the rider's weight and strength are used to maneuver the bike are easier with a smaller lighter bike. That's one reason I like a smaller ADV bike in the dirt. Of course, a heavier and more powerful bike will be better on highways, but I bought my little ADV bike for dirt, gravel and secondary roads
Thanks for the great feedback, and you’re absolutely right, starting with something smaller and lighter would make great sense for those truly just getting into this. Thanks for watching, and ride on!
Helpful pointers. Looking forward to putting them into practice when the ice melts! Also, did you kick-start that T7 at 6:45?
Very good very demo, I would really like to see some guidance on what to do f you know you are going down , hang on to bike, get away from it etc. if you ride off road it’s simply a matter of when you will have a get off. Thanks,
PA
Ahh, very good subject to cover, now officially on our list "to do." Tough one to outline, as each situation is different. Part of me wants to say "sticking with it" often results well, but on the other hand, we have to "get out" while we still can sometimes. Tough one, but let's see how we can do cover it. Thanks for commenting.
Thanks for the info. I'm new at this and find it awkward starting up a hill, city stuff that is. Not sure which brake to use before I start moving or as I'm waiting at a light. I live in an area that is not flat, at all.
Great information Eric, what are your thoughts on auto clutches like the Rykluse?
Crazy as it may seem, even after all these years and having ridden ?# of bikes, I've never actually ridden a Rekluse! From what I understand about it though, sounds pretty slick and could be a great feature. Somehow the original clutches (especially wet ones) are always fine for me. ---- Thanks for watching, and asking. Let me know if you try one out : )
Emergency braking & collision avoidance should be practiced regularly on/off pavement.
Off road drill is to place rocks etc about 20 ft apart & do figure 8s while standing to work on vision, weighting peg, counter balance.
Ya, keep the technique advice coming-thanks
This is very good. It’d be helpful to come up with more suggestions for exercises. It’s very well to say float your front, but how do you learn to do that?
Yea, we're doing our best trying to explain in the videos, but stay tuned for announcements of new facilities where you can come and practice this kind of stuff in person. Fun news ahead : )
Something that comes natural/with experience is knowing how slippery different terrain is. Ya can't know without testing
EXACTLY, like reading the green/grain on a golf course, this stuff takes time. Good thing it's a fun learning process : ) Thanks for commenting.
Super slow balance is key to everything
nice
What might be an interesting technique video for you to cover would be everyone’s favorite (other than sand…): rock-covered trails and baby-head fields!
Ahh, good ones. Both Sand, and Baby Head videos are on the way for sure. Thanks for chiming in.
@@RIDEAdventures thanks and I look forward to it. I like your straight-forward no-fluff style.
I'm fairly new to these riding videos and this is the first one that I have seen the collar that you are wearing. May I ask what that is? Great video and proper advice!
Just a quick comment on modern ABS and traction control systems. Know your bike. Many have off road settings for both systems that when set properly will help you maintain traction and brake more quickly than when the systems are selected OFF.
This is great! Thank you. When steering with the rear wheel do I have to switch off the Traction Control?
"Yes and No." --- Some bikes these days have "Enduro" and "Rally" and other modes that include some Traction Control, but usually a less-sensitive version of it. Like reduced sensitivity by 80-90% instead of completely "off" and so.....it allows some steering with the rear.
Great VID.
On another channel, I heard: 'don't use your clutch in deep sand. Let the sand be your clutch'
I burned mine in deep sand once, so know I am using it as little as possible in deep sand.
What's your view on this ?
EXCELLENT question, and one that we plan to address in a future video. (Reason being, I have seen videos/instructors out there suggesting that we not only modulate the clutch in deep sand, but that we modulate the rear brake as well.) My answer: I have never once, that I recall, modulated the clutch or rear brake in deep sand (other than the clutch maybe when getting started) and I have safely made it through many, many deep sand situations around the world on 500+lb adventure bikes. I think the "let the sand be your clutch" notion is exactly right, and can't imagine complicating things so much more (in addition to balance, keeping weight back, etc.) by having to mess around with two more levers at the same time. Adding to, as you said, the possible burning-out of the clutch earlier. ----- So, thanks for asking, great question, and please watch for a future video on this. ---- Eric
oh you got the same bike my father has haha, no but fr im gonna get my first bike in a week or smth and its gonna be an adventure, cant wait to go offroad ^^
That's awesome, have fun and see you out there!
Video about offroad braking would be great, please include downhill braking
Good ones, thanks. Now added to our list to produce.
I just took the MSF adv course, maybe I have too big of a bike or maybe it's just I need a lot of practice lol but when I weight the pegs, I have to concentrate on putting my opposite knee end of the tank because it goes outward lol
Downhill off road. Do NOT be afraid of the front brake. Two ways to avoid dumping the front end in this kind of situation are to either leave the front ABS ON, or if you do not want to use ABS or don't have it, keep your front brake lever adjusted such that it cannot lock up the front wheel. You want braking, but keep the front wheel turning. If you lock up the front wheel it will quickly squirt out from under you.
Depending on your tires, leaning your bike (in corners) might actually give you better traction than keeping it straight.
180-degree skid turn!
Yea, we did that in another video, with some other ideas: th-cam.com/video/UGEBC2WHsgw/w-d-xo.html
@@RIDEAdventures Nice one, thanks. Great vids BTW!
@@andrewtreloar7389 Thanks!
2:46 nice eye protection!!
Looking at picking up a AT AS as my main bike. I want to use to ride the TCT. I have lots of MX experience but never handled a big bike off road ( besides short stuff on KLR). Also do you guys have any experience with that electronic suspension. I really like the idea of extra fuel and I like the black on gold.
Any suggestions I’m open.
Electronic Suspension systems are really nice features to have, especially when so few of us will ever actually break out the tools and get down to manually adjust. The downsides to electronic being: More weight, more to buy, more to potentially fail. But if those aren't major concerns, I bet you'll love just hitting a button a few times to adapt to your situation.
Adventure bike clutches. I'm a "dirt biker" by nature, At 59 I'm mostly riding dual sport events that are on Enduro single track courses, so I'm a heavy user of clutch for traction control and storing power in flywheel for surges of power. I'm also considering one of your tours as a 60th birthday gift. Do your rental bikes really require much "clutch work" on the trails y'all cover or is the tip mentioned herein a rarely used one?
With our twin-cylinder adventure bike tours (most of what we do) there aren't too many situations where you'd need to slip the clutch. Routes are fun and spots can be challenging, but they're not like single-track type nasty routes. --- On each Tour Page, there should be a Difficulty Grading of 3, 4, etc. and the option to click there for a description. Fire away and let us know via the forms on the website where you'd like to RIDE next : )
My tip: talk to yourself. coach yourself. I went on a long solo jaunt down into arizona and I was riding some back area. I encountered sand stretches (in arizona, who knew?) and my experience with that is limited. If anyone observed me they would have thought me a lunatic as I was talking myself through it "relax relax. loose grip. let the bike wander. just guide it. no you idiot, relax". I wasnt graceful, but I didnt toss it nor was I duck walking. So I call it a success. Look where you want to go, talk what you want to do.
Right on, and RIDE on! "Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
Definetely, it is not so easy and clear with statement "ABS makes your stopping distance longer in off-road conditions" Topic deserves to go deeper into it. Which bike, how experienced rider is, and so on and so on. Check out Bret Tkacs research
Yep, pretty sure that's why we stated it as "generally speaking."
#3 with Africa Twin. DCT? I create tension using the rear brake making uturns on and off road. Any other advice?
Where I ride there is sometimes miles of sand, not just patches. So this video confirms, ride my lighter bike when necessary, practice practice practice on the big bike. If I can do it on the big bike, the small bike is easy.
Good question. Having never ridden a DCT model yet, I'm not sure how to answer, or exactly how that slippage on DCT works. (All our AT's are manual clutch.) --- Yea, practice, practice, and on the light bike first if you can. But also the thought that: Nothing says we need to fly over sand so fast! Sometimes the slow turtle wins the race, while the rabbit picks himself up and may limp to the hospital. Or not. Keep that front end as light as possible by putting your butt back on the seat (or clinching knees while standing, and leveraging your weight back) and I actually like the visual of the front wheel being a ski ....instead of a wheel. Just pretend it's a ski, and feel-out how you would want it to remain buoyant on top of the snow, or water.....or sand in this case. We know it's going to bob-back-and-forth a bit. So plan on it, and carve it back to the line you want. --- Thanks for watching and asking : )
@@RIDEAdventures I also ride an Africa Twin with DCT. A few months ago I rode in deep sand for the futile. These tips would’ve helped, but would a steering damper also help in deep sand? I had a hard time keeping the front end from getting the wobbles in certain patches of sand.
Just love the Yahama T700, the skin and shape is so cool