As a older (77) rider who just inherited a 2004 1150 Adventure, I found your video inspiring as ai need to gain confidence with this beast and I’m shrinking each year!
I am 5 foot tall so you guys can imagine my struggles! This video is excellent, the instructions and the progression to follow are key for me to understand how to go about acquiring this new skill. I am going to start practicing all the various skills you showed us. Actually these should be a requirement for us to call ourselves experienced bikers. So excited to start practicing. Thank you so very much for an excellent video 😃👍
Thank you so much for this excellent training clip. I am thankful to have found it. I am far from a beginning rider, and at 6'0" not considered a short rider. But these drills are just superb to better master the bike. I challenge all of us to practice these drills and realize how much work they are to get smooth. Great job Lana!
I have definitely been thinking about step by step on how to get to know how to do this so that I can reduce the risk, as much as possible, of dropping the bike. Now I have some exercises I need to master first before trying. Thanks very much for this.
Thanks, Lana for your detailed explanation...the best I watch for these maneuvers..slow and easy to understand and practice. Keep helping us with your videos...Lot to homework to do from now on...
Hi Lana....great instructional video. Wish I had come upon this and practised to perfection. As it turned out, dropped my bike whilst doing the cowboy swing on an uphill slope. Insufficient throttle...my bad. Since then stopped cowboy swing but interest regenerated after watching your video. Will enlist assistance when practicing this. Probably start on soft surface first.
Dirt is a great surface for any bike practice. Since you know that you need to improve your uphill starts, find a slight uphill and practice just start/stop. Do that until your uphill starts get as uneventful as flat ones.
You must have been an educator prior to starting this channel. This style of goal directed communication to transfer a skill is requires a tremendous amount of practice and refinement to achieve your level of sophistication.
Brilliant explanation of the working up to the cowboy mount 👍 the best I have seen 😊thanks very much 👍 I’m glad I have just found your Your channel as a new GSA owner 😊 best wishes Karl 😊
I've been riding more than 30 but actually it's like one year riding 30times. I'm 6'3 but like others said this is useful irrespective of height. Knowing counter balance and speed control is a very useful skill indeed
Excellent pedagogy. You definitely know how to teach. I'm a tall but older rider. I do a stationary cowboy mount because my hip range of motion is reduced and I need to stand on a peg to get the other leg over the saddle. I'm going to practice the rolling cowboy mount in a parking lot, per this video, so I can show off instead of looking like a decrepit invalid. 😀
I am fairly ok(ish) 67 year old riding a tall adv bike (2017 Honda AT), and have tried this now several times and succeeded a few times. Getting off is a lot easier. What I find very difficult is straigtening my left leg ( the one on the peg) after the forward motion starts. Do you pull on the bars at the same time you are trying to get some height or do you try to do all the work with your left leg. For me being a dash hefty also does not help. Truly love this video and a very satisfying exercise when you get it right.
You shouldn't need to use your arms to pull up. If you are, there are several possible reasons: 1. Your right leg is too far back in the starting position, so when the bike starts rolling, your body weight is not over the left peg, and you're having to pull yourself forward. Make sure the leg on the ground is positioned next to the peg and not behind it. 2. You may need to be more smooth with the clutch. If the bike starts rolling too fast, it basically tries to run away from you, and again you need to pull yourself forward to stay over the peg. 3. You may need to improve the strength of your quads. To the last point: we're not kids anymore, so if we want to be able to do more than just recreational cruising, fitness is important. I do a lot of exercises focused specifically on the muscles needed to lift the bike or ride standing. I never talked about it, but will maybe do a video on the subject in the future.
@LanaOnWheels Thanks for the reply. I have two bikes, one is a Xr650l which is power wise a bit rough and a clutch which is not so smooth and the other is an Africa Twin with a Dct gearbox which brings another level of skill into play. Anyway practicing this is fun, will try some more. Happy Easter
A wonderful channel.. Teaching bike riding skills..I am watching the channel from Jordan.. I find great benefit in education lessons. I hope to get a suitable bike for me. I hold a bicycle driving license since 2006 thank you all.. You are really cool. AKRAM JORDAN
Your video is really good, perfect quality too, professional and neat content, and everything is calm, no noise in the background... I just have to improve my English 🤨
The answer is - many times. Think about this the same way you think about a human baby learning to walk. How many times a baby falls? Does anybody count? Or when a child learns to ride a bicycle. How many times a child falls? Does this matter? So the answer is - the number does not matter.
I'm only 1.68 mt. and I plan to order that bike at the beginning of next year in Germany. Seeing how you master that machine, makes me think that it won't be very difficult for me either. Excellent video, today I saw it for the first time and immediately subscribed. Any extra advice to start well with R1250GS? Greetings from Hamburg.
Thanks a lot, this tutorial has been tons helpful! What's the seat height on this bike you're riding on? I'll do this when I practice with my enduro. I'm in the REALLY SHORT category, wish me luck!
Good question. When mounting from the right hand side, I usually turn the bike off and put it into first gear before walking around to that side. Then you can pull in the clutch, start it and proceed with the cowboy mount.
My speed was around 6-7 miles per hour. Your speed needs to be comfortable to you. The idea is that you go slow enough to focus on the balance exercise and not too slow to worry about dropping the bike. I did not have to play with the clutch when working on the balance exercise because the torque of 1250GS allows that. However, if your bike has less torque, you may need to use friction zone to stay in lower speeds.
Lana, sorry to say that rolling starts and stop came around from bicycles that at first has no brakes and many were direct drive from the peddles. It was very hard to just sit on a bicycle and start if the peddle on one side wasn't at the top. The someone invented the coaster brake which allowed the peddles to turn backward a little so the rider could adjust while seated and it also incorporated a coaster brake. Please don't buy into the one video shows it so you must as well. Motorcycles have engines and brakes. There is no need to use a rolling start unless there is a starter problem. As a rule however, a rolling start isn't the mark of someone who knows how to ride but an amatuer who is follwing the Internet crowd that simply follows others because they did it. Your other videos ate wonderful, the rolling start is a disaster of following and not leading. The same with the rolling stop. When bicycles forst came about they had no braking systems which meant the rider had to get off the bike while it was still rolling. Again, motorcycles have engines and brakes. Please keep it genuine and professional and not buy into all the follow me videos.
I'm afraid you misunderstood the point of this skill. It's not about starting the bike - I start the engine and begin rolling just like it's always done on a properly running motorcycle. The difference is in the fact that I'm not sitting on the bike when I do that, which is a useful option for shorter riders.
I am envisioning dismounting on the right side lol now what? The kickstand is on the other side lol. Or viceversa contemplating mounting from the right side....uhh again the kickstand is on the other side ...I just dont see too much point in practicing moves on the wrong side...or maybe I am missing something idk??? BTW with a large motorcycle trying to move from one side of the bike to the other (feet on the ground holding on to bike so it stays up) with the stand up? I cant imagine wanting to do that...I have no doubt done it on vintage dirt bikes for various reasons but they were tiny by modern standards
Dismounting on either side is an important skill for those riders who want to master riding any bike of any size on any terrain. When you were a kid and rode a bicycle, did you care which side to dismount? Did you care if you stop uphill or downhill? No, because the weight of the bicycle was negligible compared to your strength. Larger and heavier bikes could be handled the same way if you know how. People who ride a lot in various environments get themselves in situations when dismounting on the other side is preferable. With additional knowledge and skills, one can easily walk around the bike after that to use the kickstand or use some other approaches to leave the bike standing. You can see this video about walking around the bike for further learning. th-cam.com/video/v34Gh_tDOu4/w-d-xo.html
www.contimotousablog.com/jocelin-snow-born-adventure/#:~:text=Jocelin%20Snow%3A%20I%20have%20been,result%20in%20a%20tip%2Dover. This person inspires my riding. Jocelin is 5′ - 1.5″. Look at her riding skill.
5.7. To add more challenge, I keep my seat on High position in addition to the taller sport suspension. This totally prevents me from relying on my legs length. I got inspired by even shorter lady rider, Jocelin Snow, whose skills are on a different level from anybody else I've ever seen. th-cam.com/video/zYp1zXyc0fA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3QYCCsJSG-62MVOM.
This is not about the numbers. You just need understand the geometry of the skill in relation to your own bike and your own body and then work on learning it.
this is an HP version that is one inch taller than a standard, not-lowered bike. I also keep my seat on High to ensure that I don't have an option of reaching out to the ground. This pushes me to train my balance and speed control. To have full control of the stopped bike, I have to significantly slide to one side.
It's great that you show the balance "homework" before just mounting. I found that being comfortable with my balance with just one foot on the peg is really important.
Frustrating that before nearly TWELVE minutes into the video, th-cam.com/video/ZYkrIXzMTbM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xqFlSM472yVYpigA&t=700 , the two opportunities you have to show a short rider mounting, you cut out. Bizarre. This is NOT how you get viewers to watch your whole video.
Hello dear Lana, at first I must introduce myself, so you know, what I mean: Starting on two wheels with hp at 15 and still crazy after 50 years (meanwhile on 1150 GS) of travelling from BLACK FOREST to Isle of Man, to Dubrovnik, Porto, to Mt. Saint Michele, to Rome and a lot of nice places between. So why do I watch YOUR instructions? Because I always was interested in safety aspects - - while I also HAD instructed girls driving motorbikes (their boyfriends had no nervs for teaching). And now to YOU, LANA: I really enjoy to see that "little LADY", handling this BMW like a toy with grace elegance and sovereignty while giving VERY USEFUL instructions. After these few minutes having big confidence to sit BEHIND her, - = what is really rare in my "history". BUT SITTING wouldn't be all of the story ...THEN...... ❤ This cool woman is HOT!!! 😇🥰 LOVELY HUGS ROBIN
As a short guy about to move on to my first GSA, I find your quiet, confident tuition style very encouraging. Thank you.
As a older (77) rider who just inherited a 2004 1150 Adventure, I found your video inspiring as ai need to gain confidence with this beast and I’m shrinking each year!
I am 5 foot tall so you guys can imagine my struggles! This video is excellent, the instructions and the progression to follow are key for me to understand how to go about acquiring this new skill. I am going to start practicing all the various skills you showed us. Actually these should be a requirement for us to call ourselves experienced bikers. So excited to start practicing. Thank you so very much for an excellent video 😃👍
Excellent instructions , I'm 5'8" and I just bought a Africa Twin, this info will help. Thank you.
Parking lots are always a source of anxiety for me, thanks so much for this video❤
Thank you so much for this excellent training clip. I am thankful to have found it. I am far from a beginning rider, and at 6'0" not considered a short rider. But these drills are just superb to better master the bike. I challenge all of us to practice these drills and realize how much work they are to get smooth. Great job Lana!
Lana your series of lessons are awesome!!👏
Thank you for the lessons. You're a good teacher.
Thank you! 😃
This should be taught in MSF course! It’s seems simple but like you said this is a skill and it needs it be practiced. Thank you!
I have definitely been thinking about step by step on how to get to know how to do this so that I can reduce the risk, as much as possible, of dropping the bike. Now I have some exercises I need to master first before trying. Thanks very much for this.
Good instructions! Your detailed explanation along with a calm manner tone. I was able to absorb knowledge. You are great teacher. Thank you.
You are a very skilled teacher and rider. Thank you!
Thanks, Lana for your detailed explanation...the best I watch for these maneuvers..slow and easy to understand and practice. Keep helping us with your videos...Lot to homework to do from now on...
Great demonstration and excellent explanation. Thank you.
Yes this is great balance training for those big bikes. Great tutor as well
Hi Lana....great instructional video. Wish I had come upon this and practised to perfection.
As it turned out, dropped my bike whilst doing the cowboy swing on an uphill slope. Insufficient throttle...my bad.
Since then stopped cowboy swing but interest regenerated after watching your video.
Will enlist assistance when practicing this. Probably start on soft surface first.
Dirt is a great surface for any bike practice. Since you know that you need to improve your uphill starts, find a slight uphill and practice just start/stop. Do that until your uphill starts get as uneventful as flat ones.
You must have been an educator prior to starting this channel. This style of goal directed communication to transfer a skill is requires a tremendous amount of practice and refinement to achieve your level of sophistication.
Really appreciate these videos Lana, im 5’6” and recently purchased a Tiger 1200 Rally Pro.
Vividly explained, thank you, Iam just looking for the video, myself own 310GS, thank you.
Thanks . You are inspiring, Although I am a taller rider I am impressed the help I have got from you. Thanks a lot!
Great to hear!
Brilliant explanation of the working up to the cowboy mount 👍 the best I have seen 😊thanks very much 👍 I’m glad I have just found your Your channel as a new GSA owner 😊 best wishes Karl 😊
I've been riding more than 30 but actually it's like one year riding 30times. I'm 6'3 but like others said this is useful irrespective of height. Knowing counter balance and speed control is a very useful skill indeed
Thank you, Lana. it was very helpful.
Small is NAPOLEON.LANA IS THE GREAT RIDER.MASTER OF SKILLS I AM HAPPY TO MEET YOU LIVE IN YOUR PERSON
Excellent pedagogy. You definitely know how to teach.
I'm a tall but older rider. I do a stationary cowboy mount because my hip range of motion is reduced and I need to stand on a peg to get the other leg over the saddle. I'm going to practice the rolling cowboy mount in a parking lot, per this video, so I can show off instead of looking like a decrepit invalid. 😀
Muchas gracias por compartir esos bonitos ejercicios en la moto, que realmente deberíamos hacer todos. Un Abrazo.
I am fairly ok(ish) 67 year old riding a tall adv bike (2017 Honda AT), and have tried this now several times and succeeded a few times. Getting off is a lot easier. What I find very difficult is straigtening my left leg ( the one on the peg) after the forward motion starts. Do you pull on the bars at the same time you are trying to get some height or do you try to do all the work with your left leg. For me being a dash hefty also does not help. Truly love this video and a very satisfying exercise when you get it right.
You shouldn't need to use your arms to pull up. If you are, there are several possible reasons: 1. Your right leg is too far back in the starting position, so when the bike starts rolling, your body weight is not over the left peg, and you're having to pull yourself forward. Make sure the leg on the ground is positioned next to the peg and not behind it. 2. You may need to be more smooth with the clutch. If the bike starts rolling too fast, it basically tries to run away from you, and again you need to pull yourself forward to stay over the peg. 3. You may need to improve the strength of your quads.
To the last point: we're not kids anymore, so if we want to be able to do more than just recreational cruising, fitness is important. I do a lot of exercises focused specifically on the muscles needed to lift the bike or ride standing. I never talked about it, but will maybe do a video on the subject in the future.
@LanaOnWheels Thanks for the reply. I have two bikes, one is a Xr650l which is power wise a bit rough and a clutch which is not so smooth and the other is an Africa Twin with a Dct gearbox which brings another level of skill into play. Anyway practicing this is fun, will try some more. Happy Easter
nice informative video. thank you very much ! 👍👍👍
A wonderful channel.. Teaching bike riding skills..I am watching the channel from Jordan..
I find great benefit in education lessons.
I hope to get a suitable bike for me.
I hold a bicycle driving license since 2006
thank you all..
You are really cool.
AKRAM JORDAN
Your video is really good, perfect quality too, professional and neat content, and everything is calm, no noise in the background... I just have to improve my English 🤨
its very helpful. Thank you a lot!
Teşekürler.
Thank you very much
This is great and much appreciated. How many times did you drop your bike learning this?
The answer is - many times. Think about this the same way you think about a human baby learning to walk. How many times a baby falls? Does anybody count? Or when a child learns to ride a bicycle. How many times a child falls? Does this matter? So the answer is - the number does not matter.
very good information, will try these techniques on my dual sport. Slava ukraini!
Heroyam Slava!
This is great!
Excelent!
I'm only 1.68 mt. and I plan to order that bike at the beginning of next year in Germany. Seeing how you master that machine, makes me think that it won't be very difficult for me either. Excellent video, today I saw it for the first time and immediately subscribed. Any extra advice to start well with R1250GS? Greetings from Hamburg.
We are virtually the same height. All the exercises I'm showing here should work for you. I will be releasing more episodes focused on short riders.
It's a fantastic bike, you will absolutely love it ❤️😁👍
thats to cool
Thanks a lot, this tutorial has been tons helpful! What's the seat height on this bike you're riding on? I'll do this when I practice with my enduro. I'm in the REALLY SHORT category, wish me luck!
Mirrors are funny like that
:) these are off road mirrors. They are ones of the best for standing and seeing your riding buddies behind.
When mounting from the right hand (rear brake) side, how do you put the bike into first gear to pull away please?
Good question. When mounting from the right hand side, I usually turn the bike off and put it into first gear before walking around to that side. Then you can pull in the clutch, start it and proceed with the cowboy mount.
You Rock! Thanks very much. ❤❤❤
What is your speed doing that? Are you playing the clutch?
My speed was around 6-7 miles per hour. Your speed needs to be comfortable to you. The idea is that you go slow enough to focus on the balance exercise and not too slow to worry about dropping the bike. I did not have to play with the clutch when working on the balance exercise because the torque of 1250GS allows that. However, if your bike has less torque, you may need to use friction zone to stay in lower speeds.
Lana, sorry to say that rolling starts and stop came around from bicycles that at first has no brakes and many were direct drive from the peddles. It was very hard to just sit on a bicycle and start if the peddle on one side wasn't at the top. The someone invented the coaster brake which allowed the peddles to turn backward a little so the rider could adjust while seated and it also incorporated a coaster brake.
Please don't buy into the one video shows it so you must as well.
Motorcycles have engines and brakes. There is no need to use a rolling start unless there is a starter problem. As a rule however, a rolling start isn't the mark of someone who knows how to ride but an amatuer who is follwing the Internet crowd that simply follows others because they did it.
Your other videos ate wonderful, the rolling start is a disaster of following and not leading. The same with the rolling stop. When bicycles forst came about they had no braking systems which meant the rider had to get off the bike while it was still rolling. Again, motorcycles have engines and brakes.
Please keep it genuine and professional and not buy into all the follow me videos.
I'm afraid you misunderstood the point of this skill. It's not about starting the bike - I start the engine and begin rolling just like it's always done on a properly running motorcycle. The difference is in the fact that I'm not sitting on the bike when I do that, which is a useful option for shorter riders.
obrigado seus ensinamentos🔰 BR 2
It looks a lot easier on the GS. Would it be a difference if it’s on a smaller or shorter bike?
I think it would be only easier on a shorter and smaller bike. The reason is that you have less weight and less height to manage.
I am envisioning dismounting on the right side lol now what? The kickstand is on the other side lol. Or viceversa contemplating mounting from the right side....uhh again the kickstand is on the other side ...I just dont see too much point in practicing moves on the wrong side...or maybe I am missing something idk??? BTW with a large motorcycle trying to move from one side of the bike to the other (feet on the ground holding on to bike so it stays up) with the stand up? I cant imagine wanting to do that...I have no doubt done it on vintage dirt bikes for various reasons but they were tiny by modern standards
Dismounting on either side is an important skill for those riders who want to master riding any bike of any size on any terrain. When you were a kid and rode a bicycle, did you care which side to dismount? Did you care if you stop uphill or downhill? No, because the weight of the bicycle was negligible compared to your strength.
Larger and heavier bikes could be handled the same way if you know how. People who ride a lot in various environments get themselves in situations when dismounting on the other side is preferable. With additional knowledge and skills, one can easily walk around the bike after that to use the kickstand or use some other approaches to leave the bike standing. You can see this video about walking around the bike for further learning. th-cam.com/video/v34Gh_tDOu4/w-d-xo.html
Hi, thanks for this sharing. May I know what is your height?
5'7
@@LanaOnWheels thanks for reply. Looks like I’ll be more struggle. 5’5 😄
www.contimotousablog.com/jocelin-snow-born-adventure/#:~:text=Jocelin%20Snow%3A%20I%20have%20been,result%20in%20a%20tip%2Dover. This person inspires my riding. Jocelin is 5′ - 1.5″. Look at her riding skill.
@@LanaOnWheels thanks so much
1250 is too heavy and scary for me. 750 will do just fine
It's true that the 1250 weighs more, but it doesn't fall flat like the 750, 850, etc. Believe me, the 1250 is easier to pick up.
Now try this with travel cases mounted.
I do it all the time. Moreover, I discuss this specific situation in the video, starting at 12:25.
@@LanaOnWheels
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@@LanaOnWheels
You are not really a short rider!? How tall are you.
5.7. To add more challenge, I keep my seat on High position in addition to the taller sport suspension. This totally prevents me from relying on my legs length. I got inspired by even shorter lady rider, Jocelin Snow, whose skills are on a different level from anybody else I've ever seen. th-cam.com/video/zYp1zXyc0fA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3QYCCsJSG-62MVOM.
My bike is 161kgs n I'm 86 will it work for me too ?
This is not about the numbers. You just need understand the geometry of the skill in relation to your own bike and your own body and then work on learning it.
Is this a GS or GSA?
this is R1250GS
if you don't mind asking, how tall are you?@@LanaOnWheels thanks
5'7'' or 167cm@@ticorrei
and thats the normal sized GS not the lower version right?@@LanaOnWheels
this is an HP version that is one inch taller than a standard, not-lowered bike. I also keep my seat on High to ensure that I don't have an option of reaching out to the ground. This pushes me to train my balance and speed control. To have full control of the stopped bike, I have to significantly slide to one side.
Great piece of content....S.F.A.
✌✌👏👏😊
Started simple; good. Got really complicated; bad.
It's great that you show the balance "homework" before just mounting. I found that being comfortable with my balance with just one foot on the peg is really important.
Frustrating that before nearly TWELVE minutes into the video, th-cam.com/video/ZYkrIXzMTbM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xqFlSM472yVYpigA&t=700 , the two opportunities you have to show a short rider mounting, you cut out. Bizarre. This is NOT how you get viewers to watch your whole video.
This is an educational video. I show the learning process, in the order that any student will go through it.
It is my second most viewed video.
Hello dear Lana,
at first I must introduce myself, so you know, what I mean:
Starting on two wheels with hp at 15 and still crazy after 50 years (meanwhile on 1150 GS) of travelling
from BLACK FOREST to Isle of Man, to Dubrovnik, Porto, to Mt. Saint Michele, to Rome and a lot of nice places between.
So why do I watch YOUR instructions?
Because I always was interested in safety aspects -
- while I also HAD instructed girls driving motorbikes (their boyfriends had no nervs for teaching).
And now to YOU, LANA:
I really enjoy to see that "little LADY", handling this BMW like a toy with grace elegance and sovereignty while giving VERY USEFUL instructions.
After these few minutes having big confidence to sit BEHIND her, - = what is really rare in my "history".
BUT SITTING wouldn't be all of the story ...THEN...... ❤
This cool woman is HOT!!! 😇🥰
LOVELY HUGS
ROBIN