3 Skills Every New Adventure Rider Should Practice!

Big, heavy adventure motorcycles like my friend's BMW R1250 GSA and my own KTM 790 Adventure R can be a handful to ride off-road! So here are 3 exercises you can practice to quickly build your confidence and skill!
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[@TheMotoBarista]

What are your favourite skills/drills to practice!? 👇

[@bingleyrichardsoniv2517]

i usually go in sand or soft dirt and practice tight turns. also getting used to losing/locking the rear wheel and gaining control again, just to get used to the sensation because it happens. also slow maneuvers too.

[@TheMotoBarista]

@@bingleyrichardsoniv2517 absolutely! I couldn’t believe how sensitive and aggressive the rear brake was on the GS!

[@scottburghart9278]

When you are young and healthy and you can't pick up your bike off of flat ground.......that is a sure sign your bike is too damn heavy!

[@motolover5697]

I am 60kg and 61 and can lift it up. I think he simply does not have the right technigue.

[@JT-dk9eo]

Best advice that came out of this, is that BIG heavy bikes are for big strong people!!.. be realistic and know your limits when buying a bike, and where you take it..

[@Revy8]

Very important to stand up in attack position while heading down to the local Starbucks

[@virendradr]

Thank you
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[@tazyt3388]

good tips cobba my go to practice thingys on a new ride are slow clutch control brake loading and abs familiarity and weight shift effects dial em in youl know your new bike faster

[@TheMotoBarista]

Haha yeh, slow clutch control is a good one. I dropped the clutch to fast on the GS the first time 🤣

[@tazyt3388]

@@TheMotoBarista hehe yeah ain’t that a bitch

[@pareshprajapati7916]

Thank you sir 🇮🇳🙏

[@DamonStangherlin]

Great vid! I like this one, going to try it out now that it's Fall/almost Winter up where I am. I'm glad you made a video on this, because I wholeheartedly agree on doing drills. The number one tip for anyone here that wants to better themselves is; "DO DRILLS". Just the act of doing these things is extremely beneficial. I spent a good amount of time last fall and winter doing stuff just like this (for the first time in my riding career), and it payed itself off drastically since then. Another 3 that I really enjoyed doing;
1. (With a bold tire so you don't waste fresh knobbies) Doing acceleration balance practices. What I did was; while in an attack riding position (standing), slow the bike down to a crawl, lay on the power hard in away where you can maintain traction and THROW your body weight forward simultaneously, what you're aiming for is to not feel push or pull on the bars holding on to them, thus your weight is balanced over the bike (having weight back more can be used in different techniques such as hill climbs, but just focus on neutral balance over the bike for this drill). Then brake hard as you can. Throwing your weight back will help with many things, also working with traction. While doing this you can also spend time practicing the "rally mode" 1-9 slip adjust on the 790/890 for example, or any other bikes traction control system.
2: Another that helped was finding a small (maybe diamerter of 15-30ft, smaller the better) circle of terrain that is inconsistent, downhill rocks one third, flat for one third, uphill loose gravel. And then practice exactly what your're working on in this video, while also practicing modulation of power over loose terrain, brake control, and then go slower and slower to see how slow you can go while working on clutch control.
3: And then another that I did was to do hill climbs (relatively small but enough to be a bit of work). Go up them slower and slower to see how you can modulate clutch and traction, and again working with the different traction control modes your bike offers. Keep up the great vids, should give these a try on your next drill run / practice outing!

[@TheMotoBarista]

Thanks mate! Great comment and like the suggestions! It’s funny, we don’t take much time to practice drills because we are focused on the adventure… but I had so much fun on this little circuit!

[@DamonStangherlin]

@@TheMotoBarista Absolutly, fun way to spend an evening after work so you don't have to eat into the adventure time on the weekends🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@StanForAdventure]

Great piece of content......S.F.A.

[@farouk6564]

I have a good tip, buy a smaller bike if you want to go off road.

[@mikecollins8241]

At least to learn on..

[@aaronorr9387]

Nah

[@crazypahadi.]

No

[@MotoVenture.]

Bzzzzzt wrong

[@tommiberg4455]

So,buying a smaller bike and not practise is your advise 🤦‍♂️

[@laius6047]

For practices like that i think its better to ride ina figure of 8 so you turn both left and right. Instead of yo one side only.

[@bigmanben1]

Where do you find space to practice? I struggle to find somewhere to practice these drills.

[@TheMotoBarista]

@@bigmanben1 usually I'll just find a clearing in the bush or make a small loop on a quiet trail.

[@omnivore2220]

What is "dropping a shoulder? "Oopsie! I dropped my shoulder. Now I have to ride back and get it."

[@oliverrichie9921]

It doesn't make sense to buy such heavy and expensive bikes. Go for a 300 or 400 and you'll have lot more fun, safety and less stress. And more money in your pocket to spend for travelling with your humble but still powerfull decent dirty bike.

[@IamthePMofAustralia]

Theres just no feel in the front end.... says someone who's never ridden a GS before and just crashed it. LOL

[@TheMotoBarista]

Dude, I’m not going to be embarrassed about having fun and dropping a giant bike on a turn track. Vague front end feeling is a common criticism of the GS too, but it is a beautiful bike to ride. Have a laugh mate, smile more, life’s short 🤙

[@JCBigCat]

@@TheMotoBarista it actually looks like he was having a laugh and you answered quite seriously 😐

[@henryroscoe2464]

@@TheMotoBaristasounds like the original bad workman blaming his tools 😂 I have been riding my lowered GS for five years and find the front end has plenty of feeling! 😊

[@theyshouldhavenevergivenme5439]

The guy is talking more into the camera while they should have used all that time to actually show the bike and the rider and what the rider was doing imho.
It's already way too short to learn anything from (Half the video is taken up by the intro banter alone) and then all the action is filmed from afar as well which just makes the whole thing useless.

[@nickw8071]

And the GS has crap tyres on

[@user-xx6gi5zo6p]

If your on the balls of your feet you can't operate gears.....

[@TheMotoBarista]

Move your feet, change gear, move them back.

[@anthonymora7581]

Hi, but how do you bypass the control over this action and not over brake or brake too little? Is there a drill for that?

[@Nonogrow420]

Track riding motocross, berm corners elbows high...foot forward other foot peg planted clutch n throttle like a mofo slingshot right out the corner...Tiger 800 xcx practicing drifts etc ...good times good tips ... squeeze the knees Louise eh cheers rip on men 👌💯💪👍😉🤣🤣🤣🥃💪