"Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." Plan ahead, choose your lines and relax...have fun...confidence and skill will catch up. You'll be rippin' before you know it!
Good advice from this video: Keeping traction will make you a more confident rider Bad advice from this video: Dont use the clutch but rather the throttle to manage traction Both the clutch and the throttle should be controlled smoothly to maintain proper traction. You should be using the clutch to maintain traction. It should be operated in and out of the clutch friction zone. As a drill try cornering a simple turn and not changing the throttle position at all but instead controlling the rear wheel solely by the clutch. If you loose traction you are doing to big of movements with the clutch.
@@MotocrossHideout a good drill is tight wheel lock figure 8 turns, you'll find how much easier it is to control power delivery to the wheel via clutch modulation rather then via the throttle. The turns are slow and you have to control power carefully while maintaining balance. Too much power and you loose the turn, too little and you tip over. Good drill.
Okay, gotcha. It sounds to me like you're just referring to tight turns at less than 5 mph when the engine is about to stall. I always cover the clutch and occasionally use it to prevent it from stalling, but I still find it easier to use the throttle most of the time to get proper traction, even on 2 strokes. Besides prevent stalling, my main purpose for using the clutch to to "enhance" the power/provide more, but I understand why you use it to smooth out the power. I have used that technique as well. Thanks for sharing, Kyle!
Interesting, i was riding in the forest with my friend for 2 days ago! I was thinking, hmm, i should not use the clutch but let my bike go on the first gear instead, in that way, i won´t be surprised when my engine builds up the revs and throws away with me or get me to slide and fall! Today, you upload this video and tells me the very same!😂❤ I think you sit on more than 20hp tho, even my Suzuki RM85L sits on around 26hp! 250 4stroke is 41hp 450 4stroke is 51hp /L
Are you the one dislike so far?? LoL, that's great if that works for you :) My riding technique isn't for everyone, but what I'm teaching tends to work well when training newer riders. Thanks for watching :)
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"Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."
Plan ahead, choose your lines and relax...have fun...confidence and skill will catch up. You'll be rippin' before you know it!
Or just don’t feather the clutch just keep it in the fiction zone and don’t move the clutch fast
Thank You Very Much For Sharing 👍
Good advice from this video:
Keeping traction will make you a more confident rider
Bad advice from this video:
Dont use the clutch but rather the throttle to manage traction
Both the clutch and the throttle should be controlled smoothly to maintain proper traction. You should be using the clutch to maintain traction. It should be operated in and out of the clutch friction zone.
As a drill try cornering a simple turn and not changing the throttle position at all but instead controlling the rear wheel solely by the clutch. If you loose traction you are doing to big of movements with the clutch.
Hey Kyle, thanks for watching!
Are you always using the clutch and throttle to maintain traction?
@MotocrossHideout well I ride a 2 stroke so yes I am. The clutch isn't as needed on a 4 stroke to maintain rpms but in corners it still very applies.
@@MotocrossHideout a good drill is tight wheel lock figure 8 turns, you'll find how much easier it is to control power delivery to the wheel via clutch modulation rather then via the throttle. The turns are slow and you have to control power carefully while maintaining balance. Too much power and you loose the turn, too little and you tip over. Good drill.
Okay, gotcha. It sounds to me like you're just referring to tight turns at less than 5 mph when the engine is about to stall. I always cover the clutch and occasionally use it to prevent it from stalling, but I still find it easier to use the throttle most of the time to get proper traction, even on 2 strokes.
Besides prevent stalling, my main purpose for using the clutch to to "enhance" the power/provide more, but I understand why you use it to smooth out the power. I have used that technique as well.
Thanks for sharing, Kyle!
Interesting, i was riding in the forest with my friend for 2 days ago!
I was thinking, hmm, i should not use the clutch but let my bike go on the first gear instead, in that way, i won´t be surprised when my engine builds up the revs and throws away with me or get me to slide and fall!
Today, you upload this video and tells me the very same!😂❤
I think you sit on more than 20hp tho, even my Suzuki RM85L sits on around 26hp!
250 4stroke is 41hp
450 4stroke is 51hp
/L
Ha, nice! Thanks for watching and sharing!
This CRF250F is a smooth trail bike, so not much more than 20HP ;)
KTM 250 Xcf 48hp
Kawasaki KLX 250 21hp
Both 4t dirtbikes but the KTM is a high performance race bike.
@@MotocrossHideout Ahaa, has to say it did sound way stronger than that!
/L
@@someonethatwatchesyoutube2953 Ah, you are right, i was only thinking of the MX bikes, hehe!
/L
Brilliant..
Um as a ex dirt bike rider i use the lack of traction to my advantage. Throttle control is where you get alot of steering control.
Are you the one dislike so far?? LoL, that's great if that works for you :) My riding technique isn't for everyone, but what I'm teaching tends to work well when training newer riders. Thanks for watching :)
Which one are you going to work on next?
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Correct tire pressure ????
Yep, that can certainly help. Thanks for watching and sharing, James!