A russian living in Argentina teaching the whole world how to properly and safely ride a motorcyle. Best thing to ever happened to a newbie rider like ton of us all
Thanks for doing this. I stiffen up a lot in the rain these days, it has a lot to do with a cycling accident along with lack of familiarity with the situation. Your videos are top-notch, Thank you.
To stiffen up! My case: In 2022 Bangkok-Phuket-Bangkok 1,850 km. On the return leg. Rain, rain and rain. Riding my dinky 350 cc =RE= Meteor while my buddies on their 410 cc and 500 cc Royal Enfield bikes. Passenger cars,trucks, buses, and pickups. Overtaking was a challenge in the dark was hard. I stiffened up! And I am still suffering from Wry Neck (stiff neck). Resulting from tight grip on the handles and the nasty vibrations from the single cylinder =RE= 350 cc engine. Now, I still love long-distance “Iron Butt” riding. But, I need more displacement. Remember: “There is no replacement for displacement” Therefore I am planning to buy a 650 cc cruiser. Royal Enfield Super Meteor? No! It will be the KAWASAKI Vulcan 650 cc. However that’s another story. Johnny BikeSanooK! th-cam.com/video/29C-3yY43OU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nW-43dq0o8wzrAQ5
Here in Ireland, rain is something you should always be prepared for. On one of the courses, I heard a motorcycle police officer saying this: bring a spare pair of gloves; there's no such thing as waterproof motorcycle gloves. While I don't know whether there are such gloves or not, that piece of advice has helped me a few times already. Having cold and wet fingers should certainly be avoided. From my own limited experience, I also note that treating visor and mirrors with water repellents helps. Perhaps one could also use similar sprays for their jacket, pants and gloves, but I haven't tried that yet.
Hi Pavel...Just a little help on the glove front; You can buy (quite expensive) gloves with names like Gore Tex, Richa, Alpinestars, RST etc. etc. and there are many many others on the market, but there is only one make I stick to when riding in the rain...'marigold'. They are bright, cheap, waterproof (rubber), and throttle-grippy in the wet. Chuck a lightly talc-ed pair in your back-box/ pocket...you wont regret it! (PS, the only downside to them is ones sweaty, minging hands after a long ride, but hey, dry your hands and lash the gloves!)
If practicallity is no.1 you could consider handlebar mitts they will keep your hands and gloves dry alright, not to mention warm responsive fingers! luxury eh, glad I don't have to ride in the rain and cold anymore it was never much fun. be safe👍
Remember to also be visible, in the rain everything is much moodier so your black bike with black clothing is even less visible than usual. get high visibility colors on yourself
'Gender neutral personhole covers' 🤣🤣🤣 Nice touch! So important that you brought up the topic of hypothermia, something that is so easily misunderstood, yet should always be part of our forward planning. With hypothermia, the body automatically tries to keep the body's core temperature functional (heart and internal organs) and it does this by concentrating the blood supply away from the extremities (arms and legs) and to the core. That's why arms and legs lose sensitivity and control. Unfortunately, the head is also an extremity through which we typically lose some 25% of body temperature, so blood supply to the brain is also reduced. Increasingly, our concentration and awareness goes until we become unconscious if the cold is enduring. That means we often are not even fully aware of hypothermia setting in, a very dangerous circumstance (but on the plus side, dying of hypothermia is supposed to be pretty painless, as we are already unconscious 🤣) Even a two hour trip home in the cold with inadequate warm kit can bring us into this danger zone, something I can attest to. It's a terribly feeling when you know it's another hour to get home at night or the early hours of the morning, with no other possibility to get warm other than to get home.
This is very helpful. As a new motorcyclist - i started riding motorcycle last year - i already had two little accidents, both took place on rainy day. Forunately i only scratched my motorcycle a liitle bit and just got few bruises. After these situations I became veeery careful when riding on rainy days and of course a bit stiff. This video will help me hack it for sure ! Thanks a lot !
This is the most valuable channel for me to be a better rider! I’ve just started to ride a year ago, at an age of 50! Watching your videos and advices, trying your practices, really helps me to feel safer. Thank you! Thank you for your contribution to my best and enthousiastic experience of learning how to ride😊
Moto control, motojitsu and Dan dan the fireman...!!! These 3 channels of Motorcycle teachers are GREATEST two wheelers teachers available on this EARTH...!!! Thanking you for your great works. Keep it up.. always...!!! 😃👍
I don't know. Check recent motojitsu video about riding in wet and this video. They are miles away in amount of useful information. The whole jitsu's video is "be smooth", which you should do in any case, not only when wet.
MotoJitsu is nowhere near as good as this channel. He is a great rider, an OK instructor. Dan Dan is mostly commentary on other vids. Ride like a pro is too specialized. For me MotoControl is the best balance of great broad based education and a bit of humor to keep it entertaining
In essence: Stay cool, trust the bike to self-stabilize itself - and don’t push your luck! Thanks Andrey for this concise and (as always) excellent summary! 🎉
If you have ABS, a good exercise is the practice hard braking on a wet road. You will probably be surprised how hard you can brake before the ABS kicks in. That will help you relax about the level of grip you have. (If you don't have ABS, I don't know. I've never had a bike without ABS.) A tip on visibility: Maybe this is obvious, but try not to get water droplets on the inside of your visor (and on your glasses if you wear glasses).
Good advice, and always start that exercise with rear-brake-only to build up trust into the ABS. If anything goes wrong - ABS has its limitations after all and can also malfunction in the least favorable moment - the bike is much easier to catch compared to a front wheel skid.
@@TheUnsungVil You can test the ABS by jabbing at the brake. That is quickly pull and release the brake. If for some reason the ABS doesn't kick in, you will have already released the brake, so you won't lose traction and wipe out. Full disclosure: I haven't tried jabbing the brakes on a non-ABS bike myself because like I said I've never owned one, but I have seen someone do it, and it looked pretty safe to me. (Also, just to be clear, jabbing the brake is just for testing. It is not how you are meant to brake normally, of course.)
This spring I made a 350km trip on German highways in pouring rain. Fortunately only the gloves got wet, since the rest was covered by the rain clothes. But I got humidity between the pin lock and the visor! That was no fun at all....
Thanks as always, next time it rains I shall ride faster to clear my visor😂. Riding in rain, my father said motorbikes are like horses, a light touch....they don't want to fall either
My daily commute had a killer set of railroad tracks that were raised high, large and across the street at 45 degrees. That was always fun in the rain. Usually get some speed and try to do a last second turn to hit it closer to a 90, but one day a car stoped and I didnt have my speed and I felt my bike doing a skater style "grind" down the rails :)
Hi Andre. Absolutely fantastic video. 100% engaging, topical and interesting. Your instructional technique is excellent as is the practical examples and advice you provide. As an instructor myself (IT sector), I really appreciate your efforts. I'm 3 years into my riding life and have followed your channel for all of that time.
Learned the painted lines one the hard way on my first bike when braking hard in slick conditions to make a late turn, hit a solid painted line and the bike dropped like I hit ice. I would also mention proper body positioning in cornering allows you to keep the bike more upright through corners (while still being able to corner quickly), increasing the contact patch and stability of the bike in lower grip conditions.
I also thank all the commentators for their additional advice 🙏👍You are Top-notch riders too. This is a great community of people. I feel grateful, safer and more relaxed to ride and to enjoy responsibility.
One of the best Riding Instructional videos I have watched. I still get very nervous in the rain so need to trust my bike some more!! Keep producing these videos. You deserve a whole load more subscribers! Great content.
Good tips. Most especially about not riding through deep puddles. May conceal a sink hole that could swallow up you and your bike! Following a car through unknown puddles to be certain they’re ridable is good tip. Much appreciated.🙏
Very usefull .... thank you 🙂 Yesterday I drove my motorscooter home for 236 km in rain 2 times and hail 1 time could not see 10 meters ahead so hard it came down. And then sun again for the rest of the trip. I just bought the scooter, was my 1st ride in years. Glad I brought warm clothing and a rain suit. Avaridge speed 90 to 95 km/hour with much wind. Max speed on dutch highways is during the day 100 km/hour.
"Poor man's rain mode" is now added to my vocabulary! For cold hands I usually wear latex or nitrile surgical gloves under my regular gloves, which works in most cases for me. It traps warm air just above your skin, even if it does end up making your hands a bit sweaty and unpleasant sometimes.
In Australia all painted lines are anti-slip. There are very grippy. Tell your roads people if real anti-slip paint is too expensive, just throw a handful of sand on the wet paint and sweep up the excess when its dry.
I am riding motorcycle since some time ago now. Up to my experience, wet surfaces and rain does not give anough grip, maybe on parking or circuit where road surface is perfect, but not in today life where road condition is varying (well I guess it dependend of where you live) I took my bike on the rain, I went to a corner with leaning less than 45°, and my front wheel slipped and I went on the floor. it felt smooth cornering and I was surprise to loose the front (up to me I went also on the good trajectory as well since I have kept myself on my side of the road after the fall). Well, the road was not in perfect state and I should have taken the corner much slower. So be relax but be very carefull as well, as road is often not in good condition. Don't think too much you have good tyres , it can also bring you down. Well, beside that I love the videos and It would be very interesting to know if it is possible to learn some tricks to avoid a fall as soon as you feel the front slipping.
You are the best Moto instructional channel on TH-cam in my opinion. And yes I have watched them all. The accent and jokes make it all the more entertaining too.
Hi Andrei, i try to help friends/ people with driving and its not always easy to explain everything but your videos help a lot! thanks and greets from belguim
One additional suggestion I would make is not to ride in the middle of the lane because that is where the grease and oil drip from cars. That oil becomes more slippery in the rain.
Got on the opposite lane during a curve with wet asphalt. Road was patched with strips of bitumen which earlier taught me they could make my rear wheel slip even when driving straight which at that time (beginner driver) made me think i mustn't lean in wet conditions, even on plain asphalt. I was lucky the oncoming drivers did their best to clear the lane for me. Made me take curves REEEEEAL slow on my way back. Driving Safety Training incoming next year. This was on a Grom, by the way.
I know someone who ran over a Dorito's bag in the street and went down. He's an expert racer/rider. I've never even heard of that happening. I have a new found respect for trash in the street. Steer clear. Have fun!
Important additional advice I had to learn the hard way waiting for hours in pouring rain at a border crossing: No matter your rain gear (and mine worked perfectly), but make SURE your boots are waterproof! Cold hands can be dealt with by using heated grips or spare gloves, but wet and cold boots are going to make you suffer for hours on end, as they are nearly impossible to dry en route and usually there’s no spare 🥶 Long story short, even though the rest of my body stayed almost dry, my feet were soaking wet, my boots stank irrecoverably to the point I had to throw them away a few weeks later and I developed a harsh cold after returning home eventually, knocking me off work for about ten days!
I bought rain trousers with foot covers that are meant for bicycles. Don't look too good but always come with me for longer rides since they don't take almost any space and help a lot.
Hi Andrei, it seems that the blue hands after murdering Smurfs worth it. I mean, you did an excellent video regarding every major topic of riding in the rain despite the "Smurf massacre".😂 I'm really grateful to you since riding under wet conditions is a subject of my interest and, for that reason, I kept asking you for some advice about it here on your channel. P.S. I laughed out loud when I heard the "Gender neutral personal hole" joke! It was a very nice one! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 All the best from Brazil and, once again, thank you! ✌
Haven't watched it yet so let's test my knowledge as someone who spends most of his time driving in the Nederlands with no car and only riding bikes. I have probably way more hours of rain riding than anything else. Also including some snow which luckily was on a 125 enduro bike😅. The most valuable thing is checking your tire regularly, maybe even get some touring Tieres for sport bikes they do way better in the rain and also very important: Hydroponic coding for your visor so you can still see everything in a lot of rain. The biggest reason for me to stop riding and waiting a bit till things are better is not being able to see we'll.
Obstacles that should be avoided maybe are easily to spot, but in city traffic usually not so easy to that. Cars close behind do limited slowing down (they don't expect you to). Moving left or right has to be within a meter usually.
Hello Andrey. Your videos are very helpful and easy to understand . You should make video about (target fixsation ). That is a big problem with motorcycle riders and may save life's. Especially with new riders.
the problem is the vehicles that pass us. they bring water up in an arch when they drive over a long/large puddle... and the water will hit us for a few seconds. :)
I once went through some standing water with a bit of speed. Didn't lift my legs out of the way. I really really should have. My boots had managed to stay relatively dry up to that point.
Stay away from the center of the lane. Stay in the part the car tires travel in. For sure stay away from painted anything on the road. And take it a bit slower.
@1:05 that was me in the begining, on dry also. This terrible positive feedback loop that took me a while to get over... and the worst thing was that my rational mind was fighting my instincts and until I got enough kms to get my subconscious used to riding, there was no ammount of thinking that could help.
@2:33 such a weird place for the traffic lights. If there's more than two cars trying to exit the roundabout to that direction and they face the red light, the entire roudabout will be clogged up.
Moto Control, if a person stretches there motorcycle(4" to 6" over OEM length) and put on a 330mm rear tire kit, will this help stability in wet weather or will it be worse for such a setup on a motorcycle? Thanks
Car washes. Soap and tyre shine being tracked onto the road. Especially tire shine. I dropped a bike doing a steady 12mph riding past a hand car wash. Rear wheel suddenly slid out from under me. About 10 Guys came running over to help me and the bike up. Boy was I embarrassed and confused.
Great video and subtle humor as always! Please extend the topic to discussing riding through various real-world flooding conditions. I am not sure, nor is it easy to find, clear information on how safely various bikes can ride through various depths and road surfaces covered in standing water. For example, I ride a ADV bike and was presented with a quarter mile stretch of gravel road covered in water over my axles. Not a quick hop through a shallow stream but long, high water. It was my only pass to safety. Safe with gravel under it? Safe with pavement under it? How high of water? Safe to walk the bike through it? Whats handling like? What if you drop it so the bike is more submerged but can be lifted out? So many other real wet conditions to be discussed beyond riding around town 20 minutes after a light rainfall or a TikTok video of an ADV rider plowing through a 2 foot wide stream with rock music. I wish someone would go to level 2 here.
Riding a quarter mile on a gravel road under 2 feet of water is definitely not a common thing LOL In my decades of riding I've never even heard of someone doing this, it's probably way up there with asking for a video on how to ride the wrong way on a one-way street with 2 flat tires through wet cement over a crocodile, under a giraffe and between a lion and a hippo, while dodging small arms fire, through a hale storm :)
I can say that grease will be washed out of the chain, brake calipers, and, maybe, bearings. That water unlikely be clean of small particles (sand), so that some grinding effect on moving parts will occur as well.
Surprisingly if you watch Fortnine's video on water crossing then read the top comments and replies there are a lot of people from either other countries or regions of the US often affected by flooding that ask the same questions. Standing water crossing in urban non-adventure settings is, I think, a pretty common issue and seems underserved by educational videos. BTW, Fortnine's video isn't much applicable as it's more a modified dirt bike going over stream bed. I'd like to see a lot more video on urban issues, physics, and as you've pointed out, maintenence concerns and post ride attention.
Thank you for this video. Maybe I’ll be much more confident if riding in rain. Normally I try to avoid it. But maybe you can also give some info for riding cobblestones and the likes of that, because I also feel very uncomfortable when being confronted with that riding condition.
Low sided doing moto gymkhana last Sunday (coming out of a 360, the next bike was right on top of me 🤬🤬🤬), ironically in the dry with hot tyres 😂 It had been wet earlier that day - not an issue.
Gracias por compartir este video. I think the biggest danger of riding in the rain is "canned men" (car drivers). When it rains there is a higher percentage of clumsy drivers than when it is sunny. And the low visibility in their tin boxes with wheels does not allow those of us who ride motorcycles to see you well. I advise to wear very bright clothes or with very shocking colors.
You are super good 👍 I never get bored watching your videos. Your instructions are serious but you make them truly amusing by adding some clips that are imposible to believe 😱🫣😬🤦🏻♀️😂 That motorbike that ended in a giant pot hole hidden under a flooded road. Tragic indeed! It could happen to anyone but I couldn’t stop laughing. 😂 What kind of local authorities allow that hole to be unattended without hazard barriers or signs? 🤷🏻♀️ you are awesome 😊
A russian living in Argentina teaching the whole world how to properly and safely ride a motorcyle. Best thing to ever happened to a newbie rider like ton of us all
And experienced riders too.
It's awesome, he's the only good motorcycle trainer I've found on yt.
"Gender neutral person-hole covers" got me 😂
Great instruction and very charming delivery. Bravo!
This is probably the most useful motorcycle themed channel on YT.
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Thanks for doing this. I stiffen up a lot in the rain these days, it has a lot to do with a cycling accident along with lack of familiarity with the situation. Your videos are top-notch, Thank you.
To stiffen up! My case: In 2022 Bangkok-Phuket-Bangkok 1,850 km. On the return leg. Rain, rain and rain. Riding my dinky 350 cc =RE= Meteor while my buddies on their 410 cc and 500 cc Royal Enfield bikes. Passenger cars,trucks, buses, and pickups. Overtaking was a challenge in the dark was hard. I stiffened up! And I am still suffering from Wry Neck (stiff neck). Resulting from tight grip on the handles and the nasty vibrations from the single cylinder =RE= 350 cc engine. Now, I still love long-distance “Iron Butt” riding. But, I need more displacement. Remember: “There is no replacement for displacement” Therefore I am planning to buy a 650 cc cruiser. Royal Enfield Super Meteor? No! It will be the KAWASAKI Vulcan 650 cc. However that’s another story.
Johnny BikeSanooK! th-cam.com/video/29C-3yY43OU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nW-43dq0o8wzrAQ5
Here in Ireland, rain is something you should always be prepared for. On one of the courses, I heard a motorcycle police officer saying this: bring a spare pair of gloves; there's no such thing as waterproof motorcycle gloves. While I don't know whether there are such gloves or not, that piece of advice has helped me a few times already. Having cold and wet fingers should certainly be avoided.
From my own limited experience, I also note that treating visor and mirrors with water repellents helps. Perhaps one could also use similar sprays for their jacket, pants and gloves, but I haven't tried that yet.
Hi Pavel...Just a little help on the glove front; You can buy (quite expensive) gloves with names like Gore Tex, Richa, Alpinestars, RST etc. etc. and there are many many others on the market, but there is only one make I stick to when riding in the rain...'marigold'. They are bright, cheap, waterproof (rubber), and throttle-grippy in the wet. Chuck a lightly talc-ed pair in your back-box/ pocket...you wont regret it! (PS, the only downside to them is ones sweaty, minging hands after a long ride, but hey, dry your hands and lash the gloves!)
If practicallity is no.1 you could consider handlebar mitts they will keep your hands and gloves dry alright, not to mention warm responsive fingers! luxury eh, glad I don't have to ride in the rain and cold anymore it was never much fun. be safe👍
Remember to also be visible, in the rain everything is much moodier so your black bike with black clothing is even less visible than usual. get high visibility colors on yourself
'Gender neutral personhole covers' 🤣🤣🤣 Nice touch!
So important that you brought up the topic of hypothermia, something that is so easily misunderstood, yet should always be part of our forward planning. With hypothermia, the body automatically tries to keep the body's core temperature functional (heart and internal organs) and it does this by concentrating the blood supply away from the extremities (arms and legs) and to the core. That's why arms and legs lose sensitivity and control. Unfortunately, the head is also an extremity through which we typically lose some 25% of body temperature, so blood supply to the brain is also reduced. Increasingly, our concentration and awareness goes until we become unconscious if the cold is enduring. That means we often are not even fully aware of hypothermia setting in, a very dangerous circumstance (but on the plus side, dying of hypothermia is supposed to be pretty painless, as we are already unconscious 🤣)
Even a two hour trip home in the cold with inadequate warm kit can bring us into this danger zone, something I can attest to. It's a terribly feeling when you know it's another hour to get home at night or the early hours of the morning, with no other possibility to get warm other than to get home.
As the title states.
You're saving lives video by video. We all appreciate you so much!
This is very helpful. As a new motorcyclist - i started riding motorcycle last year - i already had two little accidents, both took place on rainy day. Forunately i only scratched my motorcycle a liitle bit and just got few bruises. After these situations I became veeery careful when riding on rainy days and of course a bit stiff. This video will help me hack it for sure ! Thanks a lot !
This is the most valuable channel for me to be a better rider! I’ve just started to ride a year ago, at an age of 50! Watching your videos and advices, trying your practices, really helps me to feel safer. Thank you! Thank you for your contribution to my best and enthousiastic experience of learning how to ride😊
Moto control, motojitsu and Dan dan the fireman...!!!
These 3 channels of Motorcycle teachers are GREATEST two wheelers teachers available on this EARTH...!!!
Thanking you for your great works.
Keep it up.. always...!!!
😃👍
I don't know. Check recent motojitsu video about riding in wet and this video. They are miles away in amount of useful information. The whole jitsu's video is "be smooth", which you should do in any case, not only when wet.
MotoJitsu is nowhere near as good as this channel. He is a great rider, an OK instructor.
Dan Dan is mostly commentary on other vids.
Ride like a pro is too specialized.
For me MotoControl is the best balance of great broad based education and a bit of humor to keep it entertaining
MotoJitsu is highly overrated
i would add canyon chasers too
In essence: Stay cool, trust the bike to self-stabilize itself - and don’t push your luck!
Thanks Andrey for this concise and (as always) excellent summary! 🎉
If you have ABS, a good exercise is the practice hard braking on a wet road. You will probably be surprised how hard you can brake before the ABS kicks in. That will help you relax about the level of grip you have. (If you don't have ABS, I don't know. I've never had a bike without ABS.)
A tip on visibility: Maybe this is obvious, but try not to get water droplets on the inside of your visor (and on your glasses if you wear glasses).
Good advice, and always start that exercise with rear-brake-only to build up trust into the ABS. If anything goes wrong - ABS has its limitations after all and can also malfunction in the least favorable moment - the bike is much easier to catch compared to a front wheel skid.
@@TheUnsungVil You can test the ABS by jabbing at the brake. That is quickly pull and release the brake. If for some reason the ABS doesn't kick in, you will have already released the brake, so you won't lose traction and wipe out.
Full disclosure: I haven't tried jabbing the brakes on a non-ABS bike myself because like I said I've never owned one, but I have seen someone do it, and it looked pretty safe to me.
(Also, just to be clear, jabbing the brake is just for testing. It is not how you are meant to brake normally, of course.)
@@dgphi seems kinda dodgy to me to push your luck instantaneously instead of building up experience, trust and muscle-memory progressively.
@@TheUnsungVil How are you going to find the limit of traction without testing it?
@@dgphi by slowly progressing on the brakes, iteration after iteration.
That’s the only proven way of motorcycling skill buildup in a safe manner.
This spring I made a 350km trip on German highways in pouring rain. Fortunately only the gloves got wet, since the rest was covered by the rain clothes. But I got humidity between the pin lock and the visor! That was no fun at all....
Your stuff is always relevant and to the point. Thanks for this one. Les in UK
Best YT channel on motorcycle riding, hands down! And also a very intelligent and humorous way of presentation! Спасибо!
Nice video! Thank you.
I didn't know you lived in Argentina until I saw the licence plates of the cars in this video
I love this channel, now that I'm starting my rider's life every piece of information has been very helpful to be safe and enjoy the riding! Thanks!
7:11 "Gender-neutral-person-hole covers" got a chuckle from me.
Thanks as always, next time it rains I shall ride faster to clear my visor😂. Riding in rain, my father said motorbikes are like horses, a light touch....they don't want to fall either
Thank you for all tips....u really very thoughtful ....loved the layered and structured approach to tips....not heaps of advices...kudos!!
Covered all monsoon problems for Rider's,
Thank you,
❤ Be Blessed.
My daily commute had a killer set of railroad tracks that were raised high, large and across the street at 45 degrees. That was always fun in the rain.
Usually get some speed and try to do a last second turn to hit it closer to a 90, but one day a car stoped and I didnt have my speed and I felt my bike doing a skater style "grind" down the rails :)
Hi Andre. Absolutely fantastic video. 100% engaging, topical and interesting. Your instructional technique is excellent as is the practical examples and advice you provide.
As an instructor myself (IT sector), I really appreciate your efforts. I'm 3 years into my riding life and have followed your channel for all of that time.
Thanks for all the tips! Your videos are really helping me get started in the motorcycling world with safety and knowledge. Cheers!
Learned the painted lines one the hard way on my first bike when braking hard in slick conditions to make a late turn, hit a solid painted line and the bike dropped like I hit ice. I would also mention proper body positioning in cornering allows you to keep the bike more upright through corners (while still being able to corner quickly), increasing the contact patch and stability of the bike in lower grip conditions.
I also thank all the commentators for their additional advice 🙏👍You are Top-notch riders too. This is a great community of people. I feel grateful, safer and more relaxed to ride and to enjoy responsibility.
One of the best Riding Instructional videos I have watched. I still get very nervous in the rain so need to trust my bike some more!! Keep producing these videos. You deserve a whole load more subscribers! Great content.
Fantastic video there Pal , really enjoyed that one , I’ll study it and put it to use ,once again thanks.
Tony
Good tips. Most especially about not riding through deep puddles. May conceal a sink hole that could swallow up you and your bike! Following a car through unknown puddles to be certain they’re ridable is good tip. Much appreciated.🙏
Very usefull .... thank you 🙂 Yesterday I drove my motorscooter home for 236 km in rain 2 times and hail 1 time could not see 10 meters ahead so hard it came down. And then sun again for the rest of the trip. I just bought the scooter, was my 1st ride in years. Glad I brought warm clothing and a rain suit. Avaridge speed 90 to 95 km/hour with much wind. Max speed on dutch highways is during the day 100 km/hour.
"Poor man's rain mode" is now added to my vocabulary!
For cold hands I usually wear latex or nitrile surgical gloves under my regular gloves, which works in most cases for me. It traps warm air just above your skin, even if it does end up making your hands a bit sweaty and unpleasant sometimes.
The only yt rider I take advice from
In Australia all painted lines are anti-slip. There are very grippy. Tell your roads people if real anti-slip paint is too expensive, just throw a handful of sand on the wet paint and sweep up the excess when its dry.
I am riding motorcycle since some time ago now.
Up to my experience, wet surfaces and rain does not give anough grip, maybe on parking or circuit where road surface is perfect, but not in today life where road condition is varying (well I guess it dependend of where you live)
I took my bike on the rain, I went to a corner with leaning less than 45°, and my front wheel slipped and I went on the floor. it felt smooth cornering and I was surprise to loose the front (up to me I went also on the good trajectory as well since I have kept myself on my side of the road after the fall). Well, the road was not in perfect state and I should have taken the corner much slower.
So be relax but be very carefull as well, as road is often not in good condition. Don't think too much you have good tyres , it can also bring you down.
Well, beside that I love the videos and It would be very interesting to know if it is possible to learn some tricks to avoid a fall as soon as you feel the front slipping.
You are the best Moto instructional channel on TH-cam in my opinion.
And yes I have watched them all.
The accent and jokes make it all the more entertaining too.
Awesome job friend. First time I caught your channel. Very enjoyable and informative. Thank you.
Hi Andrei,
i try to help friends/ people with driving and its not always easy to explain everything but your videos help a lot!
thanks and greets from belguim
One problem with this video, Andrej: we didn't get to see your cheerful face and your uplifting wave!
One additional suggestion I would make is not to ride in the middle of the lane because that is where the grease and oil drip from cars. That oil becomes more slippery in the rain.
Hi from GREECE. Realy thanks for your help with this new video. You are the best .
Got on the opposite lane during a curve with wet asphalt. Road was patched with strips of bitumen which earlier taught me they could make my rear wheel slip even when driving straight which at that time (beginner driver) made me think i mustn't lean in wet conditions, even on plain asphalt. I was lucky the oncoming drivers did their best to clear the lane for me. Made me take curves REEEEEAL slow on my way back. Driving Safety Training incoming next year. This was on a Grom, by the way.
I know someone who ran over a Dorito's bag in the street and went down. He's an expert racer/rider. I've never even heard of that happening. I have a new found respect for trash in the street. Steer clear. Have fun!
Very comprehensive! Good job.
Important additional advice I had to learn the hard way waiting for hours in pouring rain at a border crossing:
No matter your rain gear (and mine worked perfectly), but make SURE your boots are waterproof! Cold hands can be dealt with by using heated grips or spare gloves, but wet and cold boots are going to make you suffer for hours on end, as they are nearly impossible to dry en route and usually there’s no spare 🥶
Long story short, even though the rest of my body stayed almost dry, my feet were soaking wet, my boots stank irrecoverably to the point I had to throw them away a few weeks later and I developed a harsh cold after returning home eventually, knocking me off work for about ten days!
I bought rain trousers with foot covers that are meant for bicycles. Don't look too good but always come with me for longer rides since they don't take almost any space and help a lot.
Cold feet can't be the reason, you become sick :-D That's a myth!
Thanks very much, highly valuable information
I would love to see other episodes of ideas to pick bike in truck or cars safely, specially alone
pinlock's are gold for rain and fog
Hi Andrei, it seems that the blue hands after murdering Smurfs worth it.
I mean, you did an excellent video regarding every major topic of riding in the rain despite the "Smurf massacre".😂
I'm really grateful to you since riding under wet conditions is a subject of my interest and, for that reason, I kept asking you for some advice about it here on your channel.
P.S. I laughed out loud when I heard the "Gender neutral personal hole" joke!
It was a very nice one!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
All the best from Brazil and, once again, thank you! ✌
I've watched all the ads to make sure you get paied. Excellent video.
Thank you Mr Bodrov sir
Awesome, just awesome! Thanks Andrei!
Excellent tutorial as always - thank you!
I'd really like more POV of you riding in traffic. Just a continuous, narrated video of you riding around a city.
Excellent work on the video. Concise advice 👍
I really really enjoyed that! Thanks and now subbed
Haven't watched it yet so let's test my knowledge as someone who spends most of his time driving in the Nederlands with no car and only riding bikes.
I have probably way more hours of rain riding than anything else. Also including some snow which luckily was on a 125 enduro bike😅.
The most valuable thing is checking your tire regularly, maybe even get some touring Tieres for sport bikes they do way better in the rain and also very important:
Hydroponic coding for your visor so you can still see everything in a lot of rain.
The biggest reason for me to stop riding and waiting a bit till things are better is not being able to see we'll.
As always very factual high quality information
i learned the hard way to stay off white painted and other colour road markings in the wet/rain
Obstacles that should be avoided maybe are easily to spot, but in city traffic usually not so easy to that. Cars close behind do limited slowing down (they don't expect you to). Moving left or right has to be within a meter usually.
Great video, Andrej...thank you!
Hello Andrey. Your videos are very helpful and easy to understand . You should make video about (target fixsation ). That is a big problem with motorcycle riders and may save life's. Especially with new riders.
the problem is the vehicles that pass us. they bring water up in an arch when they drive over a long/large puddle... and the water will hit us for a few seconds. :)
Thank you for great tips and great videos
your videos are really very helpful, comrade! thanks a lot.
cheers from Brazil
I once went through some standing water with a bit of speed. Didn't lift my legs out of the way. I really really should have. My boots had managed to stay relatively dry up to that point.
Yes, wet antifreeze spills at intersections is worse than ice
Stay away from the center of the lane. Stay in the part the car tires travel in. For sure stay away from painted anything on the road. And take it a bit slower.
Thanks for this video, very helpful 😊
Really appreciate your knowledge! Any good snow riding videos?
Very useful programme thanks.
I specially enjoy your videos in Buenos Aires
I live in los angeles....i dont ride when the road is wet...not even at night..LOL
holaa, like very much your videos. Lots of information presented in a clear and entertaining way.
Loved the video! thanks. A total lifesaver!
Awesome, looking forward to the lane filtering video. 🤙 Gracias Boludo! 😂
Hola amigo! Nice video 👌 Greetings from México 🇲🇽
Hello my friend
Thank you very much for helping me
Take care
All happiness to you
Very nice video, thou 9:30 took me by surprise 😲 😲
@1:05 that was me in the begining, on dry also. This terrible positive feedback loop that took me a while to get over... and the worst thing was that my rational mind was fighting my instincts and until I got enough kms to get my subconscious used to riding, there was no ammount of thinking that could help.
You should drive it like when drunk driving. Slow and steady, avoiding traffic if possible.
@2:33 such a weird place for the traffic lights. If there's more than two cars trying to exit the roundabout to that direction and they face the red light, the entire roudabout will be clogged up.
Moto Control, if a person stretches there motorcycle(4" to 6" over OEM length) and put on a 330mm rear tire kit, will this help stability in wet weather or will it be worse for such a setup on a motorcycle? Thanks
Car washes. Soap and tyre shine being tracked onto the road. Especially tire shine. I dropped a bike doing a steady 12mph riding past a hand car wash. Rear wheel suddenly slid out from under me. About 10 Guys came running over to help me and the bike up. Boy was I embarrassed and confused.
Great video and subtle humor as always! Please extend the topic to discussing riding through various real-world flooding conditions. I am not sure, nor is it easy to find, clear information on how safely various bikes can ride through various depths and road surfaces covered in standing water. For example, I ride a ADV bike and was presented with a quarter mile stretch of gravel road covered in water over my axles. Not a quick hop through a shallow stream but long, high water. It was my only pass to safety. Safe with gravel under it? Safe with pavement under it? How high of water? Safe to walk the bike through it? Whats handling like? What if you drop it so the bike is more submerged but can be lifted out? So many other real wet conditions to be discussed beyond riding around town 20 minutes after a light rainfall or a TikTok video of an ADV rider plowing through a 2 foot wide stream with rock music. I wish someone would go to level 2 here.
Riding a quarter mile on a gravel road under 2 feet of water is definitely not a common thing LOL
In my decades of riding I've never even heard of someone doing this, it's probably way up there with asking for a video on how to ride the wrong way on a one-way street with 2 flat tires through wet cement over a crocodile, under a giraffe and between a lion and a hippo, while dodging small arms fire, through a hale storm :)
I can say that grease will be washed out of the chain, brake calipers, and, maybe, bearings. That water unlikely be clean of small particles (sand), so that some grinding effect on moving parts will occur as well.
Surprisingly if you watch Fortnine's video on water crossing then read the top comments and replies there are a lot of people from either other countries or regions of the US often affected by flooding that ask the same questions. Standing water crossing in urban non-adventure settings is, I think, a pretty common issue and seems underserved by educational videos.
BTW, Fortnine's video isn't much applicable as it's more a modified dirt bike going over stream bed. I'd like to see a lot more video on urban issues, physics, and as you've pointed out, maintenence concerns and post ride attention.
Thank you for this video. Maybe I’ll be much more confident if riding in rain. Normally I try to avoid it. But maybe you can also give some info for riding cobblestones and the likes of that, because I also feel very uncomfortable when being confronted with that riding condition.
Excellent as usual , cheers
great video! thanks!
ya very nice video.
from india and we have very poor road condition specially in rain. ty
Thank you! Very usefull!!
Low sided doing moto gymkhana last Sunday (coming out of a 360, the next bike was right on top of me 🤬🤬🤬), ironically in the dry with hot tyres 😂
It had been wet earlier that day - not an issue.
Great video and advice. But lane splitting... especially in the rain? 🤦♂️
Thank you.
Hola, my friend! Another informative video.
thank you, man
Gracias por compartir este video. I think the biggest danger of riding in the rain is "canned men" (car drivers).
When it rains there is a higher percentage of clumsy drivers than when it is sunny. And the low visibility in their tin boxes with wheels does not allow those of us who ride motorcycles to see you well. I advise to wear very bright clothes or with very shocking colors.
socal is pouring right now, perfect timing
Greetings from Brazil.
sensible advice
You are super good 👍 I never get bored watching your videos. Your instructions are serious but you make them truly amusing by adding some clips that are imposible to believe 😱🫣😬🤦🏻♀️😂 That motorbike that ended in a giant pot hole hidden under a flooded road. Tragic indeed! It could happen to anyone but I couldn’t stop laughing. 😂 What kind of local authorities allow that hole to be unattended without hazard barriers or signs? 🤷🏻♀️ you are awesome 😊
Thanks..... What you suggest about oil spills on road in rain?
good duration, keep on