How to ride a motorcycle slowly: (Motorcycle riding tips)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2019
- Here's a detailed explanation of how to ride your motorcycle slowly and in control. It's very detailed so sit yourself down with a coffee and concentrate!! Let me know how you get on with it. Motorcycle riding tips to help you become a better rider.
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I hate U-turns, there's usually a roundabout within 5 miles ;)
HAHAHAHAHA! That actually made me LOL!!
depends on a country ) try to find roundabout in Russia )))
@@DmitriyDurov.. 😂 So to avoid a U turn we'll ride 150 miles. ☺
I dare you to comment that on Jerry Paladino's channel ;-)
@@sail4life I wonder if it would give him yet another chance to mention his DVDs :)
I've practiced slow speed stuff no end and I still struggle. It really is a skill that has to be mastered. I've been approached by car-park security one too many times too which spoils practice! I was even stopped by police once while in a car park practicing U-Turns
Thanks for the video Russ, inspirational and massively helpful as usual
Great advice as always. My neighbours laugh at me as I practise my slow riding skills by trying to follow my daughter on her bicycle round the culdisac.
Great fun. (She always out turns me lol)
Keep up the fantastic work
Can't tell you how much this video, and others of your, has helped me pass my MOD 1 test. Actually A LOT more helpful than my current instructors!
Doing the slalom at 7mph really helped me master it!
I've been riding 40 years. This is the very best way I've seen this described and explained in plain sensible english. Top Notch video. All spot on. "power picks you up", spot on again. And don't ever be afraid of full lock. 🤘
Having just past my test and buying my first bike after driving a car for the past 50 years I have just found your channel and it is sooooo helpful, some really good tips that were never covered during my lessons. will be finding an empty carpark to practice👍
On my Burgman 650 my back brake is used in sharp turns and slow corners to compensate the missing clutch. Works like a charm.
You are the best motorcycle instructor I have passed on TH-cam. Thanks alot.
Essential skill in stop start traffic.
He means London
@@SeanieVoiceOver Hear hear. Auckland is not much better either. Motorway is streaming all the time and blocked to a crawl 5 hours a day. People just refuse to adopt motorcycling as a means to get around it, and councils will not adopt motorcycle friendly policy to encourage it. Because 'motorcycles are dangerous' yet commuting is the safest activity you can do on a motorcycle.
I can't wait to practice this once the weather warms up here in New England! Cheers!
Found the clutch / back braking explanation a real big help today for slow riding , improvement straight away many thanks ! ( made the mistake of going into Matlock on a warm day ! )
Just found this channel after receiving a comment from yourself about protective clothing. I've just subscribed, this is a great educational channel, full of information!
.. Thanks for tuning in buddy, welcome aboard. ☺
Just watched this again. This is such an excellent lesson, Russell! This will be my reference when I go out there practicing very soon! Invaluable tips and advice. Please keep up your help for us out there. :-)
Nice sounding triple there Russ. Nice to see vids back, keep em coming.
Awesome tips again and 11:50 that balance and control is bloody wicked =)
Thanks
Really helpful and practical. I've just moved from a Street Triple to a Tiger 1200, done 1000mls on the Tiger so far. My slow speed confidence is not where I want it to be (especially when filtering), time to go practicing - homework time!
Great tips Russ, this has always been one part I struggle with but will keep practicing.
Just got snow down here, riding slowly, good call, thanks
Thanks, liking the split camera action. especially the engine revs to clutch/brake view 👍
.. Thanks for the feedback buddy. ☺
Agreed. Great idea - even though I have to rewind every now and again...
Wow! This is a brilliant lesson! Thanks for posting!
Been waiting for this :)
Wow fantastic demonstration w/ clear camera work. Thanks for the video.
Hi Russ, Great vid and a very good skill to learn and keep learning throughout riding. I'll be hitting the empty car park to brush up on my slow speed skills when I get home in a few weeks. Keep the great videos coming mate. They are really informative and you really put it across very clearly. Cheers Stu
That is the very best video I have seen to maneuver a bike at slow speed. Well done and Mad Skills on your part Sir. Will study this vid many times, please don’t charge me extra. Thanks Mate.
... You're very welcome to watch as much as you like, it's quite in depth. Please feel free to share this around. ☺
Thank you for tips Russ .. appreciate it pall .. I been riding for years and always found very slow riding difficult .. I'll certainly try your advice out .. really wish I had you for my instructor .. mine never explained things the way you do. .. awesome stuff ..all best buddy
Excellent advice, thank you.
Top video! Slow speed riding is surprisingly satisfying
.. Agreed, great way to focus the mind... Very zen. ☺
Great video and some fantastic hints and tips for new and experienced riders alike. Haha, you even made the deliberately bad riding look relatively smooth and controlled!
When you've dropped it few times and it costs, you'll soon learn to get it right lol . Look , lock and learn with a little bit of power , works every time. Nice educational vid Russ .
I'm glad you're back and posting videos, I thought you had gone!!
.... Only in the head. 😂
Great video as always,enjoyed hearing another instructor describe slow riding especially the clutch part might steal that
.. You're very welcome to adopt as much as you like. ☺
I've watched sum of your videos but this one made me sub, informative and clear information.
Thankyou. ☺
Brilliant explanation about biting point/rear brake.. Excellent stuff thanks!
Thanks for the feedback. ☺
Superb as always mate. Spot on.
23 years of system driving in my job. This video is gold dust. Nice one.
Thanks. Apologies for the delay
I have learnt so much from your videos, only wished I could have a demo session with you! Keep these lessons coming!
If you rode a bicycle as a kid, you'd be familiar with most of these techniques, specially if your friends challenged you to ride as slow as possible. Also useful in training for motorcycling as an adult. Most of these techniques apply yo bicycles too.
Thanks just what I needed
I commend you on your ability to explain things Russ. Excellent video. I have been riding for over 30 years, but I am going to try these methods as I can only gain skills! Thank you.
You're welcome. Apologies for the delay. ☺
excellent as always thanks for this
Thanks for your effort in making this and other useful vids. Two thumbs up :)
Great detailed explanations, thank you!!
You're welcome
Fantastic video been looking forward to this!
Feel very out of touch with slow control as I don’t use it often (not really any slow moving traffic where I ride)
Might have to get out and practice when the bike comes back out!
Brilliant video as usual Russ 👍😊
When I first started practicing u-turns I was nervous and not very good but I just kept at it. It took a couple years riding and practicing Ang finally start to feel better at it.
Good informative video about slow speed riding Cheers Chips.
really great video, buddy. :D
Ooh nice... but it's gone
11pm! I'll have to watch tomorrow....
Wish I had the opportunity to take lessons with you, but I'm half a world away. Thank goodness for your videos!
Thanks. ☺
Thanks for the upload
Huh...you’re teaching me how to slow speed ride...with no bike, from your sofa. And it’s working!
You are good sir!,💯👍🏽🏍🇺🇸👌🏽
😂
Great tutorial. Will get out and practice once the salt gets washed away.
Thank you brother. God bless you
Well done, Love the split screen presentation. Gerry Dublin
I've got slow speed down good in traffic situations but I so rarely U turn I never push myself to try. On both bikes I can stay upright at a snails pace with that method, but it's interesting to hear the physics behind it. I really must do the mod 1 stuff on my bike and get used to it, nothing more satisfying than having complete control of the bike in slow speed situations.
Will be out practicing this in Sainsbury's car park in Arnold once the ice melts :)
Slow riding skills I think are often undervalued and underestimated by new riders (me at one time), but slow skills are about the most important and required in daily driving, which is why I practice slow riding at every red light and every time I park. Driving a motorcycle isn't about how fast you can go, it's about how slow you can go!
Now I will say after transitioning from a few years on an '08 Vstrom 650 to a '12 Tiger 800, the MUCH better balance and handling feels like cheating lol. It's just a noticeably much lighter bike to handle!
Superb video, thank you for doing this, you're doing a great service to riders everywhere.
Very wise words. Thanks
great explanation. Thank you
You're welcome.
To younger guys, i know some times an instructor can seem boring, but it's teaching you how to do it properly, i know you whant to go, but listen to the instructor carefully and absorb the lesson, this guy is top noch, lots of expaining, and then practice, because when you are in the act of riding you have already the information needed in you head, Top work!
... Oi! Whaddya mean boring!? 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂. Thanks for the recommendation, get sharing this around (but not the boring bit) 😉
Thank you for the time you gave mate :)
Excellent tutorial, thanks for posting.
No worries. Thanks
Big fan of this channel from Adelaide, South Oz. Doing a similar thing here though in a much more pleasant climate. Riding and commentating your 'live' thoughts is a challenge in its self haha. Great job on linking up the four camera set up and editing too. Totally agree with your use of the back brake as a throttle - I can smell the clutch thinking about it. I was very lucky to work in a dealership (Allan Jefferies in Shipley) for quite a few years and had the run of a whole load of demonstrators to practice and learn technique, I used to demonstrate slow speed riding and also ABS on the car park, far less fear of dropping a bike when it's not yours - Haha. I never dropped one during these little 'exhibitions' but did once almost totally destroy a 900 Tiger whilst riding way too fast on slippery roads on my way in to work one Saturday morning, ended up alighting the bike as it hit a dry stone wall. Moral of the story - don't ever believe you're immortal and learn from your mistakes. I'm still learning 35 years in! Keep up the great work mate!
.. Thanks for the great feedback buddy. Happy riding. ☺
Great stuff Russ. I suppose now into my 6th year and with about 150000Km under my belt, I should feel experienced... I'm glad to say I still feel like a learner most of the time and I practice the slow stuff ALL the time. Everyone I've seen fall off has been going slow, as you would have seen over quite a few years, lol!
Now I have the joy of practicing it off-road - found a cool spot with all sorts of terrible terrain and slopes etc. and so far so good. Mostly the principles are the same it seems.
Personally I prefer to never take my feet off the pegs, I just feel a loss of control when I do that so prefer to work and work on my skills until I don't need to - hope that makes sense!!
I also LOL'd at Hepcat's comment :D
Yes, that was a great comment. Hats off to you with all those miles under your belt and still practising. A man after my own heart. Thanks for your comment matey. ☺
Handy to know especially in Wales given they are now running at 20mph that’s me finished riding there now
I'm not doing the homework, didn't at school either, great vid and thanks for the lesson... now back to making burgers for me...
... That's detention then!
As an older ha ha rider recently returned after 12 yrs to biking bought a st1300 2011 lovely bike but v v heavy at 63 yrs young am strong enough to hold it but nearly dropped it a few times and a few more. Please don’t anyone kid themselves iv learned my lesson my skills have waned I will get there but carefully. First wee run after I got bike delivered was only 30 miles but the sweat and my right hand was in spasm, grip to tight due to stress and sweat due to realisation I’m older, slower and skill deficient, not smoother or wiser yet but will do it love these videos think you’ve already saved my life
Thanks for the feedback. The biggest single tip is choose where to stop. If your foot goes down and you're off balance, don't stop there, keep going and regain control first.
@@RoadcraftNottingham regaining control that’s where I’m at lol thanks for tip
That was a really helpful video, Im a beginner and dropped my bike a couple of days ago now I’m looking forward to going back out and practising again
Update - I passed my test since this comment, thanks for the videos !
great vid!
I remember doing my "slow control" lesson when I learned to ride in 1996. Did it on a Honda CG125, mind you !! Done quite a lot of mountain biking off road, including slow technical tracks, so I found this easy. When you're riding on the road at normal speeds there's so much else to think about, like your lane position, other traffic behind you, other traffic on coming, bends, other traffic at junctions, thinking about what other vehicles on the road might do, pedestrians etc.
Doing the slow control lesson, you just have to think about you, the bike, a few metres of tarmac in front of you and the cones !!
.. Yes, it's a different kind of focus for sure.
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I recently got back into riding and I’m 59 and struggling a bit with with slow riding but believe I must practice, practice and practice, thanks for the vid.
You're welcome. Have fun.
Phew…I have so much to re learn……I have returned to riding after 41 years…..I now have a Honda NC750XDCT…..so I have to use my back brake and throttle all the time, ie no clutch control in a sense….I plan to take baby steps, do lots of slow riding around my estate, and get a few one to one lessons from a motorbike training outfit here in Jersey….I have memories from yesteryear but need to really re learn things as of what’s done today…brilliant video, I will use all your videos as my go to tutorials, I watch them over and over……anything to help me….thank you….caveat to this, it’s far too cold just now to practice, so for now it’s videos.
A bit different from the advice given in some other videos and all the better for it. Will be off right now to try this. Thanks
Can you please do a review on that heated jacket you are wearing ( an essential piece of biking kit in the UK these days ) thank you. Mo
Great video!
Thnk u. Excellnt video👍👍👍
You're welcome
Fantastic video and very informative to new and experienced riders 👍
Thanks
Very useful information
Great video, I have to do a Uturn everyday due to London's one way systems and I find some days I can ace it almost like motogymkhana style shown in your video with the tilt other days I just end up doing a 3 point turn because I didn't turn tight enough (This is only on my FZ1 my GW250 incredibly easy to turn on). To me using the back brake feels like stabilising the bike and helps lift it back up as well as the throttle once I back off the power and brake the bikes starts tipping in.
.. Yes, I really don't mind how my pupils get round as long as they're in control and confident.
Excellent vid 👍👍
Good to see you back in the saddle. Do you have any opinions/suggestions on what difference,if any,the Linked Brake System on a 2003 Honda Deauville will make to the chances of stayin upright ?
Used gently it shouldn't be a major problem but I really don't like linked brakes.
Other than stopping at traffic lights the only times our ST1100A gets below 10k/h is when I have to park it in the yard or stop in a parking space.
Thanks for this upload, I found it really helpful as I am just returning to riding after 3 years off due to a shoulder injury and operations/recovery time and as I am sadly no GP rider back on it after a week (complications and a long recovery) so am basically starting from scratch again! So watching these videos is doing me the power of good adopting the right mindset! Needless to say I am rustier than a barn find bike chain lol but more than happy to admit this and put in some practice to build my confidence and skill back up and whilst I haven't forgotten it all have definitely got less smooth and fluid lol
I recently saw a troupe of your trainees out at Netherfield in Notts doing well and looking confident which is obviously a great reflection of great tuition!
Keep up the good work 👍😁
Xx
Thanks for the feedback. We're all still learning, it's the right way to look at it.
A nemesis of mine.
Of a lot of people. Watch my latest jellyfish upload.
Thank you.
You're welcome. ☺
I have my my main DAS course next week with the Mod 1 following at the end of the week. I practice on my 125 all the time practicing Slalom, figure of 8 and U Turns. I find that first gear is a bit jumpy keeping it between 5-8 mph so tend to use 2nd gear which is very steady and keeps me at about 6 mph. Am I right in doing this? Or when doing your test will the test instructor look for everything to be done in 1st gear? Great videos by the way. Learning a lot. Thanks.
Hi, the only reason you'll be jumpy is because you'll not be controlling your clutch. Remember to only feel the friction zone and not all the way out.
Cheers and love from Russia. =) I imagine the effort of putting all the points of view in place. Absolutely inhuman. I have never actually learned to ride in full lock properly although I do that clutch(+brake) thingy in traffic jams around Saint-Petersburg while lane splitting. I learned it on my own though. I can't wait for the snow here to vanish so that I could put that to practice. I was taught the "accelerator brake" approach but I feel that the bike is struggling every time I do that. Thanks so much for the guidance! Now I know!
... I recommend you watch this several times too as I admit it's pretty intense
@@RoadcraftNottingham I have already done so. I watched every of the view points 2-3 times. I think I have got the mechanics, it's pretty similar to what I do while balancing in traffic jams. I will struggle with the full lock though but I have got my cage and sliders in place =)
Great video...
Thanks
Great video. How do you find that bike for instructing on? Just about to go up to cardington and looking to buy an all round bike. Many thanks
It's excellent. The cruise control is a bonus
great video...
Thanks
It would be great if there were places you can safely practice (cones) this.
Anther brilliant video Russ, thanks for uploading it. Have to say that was just showing off with the side saddle riding LOL. Been practising and i can do figure of eights etc at around 3mph now (digital speedo on Tiger 800) so really pleased. Have to move my body weight around to help but still really happy with the slow speed ride. Thanks again!!
Well done, 3mph is impressive! Just uploading my tiger review as I write this. ☺
Excellent, thanks. What jacket and trousers are you wearing? Cheers..
... It's the Triumph Malvern jacket and trousers. Very expensive but great quality kevlar and gore tex
Thank you for the viddy, much appreciared
Great video... I have a DCT and find slow riding a challenge... any tips or maybe a video?.. many thanks.
I've got a dct review coming up soon so click that notification bell for when I've done it. Thanks
Hi, my name is Ray and I enjoy watching ur tips and advice. Is it possible to give advice on how to turn slowly on a DCT motorbike?. Thank u.
Yes, this is one of the occasions where you do need to drag the rear brake slightly.
Dunno if I'm doing something wrong, but I'm getting really really bad cramps on my left hand when doing slow stuff/in traffic - it's hurting on that fleshy part just under the thumb. I've got a '17 Ninja 650, so the handlebars are a little bit more... Angled? Any tips would be great, and thanks for the video!
Maybe you're tense. Try and relax a little, see how that goes.
Would this apply to a sports bike as the bars are more angled as opposed to being straight if that makes sense?
... The principles are still the same but it's harder on some bikes than others.
I would love to see this excercise conducted with smaller tires like the mp3 has ~12-13". I find it a bit hard to stay stable below 20km/h and you can't use the looked front wheels, since they are unlooked above 3000rpm or rsp. 6km/h. You further can't use a clutch since it's a variomatic gear.The low point of gravity with 265kg net weight doesn't help much.Another point: Your tiger doesn't have a top case - when riding a normal bike with loaded 10kg rack, this added top heavy load adds momentum. It may be a small but significant difference if someone exceeds the 3kg max load.
... Very good points. Each bike design needs to be adapted to but you can still get pretty good results with practise.
It seems intuitively wrong to need to burn brakes and clutch to maintain control. I have a Supercub with no clutch lever. I'm seriously impressed with how you stop completely with both feet up... As a later learner on a Supercub I'm going to need to practise a long long time!!
If you are to provide an advanced motorcycle riding course I would be in the top of the list for that. I like your videos and I like the way how you explain things.
Yes we do advanced training. Let me know when you're ready
@@RoadcraftNottingham I forgot to mention that I live in Ireland. Otherwise I would have already attended he session with you.
Will be nice weather here this weekend. I'll go work on my super-slow and see how it works, will let you know.
I'll have to dig back a way but didn't I see videos of you competing in low speed competitions long, long ago?
Hey Bill, yes. If you search "me winning the three spires competition" you'll have a laugh at a young 1989 me with earrings. 😂
@@RoadcraftNottingham Thanks!
@@RoadcraftNottingham I did go out for a brief ride this afternoon and found an open space to practice. it was more difficult than I remember. Managed to stall once. I used to be pretty good at this but clearly need more practice. Forgot to turn on video until the end (left on stand-by). If it turns out maybe I'll upload if there's any interest.