How to ride faster on dirt bikes?︱Cross Training Enduro

Cross Training Enduro
Cross Training Enduro
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Published 2024-03-08
www.crosstrainingenduro.com/ How to ride fast on dirt bikes? We will cover quite a few tips but there is one really critical factor we will concentrate on. First? My apologies for the weak attempt at trying to ride fast! Our hard enduro rides are almost always in first or second gear. Need hard enduro training? Work through our video lists. Hard enduro techniques are covered in our training vids. It was so weird trying to ride at speed! But it seemed like a good idea before I pass on these tips we have collected from enduro coaches like Chris Birch, Graham Jarvis and Tim Coleman. Want to learn to ride fast? Once you have combined maintaining good technique at full throttle, you need to work on your braking technique. The fastest riders are almost always accelerating or braking... there is little in between. On your test track, mark where you are first hitting your brakes, then start to brake later and later. Again, it's critical to maintain good technique. Into enduro and dirt bikes? Check out our dirt bike videos. Extreme enduro training vids are our focus. What has been your experience with learning to ride faster? Do you have other tips? Let us know, we will put them in the pinned first comment. First learn to ride slow. Most hard enduro champions will tell you this. Learn to balance at a standstill. Learn low speed skills like riding figure eights at full lock. Work on your clutch slipping skills for better traction. There is a reason almost every hard enduro champion is also an A grade trials rider. As your speed increases, focus on the correct body positioning. Learn the right technique for corners when you are sitting on the seat and standing on the footpegs. Discover when you should sit and you should stand. Did you know there are three different footpeg positions? Work out when you should use each one. Your body positioning should be changing constantly for braking, accelerating, cornering, hill climbs, sand, ruts and rocky terrain. You can work on braking later and carrying a higher speed through corners. If you are enduro riding get into our enduro training vids. Our dirt riding tips are great for developing your hard enduro skills. Graham Jarvis is a classic case. He is rarely in the powerband and yet he flies past other riders using higher revs. The problem with high revs is it feels as though your speed is improving. But many riders just sit on their motorbike like a dead lump of meat so your motorbike is actually fighting your dead weight. Learn how to work with the motorbike and your riding will improve dramatically. We have enduro training vids on all these topics. Use time trials over a set course. Establish your best time using low revs. If you want extreme enduro training see our playlists of enduro skills to learn. Try our training vids for working on your extreme enduro techniques. Then gradually increase the revs until you actually see your times getting worse. This means your technique is slipping so you really need to practice harder before you start using higher revs and full power. Another way the pro riders use full power but control wheelspin is by slipping the clutch. They will often come into a tight corner in third gear then do a controlled release of the clutch with full throttle to rocket out of corners but with little wheelspin.... very impressive to watch! The final key to the puzzle? Get into them. Now the most important factor. Learn to ride smoothly and keep good technique as you increase speed. But often you are actually riding slower because you forget about technique as you try to control all that power. And because you are intimidated by all that noise and wheelspin you hit the brakes too early and end up with slower lap times. So how do you effectively start to use higher revs? Sure, it's fun to roost, wheelie, slide around corners. But when you watch the best riders they are so smooth they don't actually look that fast. And then muppets like us can actually look faster as we bounce, slide and roost around a track half out of control. But we are much slower! A great place to start is trying to ride fast but using low revs. Why? You can focus more on correct technique.
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All Comments (21)
  • @bobromans4476
    Looking as far ahead on the trail as you can is one of the tips from Malcom Smith that helped me. Being relaxed, not gripping the bars too tight and don't push too hard too early are important. Getting into a "flow" early will allow you to save energy for later, when you'll need it. Like so many things in life, it's 90% you're mental state.
  • @keithclarke5137
    A old rider told me, look for the guys who are the middle of the pack in the morning but in front of the pack at the end of the day. They have the most efficient technique. High Average speed is more important then a high top speed.
  • @gumbyenduroadventures6225
    My secret to fast riding....being utterly content being a slow rider and not succumbing to peer pressure and not riding out of my comfort zone. Not very 'manly', but great for longevity.
  • @harlanmiller6396
    Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Light on the bars. Learn to move your body around at all times when riding fast. You guys rock! Quite honestly your vids helped me out so much in the beginning of my riding journey. Big ups 💪
  • @metlmuncher
    I will add that as your speed increases your vision needs to reach further and becomes important. Be careful not to target fixate
  • @ThrottleAddiction
    A bit less hammering on single tracks these days as I no longer bounce, but I used to have a technique I called 'Pursuit Mode'. It's kind of the off-road equivalent of a police motorcycle style for getting somewhere swiftly. No power band rooster tails up to full speed, then flicking down through every gear with the back wheel locked up into a corner. It's more of a steady and linear acceleration to a fairly high pace, maintaining that as a constant, then start bring it back down a tad earlier. This avoids wheel spin for both acceleration and braking. Get through corners with the bike in a neutral state (not jacked forward from braking, adrift from skidding or completely overrun any decent line), allowing you to start laying the power on early. It can be applied to unfamiliar tracks, but goes a long way to mastering a looped circuit as opposed to having to back off to an undetermined amount - you can bring it up a notch (if possible) with each lap.
  • @davehowe_just_an_old_dirtbiker
    Hey, I can speed up the video too and go "faster"!! 😂 All very good points. Having your suspension set up correctly for your weight makes a huge difference too. If the bike isn't bouncing around you have a lot more confidence.
  • @mikeking7388
    Practice the basics/ride slow and recognize mistakes speed comes that pretty easy in my opinion. I learned to slow wheelie before I could do them at speed. I remember the first time i tried it at speed after many hours I was shocked with how easy it felt to me
  • @agustincuevae
    Awesome video. I’m always thankful of this channel, It had help me so much for years, now I am one of the “more experience” rider on my area Cuenca-Ecuador 😅, I go out and try do to drills, focus on a couple of tips until they became natural, and move on to new ones, one time like 4 or 5 years ago, I was exploring on a mountain single track on my little XR 190 farm bike, I couldn’t keep forward it was to steep and muddy, neither turn around, with the mountains at one side an a drop at the other side, been stock more more than 1 hour, I remember I video of your of how turn a bike around itself on the back wheel, lifting the front wheel, and I did it, I was so happy I so grateful with you. And I still am, for that and for so much more. 🙏🏻 thank you.
  • @DmitriyAdv
    Body position has been key for me. Getting ahead of the acceleration and braking, by getting forward or back on the bike is HUGE for going fast. Allows your arms to remain relaxed and properly work the controls. Makes it feel like you’re not going as fast because you are not death gripping the bike.
  • @leslieaustin151
    All sounded good to me! I’ll never be fast, but I don’t care and don’t need it. Often tempted by the trials-thing though.. Les in UK 🇬🇧
  • @michaeldavison430
    Been at this for over 4 decades (ugh) and got into trials 2 years ago, everything ypu say about learning to go slow actually making you faster is 100% correct. And as a bonus its huge fun as well.
  • @2strokin70
    You've got to be comfortable on your bike period if you have a 450 but have barely ridden then you're hurting yourself ..it's just much bike.. so like you said work your way up to speed you will get faster by going slower and learning how to ride properly
  • @nickg2431
    Nice video skipper,My teacher is fast but you never really hear his bike being "wrung out"he,s also very quick in very tight single track and concentrates on smooth laps,very effective.
  • @endur0id
    Another tip would be to train at mx track every once in a while. Just try riding for as long as you can, standing on your pegs and focusing on efficient body position when cornering, braking or accelerating.
  • @MarkM-ke6cn
    By riding faster, you can avoid some hazards that slower riders have to be wary of...like drop bears. Those things will kill ya!
  • @slidewide1999
    One of the best ways to go faster…shift up 😅 But seriously, a higher gear and lower revs can definitely make you realize some things.