Mountain Biking Tips for Obstacles

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A more advanced and sure-fire way of dealing with obstacles on the trail is by using both momentum and weight shifts to ride over something. So as I approach this I get up over it. Pop over it. So I pulled up my front wheel so it didn't get stuck, and then as my back wheel got there I tried to unweight that, too. So even at a slow speed, you can use momentum and a weight shift to help make it over obstacles on a trail. This time I'll show you what happens if you try to pop though the section. Probably not going to be very smooth. So what we try to do is we try to pick up our front wheel so that doesn't, you know, doesn't get thrown off course because it's our steering wheel, so any little weird miscorrections and stuff like that are going to throw us offline. Then, you know, maintain a strong core, you know, push our wheels back into the ground as much as we can and try to avoid hitting things at any other angle except ninety degrees. At closer to like a forty degree angle I hit those roots. Instead of coming onto them like this. If I come onto them like this, my front tire and my back tire are going to have a much greater desire to scrub and follow the root instead of really rolling right over. I mean, you can just see this. This way less desire to slide along the side of the root than if I come at it like this. I mean, you can just see the grip that I have is much different. So approach our obstacles at approximately ninety degrees and if they're potentially slippery, just try to avoid them by moving your weight forward and backward or exaggerating, if that's what it has to be, to just clear them.

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