Tips for Camber Corners in Mountain Biking

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MICKEY DENONCOURT: So, when you're riding and the terrain is sloping away from the way you want to turn when it's like this, you're like this and you're trying to turn uphill like that, that's called off camber. It's the fall line. You're turning against the fall line. Basically, what happens is, you turn more and more, you get to a point where eventually, you almost have no tire contact patch. So, to ride through an off camber section effectively, what you want to do and what you need to do is you need to really work on weighting your edges. You need to weight your inside handle bar, your outside pedal, just pretend you're a skier that you're arcing down the trail as quick as you can. So, this corner through here, it's nice and rutted out on the outside, but if I take the inside in here, it's still very off camber. And you'll see that one thing that I'll do is I'll try to square it of as much as possible. Instead of coming through the line that I'll sort of burnt it, I'm going to come out way wider so I get a less of a sharp line through the off camber section here. And as I come through there, I'm going to be looking always to get back on good dirt as soon as possible. So, check it out as I roll.

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