Introduction to Mountain Biking Cornering Tips

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MICKEY DENONCOURT: Cornering, well, is one of the most challenging things you can do in a mountain bike. Downhill racing in particular is pretty much all about cornering speed. Yeah, it's important to be able to ride over rough stuff, jump, well whatever but the more speed you carry through individual corners, the quicker and better you're going to be. The most important encounter intuitive thing that you can learn to help your cornering immediately is learning how to brake well. Braking before the corner, committing to the corner so your tires can use their maximum traction to hook up and send you around the corner, braking technique, front brake, back brake, all that stuff is really important too. Your body position influences the way your bike corners way more on a mountain bike than it does on like a motorbike or whatever because you weigh so much more than the vehicle that you're on. So slight weight shifts makes the hugest difference, how you hold onto the handle bars, how you're standing over the bike, all these things make a big difference and they're subtle differences for different types of corners 'cause there are different types of corners. There's a big open radius corner kinda like the one I'm standing in right now. There are flat corners that don't have--they're flat ground, real tight, maybe even shorter than your wheel base, we need to know how tom skid, drift. There are corners with big ruts in them, like this one right here, you need to be able to asses whether or not you want to be in the rut that's burned in or be in the fresh grass on the inside. All sorts of things like that that you really need to be on top of and keep track of just to make any sort of mountain biking that you do more fun but especially downhill free riding.

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