Tips for Wet Conditions in Mountain Biking Cornering

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MICKEY DENONCOURT: In wet conditions, the most important thing to corner well, is make sure you're running the right type of tires. They make tires specifically, for riding downhill, or racing downhill in the mud. There are big spikes that get through the good dirt. You only need those if it's a really wet, loamy mud, otherwise a normal mixed condition tire, like I'm running the front is pretty good. The main thing that you need to do, is you need to be even more adamant about using good weight placement, you know, weighting your outside pedal and your inside handlebar a lot more through stuff. Also you'll find there's a lot more need to take a foot off through the corner to change your center of gravity. And as I ride through this corner right here slowly, slower than I can, I'll show you sort of the difference between the technique I have been using which is a more dry technique and a mud technique. So, as you saw, I mean, I've been taking off my foot a bit today, but you really wanna--you can lean the bike more...over more to a get those knobs biting in, then by taking your foot off and moving it to the inside, it's sort of like taking the center of gravity from your belly and moving it down forward a couple of feet which is good. You know, it drives your weight into your tires which is what you need to do when it's muddy, certain types of mud at least.

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