Speed Control for Mountain Biking

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Common trail features like water bars which are burns of dirt that are put perpendicular across the trail to prevent water run offs and rolling grave divots which are larger holes that serve a similar purpose of controlling water run offs. Are really useful for creating speed and controlling speed by pumping terrain. With a water bar which is you know your up pedal in the ground you can do through the same pumping techniques that we have been talking about. You can pick up your front wheel and when as you are rolling up to it, if my foot here is where our water bar is you pick up your front wheel and when you get over it you push your front wheel down that side and then when your back wheel gets to it you really just push hard. You just push down with your hips to generate force. Even long sections of water bars and things like that you can use to really effectively gain speed on the inverse of a water bar is a rolling divot which is a 4-6 foot rolling depression on the ground been put there for water drainage purposes and with something like that there is couple of different ways to deal with it. The easiest way to deal with it is as you approach your rolling divot you push your bike down into the hole, you drive with your arms and your hips down the incline and then across the bottom and then as you go up you unweighted your bike into you get closer to the top and then sort of pop up over the top. So it takes our pumping technique our technique of finding depression on the ground and pushing down on them and on weighting techniques like a bunny hop to really generate speed. The third way to deal with a rolling grave dip especially if it is something like a creek crossing where you don't want to get very wet and you are worry about your wheel gain thrown off line is to use our wheelie techniques to just pick up your front wheel, push your back wheel through the obstacle and drive down force through with your hips and that works on creek crossings about thing wide. So approach them , you get your weight back, you go through them, you stay a little bit dryer and you have a little bit more fun.

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