RIDER SKILLS: 5 Different Methods For Turning a Motorcycle Around
Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast
Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Motorcycles aren’t meant to back up. If they were, they’d all come with reverse. Sometimes, turning around requires a little creativity—especially on dead-end trails, in parking lots, on hills, or even in your garage. In this episode of RIDER SKILLS, we have Clinton Smout walking us through a number of turnaround methods. Some you might expect, while others may raise your eyebrows—but all of them can be useful tools in your rider skills toolbox.
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| 0:00.0 | I think we've all found ourselves in this situation at one time or another, whether it's on a trail or in a parking lot, |
| 0:06.4 | you will find there are places where you need to turn around. |
| 0:09.5 | And many riders just use their same old method. |
| 0:12.7 | You know, they get off the bike and they push and they pull or ask a friend for help, a very laborious back and forth thing. |
| 0:19.1 | But like many things in life, there's a better way and there's |
| 0:23.1 | more than one way to do it. And the more methods you have, you know, in your skills, the less a |
| 0:29.5 | quick turnaround will bother you when you're forced to do it. On this episode of writer skills, |
| 0:34.3 | we've got Clinton Smout to walk us through a number of turnaround methods, |
| 0:38.9 | some of them you may expect, others may make you raise your eyebrows, but all of them can be |
| 0:44.4 | learned and all of them will be useful in your Rider Skills toolbox. I'm Jim Martin. This is |
| 0:50.4 | Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. |
| 0:53.4 | Music This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. Hi, I'm Sam Manicum. Ted Simon. Justin Vance. Simon Pady. How to give Ferdos? Jocelyn Snell. Charlie Borman. Simon Thomas. Simon Thomas. Lisa Chavittance. Grant Johnson Jimmy Lewis Graham Jarvis Chris Birch Tiffany Coates Terbert Schwarz. Clinton Smout. No. Al-A-Schoolmarker. And you're listening to Adventure Rider Radio. Adventure Rider Radio. Experience riders choose the cycle pump tire inflator made by Best Rest products for one reason, because they can count on it when they pull that out of |
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| 2:01.9 | Rider Skills is an exclusive program we developed here at Adventure Rider Radio, designed to give you the tools that can improve your riding skills both on and off-road. |
| 2:09.4 | Now, of course, these segments are not meant to substitute professional training. |
| 2:13.0 | These are ideas and concepts that should you choose to try, you're doing so at your own risk. |
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