RIDER SKILLS: Adventure Motorcycle - How to Ride Obstacles on Downhill

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Riding a motorcycle downhill isn’t particularly difficult, but what does make it difficult and unnerving for many riders are the obstacles encountered on the hill. If it were just a steep slope with plenty of traction, the type you may have ridden in a parking garage or some other paved steep decent, it would be no problem. But in the dirt, surfaces are not flat, they don’t necessarily have good traction, they may have ruts, rocks, roots and a host of other obstacles that add to the challenge of riding downhill. On this episode of Rider Skills, Clinton Smout walks us through how to deal with each obstacle. Then he has some simple downhill riding exercises that you can practice with your own motorcycle at home, and you wont even need a hill. Photos and links can be found on our website at adventureriderradio.com. If you've enjoyed this show please tell someone you know about it. If you'd like to help out we'd love to get your support.

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0:00.0	When you think about riding an adventure motorcycle down a steep hill in dirt,
0:12.0	how does that make you feel? The thing is that just riding a
0:15.7	motorcycle downhill isn't particularly difficult. What makes it difficult? What makes
0:21.3	it so unnerving for so many riders are the obstacles that you encounter on the hill.
0:27.0	If it were just a steep slope with plenty of traction, maybe you've ridden that kind of thing going into a parking garage or some other paved descent.
0:33.2	No problem. But in the dirt, in the real world,
0:36.6	surfaces are not flat. They don't necessarily have good traction,
0:40.5	maybe very little traction.
0:42.1	They have ruts, roots, rocks, and a host of other obstacles
0:45.7	all that add to the challenge of riding that motorcycle down the hill. Now, don't worry about
0:51.0	it because today on Adventure Rider rider radio's exclusive rider skills program
0:55.2	I'm going to be talking with Clinton Smout and he's going to walk us through how to deal with each obstacle on its own.
1:01.2	And then at the end he's got some simple downhill riding exercises that you can practice
1:06.0	with your own motorcycle at home and you won't even need a hill for it.
1:09.8	All today on rider skills.
1:11.6	I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We get a good one for you. I'm Sam Manneke, Zebu.
1:23.0	Simon, David.
1:25.0	I'm Sam Manne, Zebos.
1:30.0	Simon P, Bill Bragu.
1:32.0	Helga Faderson. Jarsen and Snow. Charlie Bowman. Simon Thomas. And then Simon P
1:32.8	Simon Poldredo.
1:31.8	Joce on Snow, Charlie Boley, Thomas, Sir Jarvis,
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