Rider Skills: How to Skid Steer Your Motorcycle - Jimmy Lewis

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Being in control of your motorcycle builds your confidence and more importantly also makes you a safer rider, especially when things go pear shaped. Riding instructor, Jimmy Lewis, teaches us how to skid the rear wheel of our bikes for steering. In learning this advanced maneuver we also learn how to control our bike in a slide on the road, and once you’ve mastered doing it on purpose, you’ll know what to do when it happens by surprise. It’s also a fun and useful move for making quick no stop turns on to tight trails. More motorcycle travel episodes available on Adventure Rider Radio at adventureriderradio.com. Want to help out? Rate and review us on iTunes or on your favourite podcast app, tell your family, friends, riding buddies or club about ARR. Check out our other show ARR RAW, round table talks about motorcycles and travel.Subscribe to both shows to listen to inspiring and interesting guests, learn from professional riding instructors and industry experts about all things motorcycle. Get an ARR sticker(postage included) with a $10 donation. Link on our website. Have a comment? Go to the episode show notes on our website and have your say at the bottom of the page. Adventure Rider Radio is now the most listened to motorcycle podcast in the world, and we thank you for your support!

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0:34.4	I'm going to Nothing is more satisfying than improving your riding skills. It feels good to be in better control of your bike and it builds your confidence so that you get into a situation that you maybe hadn't ridden through before you could do better this time or maybe do where you couldn't do before but perhaps more important than that is it makes you a safer rider because having more control over your bike
0:39.0	is what you'll need when things go pear shape something goes wrong wrong on the road. So today on our
0:44.4	exclusive rider skills series we once again have Jimmy Lewis. He's going to
0:47.2	teach us how to use the rear wheel skid for steering purposes. Yet in
0:51.9	learning this advanced maneuver, we also learn how to control our bike if it were to slide on the road by surprise.
0:58.0	Because once you've mastered it by doing it on purpose, when it happens by surprise, you already know what it feels like and you know how to handle it.
1:05.0	It's a fun move as well that is also useful on the trail to make a quick turn off of the trail that you're on onto something else by swinging the back end around in control
1:13.9	and buzzing up the other trail. We also have a bit of a chat about small adventure bikes
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