Rider Skills: Off-Road Hill Climb Techniques - Clinton Smout

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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What do you do when your motorcycle stalls or stops on a hill? How do you get going again? Or if you have to start at the bottom of a hill with no momentum? Clinton Smout, head instructor at Smart Adventures in Ontario, Canada, talks about techniques...

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0:00.0	Climbing hills with your adventure bike is easy when you know how.
0:06.2	Today on our exclusive rider skills we have arguably the best method you'll ever
0:10.4	learn to turn your bike around when you don't make it to the top.
0:13.3	And for those hill starts, you're going to learn a method that's right out of the wild west.
0:17.2	And of course, we can't talk about hill climbs off-road without discussing ABS brakes.
0:21.8	Why you should love ABS and when you're going to hate them.
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