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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

Rider Skills: Two Easy Methods For Turning Your Motorcycle on a Dime

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling

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4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On ARR’s regular Rider Skills segment, Coach Ramey Stroud, riding instructor, talks about two quick ways to turn your motorcycle around in a tight spot. One using engine power and one using no power.  For photos and more tips go to the show...

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When you've got to turn your motorcycle around in a tight spot, let's say you went down a tight trail and you found you have to turn around and go in the opposite direction or

0:14.4

any spot at all. Maybe it's even in your garage where you pull in and you've got to get the bike back out and

0:18.4

it seems like a hassle to get it turned around. What method do you use? Do you use the back and forth method where you sit on the

0:25.2

seat and you're moving the bike forward, possibly using the power of the engine and then

0:29.2

pushing it backward, that's a common one, or maybe get off it and you actually shove the bike physically

0:33.8

backward forward until you get it turned around. Well today on our exclusive

0:38.8

rider skill segment we've got coach Ramey Stroud back and he has two methods for us for turning our motorcycles around in tight spaces.

0:48.0

One with the engine off using counterbalancing and the other with the engine running using the bike's own power for a fast

0:54.9

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