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  Free MX Riding Tip #56 (Motocross Steering Effects)

  March 28, 2013

  Understanding how the chassis works can make your practices more effective. Of course a big part of the chassis is steering. About the only time you should be counter steering is when you’re sliding the bike. When the back wheel is sliding you need to counter steer to control the bike. Otherwise you should be steering with the front wheel. What’s interesting is how the front wheel steers. If you are pushing or pulling on one side of the handlebar, [...]

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  Tip #55 What do Motocross and Golf have in Common?

  February 12, 2013

  What does Motocross and Golf have in common? Nothing physically but mentally and especially when learning the processes of doing them, they have a lot in common. I recently had the opportunity to get some golf lessons from a former professional golfer, who for the last decade has been teaching golf lessons, much like I do for motocross. My stepson David Kilgore met Paul Bryan while he was teaching in Florida. David traded off some golf lessons for some motocross lessons [...]

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  Free MX Riding Tip #54 (Clearing Jump out of Corner)

  January 16, 2013

  Clearing a jump right out of a corner can be difficult for beginners. Seat bouncing is usually the best techniques to use in the situations. You can find the seat bouncing techniques further down in these tech tips and also in my Volume 3 DVD #7 (Seat Bouncing and Launching Techniques). In order to get the most out of the seat bouncing techniques you need to be really good at using the clutch and throttle to deliver a lot of [...]

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  Free MX Riding Tip #53 (Body Positions and Movements)

  November 29, 2012

  It’s better to keep your elbows up and out away from your sides because it gives you better leverage factors over the bike.  Try this simple test to feel the difference.  Sit on your bike and hold the handlebars with a low grip and low elbows.  Then move your upper body back and forth as hard as you can, then do the same from side to side.  Now grab the handlebars with a high over grip and high elbows.  Perform [...]

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  Free MX Riding Tip #52 (Sticking Your Landings)

  October 29, 2012

  Consistently hitting your landings just right takes a lot of practice. You have to learn what gear, revs, speed and how hard to hit a jump in order to stick your landing. Two important techniques to practice are launching a jump or absorbing a jump. When launching you help the compression and rebound by spiking your body weight into the footpegs upon compression and then lift your weight out of the footpegs upon rebound. This technique gives you more height [...]

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  Free MX Riding Tip #51 (How Far To Look Ahead)

  October 8, 2012

  Where and how far to look ahead while practicing or racing is a subject of major importance.  The basic law here is to look at the next most important object that’s coming up as early as possible.  This maybe the beginning of a rut, the entrance of a corner, a big bump on a straight, the take off of a jump, est.  You see, as you’re riding a motocross track your vision is covering the ground just before you go [...]

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  Free MX Tip #50 (Getting sideways by accident)

  July 2, 2012

              Getting sideways off jumps when you don’t intend to is 9 times out of 10 because you’re hitting an uneven face upon take off.  Think of a quad when it jumps off an uneven face; like where the two left wheels are higher than the two right wheels, your going to get sideways big time.  It’s the same kind of an affect with a M/C.  If there is a rut, a dished out area, [...]

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  Free MX Riding Tip #49 Passing

  June 12, 2012

  Passing riders slower than you is usually not a problem, right? But when the riders you’re trying to pass are about the same speed as you and they’re using your lines, you’ll have to be smart to pass them.  This may take setting him up for three corners or more. The most common way to pass is in a corner.  The technique is to set him up from the outside of the corner, to go from the outside to the [...]

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  Free MX Riding Tip #48 How To Whip

  May 29, 2012

  Before you begin to practice doing the whip find a smooth faced jump with no ruts on the face. The whip can be performed even when there are some small ruts in the face of the jump but it is much easier to do without ruts. Make sure it’s a safe jump (like a tabletop) but has enough hang time to get it sideways and pull it back straight for the landing. Approach the jump at an angle so you [...]

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  Free MX Tip #47 Whoops Techniques

  April 17, 2012

  There are three different techniques for whoops. A.        Jumping through the troughs of the whoops. B.         Front wheel placement. C.        Skimming the tops of the whoops. Some key points to practice are; – Keep your weight off of the handlebars. – Clutch and throttle control along with body movements are what gives you control. – Keep the balls of your feet on the foot-pegs. – Your handgrip should be in the accelerating position (high over grip). This is so your [...]

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  Free MX Tip #46 Berms

  March 12, 2012

  Riding ruts (berms) well is an advanced technique. When dealing with these deep rutted lines in the track there is little to no room for error. To do it correctly you have to have all the basics down and have a lot of seat time under your helmet. Some of the keys to pay attention to are; getting lined up ahead of time for the entrance of the rut, controlling the front and/or rear brakes until the transition (where you [...]

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  Free MX Tip #45 Common Amateur Mistake #5

  March 12, 2012

  Not taking diet and exercise seriously enough and therefore not being in good enough shape. You must know by now that motocross and off-road riding takes a great deal of energy. You have to be in excellent shape in order to be competitive. But, somehow many Americans fall victim to a poor diet and lack of exercise. This seems normal to the general public now a days. For the serious athletes including motocrossers and off-road racers this has to be [...]

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