This is as good of a video as any to bring this up. As a relatively new to off road rider, I find that gearing makes a HUGE difference to my confidence and smoothness. My bike is a 26 ktm 300 and came from the dealer with 14/45 gearing. Noone at the dealer really brought it up (I later learned from a KTM video that the engineers want dealers to bring this up to customers and it boils down to EPA and noise regulations) I went with a subtle change to 13/48 and find it so so much easier to follow along with some of the lessons you present. Would love to see your thoughts on the overlap of how skill can overcome setup, and obversely how setup can help compensate for skill. For example, someone like you can probably get on pretty much anything and get it together quickly, where it would be detrimental to a newer rider.
Hey man. From Oz here. Thanks for the vids. A comment & a like is least i can do. Cheers. Just this lil vid alone will help me.. & others.. a lot.. riders of dual sport, adv etc too. Iām on bit heavier WR250r & so just Loving these vids for when get to practice someplace. Thank you again.
We've said it before. I think we'd learn more from watching some of the students attempt it, and fail or succeed and why. Watching someone who knows how to do something instinctively rarely helps me. And I would assert that riding the clutch partially against the front brake at a steady throttle (just so the revs pop up when you put the clutch in further) is more complicated than just twisting the throttle a bit, but guess the only way to find out is try it myself. Most of my own attempts at the original technique have failed.
Rich, you helped me out SO MUCH in my riding and technique just by watching your videos over and over! I love how you keep repeating the same sentences in your drills so they really stick and you remember the words later when riding and racing. I'd love to do a training with you, buuut I'm from Germany so it will probably not happen soon :D
One question I have regarding hip movement: I'd say I'm an intermediate rider, already have techniques like the double blip down BUT I sometimes find my hip-forward-movement be a little lazy. Not always, but especially when getting a bit tired, which is telling me that my technique isn't dialed 100%. Would you say going one step back and spamming the unstuck technique would be the best way to get that dialed in?
I been practicing on my dr650 and when everything goes right the bike feels like a mountain bike but I think I need a bigger rear sprocket the stock 42 is just spinning too much