:rotfl:The best I've been able to do on a vertical wall is launch the bike up it while I stay at the bottom.
It's easy!shadowsniper said:i have also been seeing some guys going straight up dirt cliffs, how do you do that?
Hehe, not always. We took an A class MXer out riding on his first ST ride. He was talking so much smack about how good he was (granted he was really good on a track) so we thought he would do fine on some really gnarly trail. I made it through to the top and we sat there for a long time and he never showed up. We ended up going back and finding him and I kid you not, he was crying! He wasn't used to the beating he was receiving and it wiped him out.SpeedyManiac said:Here's another training tip. Ride a lot of motocross. It's very good training for offroad as it's more intense and usually faster. Talk to any pro offroader and they'll say the same thing.
High Lord Gomer said:I find that riding trails helps my motocross much more than motocross helps trail speed. QUOTE]
Have to agree with that. :cool:
IMO, concentration and flow is the key to going fast on trail. Look where you want to go. We tend to go where we look. If you are on a skinny trail with a cliff on one side and you look over the cliff, you will gravitate towards the cliff. Almost like a big magnet is pulling you. :yikes: If you ignore the cliff and look as far forward on the trail as you can it will help you balance yourself better on the skinny trail and you won't get the feeling that something is trying to pull you off the cliff.
Same with tight single track trails. Look as far ahead on the trail as you can see. Don't look down right in front of your bike. This will only slow you down since you will notice every little bump, rock, root and irregularity on the trail. If you look as far ahead as you can and let your peripheral vision take care of what is right in front of you, you will find yourself going much faster. You will be surprised what you can easily ride over without actually looking at it. Your peripheral vision sees it and registers it in your mind without you actually having to look at it.
Same thing with busting a turn. If you find yourself going way too fast into a turn and can't make the turn. Don't look at the tree you are about to hit. If you do, you will hit it. :nod: Instead, look for an escape route, a hole between the trees or any place safer than the tree or rock or cliff. That is where you will go.
Flow is very important. Like Gomer said, use all of the trail. Outside, inside, whatever works but, keep your momentum up and try not to come to a near stop to make a corner. The outside line is usually the fastest and smoothest.
Trail riding will make you a better MX racer. On a track, we know what to expect. Unless someone is laying in the middle of a corner, we know that corner will be the same as it was on the last lap. On trail, you don't know what to expect. So, you have to train yourself to react to the situation as it happens. This trains you to be a better racer and to know what to do when you can't use the same line as you did the lap before. You will notice the good riders can change their lines and ride anywhere on the track if they have to. They don't have to think about it, they just automatically do it. Trail riding will teach you to do this.
shadowsniper said:ok, so basically the best thing for me to do would be to focus on riding trails than mx tracks?
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