How To Bike On A Trail Video

Keeping your bike on trail is important when taking on the mountain. Learn some tips for keeping your mountain bike on track in this free video clip.

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Feet are parallel to the ground
Keep elbows and knees bent
Keep your eyes ahead on trail
Evaluate your skill level when deciding on trails

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Pancho Herrera is passionate about cycling. Pancho races for the SLO Nexus Club on road and mountain bikes. Pancho also has 25 years cycling experience as a competitor and pro shop mechanic.

PANCHO HERRERA: This is Pancho and I want to show a couple of tips on trail riding in rough terrain. Take note of the fact that I'm riding with my feet parallel to the ground and my knees and elbows bent. That gives me some suspension over the bike. The idea here is let's let our body act as a suspension system to keep the shock from throwing us off the bicycle. In addition to that, let's keep our eyes up the trail. You definitely want to look ahead. If you look down at your front tire, well, that's where you're going. So your best option is to look where you want to ride. Peering over the edge of the trail, probably a bad idea. When you're deciding where to ride, it's a good idea to evaluate your skill level. There are obviously different levels of trail out there and we want to have a good fun safe time. So, I'm standing on a single track trail, that's what I would consider a more challenging type of terrain to ride. If you're a more experienced rider, that's a great fun. And if you're new to this sport and you want to gain experience, try a double track or a fire road. Double track will consist of perhaps an old jeep road, perhaps and abandoned access road in dirt and gives you a little more room to play around, tends to have easier corners and perhaps a little flatter as well. That's a good starting point. You can gain some experience there and graduate up to the more serious single track riding.

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