So after 1 sore face plant to many I have decided to get a 121 skills session with the good chaps at Dirtschool, on my local trails at Cathkin. At age 48 my days of gettting rad and air are well past, but whilst my general riding ability is not bad, my manuals are awful, indeed my 10 yr old son is better at them than me 🙂
Now I know that these skills are best learned on flats where body weight has to be used to control things, by default,but as a seasonded SPD wearer I havent ridden on flats for 20 yrs. I dont particularly want to swop over from SPD’s at all and think that doing so for the training session would give me a whole load of other unknowns and new things, only to go back to SPD’s afterwards.
So how easy is it to learn to manual properly while clipped in ?
…and yes, these will be the first questions I ask at the session in a few weeks, but keen to get the learned stw view 🙂