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GW, you've not riddid Follow Your Dad then ? It is imperetive you lock up your back wheel before ever corner, berm, slope or pebble.
And watch out for this chap 😆 😆
Take care, Wrightyson . . . remember [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/cannock-chase-how-difficult-is-it ]PRIDE[/url] comes before a [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/going-under-the-knife-feeling-sorry-for-myself-content ]FALL[/url] 🙄
Hope you're recovering well, Transapp?
It's a 2nd hand bike and has come with the brake levers opposite handed WTF!!!
Perhaps the previous owner was American?
you only know what the corners going to be like (sharper or longer or whatever) when your there (if you see what I mean) how do you judge the right speed? Is it just practice?
Depends on the terrain as to what you can see I guess. I'm still learning myself so I'm no expert; my point was really that you should try and avoid needing to brake on corners / in the middle of hazards.
forget "slow in fast out" most trail centre corners are easy/bermed so you rarely have to brake much at all - just keep looking to the exit of the corner lean in and hold on.
Perhaps; depends how fast you're going and how able / confident you are. I'm not sure I'd be advising a newcomer to hit corners as fast as possible, no matter how bermed they were.
Incidentally,
I've been hearing "heels down" a lot lately. Could someone explain this in a bit more detail for me? Ie, when to do it, and what it achieves? I don't think I could do it constantly as I find it tiring, but it does seem to help with climbing.
[i]avoid needing to brake on corners / in the middle of hazards[/i]
yep, that sounds like the advice from my dad! cool, look through corners, I'm going to try that next time. 🙂
I've been hearing "heels down" a lot lately. Could someone explain this in a bit more detail for me? Ie, when to do it, and what it achieves? I don't think I could do it constantly as I find it tiring, but it does seem to help with climbing.
For me and i'm no bike coach, keeping your heels down on flat pedals while descending, stops your feet getting ejected and forces the back of the bike where you want it rather then bouncing all over the place.
Good advice.Inside pedal up
The most important bit is to have fun, everything else comes with practice.
Nice vid wrightyson. 😀
don't forget to make sure you both stop in the middle of the ****ing trail, put your bikes down across it too, look ****ing gormless when a rider approaches, leave the bikes lying there then get all shouty and angry when I ride over your front wheel.
Thankfully esme that's not me! Just one I found and thought it was highly amusing!
Tell him he's on the wrong tyres for Cannock.
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Tell him he's on the wrong tyres for Cannock.
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get your braking done on the straight before hitting a corner, to read a corner the vanishing point is where the two points of the corner converge now if this point is coming towards you the corner is tightening up so ease up a little and if the point is going away from you then chase is as the corner will be opening up. 😆
Pain heals
Chicks dig scars
Glory is eternal
other than that let him ride sections at his own pace and he'll enjoy himself
It was all going so well, cheesy grins ahoy then boom, chain snapped!! We got him back up and running thanks to the help of some great passing lads. Coupla miles later same chain failed again this time taking rear mech with it. Only 6 miles done and a solo effort to go fetch the car required. Thanks for all the pointers previously, he did read the thread and took em on board, we'll get round next time!
So, you didn't take heed of some of the given advice then, and had to suffer a failure. That's life I guess.
Yes DS his bike was in for service on the Friday, they didn't pick up the chain problem so why would we?? Must be nice to be perfect eh 😉
I'm far from perfect, but I don't see why you couldn't have rigged the bike up as a single speed which would have allowed you to do more than the six miles.
Chain snapped near enough in half we already had two missing links in it, without another how would we have rejoined the chain to make it work?
Chaintool?
if its his first outing 'heels down' is not important yet.
The last thing you want to do is overload him with informatin otherwise he will just behtingking about these 17 different things he needs to do to ride over a root.
The basics are: braking, arse over the back on the steeps and learning to lean the bike over in corners (any corners whether flat or bermed) The rest will/should follow and then you can give him more tips as the ones you taught him first have sunk in and are becoming second nature.
You can't push removed pins back in with a chaintool can you? Surely they'd just slide back out due to not being crimped/flattened on the end anymore??
Why not? 8)