Slow Stuff - MTB

[Couchy]

Do you practice the basic slow stuff on your MTB, wheelies, stoppies, trackstands etc, does it help with faster stuff or is it just good fun to mess around ?

[weeksy]

A bit, but there's many things i ought to practice more. Rear wheel in air flip turns for example.

[Ditchfinder]

The speed I go uphill is basically practising 1 track stand after another

[lostboy]

Yes.

It's good fun to mess about.

[Taff]

Saturday's ride at cwmcarn highlighted that I'm still a bit shit at uphill hairpins so it's certainly something that I need to do more of

[Mr Moofo]

I have a shit sense of balance -so I would love to do steppes, endoscopy, manuals etc. But I would fall off

[weeksy]

I have a shit sense of balance -so I would love to do steppes, endoscopy, manuals etc. But I would fall off

I'm not sure shoving a bike up your arse will help.

[MingtheMerciless]

I would like too say I'm too fast to worry about low speed skills being necessary but at the moment that's woefully untrue.

[Beancounter]

Saturday's ride at cwmcarn highlighted that I'm still a bit shit at uphill hairpins so it's certainly something that I need to do more of

Quadzilla on Cafall?

[Taff]

Saturday's ride at cwmcarn highlighted that I'm still a bit shit at uphill hairpins so it's certainly something that I need to do more of

Quadzilla on Cafall?

That's certainly one of them, but I think the one I had more trouble on was later, on a section that's been felled, maybe Voodoo (?).

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I would like too say I'm too fast to worry about low speed skills being necessary but at the moment that's woefully untrue.

I'm too slow to worry about high speed skills

[Couchy]

It seems every fast downhill rider can do all these basics, is it possible to be fast down hill and not be able to wheelie or stoppie ?
Yeah I have been reading about basics and why we should get good at them if we want to improve our speed

[weeksy]

It seems every fast downhill rider can do all these basics, is it possible to be fast down hill and not be able to wheelie or stoppie ?
Yeah I have been reading about basics and why we should get good at them if we want to improve our speed

Same as all motorbike racers who win can wheelie, being very good at something usually means you're very good at all aspects

[lostboy]

It seems every fast downhill rider can do all these basics, is it possible to be fast down hill and not be able to wheelie or stoppie ?
Yeah I have been reading about basics and why we should get good at them if we want to improve our speed

Manual rather than wheelie. I'm crap at the former and average at the latter. Manualling is a skill that just about every quick DH or Enduro rider has in spades and seeing how that allows them to clear the front wheel over sections at ridiculous speeds is absolutely gob-smacking.

[Couchy]

It seems every fast downhill rider can do all these basics, is it possible to be fast down hill and not be able to wheelie or stoppie ?
Yeah I have been reading about basics and why we should get good at them if we want to improve our speed

Same as all motorbike racers who win can wheelie, being very good at something usually means you're very good at all aspects

It must be fast means you can wheelie cos I can prove wheelies don’t mean you’re fast

[weeksy]

It seems every fast downhill rider can do all these basics, is it possible to be fast down hill and not be able to wheelie or stoppie ?
Yeah I have been reading about basics and why we should get good at them if we want to improve our speed

Same as all motorbike racers who win can wheelie, being very good at something usually means you're very good at all aspects

It must be fast means you can wheelie cos I can prove wheelies don’t mean you’re fast

Ok, here's a question.

Best couch MTB rider
Best couch motorbiker

Which one is higher in a relative term?

Me, I think I'm a better MTB rider than I was a motorbike racer

[MingtheMerciless]

We have a local pro (Daryl Brown), I sometimes think I’m reasonably quick until he decides to put some effort in on a trail………

[Beancounter]

Saturday's ride at cwmcarn highlighted that I'm still a bit shit at uphill hairpins so it's certainly something that I need to do more of

Quadzilla on Cafall?

That's certainly one of them, but I think the one I had more trouble on was later, on a section that's been felled, maybe Voodoo (?).

I always put a foot down on the uphill hairpins.

[Mr Moofo]

I have a shit sense of balance -so I would love to do steppes, endoscopy, manuals etc. But I would fall off

don't you love spell check !

Stoppies, endos and manuals.

But I won't change the original - it sounds far more interesting

[Couchy]

Same as all motorbike racers who win can wheelie, being very good at something usually means you're very good at all aspects

It must be fast means you can wheelie cos I can prove wheelies don’t mean you’re fast

Ok, here's a question.

Best couch MTB rider
Best couch motorbiker

Which one is higher in a relative term?

Me, I think I'm a better MTB rider than I was a motorbike racer

Motorbike I’d say although looking at strava and a few KOM maybe mtb. Technically I’m a better motorbike rider of that I’ve no doubt as I’m still working on mtb riding and still don’t really know what I’m doing