SHORT RIDER TIPS, BIKE LOWERING & SETUP: Cross Training Enduro Skills

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Another free enduro training vid from http://www.crosstrainingenduro.com It's tough being short. Any decent dirt bike has a lot of suspension travel, which means a high seat, which you means trouble any time you stop or need to touch the ground. As Graham Jarvis says "Going fast is the easy bit, it’s going slowly that will help you develop control." The top extreme enduro riders like Jarvis are so smooth and controlled that often you don't realise how difficult the terrain is until you see them flying past the less experienced riders. So cross training applies trials techniques to enduro riding for improved dirt bike skills. Let's look at all the things you can do in terms of riding technique, bike setup and bike choice. Cross Training Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJAvmhgP0h1AEKY8vTEJPJg Cross Training Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cross.training.enduro.skills/?ref=ts Our enduro vlog series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlur54ugvzNJlUO0y6D10jVOGMLI4Raci Cross Training website: http://www.crosstrainingenduro.com Like to support our vids? http://www.crosstrainingenduro.com/cross-training-support-donations.htm Develop good balance skills and you will rarely need to put your foot down. What do all the world's best extreme enduro riders have in common? Almost without exception they are former trials champions who applied who have applied trials techniques to their dirt riding skills to tackle some of the world's toughest events - Romaniacs and Hells Gate. Practice riding very slowly, and even better learn how to balance at a standstill. This trials techique is extremely useful for short riders in tough terrain. If you are really serious, get into trials riding too - it will transform your balancing skills on a dirt bike. These vids provide an introduction on how to ride dirt bikes with our 70 free training vids. Many of these riding tips come from Graham Jarvis, Chris Birch and other top extreme enduro riders to form the concept of cross training - a blend of trials and enduro techniques. Most riders sit far too much. Practice your full lock turns regularly, on smooth and rough ground, without putting a foot down. Learn how to dismount instead of crash. The rise of extreme enduro, endurocross and hard enduro events has led to cross training - trials skills applied to dirt riding on enduro bikes. Subscribe to this channel for endurocross training, enduro techniques and dirt bike skills. When the terrain gets too rough, learn to how to paddle with your legs, both standing and sitting on the bike. In some cases, these riding techniques may be enough. If not, then try setting up your bike to suit. Bike setup. We'll start with cheap do-it-yourself mods. As Graham Jarvis says "Going fast is the easy bit, it’s going slowly that will help you develop control." The top extreme enduro riders like Jarvis are so smooth and controlled that often you don't realise how difficult the terrain is until you see them flying past the less experienced riders. Seat mods. The easiest is modifying your seat. You can trim the foam down a lot lower. Then your bike still looks the same, but you sink much further into the seat. So cross training applies trials techniques to enduro riding for improved dirt bike skills. The easiest change here is to increase the rear suspension sag as much as possible. This does negatively affect your steering geometry and handling, but many novice to intermediate riders say they are very happy with this mod, in combination with a lower seat. The next step is a lowering link for the rear suspension, and again adjusting the front forks to match. Losing traction is a cardinal sin in trials riding and riders go to extreme lengths to ensure their tyres don't slip. Wheelspin and slides look great but in many cases for enduro riding but it simply means you are losing full control of your dirt bike. A very important safety issue: make sure your tyres won't hit the underneath of your fenders and airbox when the suspension is bottomed out. The top extreme enduro riders will only lose traction deliberately in a small number of cases. Body positioning and weighting are fundamental skills in trials, and watching top trials riders is like poetry in motion. A key part of moves like this is the use of body positioning and weighting - choosing when to exert pressure on the pegs and when to de-weight or lift the bike up. This tends to be more of a motocross thing as the seat is less likely to slam a short rider in the butt over whoops, but some enduro riders lower the sub-frame and like the results. While an enduro bike is heavier, these skills still play a major part in getting through extreme enduro terrain with ease. Cross training means you will almost always be standing on the pegs of your dirt bike and learning how to use your body weight and positioning to maximum effect to apply trials skills to your dirt bike technique.