@@WorkLessRideMore I disagree. I'm progressing just fine without crashing. I've had my full suspension bike for about a year and a half and have progressed from 3' drops all the way up to the 10' Drop the Hammer in Bentonville without crashing. I've also gone from 5' long small jumps to 20' long jumps... without crashing. A crash can put you out for the season and effectively end progression. Especially when you're 40+ like me. In addition to injury, I'll be out of a paycheck as my job is physically demanding. I don't sit behind a desk.
Keeping your bike clean and maintained is important but for the love of god don't point that powerwasher anywhere near any bearings or seals. They're designed to keep the grime and water out but a 5000psi jet has a way of exceeding the capabilities of any seal short of a submarine hatch.
Best advice is “on the steep ground just get your weight back”. Was told this early on in my MTB journey and have been struggling to fix it since. It will only get you so far and then it’s getting you into trouble.
Think of the centre of your bike like a balance point you move the weight of your body around, so your bodies centre mass is normally going to be moved in a cone shape above it, i tend to think of the point of the cone at the bottom bracket. The only reason you hang your arse back is to get that waist area back as well which is the important bit, so you still need balance and control. But this means you also think about what lean you might need as well.
Our local park's manager is convinced, that gap jumps are safer, because ... "only those try it who can do it" ... :(. which is statistically might carry some truth as of crashes/jumps attempted, but ... but ... So ... even though a lot of people visiting never return - because they end up carrying their bikes down features - he keeps making gaps absolutely everywhere. These are machine built trails, so there is absolutely zero reason not to fill up the holes. Now they started putting a lip on every drop and make sure the landing has a sharp edge too.... just in case you cannot clear it, you should be punished ... I guess... While the consensus is that the need a long(er) (more) natural trail that remains ridable by most during the rainy season, they just added a DH trail that about 5% of the people going there would even attempt. It has 2 chutes with a vertical drop in them with no chicken line whatsoever. Talking of "send it" mentality.... I pretty much only ride there at this point because it is 10 minutes from my house. Mostly alone as even the people who can ride it just refuse to ride it in the mess it becomes in the rainy season. :( ... sadness ... Did I mention they have a sharkfin in the "skill park" ... also ... no tabletops... one line has no jumps, the other starts with a sharkfin gap to intimidate pretty much ... most people who would ride a "skill park"
A really annoying kind of advice is strangers coming up to you and giving you unsolicited new bike buying advice when they see you're still rolling on 26" wheels. They think your bike is junk even though it has a big green Reynolds 853 sticker on the seat tube, which they don't know the meaning of, despite claiming to know what they're talking about.
Bring your weight as far behind you can and roll any descent! But GMBN talked about bad advice several times. Enough times for me to learn to avoid that.
Dude....outstanding vídeo! Loved! You guys could make a vídeo talking exclusively about jumps ans features techniques...I am crazy about doing some big boy jumps but I am affraid because I know I lack technique. Do I need to only use speed? Do I land in front suspension or on the rear wheel? Do I pull the front of the bike?. Thank you onde more and cheers from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!
It's more of an attitude really; that unless you have a top spec, hardcore bike you can't have fun or be respected for just 'wanting to ride your bike'. Strong second is 'the Brodom' putting down anyone except the 'ride hard or die' crowd. I'd rather see one happy family on the local 'rails to trails' bike path than another twenty magazines all about the latest Redbull Deathride.
I'm a snowboarder, yes speed is your friend, the faster you are on the bottom of a descent the easier the climb up another hill is, so yes, don't over brake. But it's still about control. I know people who haven't the skills who over brake and end up putting in far more effort.
I'll also throw in the get your weight back when it is steep as my number 2 and my number 1 bit of bad advice was pulling the front up before a drop!!!!
@@tobysemler Getting the weight back is correct when you want to brake on a decent other wise keeping your weight central on the bike is better in most cases... Ps.: There is a very good video on that by Ben Cathro, (how to ride with Ben Cathrow S1Ep3 (Pinkbike))... He explains it better then I can and is a way way way better rider then most and it is fun to watch... ;-)
"You need full sus if you want to ride downhill." Nope. It's not the bike, it's never the bike. I love my Fuel EX, but tbh my local lift access downhill is funner on my Laufey.
if your handlebars keep coming loose/they don't stay straight with the tyre, then just tighten the heck out of it till you can't tighten it anymore. pretty bad advice
Tire pressure is REALLY hard to quantify. Weight, Tire size, width, conditions, terrain ... Normally I would go down in pressure until I ding and go up another 3 PSI. 21PSI / 1.5 Bar front 24PSI/1.7bar rear is the most common pressure i feel like.
I only lower until my tire's don't skip over gnarly terrain or I hit 20 PSI. For me and my bike going below 20 PSI results in rim strikes and snake bites (yes I still run tubes) - generally speaking a small adjustment to the suspension (soften it slightly) will have better results then going lower anyways. I just want the tire pressure set to a pressure that allows the tire to conform to the terrain I'm riding on.
@@nukedathlonman You can go lower with tubeless, since the air volume is slightly increased due to there not being a tube and you can't pinch puncture.
So I have a question. I’m new to mountain biking, I’ve been getting pretty good at the techy sections of trails, but when it comes to jumps and drops my front wheel is still dropping even with trying to watch my center of gravity and shifting my weight back. Am I not going fast enough or what do I need to do?
@@StalemateNZ no I don’t use my front brake, I’ve watched enough of Blake saying not to😂 I may not be peddling enough I keep my front tubeless at 26 and rear 28
Maybe your timing is off. For drops, you want to push your bars out just as your front tire reaches the drop. Too soon or too late and you'll nose dive. Speed is also a factor. The slower you go, the faster you have to push. Once you get comfortable with drops and you start hitting them with more confidence and speed, you barely have to push out at all. But every drop is different. What I would do for practice is try to get both wheels to land at the same time when going off something small like a curb. Then you basically have it. Don't go big until you are hitting small drops without thinking about it. I don't have any advice for jumps though. I'm bad at jumps.
I wipe the thick of the mud off my bike with grass at the end of the day and WD40 a few things. Thats maintainence. This is bad advice, but i'm a lazy tramp.
The worst advice I've ever heard is if you're not crashing, you're not riding hard enough.
It's true though. If you never crash you aren't pushing your progression.
Losing months due to a broken collar bone is never going to help your progression. Only people who didn't grow up riding bikes say this.
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k you can crash without breaking bones. It's called learning to bail.
@@WorkLessRideMore I disagree. I'm progressing just fine without crashing. I've had my full suspension bike for about a year and a half and have progressed from 3' drops all the way up to the 10' Drop the Hammer in Bentonville without crashing. I've also gone from 5' long small jumps to 20' long jumps... without crashing. A crash can put you out for the season and effectively end progression. Especially when you're 40+ like me. In addition to injury, I'll be out of a paycheck as my job is physically demanding. I don't sit behind a desk.
@@agrsk8r well said!
Keeping your bike clean and maintained is important but for the love of god don't point that powerwasher anywhere near any bearings or seals. They're designed to keep the grime and water out but a 5000psi jet has a way of exceeding the capabilities of any seal short of a submarine hatch.
Pressure washers shouldn’t be anywhere near your bike in my opinion. Even a regular jet setting on a garden hose is too much
1990's advice - cut the handlebars to the same width as the road bike to make it more familiar
At age 76, I have heard them all...But, "Just follow me" stands out. LOL
Blake trying to ride badly is genuinely funny.😄
And slightly scary 😬
2:48 - You should add that these values are for a tubeless setup. Most new bikes come with tubes.
Also bad advice, if you're not racing: "Those who brake later are faster for longer" ... and will be stopped by the tree a lot harder.
Tree's don't move either 🌳
In general the obsession with speed is a bit annoying. There are plenty of other skill based goals you can focus on and have just as much fun
🤣@@gmbn They are more likely to throw everything they have in the branches at you - nests, acorns, squirrels, ...😂
Blake letting the air out of the tire was five star gold 😂
Best advice is “on the steep ground just get your weight back”. Was told this early on in my MTB journey and have been struggling to fix it since. It will only get you so far and then it’s getting you into trouble.
Think of the centre of your bike like a balance point you move the weight of your body around, so your bodies centre mass is normally going to be moved in a cone shape above it, i tend to think of the point of the cone at the bottom bracket. The only reason you hang your arse back is to get that waist area back as well which is the important bit, so you still need balance and control. But this means you also think about what lean you might need as well.
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k That’s a useful visual image 👍
On 90s mountain bikes maybe!
When the boys say ‘Just send it’ usually goes bad
Our local park's manager is convinced, that gap jumps are safer, because ... "only those try it who can do it" ...
:(. which is statistically might carry some truth as of crashes/jumps attempted, but ... but ...
So ... even though a lot of people visiting never return - because they end up carrying their bikes down features - he keeps making gaps absolutely everywhere. These are machine built trails, so there is absolutely zero reason not to fill up the holes. Now they started putting a lip on every drop and make sure the landing has a sharp edge too.... just in case you cannot clear it, you should be punished ... I guess...
While the consensus is that the need a long(er) (more) natural trail that remains ridable by most during the rainy season, they just added a DH trail that about 5% of the people going there would even attempt. It has 2 chutes with a vertical drop in them with no chicken line whatsoever.
Talking of "send it" mentality.... I pretty much only ride there at this point because it is 10 minutes from my house. Mostly alone as even the people who can ride it just refuse to ride it in the mess it becomes in the rainy season. :( ... sadness ...
Did I mention they have a sharkfin in the "skill park" ... also ... no tabletops... one line has no jumps, the other starts with a sharkfin gap to intimidate pretty much ... most people who would ride a "skill park"
A really annoying kind of advice is strangers coming up to you and giving you unsolicited new bike buying advice when they see you're still rolling on 26" wheels. They think your bike is junk even though it has a big green Reynolds 853 sticker on the seat tube, which they don't know the meaning of, despite claiming to know what they're talking about.
Thanks for the tips and great video, love to see 2 Blakes, too funny, too good!😂 God bless you mates!🙏👊
Bring your weight as far behind you can and roll any descent!
But GMBN talked about bad advice several times. Enough times for me to learn to avoid that.
That really Works somewhat on a xc hardtail without a dropperposy don't go to far back
Dude....outstanding vídeo! Loved! You guys could make a vídeo talking exclusively about jumps ans features techniques...I am crazy about doing some big boy jumps but I am affraid because I know I lack technique. Do I need to only use speed? Do I land in front suspension or on the rear wheel? Do I pull the front of the bike?. Thank you onde more and cheers from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!
my favorite advice i've ever heard is "just lean back and close your eyes." now a running joke amongst my friends an i
Just send it!?! Not always a good idea 😂😂😂
To cut holes in my frame to get lighter
It was from my Garmin...it said to take a day off.
No rest for the wicked 🤙
Worst advice “💁♀️You have a bike. You don’t need another one!” Terrible advice 😂 Needless to say, I completely disregarded it 😯🤓
It's more of an attitude really; that unless you have a top spec, hardcore bike you can't have fun or be respected for just 'wanting to ride your bike'. Strong second is 'the Brodom' putting down anyone except the 'ride hard or die' crowd. I'd rather see one happy family on the local 'rails to trails' bike path than another twenty magazines all about the latest Redbull Deathride.
Don't break in the corners. Should be don't break all the way through the corner.
I'm a snowboarder, yes speed is your friend, the faster you are on the bottom of a descent the easier the climb up another hill is, so yes, don't over brake. But it's still about control. I know people who haven't the skills who over brake and end up putting in far more effort.
Just go full speed and send it! --yeah, really bad advice right there.
Lean back when jumping! --another bad one
Unless you want to backflip!
If in doubt, just send it!
lmao the guy peddling mid air just sent me
I'll also throw in the get your weight back when it is steep as my number 2 and my number 1 bit of bad advice was pulling the front up before a drop!!!!
I thought getting your weight back on descents was correct. What's the right way?
@@tobysemler Getting the weight back is correct when you want to brake on a decent other wise keeping your weight central on the bike is better in most cases... Ps.: There is a very good video on that by Ben Cathro, (how to ride with Ben Cathrow S1Ep3 (Pinkbike))... He explains it better then I can and is a way way way better rider then most and it is fun to watch... ;-)
@@Mo.Jo.MTB_101 cheers mate, I'll check out
I go with tyres hard as an apple not an orange squeeze test
"You need full sus if you want to ride downhill."
Nope. It's not the bike, it's never the bike.
I love my Fuel EX, but tbh my local lift access downhill is funner on my Laufey.
Under biking is certainly fun! But a bit of suspension does help with those big hit 🚵♀️
Awesome Blake FairPlay
Don't brake on descents, your wheels will slip
by the way, nice episode, Blake! 👍
What I see often is people trying to jump higher and bigger without any clues how to just ride a bike.
It's that park life ...
You can have a dirty bike and a clean drivetrain, best of both worlds
Come on, get up, you’ll walk it off….. turned out to be a broken femur!!
if your handlebars keep coming loose/they don't stay straight with the tyre, then just tighten the heck out of it till you can't tighten it anymore. pretty bad advice
A clean bike is a creaky bike.
"you dont need a fullface helmet" - so i got a trailhelmet and pilgrimed my face ;)
Tire pressure is REALLY hard to quantify. Weight, Tire size, width, conditions, terrain ... Normally I would go down in pressure until I ding and go up another 3 PSI. 21PSI / 1.5 Bar front 24PSI/1.7bar rear is the most common pressure i feel like.
I only lower until my tire's don't skip over gnarly terrain or I hit 20 PSI. For me and my bike going below 20 PSI results in rim strikes and snake bites (yes I still run tubes) - generally speaking a small adjustment to the suspension (soften it slightly) will have better results then going lower anyways. I just want the tire pressure set to a pressure that allows the tire to conform to the terrain I'm riding on.
@@nukedathlonman You can go lower with tubeless, since the air volume is slightly increased due to there not being a tube and you can't pinch puncture.
@@Schradermusic What's the point of going lower if I'm getting rim strikes? And my old 26er wheels are not designed for tubeless anyways.
Stay high pressure and let a little out when you stop each time.
Easier taking air out than putting it back in.
28psi front 30 rear for me. 97kg
🤔 You ain't gonna learn unless you "Just send it!".... Riiiiiiiiiiight...
Worst advice: That's not your carbon cranks, that's your BB creaking....
Do first, regret later…. Yeah it helps sometimes but over bad advice 😂
So funny, thank you
Blake you are so funny but why are you moaning like that 😂
Woooooo mhhhhh aahhhhhhh
I don't think anyone has given me any of these advices 😂
So I have a question. I’m new to mountain biking, I’ve been getting pretty good at the techy sections of trails, but when it comes to jumps and drops my front wheel is still dropping even with trying to watch my center of gravity and shifting my weight back. Am
I not going fast enough or what do I need to do?
Are you using your front brake? Don't. You might be running too high tyre pressure? Are you pedaling fast enough before the drop?
@@StalemateNZ no I don’t use my front brake, I’ve watched enough of Blake saying not to😂 I may not be peddling enough
I keep my front tubeless at 26 and rear 28
@@StalemateNZ🤣
Maybe your timing is off. For drops, you want to push your bars out just as your front tire reaches the drop. Too soon or too late and you'll nose dive. Speed is also a factor. The slower you go, the faster you have to push. Once you get comfortable with drops and you start hitting them with more confidence and speed, you barely have to push out at all. But every drop is different. What I would do for practice is try to get both wheels to land at the same time when going off something small like a curb. Then you basically have it. Don't go big until you are hitting small drops without thinking about it. I don't have any advice for jumps though. I'm bad at jumps.
You need to not take advice online, go find someone to show you.
"It's all rollable" equals death
Come on dude, it’s easy! When referring to big drops and jumps.
The worst advice I ever heard was always listen to Blake 😜
When the headset bearing is done buy a new suspension fork lol lol😊😂😂
Sounds like your mechanic was trying his luck 🍀
@@gmbn that was one the local bikeshop that do sporting bikes one the side they lost paying costumer that day
I wipe the thick of the mud off my bike with grass at the end of the day and WD40 a few things. Thats maintainence.
This is bad advice, but i'm a lazy tramp.
Going downhill? Put all your weight to the back and let it roll.
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🎉
Just lean back... 😂😂😂
First
Go big, go home in an ambulance😂
The worst advice I ever had is watch CZcams for tips on mountain biking.
Just one more run
It's roller able!😉🤔🤣
Oh oh!