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So there's a trail nearby named "tankslapper" it's narrow, fairly straight with 4 steps at the top & you gather speed quickly as it drops downhill. You have to duck under branches & without pedalling you can hit 20mph (faster if you give it some beans obviously) then the complete width of the trail is thick clyinging clay like mud about 4" deep for approx 8ft.
what's the technique for carrying speed without losing control?
atm I lean back, unweight the front wheel & try to manual through but the rear inevitably skews one way or the other, the front comes down, also loses traction and you get a tankslapper style reaction. What's best, weight over the front? Both wheels equal?
Bunny hop the lot of it?
20mph + 8 ft slop= hop and clear it!
I guess he's on his fatbike..
No real world way of avoidance, just go harder and expect a wobble.. try it on 33mm tyres, you'll know what wobble means 😆
weight over the front?
definitely this. film it 🙂
I tend to lift the front end to give myself a few feet of easy life.
For me it'll be weight centred on the bike, stay loose and make slight corrections to keep to bike roughly pointing forward and accept a bit of sideways sliding action. If you hang off the back too much then the front won't steer and you won't be able to correct if the bike gets sideways.
Arms straight, bum on saddle, feet out to the side at 45 degrees to the ground. I'm only half joking. Squealing also aids stability.
I think I'd go for gormless mincing and then add a bit of a squeal if things got squirrelly.
Weight between the wheels, as little braking as possible, but most importantly, get loose and steer with the rear. [url= http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Joe-Barnes-8-Wild-Terns-video-2014.html ]Here's what it should look like.[/url]
I tend to keep your mouth closed... and in some cases my eyes.
Personally, I think you should be a bit more considerate of the next rider. I always carry a bin bag and bag up all the mud so the next rider has a clean, dry trail....
Keep the front straight and use your core to balance as the back end will slide about.
Fatbike = No RAD Skillz.
use a cx bike rather than a fatbike and learn that sometimes cutting trough the mud is better than floating on the top, or buy some decent fat bike rubber, or get some gnar-radsik-skillz and shizzle
😀
use a cx bike rather than a fatbike and learn that sometimes [s]cutting trough the mud[/s] stopping, dismounting, and carrying your bike over the mud is better than floating on the top
🙂
In the attack position and ready to move your weight back to allow for any rapid deceleration. Oh and scream like a little girl.
1) Watch Danny Hart / Sam Hill on 'those' downhill runs.
2) Realize you're never going to ride that well.
3) Look where you're going and deathgrip it. At any decent speed your ability to do actively do anything is limited, you're committed to whatever you decided a few seconds ago, just look ahead and stay loose.
Fatbike = No RAD Skillz.
The crumbling side knobs on my rear tyre would beg to differ 🙂
For me it'll be weight centred on the bike, stay loose and make slight corrections to keep to bike roughly pointing forward and accept a bit of sideways sliding action. If you hang off the back too much then the front won't steer and you won't be able to correct if the bike gets sideways.
Pretty good advice - without being too simplistic, it is probably best to be as neutral as possible on the bike (your weight will be [u]slightly[/u] back as a result of it being downhill). This should mean you have the maximum scope for movement in any given direction. You could probably summarise this as being loose, low and centred.
Just pretend you're Sam Hill.
I'd unclip and get ready to fly over the bars. But first I'd put the Garmin into the pocket, so any potential KOM would be recorded! 😆
Just like this. Piece of piss
More speed and weight back!
I always think that speed /momentum is your friend in these situations, despite it being against your instincts....which are usually telling you to slow down in case you crash.
Be committed, weight slightly back, plenty of speed, no steering or braking, give the front wheel a pop down and up just as you approach to unweight it, ride it out.
Ride it like it's dry. Mud riding (discounting extremes, such as Megavalanche 2014) is mainly a mind game, people seem to tense up, hang off the back and/or do strange things that they wouldn't normally do.
Try to keep your weight central and hips lose so it's all about making small corrections under you rather without moving your body around too much.
Or failing that at 20mph even the smallest bunny hop is going to clear most of 8 foot.
Tom KP