Tips for Flat Corners in Mountain Biking

Video Transcript

"MICKEY DENONCOURT: So if we look at the composition of this corner--if we look at the ground, if we look at everything, this is--the outside corner here, burned in, sort of a V, it's a rut, this is a rutted in corner. Usually if there's a rut, that means that's a fairly a good line. If you get in that rut, you're going to be safe, you're going to go fairly quickly. There are lots of corners especially on tracks that aren't very burned in, they're flat. They don't have a rut in them, no one's built a berm to go around or anything like that and what's called a flat corner. So to the inside of this corner, there's still lot of real estate, there is still a lot of grass that isn't in there yet. So I'm going to ride this corner, I'm going to treat it like it's a flat corner and then you're going to see the next corner when I ride the rut what the differences are. And basically, you need to create your own traction when you're riding a flat corner. You need to drive your bike into the ground, you need to be looking far ahead and sometimes if you--instead of taking the rut, you take the flat line, it's a little bit quicker and carry more speed, it's all about exit speed so watch me come through here. "