Understand Medium Obstacles for Mountain Bike Racers

Video Transcript

"The long here poses are great but more difficulty than the covert we just rolled over the biggest problem is it's unsupported it's higher off the ground and it's going to be pretty slippery cause it organic. So we need access how to get over it with at least you know possibility of smashing our bike against it and you know slipping out and falling over. So the obvious line is straight down the middle but it's much higher not much less supportive there than it is over to the side. The side is still on the trail as well so what we're going to do is go up go over the side and you know safely clean this object that other wise we're going to have to walk. So roll up try to make sure we hit it at a 90 degrees pick up the front wheel pick up the back wheel and we're on our way so if we're face with an obstacle like this going downhill we have some added options because we have more momentum. Going downhill on might be best to just lean back a little bit and not even let the front wheel hit it so just pop over it. If you do that you have to be prepared for the back wheel picking up but it also gives us a little bit momentum rolling over. Momentum is always our friends as long as we keep in mind that where our centered mass is in relations to the wheels. So if we're coming down this I want to move my weight back and down because that laws going to kick my front end up. So we're going to roll at it once again on the side and we basically just completely, completely cleared the obstacle with very minimal input just right over. And you know unprepared I'm going to sort of semi loose strip on the handle bars my muscles are pretty tensed up I'm ready to take an impact if it comes, but other wise I just let the trial unfold before me."