Off Cambers Tips on a Cyclocross Course

Video Transcript

"MICKEY DENONCOURT: Almost every course has a place where you're traversing a side hill, where you're going across an off-camber section. What you normally find is that you can't really pedal too hard on sections like that because your tires will slide out and you can't really corner that hard either. But the way that you really get the most amount of tire contact, you know, a lot of good pressure, is if you sort of keep your bike upright. So if this hand, my left hand is my bike, this is the hill, you keep your bike nice and upright and then what you find is you hang yourself off the bike to really get the force channeled down. So as I ride away from the camera, you'll see the sort of exaggerated body positions that I'm talking about that's going to help. We're going to say that the ground here is sloping down this way. It's sloping down to your right as you're watching. So you just--you need to let the bike move underneath you and you need to sort of just stand up and weight your inside handle bar, the handle bar that's on the inside of the hill, you put some pressure on that. And then your outside pedal, it forces the edge of the bike, the edges of the tires down on the ground, and it makes it easier to stay on there. As the conditions get, you know, wetter, if it's grass especially and the grass gets ripped up, you might end up just having to get off and run through that section. You know, it will be so sleek that no amount of body weight shifting or tires and any of that stuff are really going to be able to keep you upright through it."