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Hey everybody, DirtDad here.
I'm in violation of some sort of video authoring law, right?
You can't put your shadow in a video. I want my shadow in this video.
Because I am going to use it to show you some stuff.
The topic is how to handle a tall bike.
Why would you want to know how to handle a tall bike?
Maybe you are looking at buying a tall bike. Maybe you wanted a dirtbike and you go "ohhhh"
"those are great but they're all too tall."
Maybe you're just a perp (criminal) and the last time you went to steal bikes
they were all tall bikes and because you couldn't ride them
you figured that you'd get to the first intersection
drop the bike and run and the angry mob would come to beat the crap out you
because they could figure out that you probably stole it.
So maybe you want to learn to ride it for that reason
whatever the case, I'm going to show you some of the tips I've learned from experienced
riders. I've only had this bike for a year,
gotten pretty comfortable with it.
I'm only 5'8", got a 30-32" inseam
I think its all pretty normal proportions. A lot of people look at bikes like this and figure, "Oh,
"Oh, you gotta be 6 feet to ride a bike like that, that's a bike for a tall guy."
Not so.
So let me start off,
the first thing you got to know how to do
is get on on the bike.
That's where we start. I'm going to start also by lowering the camera here a bit.
There we go, now we're in
looking down mode which is what we are doing a lot right now. Let me
start by showing you how people normally get on a bike. It's a pretty easy thing
and how it doesn't work with a tall bike. Mostly you throw your leg over the back right?
Grab the bar, throw your leg over the back of the bike.
I've never gotten on that bike this way. Not sure I'll be able to for this video.
I'll probably burn my pants of on the pipe.
I don't think I can do that.
And most people don't on a tall bike.
What they'll usually do is throw their feet right over the seat, so I'm going to try that.
Which is also something i never do.
So maybe with practice you could get better at it.
Throw your foot over like that and kind of have to walk over to get on the bike. And to get off
you have to either pick your leg up
or scrape your shoe all over the top of your seat, make a big mess.
I don't do that.
Look at that, my seat's a mess!
Who would do that?
Here's how I get on my bike.
I'm on the left side of the bike,
left foot, left foot peg,
grab the bars,
watch my shadow here.
I'm going to throw my leg over the back of the bike like that. This is also
a nice way to get on a touring bike that is stacked up with big bags.
A variation of that,
if you can't get your leg back that far because of the bags,
is to do it with a bent leg.
Get up on the bike, put the knee on the saddle and come around like this to get around all of your stuff.
When you're done, you're standing on the bike. That's what I'm doing, standing on the pegs,
which is what you're going to do a lot riding a bike like this on the dirt anyway.
So it's easy to do.
Alright now that we're sitting on the bike,
the next thing you're going need to do is hold the bike up: how ot balance it while you're sitting on it.
so let's take a facility to look at
we have a look at how this bike fits me
try to put both feet on the ground
this bike is the smallest foot that though
yes but is that so
that's right at this point
in my advice is
if you fail to like that you like this
don't try to put two feet out it does that work
it why because well thanks lay off balance
that's all i got for retraction foot
unspoken slip that evening
i've got nothing hold most who told me up
winnable itself up but by collectives
is not the bike
by clean up to one side i'm going to leave it
the left
the point where i can
they can get the ball of my foot on the ground meeting i couldn't bend at the
close of the total it puts the ball my foot
benefits for comes up the crowd
as a realistic a lot of people figure that's that's just me useless what now
telex that
he put his foot by foot peg base
you know i can tell us quickly
using both feet is what happens to be
using this using put paid to do it
we take my uh... hands off the bars now
we're live with the bike use it just my feet elected to hold the ball by foot
but but but they can
a lot of control
all the movement doing here because just using
great
and not move the camera no matter what that would look like this basis
me balancing the budget well big little exercise
i thought that this is actually a good way to hold up any kind of odd even
bikes were confined to a both sides
this big gives you more control over the bike
than having to see on the ground in using your but it is the same thing
so i always put a foot on the ground up for a foot they're going to be standing
up i kidded
one thing that helps the
as i a little bike like this isn't thinking about the latest on the ground
i'd have to think of this leg is operate like a kick stand
number one the by cleans slightly towards it
what i'm going to have the would have the fully grown
and it doesn't give me and that's about all i can do is preserving the cakes too
can't be doing all the things may be pushing the background
mobile get into that later in the same way you do
with the platform
turns next thing you need to know how to do after you did are on the bike and
balancing it is that how do you stop them
stopping obliquely to support it uses a technique called to decide
anthracite sounds easy enough derivative right
witnesses before you get to stop you've gotta decide because you've got to lead
the bike one way or the other
and put only one foot down you have to decide at some point before the stop
what side that's going to be so that you can shift you waited outside to get your
leg out on that side so i'm gonna go ahead
and do that here
unless that within sight what it is the website so i put the foot
dialing the bike over its that's now there's more going on to admit people go
well just because i did
coupled things did not number one you gotta be precise about is stopping
technique
and what i mean where you put your foot down
it is used to using toothy internal patil
had to stop you're not going to be a little then it's all bike
you've got tooth cabinet foot
and decide that you pick hit the ground within what i call war in stride
of where you're probably going to stop
foot down
and stuff
as you get a good
what you'll find is you couldn't get it done exactly the point where you're
going to stop anyway there's no need to strike boom there you've stopped
million to stand beside
and i think you know about small plates this highly reacting to breaking
small bites at all because they have long to travel
alongside all suspensions but the big picked exaggerates the certain behavior
about bikes the public's them
picture the explorer
long suspension blake
and insist things you need to master anyway when family along trampling
it's all by
number one is the react very differently the front in the rear brakes
front breakaway i'm going to apply the for a break and i keep my head level
americans across the river level because
and getting worse and get a break time
there were no they weren't
the front of the plank is diving down a lot
white flight from breaks only really hard
'em if i apply the rear brake only
the hope like squats the front and the fact that way
and sometime but i guess protection so this is important notice when you're
stopping the bike
it's nice to fly the rear brake or at the front and the rear not the front
only you try to stop the buying applying from prego you're gonna have to deal
with all that nosedive a separate guides as you coming to a stop and then when
you don't come to a stop at least breaks if i would like to pop up
but which isn't that terrible really but there's a picture day is good news you
can eliminate that behavior the bike while you're stopping
that's good
the reason i mention that is because you can only use the rear brake when you
play the left foot down here in the right foot down the obviously you know
they have access to the rear brake anymore
so at first it's going to be easier to stop
with the left foot should when you say pesticide pick the left side as he's
he's going to stop with first plus in america
right on the right hand side the street and the road is corrupt
and as a result
it's a blessing to reach for your
left leg to hit the pavement then for the right i'm gonna stop here intent to
show you that
america and wrote him off on the side
program be pretty exaggerated and his wife leslie is down
here's my rights that that i've got to do
the again this minute come across in the video
how much more lenient that do to get that
right foot left foot
frightfully
the vasily should learn
to stop with either foot you've left for the right foot down because you never
know where your balance is going to be where obstacles might be a website what
foot you might have to come down with
i'd l_a_ favor the left foot
but i force myself to use the right foot once a while sometimes when i don't have
to just to keep myself in practice because you've also then got to be good
at stopping smoothly with the front brake only
lisa last little bit of the
of the s dot past the curve live from breakaway
and you have to have all the precision
so it's a it's easier to start with the left foot
son and move on to the right foot
well i think if you are a couple our bikes and breaking
is how they can also you had a hill sonicwall over here
estoppel
i'm facing down hill
and i'm why in the rear brake only which is the uphill break
befuddled won the rear brake only we'll break away the likes it's lower if i
asked change instead of grabbing at the front brake the pike props up
significantly higher
bills that i wrote a spirited
rear brake only it sits down
preparatory pops up so if you want to keep the vital largest opt-out ifill
favor the up no break
and i said that way because it's reversed is not a front replicas uphill
downhill break a tie returned if they see tocqueville ulduar beholden to the
front breaking out the rear brake unordered have help the bikes at lower
assertion about a black
unclear on your car
you carry only supper control you have a career break at the parking brake
which gently controls that we are only so you can subsurface behavior on your
bike or your car
it's going to come through much more long travel fight
one final tip i can figure out of
for hanley atop lake is how to maneuver around
we need to balance they've got back in a parking spot
evidently the bike
going to use them until the underground
tendon wishing the bike around
it like ever written at the new much is it was around
when it's in neutral
then it is when it's unclear and you're holding down the clutch
so i've got a new from our work
pushed the biker refusing to push forward
wishing back as a prize is the issue and what i do they get
way up to the side of the bike
and even kept pushing up hill beer and especially condemn
soviet sometime just dark
doing this
hit the flag moved around
bc i got it right
friend
and sort of cooking around lag
eventful rather off the side foldable bike up so i think we should
that's just what you're going to be stark has just what you have to deal
with when you're
not that we have such a talk i can't wait all night
different but despite here instead
for i don't think the holy week let's do the same thing
westerners which around
where is the same technique though
hood light over videos that we have been your footwear inside were struggling
that and has been used effectively expo movements
sales of some of the skills i've learned
for more experienced riders applied myself
and every state dined and comfortable