These four quick lessons, simple but challenging, will be especially helpful for new adventure riders and experienced street riders who want more control on lowtraction, uneven dirt and gravel roads. Professional motorcycle instructor Dusty Wessels from West38Moto explains four easy, lowspeed exercises riders of any experience level can practice just about anywhere on any motorcycle #exceptDCT. Take a little time to work on these simple techniques and you will improve your riding skills and gain the control and confidence you'll need when you want to venture off the asphalt.

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00:00 Borrego Springs Scenic Intro
00:28 Welcome to MOTOTREK
00:45 Front and Rear Brake Exercises
01:45 Smooth Clutch Control
03:40 Smooth Clutch and Throttle Control
04:49 Body Stabilization Balance Exercise
05:50 Clutch Friction Zone Circle Exercise
06:45 Wrapup

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one of our biggest goals as riders is to operate the bike smoother think of it as being a drummer or a heavy equipment operator where we're using our hands and our feet to synchronize precise movements i'm going to show you some slow speed control techniques to help you be a smoother safer rider practicing slow maneuvers to understand and more importantly feel the delicate input required will make you a smoother rider one of the things that will help us be a smoother rider is to get comfortable with the front brake offroad it causes a lot of anxiety here's something for you to practice be in first gear standing up on the motorcycle when you're ready to stop put your weight back pull the clutch all the way in compress the front brake with one or two fingers until you feel the wheel engage with the terrain squeeze the front brake until you come to a complete stop and sit down so now we're going to throw in the rear brake using it to assist the front brake and stopping stand up as you're rolling in first gear when you're ready to stop put your weight back pull the clutch in compress the rear brake but don't skid the rear wheel then using one or two fingers compress the front brake until you feel the front wheel engage with the terrain compressing both brakes come to a complete stop and sit down remember use your front brake as your primary stopping brake use your rear brake as an assist brake now we want to practice smooth clutch control in order to do that we need to find an incline to give us enough resistance so that we can work the clutch inside the friction zone i'm going to sit on the bike with both my feet on the ground hands on the handlebars i'm only going to use the clutch here and i'm going to focus on the friction zone inside the clutch the key here is when you open the clutch up and the bike starts to move and it starts to roll up the incline don't let the clutch out all the way hold it right there you're trying to achieve very micro movements micro adjustments on the clutch to help you roll up and down this hill let's try it you can see my hand is not on the throttle just the clutch very small movements as soon as the bike starts to move leave the clutch right there don't pull it in don't let it all the way out because you'll kill the bike what you'll hear is the engine about to die at a certain point as you can see i'm on my tiptoes there it goes so now you know the point of okay that's as far out as i can let the clutch to keep the bike still rolling while i get up this hill now i want to roll back down this hill without using my brakes just using my clutch just small micro movements on the clutch is controlling that rear wheel and controlling my speed start the bike again try it again get as far as i can and i'll roll back down with the engine running this time
see you can hear just little micro adjustments on the clutch keeping the bike stable not making it out of control if i pull it in too much i get out of control if i let it go it dies okay now i'm going to add in the throttle the key here is delicate inputs to the throttle using them both together same hill feet on the ground don't want to hear a lot of input from your engine here you can hear that a little bit and as soon as you start to move the goal here is keep that clutch out don't drop it all the way don't get out of control don't pull it all the way in nice and easy just keep it right where it's at i start to die a little bit add a little bit of throttle i can just inch my way up this hill making micro a
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