How to Corner & Descend On Your Gravel Bike | Unbound Gravel Prep | TPC

When you’re trying to ride your gravel bike as fast as possible, you don’t want to be held back by your bike handling skills. These 6 simple handling tips will help you safely and quickly navigate loose corners and rough descents on your gravel bike. We’ll explain why these tips help you ride faster and how to practice these skills before your next big gravel race.

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0:00 What goes up, must come down
1:20 Look where you want to go
2:44 Hinge at the hips and lower your chest
3:56 Don’t deathgrip the handlebars
4:39 Lean the bike under you
5:18 Drop your outside foot
5:49 Try not to brake in the middle of corners
6:41 How to practice cornering and descending skills
8:36 Rough singletrack is great training
9:24 The key is relaxing and getting loose

[govbradford]

Great advice everyone (including me) should practice!

[normanchan]

The best tip I got was to use the rear brakes more. I use 70/30 rear to front brakes and this allows me to go fast into corners and still maintain some control, at least thats how it feels.

[griffithd]

Ha, I've hit that same rut at 2:00 and did the same thing.

[tuckert]

now that i’ve watched this i can go down gold hill on road tires with no brakes