How To Ride MTB Rock Gardens! | Easy MTB Skills

Riding rock gardens can be a tricky skill to learn for beginners, but fear not as Neil Donoghue is out in Bentonville exploring some local trails to guide you through some simple, yet effective Mountain Bike skills on how to conquer those pesky rock sections and get through even the toughest MTB rock garden trails with speed and comfort!

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Do you have any great rock garden skills to share with the GMBN community? Drop them down below!👇

[laszlobacs]

I'm 67 and find these rg sections to be on the extreme side and not very enjoyable while very risky.
There are plenty of moderate trails with natural technical features that satisfy my needs while safety is more important especially for older riders like myself. Great video thanks for sharing.

[Ha-GNAR]

Being a total novice I find things like this quite daunting at the moment, especially at lower speeds with a drops while needing to turn.

This is a great tutorial and I think I could maybe check my front fork setup (sag & rebound only) but also I think there's a bit of a need to just turn the brain off and just go for it - which is also quite difficult when healing up takes longer than it used to.

[michaelmoore]

That was probably the best explanation of shock spacers I’ve ever heard. Thank you, Neil!

[KJ-wixh]

Gotta love watching Neil hooning through the gnar.

[nightworxx]

Great vid, this is exactly the soundtrack running in my head when i find myself snailing around on the track 😆

[GabeC]

I used to hate rock gardens, too, but I'm learning to live with them. No choice really, since the trails I ride criss cross a dry creek. Still working on dialing in the right tire pressure and fork pressure for my bike and weight. It's definitely a process.👍

[jeddacheese]

Rock gardens are the best my Nukeproof scout glides over them!

[chikamichi]

Body positioning, knee flex, does most of the work here.

[Dwyanest]

great content as always! sound level needs a bit of tweaking tho, music is way louder than speech

[theprofitmohamhead]

Someone using your channel contacted me saying I won a new bike on June 11th. I have a screenshot of this if you'd like to investigate this. I just checked the video's comments. It's since been deleted.

[butterpretzels]

crashed in a rock garden today, was my first time trying. Thought I could just modulate my rear brake and id be good. I was wrong lol, im ok though. Thank god. Def need to practice

[davidharvey]

Good video - the explanation of spacers was really good. Any thoughts on rebound adjustment?

[Sixbillion]

send it over the rocks when you can, easiest way. as far as tire pressure thats a funny conversation amoung folks, considering pressure depends on what tire size you are running. when folks ask me what pressure i use, i make sure to tell them what size tire i run (2.8), so thats a factor. i dunno why my pressure would matter to someone anyways. there are too many factors

[mikerobertson]

I started riding hard tail again, and am more challenged by rock gardens now. Especially since I'm used to just charging in to them. It's really forcing good line choice and technique

[Seilium]

@gmbn I have trouble on shark fins. Can you make a video on that?

[nomad-pqywiyv]

some rock gardens speed can be the answer like railroad ties on a dirt bike as long as the rock are spaced right as well as height being reasonable.

[slide_drexler]

Its easy to rip thru those gnarly rock gardens if you have a rim and tire sponsor thats got your back. But for mere mortals like me, i think long and hard before i try to traverse onto one.😂

[VegasCyclingFreak]

You need to come to Las Vegas and ride some of the black diamond trails here and then do a companion video. The rocks here are very nasty - rough, jagged and not in nice neat little steps.

[TomBaldwin]

Yew great video the intro is fire heart this comment pls