How To Drift Like A Pro | Mountain Bike Skills

Drifting is about more than looking pretty cool; it'll help skill development and allow you to ride faster in certain situations.

First up, if you're going to drift, or practise drifting, make sure you don't go and ruin someone's new trails! A parking lot is the ideal place to get out a try this skill.

Basically, drifting is all about being comfortable when your bike is sliding; something that'll help you to avoid crashing in loads of situations alongside riding slightly faster out on the trail.

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[Sionnach]

Now THAT was actual drifting, unlike most videos which only show people skidding with the back brake on.
Kudos GMBN!

[NWTrailSeries]

You guys rock, I just started mountain biking this year and it's gonna take me some time... but I'm gonna get through all your awesome videos!

[bulbasur]

Since i started buying my own tyres, i stopped doing this. :(

[Comment_User]

Here in north we crouch near the bars so all the weight goes to front wheel and pedal like crazy on ice

[ura]

me: *tries to drift without skidding*
no

[scootjockey]

Skid ...Grip... Highside ... Hospital....Yeah.

[aerofiles]

this saved my life once in my neighborhood there is a big hill and when irode my bike down it once I ride down it everyday so that one day I went down that steep hill and that is a parking lot right in front of where the hill ends and there's this one parking spot right in front of the slope and there's NEVER a car there but that one time there was a mustang just chilling in that spot I slammed on my brakes locked the rear tire locked up the front one for about 1.5 seconds and then I took a sharp eight with the handlebars and then I was skidding fully side ways then somehow I managed to peddle forward while skidding fully sideways so I was skidding sideways and peddling forward and my rear tire finally managed to get traction and I flores it forward and I can out of the turn and I did no crash into the Ford Mustang if I didn't skid sideways and slammed the rear brakes and slammed my feet down on the pedals and flored it foward I would of crashed into the Mustang sideways and if you don't get what I mean by skidded sideways then flored it go look up polar express ice scene and go to time stamp: 0:23 to 0:29 yeah I almost died

[alana]

My friend tightened my break pads on my mountain bike and now when I break my bike the back wheel can skid when you don’t also break the front wheel, really helps when I drift and looks so cool

[ronrichison]

I set-up a big pile of dirt the other day and this poor couple gets blasted with dirt ruining their whole evening. I couldn't help to think it was my fault for their bad day. But after the guy chased me my bad feelings went away. I can look back on this and smile now.

[allangrant]

I just spent two hrs learning new skills with an elite xc dude. He loves cutties/drifting great skill to have !

[dynamitekid]

I used to love drifting my bike when I was a kid, it's so much easier to drift on a footbrake bike! I never had any accidents in drifting as long as your careful enough.

[jacobbagasevich]

Does anybody else agree that gmbn should do a video on doing a burnout?

[GudHunterYT]

one thing i do when drifting around turns is using the foot on the same side the turn is turning. (left foot out on left turn)

it gives me a bit more balance and able to regain traction quicker.

(note i wear really thick, solid steel toe boots so having them rub against the ground is least of my worries)

[aygunibryamov]

I can do 180 parking :))) can upload video too if you want

[dennisunderwood]

thanks for this guys always wanted to do this because I do trail riding quite a bit but never knew how #veryhelpful

[michaelip]

This is the first track I learnt when I was a kid

[glzzy]

Leaves are where it's at when you have nice tires

[damiangilop]

I remember how i was learning it by myself. that one time when it was driving off a hill and it kicked back ouch

[alexcantlow]

done it i can do it without taking my feet off in most corners fun as hell find the slippest serface you can find then go try it out best way to learn is exxaduate it to the extream i think in some skills bit still learning to balance proply and consistantly how long dus it take to learn a new skill never realy tryed getting into the nitty gritty of my training but i just want to get better and mayb one day have a sick little mtb vid up lol

[mnchildblues]

Quick drifting on corners WITHOUT braking my main goal. I think this move alone separates the pros from the experts!