Top 5 Dirt Bike Cornering Mistakes & Tips to Correct Them

Cornering is one of the most difficult aspects of racing to perfect, and is also one of the places where a lot of passes can be made to help you gain position. With a few tips you can be practicing solid technique that will have you tearing around those berms in no time. In this video, Chase points out some of the most common mistakes dirt bike riders make while cornering and gives some tips to help you correct them.

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[rmatvmc]

Do you have a favorite practice tip or drill to help with cornering technique?

[AndrewBoundy]

My newly titanuim-plated left collarbone asks - "why didn't you tell me this 10 days ago" :-)

[thanedavis]

My two additions. Lean the bike over before you enter the rut. Yes, I used to enter ruts with the bike straight up. And apply throttle all the way through the turn. Yes, I used to try to coast all the way through a turn.

[evracer]

Another tip to limit engine braking is to not close the throttle all the way, keep it cracked just a little bit. Part of your compression braking is the engine pulling vacuum on the throttle plate. Cracking the throttle won't make the bike accelerate, but it will limit compression braking. Old circle track racer tip to allow the car to roll into the corner.

[sooperdan]

My son is in his 2nd year of racing superminis on his crf150rb, I never rode motocross so I love watching your very helpful videos to help my son get faster, it's working, keep up the great videos...

[taketh]

I always have a hard time judging entry speed and end up overusing the throttle or chopping throttle or missing the rut. This helped clarify what I need to practice from all the noise that builds up when trying to figure it all out myself while riding. Thanks

[ianbruce]

You guys always pumping out the great content. Keep it up! We need the help

[gingerhill]

Thank You! You just reminded me of Everything that I forgot in my 27 YEARS off the Bike... That's Right 27 Years... Back in the late 70's Early 80's I was Pretty Fast even made it to the Pro's. But since I came back the biggest thing has been my cornering speed... I need a practice day now!!! There are a few comments on this that are good too... Crap... I Hope this doesn't get me bumped back up to Expert ;-) ... Thanks Again, I'm gonna watch this and Kris' video a FEW times.... Moto On!

[BikesEddie]

Useful video. What I like is the fact that you give us the way to practice to avoid our common mistakes.

[Butchersbikes]

Man! Good video, the hardest thing for me is panic braking sometimes when I come in too fast, and then also the head tilt thing! I never noticed I did that until this video!

[TheWhiskyExplorer]

Enjoying these and your product reviews. Very helpful. Thanks 👊🏻

[randydevoe]

Two bits of conflicting advice I remember from racing in the 80’s and doing Gary Bailey school a couple times... 1. You can’t fast until you do it correctly slowly. 2. You don’t know how fast you can hit that turn until the speed makes you crash. Basically, repeat the steps of cornering Speed in, brake, off brake lean in give gas and clutch, look upward, elbows high, hit throttle early as you Once you have repeated the steps 100s of times slow then hit it wide open... if you don’t crash then that’s how fast you can go!

[JMKGarage]

Thanks for sharing these tips. Look forward to putting them to practice this weekend.

[jeanlavallee]

Well explained I love this video. Thanks for the help!!!

[keale]

Rippin!!!!💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 killa video! Appreciate the tips!

[jeanlavallee]

I love this video, watched it many times.

[lukawala]

Also don’t look at the front wheel, look at corner exit

[Thumpermad]

I like the head upright tip it helps a lot looking forward as well it's the same with Surfing you look ahead down the wave it really helps .... 👍

[GTJB]

Great Video guys! This sis definitely a weak spot in riding. I wuss out in the corners( ruts or no ruts) Cant wait to try it this week at the track.

[tcasper_]

One thing that helps me is to keep my hips rotated out a bit and not have a hunch back. Keep your shoulders tall and you have much more control 👍🏼