3 Skills Every New Adventure Rider Should Practice!

Big, heavy adventure motorcycles like my friend's BMW R1250 GSA and my own KTM 790 Adventure R can be a handful to ride off-road! So here are 3 exercises you can practice to quickly build your confidence and skill!

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[TheMotoBarista]

What are your favourite skills/drills to practice!? 👇

[alanjm]

Never buy a bike you can't pick up by yourself if you drop it.

[Revy]

Very important to stand up in attack position while heading down to the local Starbucks

[DamonStangherlin]

Great vid! I like this one, going to try it out now that it's Fall/almost Winter up where I am. I'm glad you made a video on this, because I wholeheartedly agree on doing drills. The number one tip for anyone here that wants to better themselves is; "DO DRILLS". Just the act of doing these things is extremely beneficial. I spent a good amount of time last fall and winter doing stuff just like this (for the first time in my riding career), and it payed itself off drastically since then. Another 3 that I really enjoyed doing;
1. (With a bold tire so you don't waste fresh knobbies) Doing acceleration balance practices. What I did was; while in an attack riding position (standing), slow the bike down to a crawl, lay on the power hard in away where you can maintain traction and THROW your body weight forward simultaneously, what you're aiming for is to not feel push or pull on the bars holding on to them, thus your weight is balanced over the bike (having weight back more can be used in different techniques such as hill climbs, but just focus on neutral balance over the bike for this drill). Then brake hard as you can. Throwing your weight back will help with many things, also working with traction. While doing this you can also spend time practicing the "rally mode" 1-9 slip adjust on the 790/890 for example, or any other bikes traction control system.
2: Another that helped was finding a small (maybe diamerter of 15-30ft, smaller the better) circle of terrain that is inconsistent, downhill rocks one third, flat for one third, uphill loose gravel. And then practice exactly what your're working on in this video, while also practicing modulation of power over loose terrain, brake control, and then go slower and slower to see how slow you can go while working on clutch control.
3: And then another that I did was to do hill climbs (relatively small but enough to be a bit of work). Go up them slower and slower to see how you can modulate clutch and traction, and again working with the different traction control modes your bike offers. Keep up the great vids, should give these a try on your next drill run / practice outing!

[tazyt]

good tips cobba my go to practice thingys on a new ride are slow clutch control brake loading and abs familiarity and weight shift effects dial em in youl know your new bike faster

[virendradr]

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[laius]

For practices like that i think its better to ride ina figure of 8 so you turn both left and right. Instead of yo one side only.

[bigmanben]

Where do you find space to practice? I struggle to find somewhere to practice these drills.

[theyshouldhavenevergivenme]

The guy is talking more into the camera while they should have used all that time to actually show the bike and the rider and what the rider was doing imho.
It's already way too short to learn anything from (Half the video is taken up by the intro banter alone) and then all the action is filmed from afar as well which just makes the whole thing useless.

[scottburghart]

When you are young and healthy and you can't pick up your bike off of flat is a sure sign your bike is too damn heavy!

[farouk]

I have a good tip, buy a smaller bike if you want to go off road.

[IamthePMofAustralia]

Theres just no feel in the front end.... says someone who's never ridden a GS before and just crashed it. LOL

[omnivore]

What is "dropping a shoulder? "Oopsie! I dropped my shoulder. Now I have to ride back and get it."

[oliverrichie]

It doesn't make sense to buy such heavy and expensive bikes. Go for a 300 or 400 and you'll have lot more fun, safety and less stress. And more money in your pocket to spend for travelling with your humble but still powerfull decent dirty bike.

[kipper]

I would not call them adventure motorcycles. There road bikes pretending to be dirt bikes. Trust me if you’re new to riding off road don’t buy one of those bikes you will regret it. Start off with a motorcycle under 180kg

[xxgizop]

If your on the balls of your feet you can't operate

[Nonogrow]

Track riding motocross, berm corners elbows high...foot forward other foot peg planted clutch n throttle like a mofo slingshot right out the corner...Tiger 800 xcx practicing drifts etc ...good times good tips ... squeeze the knees Louise eh cheers rip on men 👌💯💪👍😉🤣🤣🤣🥃💪