- Welcome back you beautiful people,
today is all about riding ruts.
Don't you just hate it when you get stuck in a rut
and it feels like you're riding along a hose pipe
and you fall off?
Well today I'm going to show you how to ride ruts.
There's tons down this way.
Follow me.
(upbeat music)
(loud crash)
Okay there's a number of different ruts out on the trail
when you go out riding.
This one right here, we're going to start
off with this one.
This is a trail rut
and this is a combination of a bit of erosion
and a lot of traffic when people are riding this trail
a lot it kind of digs in a rut,
which is all good 'cause, you know,
trails are there to be ridden
and the one thing that you don't want to do
is look at your front wheel,
because when you're starting to look at your front wheel,
like I say, you don't know what's coming ahead.
Keep the bike flowing underneath you,
you don't want to be all stiff
and just follow the original trail
and stay in the middle of the rut.
Don't try and turn out of this rut
because if you start to turn out this rut,
you wheel's just gonna slide and lock like this
and it's got a tendency to spit you over the bars.
Now, I'm gonna show you the how to do it
and then I'm gonna to show you how not to do it
so you don't make that mistake
when you're out there on the trail.
(chilled music)
Right.
Next rut.
(groans)
Right, I hate ruts where you're not confident
in riding them because, man, they can spit you out
like no man's business.
They're crazy to ride
but when you're riding them
and you know how to ride them,
it feels like you're riding on rails.
Like you're on a train and the only way you can go
is just follow this rut.
And they're super intimidating, look how deep this is.
Look there, that, it's pedal strikes,
that's how deep this rut is.
Now how do you ride these ruts?
Again, always looking forward
and you don't want to go into it too slow
'cause if you're coming in too slow,
you're trying to get your balance
and that means you're using that front wheel
to keep your balance going through
but you can't move your wheel too much on the front
because it's gonna grip
and it's gonna stop you and if you're going
a little too slow and it's really steep
it'll spit you over the bars,
just like riding a normal trail rut.
Now this one, I wouldn't say this is a normal trail rut.
This is a deep, deep, deep, deep rut.
And you want to ride it, not fast
but at a reasonable speed so you can keep upright
and you can keep your wheel straight following that rut.
Always lookin' ahead, follow the rut.
Don't get scared and turn out of this rut
because this is what happens.
(dance music)
Yep.
Don't turn out of a rut.
Ride the rut all the way down.
I'm gonna show you how to ride ruts.
(dance music)
Oh man, look at that.
One here and the pedal, that's a little bit of word
of warning when you're riding deep ruts.
The deep ruts can be a bit tricky.
You could pedal strike and spit yourself off.
Or, you could rip your rear mech off,
which, that's never good,
especially when you're out in the woods
so far away from home.
I recommend if it's a deep rut, go in nice and slow
and easy, you don't want to go and lean it over
in a deep rut and get your rear mech
all cut off by the rocks.
Don't do that.
(man tuts)
Right.
Loam ruts.
That's always a good one, it's all about grip there.
This, my friends, is a Loam rut.
In this dirt right here is an abundance of grip
and a rut as well.
Now, a deep rut like this is intimidating,
you think it's not gonna hold you
because it's all super soft.
But the key here, is to be very confident within the grip
of your bike and what the ground has to offer
within grip as well.
And, it is key to stick to the rut.
If you see a rut in a turn just like this one,
aim for it, look ahead, look at your exit,
hit it hard and come out, because that has got a lot
of support into it.
Whereas if you were to come over here, there's no support.
Or if you were to come around here, there's no support.
But in that rut is a lot of support
and you can get a lot more flow within the trail.
Whereas here there's nothing, there there's nothing as well.
Aim for the rut, ride it, and shoot off down the trail.
(hands wiping)
Right.
This is how to do it.
This is not how to do it.
(upbeat music)
(DJ scratch sound)
(man spits)
Hate ruts.
(man spits)
Alright when it comes to a trail into a corner
when you want to maintain your flow and maintain your speed
usin' the rut in the trail and in a turn
is gonna help you maintain that speed
whereas if you were to ride the flat ground
around about here and there's not much support,
plus you're gonna be sliding, losing your speed,
also, you're gonna be using those brakes
to slow yourself down.
Now, by usin' the rut,
you can keep your speed, keep your flow.
Where the ground used to be about this high
all the way across, but over time
and a lot of traffic, this rut has occurred.
Now this can be a bit intimidating,
especially when you're coming in quite fast on to this.
These little ledges can catch you out.
And can put you off balance.
But, when you come in to a section like this at high speed
you'll be quite determined but also super confident
when you're coming in to a rut like this
because when you're looking out at your exit,
you know where your wheels are going
because you're guiding your bike into this rut.
Also, this is again going to help you maintain
your speed throughout the trail.
(inspirational music)
It's all well and good me teaching you how to go downhill
through some horrible, horrible, horrible ruts
but what happens when you've gone from the very bottom
of that trail you've just descended
with all those horrible ruts
and you get to this point
and you're introduced with that?
All those ruts, right in front of you,
after you've climbed from the bottom.
You're tired, you're gonna be weaving like this,
how are you gonna ride up through a rut like that?
Well the best option that I like to do,
is to saddle up, I'm sat right up on the edge
of the saddle just like this,
I'm looking ahead and I'm trying to keep a steady momentum.
I'm trying not to weave too much up through that.
'Cause if you're weaving up there,
you can easy catch your front tire
and that's gonna stop you from climbing up a rut like that.
So there you go, that's how to ride ruts.
It can be super intimidating and hard when it comes
to a climb and you have to climb up
some horrible rutty, climb.
The best thing is is just look ahead, keep the power on
and keep firing straight, because if you start to turn,
well that's when it all goes wrong.
Hopefully this has helped you out.
Ride some ruts.
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(sighs)