- Right, the manuals are a great tool to have
in your arsenal.
Bar jumpin' or bunny hoppin'.
The manual can help you out in sticky situations.
Even make you faster out on the trail.
Here are a few of my top examples
of where to use the manual out on the trail.
Woohoo, pedalin'!
(rock music)
Wow, I'm soaked!
Ugh, a puddle!
Right, here's a tip.
Manualing through a puddle can keep your face
and grill fresh.
Cause all that spray's gonna come off that front wheel
if you go two wheels through it
and you're gonna get caked in mud.
Manualing through it is gonna keep this fresh.
Manual!
Oh this is a big one for manualing!
Alright, this obstacle right here,
riding over it with the hitting of your front wheel's
gonna be a little bit uncomfortable
and maybe send you over the bars.
So this is a perfect situation where
the manual technic
or a little pedal wheely
to get you over this obstacle,
is gonna be the best option.
So the secret to this one is spotting that obstacle
a little bit early on the trail.
Give yourself enough speed,
knowing that your gonna do a manual over this,
and basically just manual over.
Get your front wheel over,
drag your back wheel over through it.
Right, when it comes to a drop such as this one,
the manual technic is the perfect option.
Cause if you're just riding over it,
you're gonna loose your front wheel
or your weights gonna shift forward
and it's gonna send you nose heavy
or the dreaded OTB.
Over the bars.
And that's never a good thing.
But the super basic technic is
getting your front wheel up
just before the drop,
matching it, and you've got your come down two wheels.
Right, the slightly more advanced approach
to the manualing off a drop is,
manualing in and off the drop.
That's cool, more exhilarating, and fun.
My little pro tip here,
when your front wheel starts to dive,
just before you're coming off the drop,
that's gonna end in a bit of a situation.
So little pro tip here is
stop, hit the brake, get your front wheel down
just before you're gonna go off the drop
or this is the only time I say pedal in a manual.
It's gonna save your bacon.
Just gotta watch out, when you're manualing in
and off this drop,
you're probably coming in a bit back wheel heavy
instead of two wheels.
So just hover over your back brake
just to stop you from looping out.
You don't want to do that.
Right, moving on from the manual drop technic.
This obstacle right here on the trail,
same similar thing,
but you want to have the front wheel
a little bit higher than you would
because if you were just to come in normal,
normal manual,
that there is gonna buck you over the bars.
So what you want to do,
is come in a bit of a bigger manual,
let that bump buck you
but it's gonna buck you just enough
to level out your bike so you can land two wheels first.
Right, this little bit of trail here
is not so so rough but it is a little bit rough
with roots and drops and rocks and bits and pieces.
So the manual is gonna help you.
It's gonna benefit you on this little bit of trail.
Where as if you're going through it with two wheels,
your front wheel's trying to push you back.
Where as back wheel, you're driving it all the way through
soaking of the rear of your bike
and it's gonna help you through this trail
a little bit more smoother.
Rollers is a great place to bring in the manual skills.
Having the front wheel up and getting the back wheel
to match the roller,
can help you increase your speed
and get through some obstacles smoother.
But when the rollers get really close together
and you can't--
and your front and back wheel are trying to get through
you're gonna loose speed,
having the front wheel up
and getting the back wheel to do all the work,
you can pump and generate more speed
to get through the trail,
and you can get through smoother.
(gravel crunching)
(brakes squeak)
Next tip is manualing anywhere and everywhere
and whatever you can do with the manual,
but if you've watched this video and you have no clue
on how to manual,
then click just up here on how to manual.
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