- Mountain biking can can be quite complicated,
with lots of things to learn when you start out.
- Very much so, Neil.
Even though when you become a pro,
you still learn.
- Do you think you need pedals?
- Well that's a silly question,
yes, you do need pedals.
- Yeah, you ready?
- All right.
(air swooshes)
(rocks shake)
Neil is right, I do need pedals.
Can't go riding without pedals.
All right, I can't remember this.
What's the right way for this?
- [Neil] Oh, Blake, no, not like that.
Wrong side.
No, as soon as it's done,
we realized the mistake.
And what a mistake,
it's a point of no return.
As soon as it's in, you've destroyed it.
New crank arm set, new pedals, new everything,
so make sure you take your time
in putting your pedals on the right way,
so you don't make this mistake.
Well done, Blake.
Yes, you've completed the challenge.
You've put your pedals on the correct way,
now it's time to go find Neil.
Oh, look at that.
No, what a mistake to happen.
- Oh no, that's embarrassing.
- Neil, back in a bit.
- [Neil] Don't forget to do a bolt check all over,
especially your stem,
'cause that's the steering, man.
It could go horribly wrong.
Oh, in the car park, be super embarrassed.
Bolt check, do it.
- That's better.
That was embarrassing.
Neil, coming.
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It's important to be in the right gear
for the situation.
It's easy to forget
when you get at the start of hill
and find that you really should be in an easier gear.
This is the same if you're going down after a climb.
Go to try a sprint,
you realize you're in a super low gear,
you smash your knee into the stem.
- When it comes to taking advice from someone
about a trail for the first time
without you even riding down the trail,
it's called riding it blind.
Make sure you take in all this information
from the guide or from someone
that actually knows the trail,
because you might get yourself
into a bit of a sticky situation.
Basically what you do,
is you're going to pass the fourth or fifth trail on the left.
Turn left, and it goes into a really steep, really fast bit.
- Yeah. - Cool, got it?
- I got it, yeah. - Awesome.
- [Blake] Is there anything else I should look out for?
- That's it. - That's it?
Whoa.
Oh, forgot.
Left, right, left?
Second, seven, five, six, three, nine?
I'm going right.
I can't remember, oh no.
- Where on earth is Blake?
(Blake grunts)
It's so (yells).
Neil!
Idiot!
Not moving around on the bike,
or specifically, far enough to the back of the bike.
Now this can be caused
by people on a really high saddle,
and it actually been kind of difficult and awkward,
and don't feel very nice to get behind this.
So in that case, if you got to drop the post,
just get it down.
Or even if you just got to quickly move saddle out of the way,
get used to how far you can go back on the bike.
You need that for steep downhill sections,
so your weight doesn't go forward towards the bar.
However, some people go too far back,
and we see this quite a lot
in our fails and bail section.
And people go so far back,
they hit their derriere into the rear tire
going off a drop off or jump.
And boom, it's like dropping an anchor
or hitting that bad brake.
If bike stops, weight goes forward,
and some of the worst crashes we see.
To stop this, what you really need to do
is learn exactly how much movement you've got.
And you see a lot of the Downhill racers
actually have sort of marks on their trousers or shorts
where they will drag their bum on the back tire,
but the idea is to obviously not go too far
and actually hit it and stop.
So, yes, you do need all that space.
But after awhile,
you should learn where that rear tire is.
And you will find all things like 29ers
will come sooner than you actually realize sometimes.
When you stop, just pull to the side of the trail.
Don't be selfish,
you never know when another rider
could fly around the corner enjoying their ride.
Stopping!
What are you doing?
Heel man, what are you doing?
- [Blake] You clumsy.
- [Neil] What are you yelling about?
- [Blake] The brakes, they all are.
- [Neil] No, why you were going slow?
- [Blake] Idiot.
- [Neil] What are you doing?
(Blake breathes heavily)
- I'm going to give him what for when I get to him.
Oh, you broke my bike!
- Even the fastest, most skilled, intelligent,
ex-professional mountain bike riders
don't have the fastest reactions,
so cover your brakes at all times.
You never know when you might need them.
There's some mistakes, I still make all of them.
- I pretty much make them as well, Neil.
- No, do you?
- Don't, you've made mistakes.
- You make mistakes.
- You make mistakes. - You always make mistakes.
- [Blake] Don't, we've got an argument, Neil, lets just.
There's a mistake.
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