Too much?
I'm gonna go change. Yeah good good call.
This is Kelsi and Colin and we're going mountain biking.
Turbospoke?
Cool.
Hi you guys. I'm Kat Sweet with Sweet Lines and I will be your mountain bike coach
here with REI.
Nice. Well this is our first time mountain biking. Very first...
Have bikes changed it all since the 80s Kelsi?
Ya, I haven't ridden a bike in like 20 years.
Oh boy I am in trouble today.
So Kat. I been really hyping up this one move that I really want to try it's called the endo.
What is an endo? Its like a front wheelie.
Hopefully you can expertly tell me how to pull off the gnarliest
endo like in the Pacific Northwest.
All you have to do is grab a bunch of front
brake with a little bit of speed and you'll go flying over that front of that
bike and we call that endoing.
Are you ok?!
Thank goodness you have knee pads.
I have a funny feeling you might not want to endo.
Ok some basics
of mountain biking first one is looking ahead not reading the tread or if you
endo than its head in tread.
One finger always covers the brake levers one on each side.
Which break do you use Kelsi the front or the back?
Oh I don't know I've just been
using my left break.
You want to use both brakes nice and evenly at the same time.
If I use too much back brake I am going to skid. Too much front brake...
Just say no to endo.
What are like the basic positions that you should be in on
different parts of the trail?
When the trails kind of mellow and chill and I'm
standing up coasting we call that our neutral position. You want to have evenly
weighted feet with one foot in front of the other. I'm standing in an athletic
position on my bike looking ahead. Then if the trails getting
bumpier and gnarlier to sink down get nice and low .
There's bike body separation forward and back. So if I'm going down a really
steep hill I got to get back a little bit. This is awesome it really forces you
to focus on what you're doing. What's general is not my strength.
If I am going up a steep hill we're ready to go.
When you are setting you like your seat height how does that play into it?
So if I'm pedaling and I'm going uphill I'll raise my seat up.
You'll want to use your quick release and raise your seat up for climbing.
Then when I'm going downhill I like to lower my seat and get it out of the way so
that I can maintain balance over the bike easier and shift my weight back as needed.
Just do that about twenty or thirty times.
Are you supposed to stand up when
you're like going uphill?
If it's a long climb I want to stay seated because
otherwise you'll get a bunch of lactic build-up in your legs.
So I have never really ridden on a trail so I don't really know like the etiquette.
A couple things the rider going uphill usually has the right-of-way.
So if I'm coming downhill I should slow down give
them room to get by.
They would have been so impressive the turbospoke.
Ya if you had the turbo spoke on there those guys probably would've just turned around
you've gone home. If you see a hiker on the trail say "Hello" leave space for them
to get by. You always want to stop when you see a horse.
Ditch the bike. Tuck and roll and get out of there.
So are attire? Yeah guys look amazing you're ready to shred.
I am feeling more confident all of a sudden.
Literally 200 times the amount of bike knowledge I had then before this.
Ok, are you guys shreddy?
Okay rolling!
So Kelsi this is great. Glad you switched out your spandex?
I don't know I was a little more aerodynamic before. reporter nice horn calling
We made!
This is heavy.
Lets go get a beer.
I don't know why we decided to hold the bikes above our heads after
riding them all day because there's way more epic.