Braking For Steep Terrain Mountain Biking : Tips for Braking Fast when Downhill Mountain Biking

[itcw]

who is this fella, is he a renown moutain biker?

[littledude23531]

did he wet his pants

[JaySooz508]

Hard front brake at 1:02? WHAT?!?!?! ......(Beginner bike rider) : Mhmmmm....ill practice this (goes down hill at top speed)....(hard on front brakes).....(wakes up in hospital)

[Koteycoyote]

Hey Stevie Wonder, time to pass the camera over to a real cameraman now...

[trysoccer]

That place looks so fun!

[bikeskills]

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[TheCookiejames]

talk about pointing out the obveos of coarse ur gona go faster when u let of the brakes

[Elghinna]

Well, there's one thing I can say for sure: They guy who tried to show this is not an expert and professional biker...

If he would be one, I would be the "Godfather of Freeride" compared to him. If you want to see a real expert and professional, you should look out for names like Wade Simmons, Steve Peat, Danny MacAskill.. these are real professionals.

[tavonevox16]

I need some help,I'm 17 & my mom just got me a new Sharewood bike,I mainly use it for riding back and forth to my friends house & school & sometimes to the next city over from where I stay,is a Sharewood an okay bike for trail riding or is it better for road biking??

[itisivon]

@tavonevox16 wat?

[tavonevox16]

@itisivon I just realized itsShorewood not Sharewood. x]

[nodas100]

i want too see the guy that holds the cam !!and man we dont treat our bike that way its not a horn its our friend because its carrying our fat ass on its back(1,16)ohh and its still sound like shit



[flippy0450]

such a homo

[anonimus671]

the first hard front brake would tumble alot of amateur bikers forward..

[Bublz22]

when in doubt- THROTTLE OUT! same goes for bikes going downhill =) (throttle out means spead up so bike balances easyer if there are any who dont know =) )

[SpacedOut8RH]

@munrubenmario: finally someonee that thinks the same way!!! thank you!

[CathyOsoFine]

WOW excuse me but i'm REALLY impressed by that last jump.. i would be shitting myself and would have just carried my bike and walked down ha! DAMN i have so much to learn...

[craftsman425]

I think you kids may have never won a race. He is demonstrating how a skill is done. I use what he is talking about all the time. I win races all the time. Listen close to what he says, Brake slightly before the drop and then totally off the brakes to gain speed.

[MarkLn1]

what bike is that

[kilbergalindo]

it looks like a marin quad trail

[swannboy123]

It's a Cannondale Prophet.

[crowsrule18]

that guys terrible he could of turned that first rock he rolled down into a drop aswell instead of rollin down and being a pussy

[xXxdaguitarfreakxXx]

he is just demonstrating to other pussies how to brake downhill. just because he is doing a demonstration, it doesnt mean he actually does that everywhere.

if I were to demonstrate how to jump start a car, it wouldnt mean i always jump start it everywhere, i was just demonstrating that i knew how to.

[SwampRunner7]

хуйня

[Degenerator1]

when i`m riding my bike i usually look up or on my handlebars this video helped me allot . thanx bro!

[veronicasnow07]

love all the comments lmao!! guess he doesnt do this much

[briand198420v]

what a bollocks video.

[metaldrummer330]

on the brakes all the time?! oh dear.

[Rantanshe]

what a douche

[deadlymindcontrol]

you think thats steep.....

go the alps you'll get a nasty suprise

[tyronety2000]

just clear the shit...........u dont have to ride the brakes on it all

[slipknot742617maggot]

i can asure you that no downhill rider would brake like this douche bag.

[mtbrider253]

my fucking dad whos 55 is in better shape then this fuckin guy.

[leonoff89]

lol throttle on a motorcycle

[maurinooooo]

nice gap

[Husk1993]

always out of breath

[anthony100000000]

who cares when you brake teach us something we dont already know

[agerpic]

yes but he isnt doing downhill he's just stopping at every burger king

[ombyes1234]

This is for downhillers to get better and faster right? this is all wrong then.. braking too much in the wrong places

[miertnemmegyezaszar]

why doesent he have a fullface helmet for dh?

[complimentsheck]

i do have to say it gets really hot with a full face helmet compared to open one.

[AidanCrank]

he probably would have he was talking though and wasn't really going at it on the hill

[youstinkmom]

is that a prophet? tel me if i am wrong

[JellyBellyMTB]

plz any body know what his forks are

[mrspiffy1981]

They look like older Pikes by Rockshox. Their AM shocks.

[kickitmountainstyle]

ROCKSHOX Pikes 454 dual air

[extreme003]

his bike sounds like broken...piak!

[munrubenmario]

Didn't your mum ever tell you blokes if you haven't got something nice to say then don't say it at all.

Obviously everyone who watches these videos are olympic or world champion mtb'ers judging by the comments. Get over yourselves.

Youtube seems to be for knobheads big noting themselves on just about every subject known to man.

[canadianroot]

@munrubenmario I couldn't agree with you more. It seems like MTB videos bring out the armchair expert in people. I'd love to know specifically why they think this guy is full of shite. Apparently he's a professional mountain bike racer, but that's not good enough. I haven't seen any advice from him that makes me scratch my head and wonder if he's from Mars. The only thing that tops MTB vids in trash talk seems to be debating who is the best guitar god.

[VegetativeHorse]

@canadianroot I hate armchair experts as much as the next guy but this guy really doesn't seem to know what he's talking about. Because mtb is learned pretty much intuitively, it's not unlikely that a guy can ride decently but when it comes to explaining how he does it, he messes things up bad. There's another video where he suggests putting ALL your weight forward in order to make a skiddy descent, which is rather foolish, so when he supposedly does what he was describing, he doesn't do that.

[canadianroot]

@VegetativeHorse I suppose that's right.....I've learned it intuitively.....and have the bruises to prove it. Which, I suppose, is why I look on here for videos that might assist in technique. If he's teaching technically incorrect stuff, I guess folks ought to comment.....but I like rubenmario's comment, which for me sums it up nicely. I guess there are a lot of kids who think they're the next world downhill champ, and they wind up taking the piss out of each other as well.

[VegetativeHorse]

@canadianroot Well put. I'd say there's a bit of both categories you mention, which was why I thought people should comment on bad advice regardless of the fact that this is not necessarily a nice thing to do. Claiming to know the theory better than somebody doesn't automatically make you a great rider. It's one thing to know how it's done right and another to actually do it. In my view, the main problem with this guy is that most of his riding is irrelevant to the points he's trying to make.

[Mtnbikedan24]

i wish this guy would just brake right of the end of a cliff!!!

[almightygoose]

wtf this guy is a joke! he needs to lose that gut and learn to walk up a slope without having a heart attack before he gives dh tips.

[CI1900BAKATCHA]

well u obv havnt done any downhill u sac lol u obv cant ride a bike after that comment u just made search some real downhill. sam hill gee atherton or steve peat check out some of their videos and find out what real mountain biking is all about u f***ing pussies

[madaboutrc]

Hmm, looks like you spend most of your time reading mbuk. People like you can only dream of bieng a mountian biker

[CI1900BAKATCHA]

lol ive actually never read mbuk but thanks for the consideration

[Samorsomething]

you can tell he rides downhill, he has a gut and he is puffing like a train after walking 10 steps up a hill!

[JokerPokerUberSmoker]

lol his bike sounds broken :D

[fenyx2709]

yeah really i never knew that i usally brake when i see a big drop thanks for the advice

[BassPunk95]

sweet thanks 4 the tips