Essential Pumptrack Skills For Beginner Mountain Bikers | Pumping & Cornering Skills

Riding a pumptrack on your mountain bike is great for developing skills and fitness to take to the trails. It's also fun to mix up your riding and ride something other than dirt every once in a while! There are a couple of basic skills that you need to ride a pumptrack, here is Rich to help explain 🤘
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[@BerserkerNick]

I definitely needed this video, I'm currently working on raising funds to build a pump track in my hometown

[@Losovox]

Hell yeah I need to do that! I'm 14 so I can't drive anywhere and there's nothing near me

[@greysonc3719]

Good job man! Thats a lot to take on, props to you👏

[@gmbn]

Nice! Good luck 🤘🤞

[@themtbguy916]

Nice you are doing a good thing for riders in the future.

[@joaquinastorga4491]

the best gym for mtbers! You train your technique and when you pump a lot you get tired from the cardio effort it involves!

[@gmbn]

So true!

[@kel5944]

Something that has helped me is realizing that the wavelength is longer depending on the number of suspension you have (front/full) and the length of the suspension travel. BMX has a very short wavelength vs my 150 front/ 130 rear full suspension MTB which has a very long wavelength.

[@Pedreone]

Yey, did my first pumptrack today. It was much like the one in the video. I had troubles in the turns in the beginning because they seemed to short for my big MTB (29'er) and I had to put my foot down a lot. But after a few rounds it got better. I should have watched this video before going there. Excited to go back!!

[@focusgreg4136]

Excellent content 😎

[@andrewbrice2116]

Great video, great guy, thanks to you and your friends for being so friendly at hartcliffe pump track.

[@MTBs]

Great! Just got myself an old Dartmoor Cody for going back to basics on the pumptracks.

[@mdunstan8372]

They are wonderful

[@MarcusNesbitt4]

Velosolutions have won the bids to rebuild the longwell green (Bristol) pump/jump track (B&Q BMX track on google maps). Id heard that they were planning to start building this month but having visited on saturday they hadnt started yet. Are you guys going to arrange something, maybe like an opening ceremony there with them?

[@MarcusNesbitt4]

Also Rich your forks look way too soft for a slopestyle bike, pump them up a bit! They should hardly be compressing in the corners!

[@florianschober3860]

Please do more pumptrack videos!

[@RP-pb2rm]

Rip Bart

[@tzr_moto604]

Nice video 👌

[@HUSHHUSH-]

Here in Llandudno we have the perfect one but the Council doesn’t want to maintain it and it’s overgrown with grass . Pump track is the best to progress pumping and jumping

[@dewindoethdwl2798]

Totally agree, it’s a shame to see it in such a state. The Talysarn track, near Caernarfon, is a good example of how it could be …. but even that is starting to look like it needs some TLC. Riders need to know about these places and use them. Well ridden dirt tracks don’t drown under grass.

[@HUSHHUSH-]

@@dewindoethdwl2798 thank you so much for the support . We have few people helping me out and hopefully will get it running again . 🙌✊

[@mtb_paddy9162]

Thank all of gmbn yous helped me with all my skills and tricks because of yous I can now tabletob whip and much more and fir my racing skills oh yeah can i get a hello from blake s

[@linemedia666]

just finished a big test, nothing like watching some mtb content to calm me down

[@eliasr2727]

I feel line my 29' hardtail is a bit to big on these pumptracks

[@paddor]

* like * 29” * too big

[@eliasr2727]

@@paddor i'm retarded

[@vikingoreilly8646]

I was loosing alot of speed around the corners, so I asked for a tip, well, it's to lean your bike, wheel straight and look towards the exit of the corner, looking there magically gives you ten times the speed, weird. but it works.

[@Paganiproductions84]

Maby i give this a try on my xc hardtail

[@greysonc3719]

I have one, it works shockingly good.

[@kel5944]

RIP Bart.

[@danmtb5554]

Hi

[@SP-yb4fm]

my friend rode his road bike on a pumptrack last week

[@peterwarren7407]

Would like to have seen Rich pump around on that shopping trolley

[@tobylestrange4081]

You already made one of these with Blake. I think I preferred the old one

[@andrisvelmeris]

Re upload???

[@anirban710]

Hiiii❤️

[@redred1161]

In our local pump track, it is so friggin small, our skate park is so small too, they should make a new skate park at our town, we only have one.

[@Mikesonbikes]

Your town has a skate park AND a pump track?! That sounds awesome

[@wematanye533]

I'm curious why a road or commuter bike won't cut it? Is it the geometry of the bike or something that makes this impractical?

[@rsdan1984]

Where in Bristol is this pump track?

[@bobothericefarmer1878]

Shheeeeesss

[@gerelauren4818]

bro i ride a fat bike on pumptracks it is hard but its gonna be easier later when i get a normal bike

[@ThatWhisper]

Can i gode my 27,5 rockrider mtb hardtail on a pumptrack?

[@MagpieManny]

Why not?

[@gmbn]

Of course!

[@Realkelpy]

why do i scrape so much on a pump track? I have a mountain bike. It feels like my pedals are constantly scraping the ground

[@ekaterinadiadenko5318]

Love the bike design kzbin.infoUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L and functionality. It is hard to align the front tired to center the disk brakes. The brake wheel touches the stationery side of the brake caliper and pad. I aired the tire up to 40 psi as the markings say 40-60psi. Left the house for a few hours and came back to an exploded innertube.All in all it seems to be a good bike. Have not ridden it yet though so that's the max of my knowledge. Update, put a new innertube made sure the tire was set properly and it did the same thing in under 20 minutes as second pic shows.

[@Metalshark100]

can i ride my budget apollo phaze on a pump track?

[@jakeevans1129]

Good Luck will snap in 10 mins

[@Metalshark100]

@@jakeevans1129 would it actually? Frame seems sturdy, what do you mean by it'll snap?

[@omo8566]

As if Blake didn’t do this video

[@olliegreen974]

I have a Bmx track instead of pump track but eh same difference

[@shemshem9998]

long everything, showing skin is a bad idea, a crash will always rip off anything that was there, if you get to a good pace it will rip all the way trough the skin without question. so kneepads, gloves and elbow guards are also not a bad idea, i do advise you use a back protector if you want to do manuals (especially when you are still learning them), i looped out once, landed with my lower back right on a knuckle at 30-40 km/h (aprox 18-24 glazed doughnuts per bold eagle) and i could not do any physical exercise for 4 weeks, strained a muscle and that spot starts to hurts on long rides that is still affecting me to this day 3 years later, i was a light 14 year old so you know if i don't bounce off without getting injured most of you would be off worse.

[@jakeevans1129]

Ex BMXer here just wanted to say back protectors can cause a slight curvature on the spine which is uncomfortable, I recommend 1 finger to back brake at all times

[@shemshem9998]

@@jakeevans1129 professional back protector here, a few things, i hope you mean deveation to the natural curvature of the spine becasue i would get worried if your spine is a straight line. and no, if you get a protector that the the right fit this is not an issue. with my style of riding (DH/Enduro/bike parks) i can end up wearing one for 8 hours a day for 2 weeks straight, and feeling the back protector effect my spine is something me and my mates have never heard of. meybe if you buy a cheap chinese back protector that is filled with bricks and 4 sizes to big. but anything $150+ and rated as level one or 2 protection from the big companies you wont have any trouble. but regardless of that, if someone is learning to do manuals on pumptracks they are not going to always pull the brake on time, they dont know where the balence point is or how fast they should be going up, and especialy with trying multyple rollers, the littlest amount of a push can flip you upside down in .1 seconds. and if you where to go at a good speed and abruptly pulled your brake when going fast, you are likely to smash into the next roler and end up on the ground anyways so then its stil a good idea to have a back protector. and lets remeber what is the most ridden bike on the pump track by far, street BMX bikes, you know, the kind of bikes that dont have brakes.

[@jakeevans1129]

@@shemshem9998 also trying to manual I wouldn’t even start at a pump track?? Flat ground like a car park is your best bet to learn the balance point then you move to a pump track cause you’ll know how far is too much and how to hold a manual. I can manual quite well on flat ground and can manual a triple with ease. Of course I’ve looped out a few times and winded myself but I’ve always been fine, a back protector won’t always protect you from a broken back. I’ve snapped about 3 Troy Lee Designs Shock Doctor back protectors. If someone is an adult they can make up their mind on what to wear or not as well I felt really restricted and felt I tensed up when I was wearing any sort of protection on the top half of my body

[@shemshem9998]

Jake Evans manuals on flat ground are never going to feel the same as pumptracks, the valence point is different because your entire body position I’d different, dynamic even, the action of pumping at the same time as balancing, and you are going to loop out a few time’s in the beginning just like you did. And here’s the thing, you are wearing motorcross protection (the hard plated ones I assume as you snapped them), and mated to break them, it’s just like helmets, when you break your helmet in a crash you don’t say ‘darn gosh, that stupid helmet is useless, it broke’ no you should just happy that you came away without a hole in your head, and that helmet is not always going to protect you but when you are heading face first into the ground you better be wearing one. And remember, get the right fit, if yours is too tight just get a malleable soft one or the right size if it’s wrong, different people also have different bodies and if some bodies don’t fit it you can try them on or if ordering online will find it in the reviews, and don’t wear MX body armour on a bike, it’s unnecessary, twice the weight, twice as tight, twice as stiff, twice as restricting and protection is barely better when compared to a bike back protector. In the end everyone has a choice, but the fit is a non issue, there are so many styles and fits that there are more than enough options for anyone, and for the question of if it even protects you, there is a reason they have existed for a long time and that’s because they have proofed themselves that they work.

[@jakeevans1129]

@@shemshem9998 I know how to buy protection fucking hell calm the fuck down. I’ve got 2 Troy Lee designs helmets and I know how things work I’ve raced BMX at a very high level (World and European Championships) I snapped a plastic one and the Shock Doctor which is soft then hard on impact didn’t actually work at all. I bet you still wear a helmet after you’ve crashed in it. Difference is with helmets they’re designed to take 1 crash and that’s it. I’m even wearing body armour in my profile picture which is when I supported by many different companies for being a very good rider. There’s literally proof that somethings are a marketing gimmick like soft back protectors. They don’t work, you’re literally talking to someone who has been supported by Troy Lee Designs through a team 😂😂. I suggest you stop talking as for bike skills learning on flat ground is the best way then when you get to a set of rollers it’s not too different. I looped out on a manual because I was jumping into manual which is a whole different thing. I can manual on flat and around a track and it feels the same. Don’t wear MX stuff?? Stuff that’s literally been proven and tested to work eg. MX over MTB full face helmets

[@user-dp9ev6tt9g]

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[@amc.0849]

excuse me, please make a video about recommendations for fat bikes measuring 27.5 x 4.5 And don't forget to put Indonesian subtitles so I can understand the video easily :)

[@mtbridingwithalex3712]

send it

[@xenocx1092]

There is always little kids on small kickbikes there that destroys everything

[@mtbridingwithalex3712]

surely you respond

[@charlie9ine]

Nice segment but I’ll bet most of us ride a hardtail or a full sus trail bike. Why do this with the he best bike and not the most common bike?

[@mtbridingwithalex3712]

also do a bike giveaway

[@the_nose_rides_mtb]

Velosolution is currently building a pumptrack in my village. Looking forward to starting my training... 😅🩹 ... and working on my not-yet-existing skills. 😉 Great, very helpful video!

[@gmbn]

Nice!

[@Drew-jj5pb]

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