HOW to OVERCOME SPEED WOBBLES !

[@badopcode]

In skateboarding when you get speed wobbles you have to put all your weight over your trucks by either doing the egyptian feet position or tippy toe-ing right over the trucks. The tighter the bushings are the faster you can go before having to fight the wobbles. What you said makes TOTAL sense to me. The more upright the more weight is levered on the wheel which makes these harmonic jitters worst. Need to try to lower that weight position to dampen that. From the skateboard, it feels to me like i'm fighting with the slight over compensation my reflexes are doing for balance. So positioning your feet and weight where you can not influence the board with your balance reflex is super critical. As soon as I remove my reflexes from the equation the board smooths out almost instantly.

[@jttech44]

Yes, speed wobbles are a harmonic between the board and your body's reflexes. You have to stay loose, which is difficult when you're bombing a hill.

[@Lowlandeuc]

Just put a slik , micheline pilot on my maxter, pupped it at 3 bar, the wheel was totally different , like a skate on ice. extremely wobble, my squats where not enough to prevent it, I change my footposition to the back , foot completely on the pedal, and soften the new tire. Now I have less wobble or at least it’s more easy to feel the wobble coming and preventing more.

[@MVFIT]

It's wonderful to hear that you've successfully adjusted your wheel to minimize wobbles. Understanding your wheel and having confidence in it truly makes a difference in the journey.

[@ionflow1073]

Perfect! I couldn't have explained that any better myself. Lately I've been inducing wobbles at high speeds just so i can practice recovering from them.

[@MVFIT]

Glad it helped!

[@Euc_Anakin]

Hope to see you in Spain. You deserve it more than the others on the list. Always great content! Plus you push the raceing scene and take it very seriously, and you have more 1st place podiums than the other 3! You deserve more followers! The others should just back out if they have any respect and look foward to next season!

[@Dassick89]

Its all about caster for straightening a wobbling tire. This is why accelerating out will straighten it on a motorcycle, because youre increasing caster. Meaning the tire will want to "settle" easier. Think of it like a super sport bike vs a chopper with extended forks. The chopper has a lot more caster making it harder to turn because your wheel is facing up instead of forward. The squatting does somthing similar as your center of gravity is being shifted back and lower. The lst thing you want to do is hit the brakes. You will reduce caster nd increase force into the wobble, most likely causing a crash.

[@OldSloGuy]

Resonant frequencies enable the wobble and they are modulated by eccentricities in the spinning parts of the wheel. On a cold morning, your tire sealant, Slime or other gooey substance in the inner tube can pool in one spot over night. To test this do a free spin test, but control the speed so that it ramps up slowly. If the wheel gets the shakes, then you are forewarned. Tire pressure is also a factor since it controls the footprint on the road. Higher pressure is needed for jumps, but reduces the foot print and increases the wobble sensitivity. Lower pressure makes for harder turning and easier rim bending. Get a battery powered air compressor if you want to cruise to the park for some single tracking. The basic technique for fighting the wobbles is to detune the resonant frequency. The body acts like a pendulum and you are changing the length of that pendulum. Your reflexes are not fast enough to actively fight the wobble, so try to be s stiff as possible and extend your arms to increase your moment of inertia along with changing your posture. Your body, the wheel., road conditions, speed, all are factors. Then there are disturbances like pebbles that deflect the wheel and start the wobble. What happens? The tire's footprint gets disturbed by the pebble and the scrubbing action against the road is reduced which is dampening., Friction is reduced when it goes from static to dynamic which means that the reduction in dampening might be maintained. This is why the wobbles can surprise you by appearing without warning.

[@FinnBjerke]

Great info. Appreciated

[@mynameisMelt]

Yes, thanks Maribel!

[@MVFIT]

Any time!

[@greenwave819]

damnit Maribel, stop being so fast. ur crazy

[@jordancole6244]

Yippee thank you for your video I'm about to get a wheel and the wobbles got me pretty intimidated haha

[@MVFIT]

You can do it!

[@letssamplethis7641]

Nice job! Dig the intro.

[@adamguzik9350]

Thanks 👍

[@DonovanWert]

Thank you!! ✨🙏✨

[@MVFIT]

Welcome!

[@JonahOnEUC]

The wobbles only started after you started squatting.. Wobbles are rider induced and pretty much anything that breaks the oscillation will stop the wobbles. You can do strength training of your legs and hips to minimize wobbles. You can stop braking wobbles by carving while braking, same as speed wobbles. Also, PLEASE get a proper helmet instead of that bicycle helmet!!!

[@markricharddavies]

Agree, squatting actually induces wobbles for me, as now your weight is at the rear like descending a hill. I immediately use asymmetric pressure on one side of the wheel to brake up the wave of a wobble.

[@MVFIT]

You gotta go into a deep squat , your ass gotta be behind the wheel and down near the tire , this requires leg strength and flexibility! I tried to carve on the last incident but it only created more wobbles , therefore I sticked to the squat! So it works in my opinion 💁🏻‍♀️ By the way I do have a new helmet :) I just wasn’t wasn’t wearing it that day .

[@truthiscensored]

Wobbles happen because there is not enough weight/pressure on the wheel and the light wheel makes the wheel wobble. The reason squatting or seated riding stops wobbles...You never get a wobble riding seated More weight on the wheel, the wheel can't wobble. Once you make your feet light the wobbles come No different than letting the wheel roll by itself (no rider on it) the wheel wobble until it falls...because no weight or pressure is on the wheel

[@MVFIT]

Good point !

[@Vince4343]

Dude, what you're saying makes super sense!!! 👍

[@boblatkey7160]

Very good point of view! I like it. So if I get minor wobbles, I stand up perfectly straight like a statue with perfect posture and think of my entire body from my head to my feet being a perfectly straight pole. That stops the wobbles. I only do a hard brake and squat if it is really bad. So me standing up like a statue aligns pretty well with what you just said. Maybe that's why it works for me.

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

Squat do not stand 2:54 got it :)

[@shinobieuc]

Ehh that's not bad at all. I had 3 death wobbles where I should had fall off but I didn't because my pads was so locked in my feet couldn't get out. Usually locking out my legs and leaning eliminate wobbles, in situations where prevention like carving is too late, locking out the legs would do, but no etmax is way too much, so I sat down on the euc. 3 times I saved myself.

[@MVFIT]

It doesn’t look as bad because I was able to control the wobbles before it got worse 😉 So being locked in helps? Can you elaborate? What do you mean by leaning f orward or back? My feet are locked in as well .

[@boblatkey7160]

What do you mean by locking out your legs? If I get a minor wobble I stand up perfectly straight like a statue with perfectly straight legs and a perfectly straight back. That stops it for me, I love reading all the comments to see what works for other people.

[@PrimoHS]

Good vid ⚡️

[@MVFIT]

Thanks 💯

[@ConsilienceDVO]

2nd!!