Most valuable off road technique you'll ever know

[@tommeyer6033]

Your stuff is so much easier to absorb, primarily because I feel like I’m getting tips from a more experienced riding buddy, rather than a teacher lecturing an invisible classroom. Plus, the helmet cam real time instruction has an authenticity that really comes through. Even though I know a lot of what you show us, you create a memorable narrative in normal human language that resonates with my “in the saddle” experience. Keep it coming.

[@MotologyFilms]

Thanks mate, glad you're getting a lot out of this series

[@kloppskalli]

yeah but do get the front wheel up in third? I still dont ... :))

[@Pankake]

Love it

[@RichardDastardly-sp4ux]

Nailed it.

[@nuttyDesignAndFab]

the best description I can think of is you're trying to use your arms and legs as suspension to keep your body at the same ride height while the bike bounces around under you. If you're tight on the bike it's suspension has to work for itself and you, if you use your limbs and look ahead not only can you do the work for your own weight, but you can anticipate bumps the bike suspension can't and help it out with your own weight.

[@MarcOppelt]

So I've been watching this video, and practicing weightlessness. The other day I was out on the trail and ran across a chicken. All of the sudden...there it was. And because I was weightless, I didn't even feel the impact. I don't think the same could be said for the chicken. A glance in the rear-view showed nothing but feathers. I turned around and went back... So not only are you helping me learn to ride my new bike, you're helping me feed my family too. Thats awesome. Thanks man.

[@MotologyFilms]

Comment of the week right here, haha! Poor old chook got it wrong but a bonus dinner for 'executing' the technique. Well done mate!

[@brianoconnell7159]

why did the chicken (try) to cross the road?

[@keesverhagen9227]

​@@brianoconnell7159 He saw someone on a bike who looked like an egg.

[@VikingoSobreRuedas]

I have a friend that bought an Africa Twin and wanted to join us on our offroad rides. I made him watch all your videos as homework before his first ride out! 😂

[@mightyakkylex]

Samesies, I just got the AT about 6 days ago, I'm taking it easy off-road until I get some protection on it but doing my due diligence in the meantime 😁

[@mightyakkylex]

How did your friend do?

[@Preownedcorn]

​@@mightyakkylex How did you do for your AT?

[@mightyakkylex]

@@Preownedcorn how did I do what exactly?

[@RackaApps]

After watching a couple of your videos I've come to the conclusion that riding a bicycle off-road will immensely help you with a motorcycle. The "relaxing your body" bit quickly reminded me about riding my regular bicycle (no shocks or anything) off-road.

[@Motojo459]

I have been riding for over 50 years and I still find a gem or two in every one of your videos. Keep them coming. I made the switch from a 1090 to the T7 6 months ago and absolutely love it.

[@k.n.v.b1113]

have a 1290 and thinking of doing the same thing

[@thearchibaldtuttle]

Damn! You must have invented motorbike riding! I clock only 40 years!!

[@kananisA75]

Your tips have actually saved me !!! I was going for a short ride by myself , going slow just enjoying the ride and then i got to a section that is open and i really like it, so here i am going 3rd gear pinned on a ktm 250sx and as i come around a corner i see a big rock right where i was going, i had no time to change direction due to the speed i was going so i did what you said, i washed off as much speed as i could and then popped the front wheel, i got a little sideways mid air but i went back home in one piece !!! So thank you Adam for your awesome videos !!!!!

[@MotologyFilms]

Sounds like it's become instinctive for you now. Safe riding mate

[@ridered300]

It always surprises me how much I can still learn. I always thought this was just a natural way to ride, instinctive and intuitive, but you've still given me a little more insight. I started riding at 14 with the only lesson from my dad was how to use the clutch, and never had any formal training until I was 30 and decided to try the intermediate MSF course. Even learning about countersteering I was like "duh, doesn't everyone know this?" Now I like watching training videos like this to see how others are learning and what else I can improve on!

[@GTAmaniac1]

i learned most of these things messing around on bicycles as a kid, on a bmx (or a dirt jumper) the only suspension you have on most (more modern DJs have front suspension, but they're generally really hard and set up to take the edge off of massive jumps) are your arms and legs so unless you're using them as that you will have a bad time. Same goes with countersteering because who didn't like doing skids on their bicycle. When taking a few old tomos bikes on a 160 km round trip that had a rough fire road section a few weeks ago my uncle (who was leading and also grew up in that area riding the same bikes there) and I didn''t struggle at all (if you don't count the rocks chucked at my helmet and legs because i was following too close) while my dad (who didn't mess around on a bicycle as a kid) was really struggling. And that was when i only had about an hour of experience of riding a bike with a clutch and gears (i have a scooter at home that i sometimes ride through the local trails, but that's a whole different beast and a completely different terrain and the road tires don't really help with the mud plus the worn out springs don't support my weight through bumps at any speed).

[@k_plax]

Mountain biking is great training for this technique on an adventure bike. Someone (I can't recall who) once told me to let the bike dance about underneath you while you stay relatively in the same position, only counterbalancing.

[@FadyBujana]

Your instruction combined with your desire to share and help feels so genuine that it goes straight in. More than clickable KZbin content, I feel you are building a legacy showing us proficiently how and why to enjoy motorcycling. Good on you Adam and thank you!

[@BWGPEI]

That "let the bike come to you" thing also works with mountain bicycles. Thanks to you I have a name for the technique. As always, excellent presentation!

[@Sisu2280]

Alpinestars pajama range is awesome

[@russellgreen5211]

This is the type of apparel that only very experienced riders can afford to wear. Me on the other hand would have armour like a Roman soldier! 😂

[@reinmansmith]

Another great video 👍 I always liken it to downhill skiing where your legs are acting as your suspension dampers, soaking up the bumps

[@papyjoe850]

I switched from Hayabusa to T7 World Raid. I tryed it one week ago and I absolutely wanted one instead of my big Busa. I'll peak up my new T7 this week. Mean while all your videos are pure gold. Thank you for your work and continue ! :)

[@ElMayo31]

People say the crf300l suspension sucks, but they just need a workout. When things clicked, fantastic man. Like im surfing the dunes and trails. The whoops get too bouncy for me, so I tend to press down and pull up my bars as my legs hop and press out. Can get your heart rate up but I get in tune with the mule. Your legs and hips can dictate your lane mentally and forcefully BMX as kid transitioned alot of skills 15 years later. Body preposition and distribution is key imo. As well as commitment. Also added hockey tape forward of my knee for the hops and other times I misjudge and lead forward, my favorite crutch so far.

[@georgemikodesigns]

I dig how much my early mountain biking years translate to solid off-road Moto riding! Thanks for a good refresher! I also notice how smooth the helmet cam is as you hit those "baby heads" - perfect example of weightlessly floating over obstacles...cheers!

[@Budanoleiloeiro]

Always tuned on your channel, with the best content, tips, techniques on the web ! Please tech us how to do a powerslides, just for fun or a fast turn entry. Congrats Adam! Im your biggest Brazilian fan!👊🏻

[@TheRealSykx]

your wish was granted!

[@doc650adventures]

This is so spot on. Flowing (floating) with the bike versus fighting it. I had to learn it the hard way. Wish I would have watched this a few years ago. Thank You! Cheers!

[@humfreywhitaker-rj8qb]

Another great tutorial Adam. All seems obvious to me but I grew up riding dirt bikes on a farm and soon learned that if you don’t lift your weight off you get thrown off. Mountain bike riding also great for honing this technique. Even more noticeable when your body makes up 90% of the combined weight.

[@kingdaniel69]

So good. This is the way i was taught to ride a mountain bike, using elbows and knees as shock absorbers and maintaining the same height of the head.

[@hanseyluzor840]

Means that, absorbing the hit is relaxing the rider's active muscles under control at the time. Adam your tutorials are so precious. Thnks so much.

[@cloud9847]

the slow mo clips and the excellent descriptions are making these 'must see' videos for anyone new or looking to improve. I'm about to buy my first adventure bike and these videos are going to help me in ways I'll never even know about because they'll help keep me out of situations I'd be in otherwise. Thank you so much for your time and expertise. Thank you.

[@danamoose1234]

Such great instruction and somehow also very entertaining to watch. Nice production quality too.

[@stormrider358]

Just got my first adventurebike. Have been riding for years but mainly custombikes and on boring tarmac. Now just getting into offroading and these videos are just what i need yo get better and as you say, safer driver. So easy to follow your instructions and how well you go through how i should start training that and then you go through more advanced stuff, so i have a goal to aim at. Awesome videos. Keep'em coming! 😊

[@martingutierrezsoenens1426]

This are the best and easiest to learn videos for off road riding you can find in all the KZbin universe, thanks for sharing and keep them coming 💪

[@luciano136]

I really appreciate your instructional videos! I rode a KTM 350 and 250 2 stroke (what a hooligan!) yesterday and was able to really practice this on these lighter bikes.

[@stevesjourney7000]

Years ago (many) when I was, a long distance runner I found it important to run without my eyes moving up and down. This was pure efficiency. Your comments about the helmet staying still turned on a light. Thanks

[@evanc5884]

Great channel, great information. It's hard to find a good channel for bigger off road bikes 🙏 love your advice

[@kyferez1]

Hit everything! Yep, I'm working on hitting every trail and every obstacle in my area!

[@adanzavala2751]

Muchas gracias por tus enseñanzas, las pondré en práctica cada que salga a pasear. La técnica de no pesar es muy interesante y muy cierto. Saludos desde San Diego Ca. 🇺🇸

[@josemutia7847]

Good instructor 👍👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏

[@tad3549]

Good stuff! So many tips & techniques to absorb. My folks started me riding in my pajamas as well. 👍

[@chiliboom6140]

I love this video. You blend theory and practice very well, while also educating as you go. There was what looked like some moto-tai chi with the instruction. Lol. Love it mate.

[@btaylor1424]

Super informative!! Awesome

[@yamitha999]

I love seeing this guy (a kid in heart) enjoying & teaching us how to be safe and ride better ♥. Thank you! I really wish the inflation wasn't so high here so i could get one go on rides. Hopefully, soon! 🤞

[@Rishisharmafriends]

Thanks

[@MotologyFilms]

Thankyou !

[@jjustj]

Pretty good however IMHO, Preloading suspension front and rear before hitting and object (log etc) makes it easier yet for bike and rider. The timing has to be muscle memory and practiced untill it is! Thxz

[@DesertX_horse]

I just did my first off road and survive most of it, thanks to you! Short video but really great! 🏍️ I did get stuck on a deep mad but that was just my lack of experience! 😂

[@patrickholland3994]

You are a very good teacher and have a nice way about you in how you communicate. Good job!!

[@ChrisBorghi22]

Love your videos, thanks for sharing with us!! You ride that horse like if it was a bicycle, lol! I’m trying to get more confident riding my T7 and your content it’s the way to go. Greetings from Argentina!

[@adamh7972]

Love these videos. Thanks for the great info. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

[@azmanismail3227]

Thanks for very good tutorial😄😄😄

[@MakcuM_515]

You are the best teacher! It was informative and visual! Thnx!

[@ralfschmitz6185]

Hervorragend erklärt... vielen Dank..

[@paulbugden7708]

100% 👊 Great tutorial 3 points of suspension Forks / Body / Rear Save your joints, elbows, shoulders, knees, and hips Fewer crashes caused by deflection, rocks and 45' logs because you can react with your feet Less punctures 🎉🎉🎉

[@maaroufyoun]

Thnx for all

[@DileoFilms]

Question - I have road racing experience on my R3. So I have a decent grasp of things like throttle control, engine breaking, 100 points of grip, But ZERO dirt experience. I'm 28 and now I want to travel the world on an adventure bike. Should I be worried about the fact that my first ever dirt experience will be on a 400-550 lb. pig? I wan to buy a bike that can do it all and travel the world. But I don't know if I'm setting myself up for failure by starting on such a heavy bike.

[@wesleycastner4860]

I'd say buy a 125ish cc beater find a rough dirt trail and give her hell and your questions will have an answer fairly quickly and won't be biased or uninformed generalized assumptions only you can see where your strengths and weaknesses are definitely wouldn't want to have first experience in rough terrain on a bike that would have me in a hot mess financially and wind up tryin to sell bike for half of what I paid because I couldn't get comfortable with that style of riding but a small used bike your unaffected by its destruction will teach you and show you all your areas needing improvement and save you money on the replacement parts that you break along you journey good luck and regardless your decision always make it a great time even if you are terrible at riding certain situations as long as ur still smiling come end of day then you are winning

[@nagendrarao631]

Thank you for this. You are the best person to learning from.

[@enduromotorradtouren]

Valuable advice, thanks a lot. I may have to watch your videos over and over again. And go training. Günter/Nürnberg

[@chrismcallister6546]

Love these video's, I learn something new every time.. thanks from the USA

[@jaxoezy]

Great tips, will practice them on my next ride when possible (: Can you maybe make a video about driving trough mud one day?

[@domesticatedwolverine4152]

Excellent teacher thank you.

[@amandadean6700]

Thank you for making these videos. I'm still a novice rider after buying my first bike in my early 40's. Today I went off road and tried to put into practice your riding advice. By the end of the ride, I felt a lot more in tune with my bike!

[@Porsche996driver]

You have a good spot there to practice and the old log too. I realize I need to find a more advanced section to practice. Maybe with a buddy and a sack lunch right?

[@barrywaples8150]

All useful information and it made me chuckle to myself. Your log hopping technique is exactly how I negotiate speed humps (sleeping policemen) on the road on my 2016 A/Twin which is set up for riding on road and I am a total novice off-road Cheers Barry. Uk.

[@SmokinZen]

What a gorgeous bike thanks for the info I will definetly try to practice this

[@o.k.9142]

Wow! Man I love your series about off-road techniques! These videos are so lean and concise! Your experience is valuable thanks for sharing 🏍🏔🙏

[@jerkeraderwall3903]

Excellent stuff Adam, I´m truly impressed with the whole package, content, sound & image quality! Keep it up!

[@carpenterek]

Thank you! Good skills!

[@henrygerwien186]

"...and letting the bike eject up to me"... That r the true words, why wightless riding is the deal! Thanx sooo much for your lessons!. Great, Adam! Henry from Oberursel/Germany By the way: It.s the same with bumps and moguls in ski technique...

[@godfrois2408]

Enjoying every vid and the production. This technique might benefit from the addition that the weightlessness is acheived almost by lightly jumping/lifting your weight (not contact)off the pegs to dissociate your weight from the bike? It's a hard concept to convey for sure. I ride offroad a a lot and learn from your instruction, as an ex skateboarder this is the same theory of the Ollie, and the basic technique trials riders use in jumping to obstacles I reckon? Hope you're in Qld sometime and hit us up!

[@toddwmac]

Great stuff as always and the reason I love the new speedbumps in my neighborhood...everyday practice. Thanks for all the great content.

[@MotologyFilms]

Absolutely. Speed humps are the perfect opportunity to practice the weightless method.

[@nelsonsilva6842]

Finally someone that really teaches! How do shift standing? Also why is so much fun descending a MTB but scary on a motorcycle? Yes, weight but...

[@yashrides]

Super informative and outstanding demonstration. Love it.

[@Avensur]

Excellent masterpiece of a tutorial my friend. Like you said, we should be weightless riding. And instead of a 2 pieces suspension, it is actually 4, adding legs and arms , like a 4x4. We then learn to approach any terrain without fear of fail. Thanks mate for word of wisdom. Hi from Puerto Rico.

[@rickratcliff6231]

Great tutorial, one always thought of it as turning your body into suspension. The “watch my helmet” was a fantastic way to explain it. 👌🏻👍🏻💪💪😊

[@drchandu10ch]

You make these techniques look so easy where other riders talk a lot of technical which confuses new riders like me. Kudos 🫡

[@lonniedomnitz1720]

Another great vid. You’re managing to come up w/valuable training content no one else has. Sort have figured this out myself, but this explains the optimal body position/movements.

[@saptarshisutradhar9379]

Very informative video,lots of love & strength from India🙏

[@vickiliberato2097]

GOOD TO SEE YOU USING DIFFERENT BIKES, LOVE THE KTM 500 AND YAMAHA 700 .

[@adildewji]

Love your videos. Always looking forward to them. Thank you!

[@robinmendozagomez8647]

Hello my friend thank you for your vídeos one question what about the knees in this tecnique?

[@stevesjourney7000]

It's simple and clear instruction like this that encourages the practice we all need. Great work

[@MotologyFilms]

Glad it was helpful!

[@federico-zepercaso6528]

Super video and super useful! a couple of questions: - what about the boots? it's necessary to "squeeze" the bike with the ankles in order not to lose the pegs, right? - and what about to put a second gopro on the side of the obstacle and make a slomo of the impacts? 😁😁

[@autoltu1113]

Again, amazing video. Thank you so much!

[@PatRick-bg4dm]

Awesome content! Calm, on the point. A win for every adventure bike rider. Thank you and best regards literally from the other side of the world.

[@castlelowanna8626]

thanks for going to the effort and running through this for us..

[@keesverhagen9227]

Damn good video dude. 👍👍 Way better then many i have seen. Question : Nowadays everyone wants to have luggage at their crashbars. Is it wise to create more weight at the front ? Would you rather not have it at the rear ? To a certain point ?

[@JLK7700]

You are a great teacher! Thank you for your videos!

[@vijayam1]

Arie, appreciate you actually going to play to help us play a better. My questions are how well do you latch yourself on to your motorcycle when you stand up, and also the angle of bend in your arms and knees while standing up, how well should one distribute the weight biasing, forward, rear while standing up, your feedback would be much much appreciated.

[@majumanikuttan]

Love From Kerala-India

[@SuperBanksys]

Dude’s brilliant 🤙

[@robbiehoughton4382]

Very good advice including real time examples. Invaluable.

[@darrenwarrick8865]

Awesome videos....so many mountain bike techniques that can be transferred to off road motorcycle riding....so well explained...

[@janniebarnard3961]

Just love your teachings..thanks again..

[@Jesuswinsbirdofmichigan]

🍒, sure needed this info (40) yrs. ago! 🍎, Absolutely complete & understandable.

[@tempeight]

I don't ever know this technique before. I suppose human have the instinct when they face different kinds of obstacle on road. My body always comes naturally to standing mode when I saw an obstacle ahead and it feels really natural when it happened. Thank you for explaining the technique mate!

[@bluebludded]

Spot on been riding for 40 yrs and currently on the barge the 660 Tenere if your not weightless on that thing your coming off lol In saying that after 400km a day in and out of the bush you become heavier 😅 great vids mate

[@mardelplatalimousines3423]

Always tuned on your channel, king regards from Barcelona!

[@OutonaBimble]

Another great video and I've got lots to practice when winter clears out. I had to chuckle at the rock field, my pasture looks like that, I won't have to go far to practice. 😅

[@mattimoto]

So helpful and informative. Thanks

[@JoLXP]

O wow...I've always did this instinctively, without anyone teaching, while riding my street bike every time I saw a pot whole or something on the road I couldn't avoid. I need to start riding off roads.

[@tomdfireman]

Thank you so much, this is really helpfull to become a better rider!

[@josephreisinger33]

Tanks for the encouragement mate. Wish I still had my 2010 GS. Took it off road a bunch of times, but it was just to big. Till next time. Cheers mate.

[@kirkbailey3552]

Thanks Adam! This is great information! Now to get out and ride my new Desert X!

[@roddas26]

Your videos are so awesome. Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge.

[@ironhorsedr6505]

Thanks for the no BS straight up explanations - learning heaps

[@niconine268]

Sick moves bud. Thankyou

[@11BADV]

Awesome stuff. Thanks for these videos!

[@savio718]

Just found your content sir, great stuff! May I be bold enough to make a suggestion though... As a newbie to offroad, some slow motion clips while your explaining the technic could be helpful for plebs like me! Just constructive criticism, keep it up, the vid's are gold 👌