WINTER RIDING: Conquering Ruts

[@steve5825]

You make it look so easy, ruts are my kryptonite. Great advice so I better get out there and take on more ruts.

[@motorcyclin]

Great tip there. Just found your channel and subscribed. Nervous in rut like conditions usually

[@scottc3]

Great tips! Always struggle with ruts so will try this now we are getting more of the wet weather...

[@HippoDrones]

Awesome tips, just found your channel 🙂

[@RallyMotoUK]

Cheers - we will try and do more

[@HippoDrones]

@@RallyMotoUK awesome, please do

[@CrustyBiker]

Bloomin sketchy on a little monkey I tell you! 💁‍♂️ have to try the powee on technique now..

[@ExeterCenturion]

Cracking video! You need more views on this!

[@onthepegs]

great tutorial, thanks! recently crashed while practicing rut riding. After some 10minutes I was like, oh this is going well, lets look at the landscape... and was off the bike in that instant. :) I had all the protectors on EXCEPT my wrist protector. So no riding for me for a while...

[@lukethurlow24]

Good tips there Burt. I’ll be able to give that lots of practice on the lanes near me. Ruts have always made me nervous so I’ll let you know how I get on 👍🏻👍🏻

[@RallyMotoUK]

Great news - might even do some training sessions in the Cotswolds ;-)

[@TheBigBraap]

Same, being a total beginner this is where I fail the most, hoping to get out soon and practice 👍

[@lukethurlow24]

@@RallyMotoUK I’d be up for taking part in something like that. I’ve never really had any training as such. I’ve watched lots of videos and spent quite a bit of time on the bike and manage to get by. It would be nice to learn some proper skills and not just wing it all the time 😂😂

[@RallyMotoUK]

@@lukethurlow24 I'll see what I can do. Burt

[@6Twisted]

Little note: Standing on the pegs doesn't lower your center of mass, it does the opposite.

[@AndrewBarry65]

I noticed that too. What I think he means is that by standing up you are controlling a machine with a low CofG. When you sit, you add your own mass to the top of that machine so the overall CoG to control is higher. I am right Robert?

[@6Twisted]

@@AndrewBarry65 Well what actually happens is it raises the center of mass increasing stability like balancing a broomstick. It also allows you to steer using the pegs and the suspension grips better when it doesn't have to dampen your mass.

[@andrewg9677]

as an alternative to speeding up to drive that front tyre and prevent the side knobs climbing the tyre out, what would happen if you locked the front wheel with the brakes, shifted your weight to the rear and drove along it with the front wheel like a snow bike ski? could this be an alternative when the rut is slippery and narrow but you don't want to ride it faster? Just and idea.

[@fairbanksairriders]

Going too fast 38 mph when the front wheel stuck in a hidden rut - nothing broken - good times! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/iny9apmmqdOVaLs

[@davidbadham3712]

I hate ruts😳

[@Mudfacetony]

The best way to understand what is happening from a physics pint of view is next time you have the wheel out, put the spindle through the wheel and then grab the spindle, one hand either side. You can move the wheel left easily when it is motionless. Spin the wheel and it becomes more difficult to turn the wheel. Ergo, speed, to a point is your friend (to a point). So speed up (carefully) when the rut gets tighter, and slow down when it widens out.

[@lukethurlow24]

Please correct me if I’m wrong but basically you are forcing the wheel to kind of slide along the side of the rut? Obviously this is fine at this time of year when it’s very wet but what about in the summer when the mud turns solid? Does the same method apply or should there be a different approach?