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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
How's my riding ? Good or bad, I want it both barrels!!
- Thread starter Jody Stewart
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About the 'sliding butt' thingy, you shouldn't do it unless you are in a proper rut, you might slip the tire easier that way but you propably will not reach that low angles on flat ground anyway. What i advise you to do is use the ruts, don't see them as obstacles. Come faster to corner, spot the easiest (usually outer, or late apex) rut, come in with clutch or no throttle if it's tighter, counter-hang a bit but not all the way (explanation later) and imagine turning a bit more than the rut if it was on flat ground and just blast it with the clutch. If you feel like the bike wants to fall inside, move your body there and give more throttle, if you feel like the bike wants to get off the rut or fall outside, move your body outside and adjust throttle. Oh and keep your leg just off the ground so that if you slip on exit or start to fall inside real bad you correct the situation automatically as you leg catches the ground. You will notice how much easier, fun, faster and effective it is to go this way.
Tho the problem and fun of motocross is that you can't learn it by reading, it's all about intuition and reflexes. Especially keeping the bike on the rut might be hard at first, but then your reflexes develop so that you automatically move your body to keep the bike in the rut.
And when you think that you are pro in rut driving... there's always the 'snow-rail'
(Not my video)
Tho the problem and fun of motocross is that you can't learn it by reading, it's all about intuition and reflexes. Especially keeping the bike on the rut might be hard at first, but then your reflexes develop so that you automatically move your body to keep the bike in the rut.
And when you think that you are pro in rut driving... there's always the 'snow-rail'
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Look pretty fast to me also ...But the cam guy was making running you down look petty easy ... I'd say, among other things, he was out braking you at the end of some of those longer straights ... He was probably out gassing you on those longer straights also ... There are many many bikes length to be lost or gained in these fastfast sections of any track ...
Secondly, if you ever choose that outside bermed line, you gotta rail it RV2 style with lots of speed or someone as slow as me will do a quick pivot on the inside and pass you or grab a few bikes lengths on you every time ...
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Gary Sematics has a few words here and his site has a few free tips plus for only $15 you can get 55-absolute-techniques-of-motocross.. I might buy this also as lots of this stuff translates over to the fast trails \ gnarled out roads I ride alot of times on ...
http://www.gsmxs.com/category/free-mx-riding-tips
http://www.gsmxs.com/merchandise/motocross-practice-manual-the-55-absolute-techniques-of-motocross
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From Gary
Two Keys to Riding Motocross Well
1. Being technically correct in your riding style.
2. Being physically fit.
Riding Style
What do I mean by being technically correct with your riding style? This means that you have all the basic techniques down in your autopilot riding skills. In other words, everything you do on the bike is technically correct. Meaning, you don't have any bad habits or at least not a lot of bad habits. This way you maintain your center of balance and work with the bike. You have a flow to your riding style. You're not fighting against the bike and getting off balance and then trying to hold certain positions in order to bring the balance back.
A good example is when entering a corner over the braking bumps. The inexperienced rider will try to stop the handlebars from bouncing. They'll end up holding on tight to try and control the front end from bouncing so much. Whereas the experienced rider in this situation will allow the handlebars to bounce, loosen his arms a little bit and just let them bounce. They'll get into a rhythm with the bumps and let the bike kind of teeter-totter underneath them and bounce their way into the corner. This is a much more relaxed, smoother riding style. Much more relaxed than if you were trying to force this from happening.
Another common mistake is in flat corners where there is no berm. The wrong way would be to try to push the bike down in the corner while your upper body stays on top of the bike, kind of leaning toward the outside while you're trying to push the bike down into the corner. This is a common mistake and will really wear you out a lot faster, besides slowing you down a lot and not being able to hold your line out of the corner. The correct way would be for your upper body to lean a little to the inside before you start to lean the bike into the corner. Then as the bike is leaning into this flat corner, your upper body can move to the middle or even a little to the outside, but you still maintain the center of balance. This is much easier physically and of course, allows you to go much faster and still maintain that critical center of balance. These are just two examples of common mistakes. But there are many more mistakes relating to the 55 Absolute Techniques of Motocross.
EDIT: The cam rider stepped it up after you pulled off ...
Jody Stewart
Husqvarna
A Class
Wish I could go riding with you boys for the day, think I would come away a much better rider. I really appreciate all the pointers... Looking at the videos, I totally agree I'm being out braked and out gassed. I also agree that it's those little snippets of time lost that all add up to me being at least a lap down to the good riders over a 90 minute race.
I'm really gonna work on more speed and aggression into and out of the corner. I need more fitness to go with the speed though as at the end of a day, I can barely walk. Got so exhausted last time out, I lost concentration, hit a tree and smashed my bike up! (Just plastic bits)
How do these enduros compare to the races you guys do in America?
I'm really gonna work on more speed and aggression into and out of the corner. I need more fitness to go with the speed though as at the end of a day, I can barely walk. Got so exhausted last time out, I lost concentration, hit a tree and smashed my bike up! (Just plastic bits)
How do these enduros compare to the races you guys do in America?
Jody Stewart
Husqvarna
A Class
Snow rail guy has got some proper skills ! Mentalist, looks freezin!!! Not been in the snow yet, not sure I'm looking forward to it!
I once tried riding on the rail and i think i was literally dying from exhaustion, trying to get the husky back into the rail from a 30* angle hill as it was buried into the snow. But just like in MX once you get the hang of it it becomes much easier and the pros go flat out all the time. When your suspension nearly bottoms out on corners, then your speed is correct. 
The thing about riding in a rut like that is that if the bike isn't naturally going in the line of the rut, it will force the tires to pry themselfs out of it unless you keep it up with your legs, which isn't easy either even with proper sliding boot bottoms.
It's really important to learn how to be with the bike on every movement, if you for example don't have your mass isn't with the bike on jumps but rather feel like the bike is for example tugging your hands down on landing the approach wasn't correct. These kinds of things take energy, just like having to fight the bike on accelerations or decelerations, rather lift your butt up and let the bike do it's thing freely (but not so that the front end wobbles out of control), keeping your body going straight.
The thing about riding in a rut like that is that if the bike isn't naturally going in the line of the rut, it will force the tires to pry themselfs out of it unless you keep it up with your legs, which isn't easy either even with proper sliding boot bottoms.It's really important to learn how to be with the bike on every movement, if you for example don't have your mass isn't with the bike on jumps but rather feel like the bike is for example tugging your hands down on landing the approach wasn't correct. These kinds of things take energy, just like having to fight the bike on accelerations or decelerations, rather lift your butt up and let the bike do it's thing freely (but not so that the front end wobbles out of control), keeping your body going straight.