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I went to the track after a night it got punded with rain Sunday, all I can say is....
it wasn't pretty, I am a beginner as it is and this was very hard. I crashed once in this really slick/muddy section I didn't really see that a few others went down at also. When I was squirming my rear end and struggling my way around the track some guy on a honda yelled something at me when he passed me and I couldn't make out what he was saying, I was holding my line, just squirming around.
I am just wondering if you have any tips for riding in the mud? I think I was going too slow so mud was packing on my tire making it worse but I just couldn't do it. I know to not go on muddy days but with winter coming there will be alot of those days with snow melt and everything so I might as well learn how to ride it sooner or later, right?
Any advice greatly appreciated! Thanks
it wasn't pretty, I am a beginner as it is and this was very hard. I crashed once in this really slick/muddy section I didn't really see that a few others went down at also. When I was squirming my rear end and struggling my way around the track some guy on a honda yelled something at me when he passed me and I couldn't make out what he was saying, I was holding my line, just squirming around.
I am just wondering if you have any tips for riding in the mud? I think I was going too slow so mud was packing on my tire making it worse but I just couldn't do it. I know to not go on muddy days but with winter coming there will be alot of those days with snow melt and everything so I might as well learn how to ride it sooner or later, right?
Any advice greatly appreciated! Thanks
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Momentum is critical.
Stand as much as you can.
Grip the bike harder than usual with your knees while standing.
Lean back instead of sitting to get traction.
Don't force the bike to go where you want it to go.
Don't ride tense, relax, have fun, go to the car wash before going home.
And yeah momentum is key.
If you are in Utah then you'll be getting some snow soon, practice riding in the snow to get the feel of how to keep the bike straight in slippery conditions.
It will help you out a lot and the snow isn't as nasty to wash off when you fall.
Keep your momentum going.
Try to leave your feet on the pegs for a couple of reasons: first, planting your feet in corners will cover your boots with mud making it harder to keep your feet on the pegs which means less control, and then second, whenever you start riding around with both your legs flailing around off the pegs is when you really have no control and start to get in trouble. I'm not saying to never put your feet down in corners, just try to keep it to a minimum.
And another thing that I do (I ride a 250f so I'm not 100% sure you can do it on a kx100) is that I kind of run the bike a gear higher than I normally would, just because whenever you have it in too low of a gear the rear wheel wants to spin alot and you lose even more control.
Try to stay loose and don't ride tense is probably the best piece of advice you can get for riding mud.
Thanks
I saw a guy who came up short doubling the camel and his left foot slipped off the peg and it must of kind of tweaked his bike that made him to ride off the side of the camel and he managed to make it safe down to the water-truck lane, this kind of wigged me out so I decided not to double that thing that day.
Kind of veering off topic but somebody caught up to me on the track and yelled a few words at me that I couldn't hear and then passed me and roosted mud at my goggles and I have really been trying to think what he said. I wasn't doin anything wrong except squirming around a little so I don't know what he said to me. (#45 Honda) I was going to ask him but I didn't...
One other technique which works really well on a two stroke is when you come up on really sloppy straights is to get the back tire spinning while keeping the front end light and try to get the bike planeing up on top of the mud. It takes some practice but once you get it down it really makes those sections a lot easier.
Don't worry about the idiot yelling at you, he is probably a career C class rider that is too stupid to realize a new rider is out there just learning and having a blast.
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