I hear it often, especially from hikers and mountain bikers: ‘Of course riding that dirt of yours takes no effort, not like my push bike, you just sit there and that noisy engine does all the work’. Yeah right, if riding a dirt bike is cheating on physical effort.
Make no mistake, there is a big difference between plonking your arse on a couch and the sort of effort I’m thinking of. As with the dynamic standing positions, in the seated attack position, the rider gets active and gets weight over the all-important steering pivot of the bike. This means largely abandoning the back of the seat except for very easy trails and roads.
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Make no mistake, there is a big difference between plonking your arse on a couch and the sort of effort I’m thinking of. As with the dynamic standing positions, in the seated attack position, the rider gets active and gets weight over the all-important steering pivot of the bike. This means largely abandoning the back of the seat except for very easy trails and roads.
Click below to read the full story.
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