Literally in the same situation

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Thanks mate! Good to be back creating and hoping this new focus on skill building will help bring some value to people! Thanks for watching!

Yeh, that’s a good addition, pinching shoulder helps so much.

@@TheMotoBarista credit to AJ.

@@KingFriday274 yeh dude, he is an excellent coach. He breaks technique down and explains ‘why’ better than anyone else.

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Thanks for watching mate, appreciate the feedback!

I'm no expert in any way, but for me adjusting the handlebar position and my riding position helped with this exact problem. I adjusted the handlebar position a bit more upright (Mototrek has a great video of how to fit your bike). I also have raisers that put the handlebar a bit further away from me since I always felt like the handlebar is too low and my upper body was too much "on top" of the handlebar. Gripping the handlebar too tight and putting too much weight on the handlebars might also cause this. Again, I'm a newbie myself but this is my personal experience.

I'm transitioning from a lifetime of sport bikes to a KTM 690 enduro. I've found that keeping my hands ON TOP of my grips, elbows out and flexed with a fairly straight line down through wrists and back of hands helps a lot. As well as maintaining a very loose hold on the grips, and one or two fingers over the levers. The tighter you grip with your legs, the looser the upper body can be. I haven't nailed this yet, but getting better with lots of practice!

Hey mate, you shouldn’t be feeling the burn in the quad muscles, it should be mainly glutes and hamstrings. What might be causing your squat position is that you are bending at the knees and your hips are tucking below your tail bone. Instead you want to focus on collapsing at the hips and pushing the hips backwards. This is an aggressive riding position so it does require fitness too. Glutes, hamstrings and lower back in particular will be burning up!

@@TheMotoBarista super helpful. I’m really fit - cardio and legs thx to cycling. Could be better on core and upper body strength though. Interesting that there should be some burn - and just getting it in the right spot. I’m trying to bend at hips, push butt out back, bend elbows and have chest and head over bars. With the bicycle, I’ve had a professional bike fit where they help with geometry of bars and stem and all that. I think I might need that for the dual sport. Does everyone just experiment on their own? I might need to find some local help.

Practice. You have to get used to moving your feet to and from the controls.

Trying shifting your bum further back by crouching lower during harder braking. Also ensure your knees are digging into the shrouds of your bike as grip, turning your toes in slightly helps achieve this.

Squeeze the bike with your knees.

Hey mate, you want your hands to be lightly gripped on your hand handlebars (don’t squeeze hard). Ideally you are riding with 1 or 2 fingers resting on the clutch and brake levers - this will help relax your grip and keep your access to the levers much faster.

Cheers mate! Your answer clarified my doubts in this regard. 👍🏻

This will not go away any time soon. Everything about standing up is clunky at first. Can be solved with practice though. This was (and still is) my practice routine. 0. Setup your controls. Angle your hand controls a bit ( don't drop them to a ridiculous degree ) and if wearing mx boots, adjust your clutch lever a couple of notches upwards. We're not professionals so do consider handlebar risers if you are tall ( or older/ out of shape ), just be mindful of the dissadvantages. 1. Practice each thing at a time. Stand up on the balls of your feet while the bike is just putting around. 2. Practice transitioning from sitting to standing to sitting while the bike is putting around. 3. Practice moving your right foot to the rear brake and pressing it gently. 4. Practice some figure 8s standing up and the bike is putting around. 5. When comfortable with these ( using ZERO hand controls ), move on to the throttle. If your throttle is twitchy or if you're new, do this in 2ND gear while slowly accelerating or engine braking. Observe you want to move your upper body a bit forward before accelerating and a bit backwards before engine braking. Do this a lot ( in second gear ). When comfortable try doing it in the much twitchier 1st gear and try getting used to that ( and probably fail, particularly when accelerating ). 6. At this point you have to practice shifting. Since you're already used to second gear, you can practice downshifting first. And since it's downshifting, you can ignore the clutch for now and just get used to the foot movement. 7. Once you can reliably downshift without the clutch, introduce the clutch and get used to the compound motion. 8. Upshifting is your next target. Getting that mx boot foot to fit under the lever will take a bit of trial and error and the same can be said about controlling acceleration in 1st gear. This is by far the hardest part to do imho. Repeat until bored of the motion. 9. Combine the above into a flat course. Figure 8s, straight line with shifting, u turns, etc. Repeat untill bored out of your skull with it. 10. 9 but on a light trail.

Yes it will feel weird at the beginning like you said. The best thing to do is practice at a slower speed so you can get used to moving your feet to the controls and back to the pegs. A good way to do this is to find an area where you can practice a figure of 8 or a little turn track. You will eventually get used to it and then notice how much better it is!

@@TheMotoBarista 🙏🏽 thanks for replying 🖤

Agree, I think he was being a bit lazy demonstrating 🤣 on the toes/balls of feet like springs is where it is at. Good spot 👌

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I think both, from the knee down your legs are pretty much part of the bike aside from a little bit of movement in your ankles. But thats just my thoughts as im brand new to offroad riding starting yesterday