Inspecting Your Clutch
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Riding: Nailing narrow trails with Robbie Jenks.
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Before every pro supercross race even begins, most riders take a lap around the track on foot. But they aren't just walking for
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Ryan Hughes is a badass, plain and simple. He rides like a charging rhinoceros (hence the nickname), and his competition simply
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Proper fit is the most important requirement in a helmet-as long as the lid is a quality one in the first place. Some heads and
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Read about concussions from motorcycle accidents.
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Learn the 12 Top Tips To Get You Racing Motocross brought to you straight from our own Jesse Ziegler
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Read about Prerace Warm-ups with Destry Abbott in Pro Training Secrets by Dirt Rider Magazine
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Keep your speed up as you approach. Most riders make the mistake of slowing too...
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It's a balance between smooth air time and hard braking, but there are a few...
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Most people tend to follow the trail in front of them, but that may not...
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Here, Hawk sets the scene, pointing out the single rock and the spot on that...
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1. Brown approaches the jump in a straight line aboard his Yamaha of Troy YZ250F. He's standing up with his knees bent and his head over the handlebar, and he has already determined how much speed he'll need to clear all three jumps.
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Nobody likes headshake, but unless you have the proper tension on your bike's headset, the ever-frightening speed wobble is almost inevitable. Especially useful on rough terrain, proper headset adjustment is a very important element to proper handling. We recently asked K.C. Agnew, head mechanic for
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There's a characteristic of racing and riding in woods and many other off-road situations that's hard to ignore: People tend to go where others have gone before them. That's often the safest thing to do, since there could be unseen dangers lurking just off the
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There are few things in dirt riding that make you feel more like a spode than trying to change directions while in sand. Either the front end tucks and you hit the deck, or you're so cautious that your turn radius exceeds that of the typical MX team's 18-wheel
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If there's one thing Kellon Walch has seen a lot of, it's sand. Growing up in Nevada, he did his fair share of riding in it, and
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Read about this technique for riding in the sand.
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The limited space in baseball and football stadiums requires obstacles to be very compact. Therefore, to allow riders to maintain speed in the turns, track builder Dirt Wurx uses a lot of bowl turns in its designs. This enables riders to carry more momentum th
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Besides being kind of cool and flashy, the seemingly huge double and triple (and other kinds of) jumps motocrossers do can save time and energy. Despite spending all that time in the air, they find it's generally quicker to leap as much as they can at one time
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Read about these riding tips for taking bowl turns.
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You don't need to be in Hawaii to experience slippery clay and rock downhills. As many an off-road racer has discovered, this combination can be found almost anywhere. For advice on how to tackle this obstacle without ending up on our head, we turned to Team T
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Face it: Sometimes, no matter how carefully you line up at the gate, you're not going to get the best of launches that earn holeshots. However, that doesn't mean you have to be at the very back of the pack going into the first turn—unless you really screw
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Whenever you go to your local track, you always see a cheater line around the whoops. But if you're serious about riding and racing, you're only cheating yourself by skipping the whoops section every lap. One of the easiest places to make up time on the track
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Endless hordes of rocks can be terrifying. A miscue or bobble in the uneven environment can have you on your noggin or visiting your parts counter for new radiators. However, rock fields need not be treated as if they are minefields. Reigning Hare and Hound ch
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