How to set up your dirt bike︱Cross Training Enduro

Set up your enduro or dirt bike for cross training - applying trials techniques to extreme enduro, endurocross or everyday dirt riding. Visit http://crosstrainingenduro.com for a full list of our enduro training tutorials featuring Australia's 2014 Junior Endurocross Champion, Ruben Chadwick.

SETTING UP YOUR BIKE
We are all different shapes and sizes but the basics of setting up your dirt bike will be the same - ensuring you are well balanced and can use the bars, levers and throttlewith ease. These tips are only suggestions, and it may take some experimenting to work out what feels most comfortable for you.
HANDLEBARS & LEVERS
The default position is best. If the bars are rolled back and too close to you then there is a tendency to go forward over the bars too easily and your steering becomes slower. At first glance, trials riding doesn't appear to have much in common with dirt riding as much of the action happens at walking speed or even slower - but the balance, precise, traction and clutch skills help with enduro riding, especially for extreme enduro. The growing interest in extreme enduro has seen a resurgence in trials riding riding internationally, and many dirt riders are now joining trials clubs to improve their overall skills for basic dirt riding or hard enduro events and endurocross.

While we are on the subject, if you are very short you can also get an aftermarket seat, cut down your existing seat foam and get it recovered, or have your suspension lowered (although this changes the way your bike handles).

Position your hand levers well. Ideally you should always have one finger on each lever so you don't want to crush your other fingers! Speed, wheelspin, big air and power slides are great fun on a dirt bike but often it means we've picked up bad habits that are actually slowing us down. As Graham Jarvis says "Going fast is the easy bit, it’s going slowly that will help you develop control." The top extreme enduro riders like Jarvis are so smooth and controlled that often you don't realise how difficult the terrain is until you see them flying past the less experienced riders. So cross training applies trials techniques to enduro riding for improved dirt bike skills.

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