Failed Hill Climb Recovery Lesson (Skill & Strategy) for Adventure Motorcycles Off-Road

Recovering a heavy adventure bike on a failed hill climb sounds daunting but it's actually easy once you learn the technique. Professional motorcycle instructor Dusty Wessels teaches you step-by-step how to safely get your motorcycle back down the hill in one piece so you can try the hill climb again!

This episode was filmed in the desert outside Borrego Springs, California in November 2020. https://goo.gl/maps/5vX9WM51kpvjDoYo6

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That is how you don't make it up a hill.
Hills cause anxiety.
The reason is because we don't know what's ahead of us.
We have a good plan.
We have a good strategy.
We start up the hill, something goes wrong.
I'm going to show you how to recover from
a hill climb fail.
If you fail the hill climb, the first thing
you want to do... if you fall, just check yourself out.
Make sure you're OK.
Take a break before you do anything else.
Next thing is walk over and shut your bike off.
OK, where I'm positioned right now, it's too
steep for a restart.
So you're going to be pointed straight up
the hill.
You've got to turn the bike so it's perpendicular.
I'm going to stand uphill from the bike because
I can't push it up.
It's a much easier to pull it.
I have more leverage.
So I'm going to grab a solid piece on the
back of the bike and pull it towards me until
I get the bike perpendicular.
I'm not going to try and lift this bike up
like I would if I was on flat ground.
First of all, I don't have a whole lot of
leverage.
Second of all, if I overdo it, the bike is
going to fall down the hill.
The best way to get this bike up is to put
your right foot on the foot peg, compress
the rear brake.
You're not going to have anywhere to put your
foot on the right side.
Your foot should be locked on that brake the
entire time.
Grab the handlebars and pull the bike up to
you until you're in a seated position with
your left foot on the ground and you feel
solid perpendicular on that hill with your
left foot.
You want it up the hill and you kind of want
to brace it against the bike so that you can
lean the bike far enough.
When you start moving the front wheel back
and forth, it'll slide down the hill and point
you in the direction you want to go.
Now, I take big chunks while leaning the bike
against the hill for about 45 degrees.
You'll have to reset every once in a while.
Keep that foot on the rear break, locked in
up until the point where the front wheel starts
to go down the hill.
Now you've got to pull the front brake in
because now the weight shifts to the front.
We've got to keep that front brake on there
to keep us from going down the hill.
OK, so now I've got two choices to get down
this hill, I can start the bike up and ride
away, or I can just pull the clutch in and
roll down the hill smoother and start the
bike at the bottom.
Since I don't have obstacles blocking my front
or rear wheel, I'm going to pull the clutch
in and just roll down this hill.
I know what you're thinking, "OK, Dusty! what
happens if we drop the bike on the other side?"
Now that I've dropped the bike on the other
side, I don't have access to the rear brake,
so after I check myself, shut the bike off
and position the bike in that perpendicular
position.
I want to reach down and put it in gear, make
sure it's in gear.
So from here, I'm going to use the same technique
I used when I dropped it on the other side.
So another type of fail is a stall, the good
thing is I don't have to pick up the bike.
The challenging thing is it's going to be
a lot harder to get it in that perpendicular
position in order to move the bike into that
perpendicular position.
I've got to release the rear brake very delicately.
I've also got to pull the clutch in very delicately
small, delicate movements of the clutch.
I don't want to let in the rear brake go all
the way and I don't want to pull the clutch
in all the way.
Very small movements be ready for the bike
to move here, even as you're being very delicate,
releasing the rear brake and delicate pulling
in the clutch.
The bike might move on you as the motorcycle
starts to roll down the hill, turn the handlebars
all the way to the left, lean the bike into
the hill, support the weight on your left
foot.
So as I get the motorcycle moving down the
hill, I'm going to lean into my left leg and
use that as my anchor and pivot point.
So once I get the motorcycle to the perpendicular
position, I use the same technique to roll
down the hill.
In order to successfully climb a hill, you
need commitment, momentum, proper body positioning,
vision, a plan or a strategy, line choice and obstacle avoidance will help if you happen to fail.

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