As an aside ..... and going off at a compeeeete tangent (!)
We're probably all in the same boat where we don't often get biking Eureeka moments these days. My last Eureeka moment was with Dylan Jones a few years ago now.
Day two of a refresher course (fairly modular .... doing different disciplines) and we moved on to ruts. Where we were training (Canada heights in Kent, but in the grounds not the actual MX track) there was a good section of ruts.
Dylan gave us three demonstrations of how he would negotiate ruts at three different speeds; the slow, sat, two legged dab approach. The medium pace, sat, one leg balance / dab approach. And then the full gas stand up body for balance approach.
That last one was the eureeka moment! Dylan came through the ruts (about 100 metres and dead straight) at about 40mph steering his bike with his body. The bars didn't move one inch. His arms, didn't steer the bike at all. It was all done with upper body weight alone - I have an image of him in my mind, hanging off the bike, keeping it upright and straight, but with his torso two or three feet out of line with the centre mass and constantly adjusting and balancing.
Hard to describe, and you'd think .... well that's obvious isn't it?, but it was a proper penny drop moment!!
We're probably all in the same boat where we don't often get biking Eureeka moments these days. My last Eureeka moment was with Dylan Jones a few years ago now.
Day two of a refresher course (fairly modular .... doing different disciplines) and we moved on to ruts. Where we were training (Canada heights in Kent, but in the grounds not the actual MX track) there was a good section of ruts.
Dylan gave us three demonstrations of how he would negotiate ruts at three different speeds; the slow, sat, two legged dab approach. The medium pace, sat, one leg balance / dab approach. And then the full gas stand up body for balance approach.
That last one was the eureeka moment! Dylan came through the ruts (about 100 metres and dead straight) at about 40mph steering his bike with his body. The bars didn't move one inch. His arms, didn't steer the bike at all. It was all done with upper body weight alone - I have an image of him in my mind, hanging off the bike, keeping it upright and straight, but with his torso two or three feet out of line with the centre mass and constantly adjusting and balancing.
Hard to describe, and you'd think .... well that's obvious isn't it?, but it was a proper penny drop moment!!