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hello my friends I'm Rich Larson and I'm
the IRC Tire guide today we've got a
continuation of the Pro versus Joe
episodes that we've done in the past
featuring Adam does dirt bikes and James
Flynn as we get the hardend Duro series
winding up this year I figured what
better way than to help you guys out by
watching some average Rider get through
some of these technical sections at daer
hardend and kind of compare to what
James Flynn our Pro IRC Rider does this
is going to be a lot of fun and uh yeah
I hope you guys enjoy it let's get into
it so this is the second section that
we're at and this was after the first
split so this is a pro only
line uh yeah Pro only line but I figured
you know it's probably worth having Adam
go up it's pretty techy there's some
switchbacks there's some rocks that you
kind of have to blip up you know do a
double blip or Jazz zap whatever you
want to call it um good techie section
I'm excited um what the differences are
going to be between the two of us and
how rich is going to break it down all
right we got Adam saddling up for this
section he's going to do dirt bikes his
entire way up this it's going to be good
oh I get it now he James has said that
twice and I was like what are you
talking about do dirt bikes Adam does
dirt bikes follow him he's a good dude
he's got a rad YouTube following and uh
Instagram as well Adam's a good dudee
good sport for doing this too nice above
the bike s sat
down here we
go that's good Adam trying to stay above
the machine getting his butt above that
bike and stepping trying to plan those
those dabs spinning there look at even
there like he came around that corner
and he just kind of rushed in into it
and and if he just took a second longer
and set himself up he'd be in a better
position um you know you always want to
kind of stop and make sure or as you're
approaching make sure you you kind of
plan where you want to put that rear
tire to help you get that momentum you
can see he spun on that first little
reset and and those seconds are so
valuable in a
race right oh yeah like right there he
should have came in a little bit and
tried to float that front AC acoss that
little ditch there a little more
momentum a little bit more load and uh
just trying to be light across that
stuff that's that confidence that's so
hard to
teach the now okay
already yeah look at how much he spun
getting up that just taking another
second backing that bike up 5 Ines as
soon as that rear tire is up against an
obstacle it's going to grip briefly up
the obstacle it'll move up a few inches
but then it'll drop because because of
gravity and immediately start to spin so
understanding that if you can just pull
that bike back 5 in you can get a little
bit better of a drive he was able to
push up over that but those those that
spinning Tire I mean that is wasted
energy and wasted knobs right it's a jx8
he's running there I think setting
up same thing right there you can see as
soon as he tries to go his rear tire is
against an obstacle he's trying to go
that rear tire is just going to grab
lift and then drop again or lose
traction and spin especially on this
stuff it's so loose and there's so much
uh dirt on top of this Granite it it's
definitely going to be slick spinning
again there so look it yeah there you go
now he's backing up now he's on top of
that rock and see that little bit of
downhill from that rock that he set up
on is going to help him get up and
over oh no back to the same place so and
now if you look his front tire is
pushing up against that Boulder to his
right right so this is also uh somewhat
of a side Hill right so it's kind of a a
a side Hill he's got to make this almost
90° turn up now you can see here there's
a lot of there's a lot of gaps there's a
lot of ruts there's a lot of dirt on top
of these rocks obviously confidence
coming in being able to hold it but one
thing that you're going to see here is
his bike you know your bike is 7 ft long
so to keep both tires on the ground you
need a lot of area to be able to
completely turn your machine in this
situation I'm looking here and I'm
thinking man I would probably
wheelie I would get up you know find a
place to start my traction and go
straight to the rear tire and float it
around this corner and there's a reason
for that uh it's the same as if I'm on
flat ground and I'm turning around 180°
if I keep both tires on the ground and I
turn around 180 degrees it's going to
take me 10 feet to do that right whereas
if I pivot turn I can literally do a
complete 180 return in less than a foot
right so the understanding here that
obviously one wheel you can make a
tighter turn if he's floating that rear
or floating that front tire he's going
to be missing every obstacle in front of
the front tire which is going to
compress that suspension and dewe the
rear losing traction and uh also it's
going to minimize his overall turning
radius I know I'm getting really
complicated here but that's the thing
about hard and dur is the best guys they
sit on that rear tire especially when it
starts to get you start to get into to
you know crevices and ruts you float
that front tire and you're you take up
so much less room and you're maximizing
the traction on the rear tire so here
he's going to have to really you'll
probably see he'll probably have to run
it really deep and kind of work it over
and then and then go whereas if if you
could just keep that front tire up
you're you're minimizing the track that
you need and uh make it a lot easier
let's see what he
does okay setting up a little deep super
yeah there you go running it deep and
now working it
over whereas like I'm telling you you
could probably Wheely that complete
thing a lot of spinning reset reset Adam
pull that bike back he's got it back
enough now there you go even there he
could have backed up a little bit
more okay fatigue see you're working so
so much
harder he's doing a good job and this is
obviously a technical
section sounds like the amateurs didn't
have to race this so set yourself up
here oh see that
so oh boy so that was what I was talking
about earlier a lot of times Riders will
get halfway up the obstacle and sit
because they don't quite have that
confidence as soon as you sit the front
tire starts to wheelie and you get close
to Wheeling over and you saw he had to
chop because if he wouldn't have he
would have wheelied over so staying on
that Peg staying above the machine
trying to drive that weight and again
stay above the machine so you can
counteract is so much better when you
have at least one foot on the peg you
can maximize your movement and this game
is about
movement
Kickstarter okay back that thing
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up there you come on pull it back okay
looks like he's doing it there you go
that's a better position way better
right so you can work that as kind of a
puzzle pull that bike back set yourself
up there you go look at that one foot on
the peg 10 times better especially in
situations like this there's a time in a
place to sit but uh as you can see that
worked way better than it did ladies and
gentlemen that is how you properly do
dirt bik do dir I think I may have put
some pressure on James now he's worried
that I might be doing faster than him
it's really
funny look at James dude feat on little
floater
there pivot turn boom beautifully even
just right there that pivot he he small
pivot making sure he's always waiting
the downhill Peg you watch he enters he
has his right foot on the peg as he
makes that turn steps off the ground
changes to his Left Foot Right Foot goes
to the upside of the hill now because
we've changed directions and now he's
using that just for balance he's not
waiting that right Peg he's waiting the
peg of the machine sorry he's not
waiting that right foot he's waiting the
peg of the machine look at that
beautiful carrying momentum boom
floating across that Gap that Adam EXA
okay pause there you go that's a perfect
place to pause exactly what I was saying
if you can wheelie if you can hold that
bike up it minimizes the overall turn
turning radius of the machine learning
how to ride on the rear tire is so so
important and obviously James is very
comfortable with that so as soon as he
got there he used a little bit of
rebound and just put that tire straight
up so see now he doesn't have to run it
deep like Adam did he's able to quickly
make that transition to the right that
that that kind of half pivot 90 degree
turn and uh you know now he'll be able
to float up and almost get to the exact
same place that Adam was when he set up
for the the final bit of the the um the
section so obviously you can see here I
mean this is James has been going for
for for 10 seconds he's already you know
uh a quarter of the time that Adam took
and it's nothing against Adam Adam's a
killer Rider well above average Rider um
but this just shows how good these these
top dudes are
boom little bit of spin there James was
able to just kind of lug it up okay now
look pull that bike back
James little bit far see that pulled it
a little far but no big
deal dude see that drive too driving the
weight into the machine again with James
there you see pulls his bike back maybe
a little far but it didn't matter he has
so much balance and this is why I preach
balance so much it's so hard to hit an
obstacle if you're out of balance it's
so hard to do anything if you're out of
balance I mean that was one of the main
things on the first slab that Adam made
a mistake on Not only was he going too
fast he was like getting pulled to the
left he was a little bit out of balance
and it's hard to do anything right if
you're correcting your balance all you
can do is correct your balance right
whereas James is just in the center of
that machine driving that wck again you
see that movement that circular movement
with his body hips back drives them in
and then kind of does this scoop with
his knees and his hips it's beautiful to
watch super super clean section again it
took 10 seconds whereas Adam took a
little bit longer so that was a lot of
fun I hope you guys enjoyed that one
we've got a few more of these coming at
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