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I seriously need to work on my clutch control. I am so used to just using the throttle. I also need to work on combining body position with my clutch control. Lots more hours like this will be needed.
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Hi this week we practice some skills on the Yamaha AG200 and obviously I've done
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this intro at the end because I'm super tired already enjoy so I'm trying to learn some clutch control that is a weak point of my
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riding I'm usually quite messy with the throttle I can get the wheel up in the
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air over bumps if I have a kicker leaning back but as soon as I try to
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to combine good body position with clutch control it just all goes pear-shaped and I'm blaming the
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AG's clutch but I know it's not that I know it's my timing but anyways let's get practicing I
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thought I'd just make a short little video to show how I practice my clutch control I recently watched
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a couple of videos on it and I realized I suck at it I can pop the front wheel with the throttle
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if I have a little kicker or a bump but I really need to work on my clutch control because I'm all
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over the place with the throttle so I'm gonna try to practice just getting the
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front wheel off the ground with my clutch instead of using a kicker or a
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bump and the throttle it's more difficult than I thought and I know the
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AG is probably not the best bike for this but anyways there's not a lot of power and the clutch is not super great but let's get practicing
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My hand-eye coordination is worse than I expected or than I realize
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I just can't time the clutch and I know my body position is terrible
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I know I need to go straight arms and lean back instead of pulling the bar
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And I can feel me trying to pull up the handlebars with my arms. It's just a weird feeling
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That one that I got the wheel in the air was I just focused on body position and laid back
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or leaned back and gave the throttle without any clutch. So I can do that but to use the clutch to get it up, I know it might be the terrible
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clutch in these ag bikes but the other thing is my rear brake is not working almost at all
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So when I do those slow turns I can feel I can't even drag the rear brake so that's quite
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scary if you get the wheel up. I know I can close it quickly but it's bad to
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practice that instead of covering the rear brake. I'm gonna see if I can adjust
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it and then try to just get that clutch going. Oh yeah I can see there's a lot of
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adjustment. I know that the pads might be shot I haven't opened it up to check
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but I'm gonna give it a couple of turns and see if we can get it a little bit more fuel in it. You can't even get this thing to turn the adjuster and that is probably why I haven't adjusted it yet
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So I gonna probably have to heat that up at home That what I had to do last time with the MR50 is to heat it up properly and then spray it with penetrating fluid But that is definitely a problem so I just gonna try to get it up small amounts It not gonna be super exciting but I
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gonna practice it because I need to practice my clutch control. I know I
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really, that is something I suck at and that's why it's always so messy the way I ride
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so that first one there was not that bad um but i can feel my body position is terrible so what i'm
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gonna do is I'm gonna try a different technique where I just get a feel for the
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clutch the biting point of the clutch so I'm looking for a small little uphill and I'm gonna use that to just feel the clutch since my brake is not working
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that's actually perfect now so that's that's actually step two and that I
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wanted to practice today if you go and check out the ISE tire guy I can't
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remember the guy's name but he's got awesome hard enduro technique tips and
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so that's what I'm trying to do the first one is get the clutch or to clutch up the wheel. Second one is to do what I'm gonna do now, just get the bike rolling up and down and
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stopping with the clutch instead of the brakes. And then the last one, I can't remember what it was but
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I'll remember just now. I actually remembered what the last one was and I'm not gonna do that. That is getting the bike up at 12 o'clock and I can't jump off the back here because I've got this rack on there and I couldn't remove the rack just now because then I have to remove all the lights and there's no connectors there so I had to snip them
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so I will make them quick release at some stage to get the rack off so I can practice these skills
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and if I have to bail at the back I don't get hooked up on the on the stand there. Anyways
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let's go and find a hill and practice some clutch control. The awesome thing about these
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eggs is that they have a dual kickstand, a kickstand on the right hand side and on this
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little slope that I stopped you can actually just kick out the right one, so that's awesome. Go and
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check out my video on the seven awesome unique features of the AG20, the AG200, the AG200
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Anyways, this is the perfect hill for what I want to do so let's set it up and practice a bit
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That wasn't that bad
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But it was actually, that felt quite easy. Yeah, I don't know why that is not skill number one that you need to practice, but anyways, that went well
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I can, yeah, it actually stops much easier than I thought. So I not gonna do the getting at straight up but I am gonna try to see if I can practice a couple of pivot turns something that I only tried out last week for the first time So let try that
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We're gonna try a pivot turn now. I know I suck at this but I have to start somewhere
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still working on that clutch control and the ultimate goal is to get it to wheelie
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and I am going to try it with the eggs because I don't worry too much about them if they fall it's
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fine the big egg start was too too much to get damaged and a crash there is much bigger and
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faster potentially so I'm gonna get to a wheelie on the egg bikes and this is one of the first steps
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Woohoo! That actually went much better than getting the front wheel up with the clutch
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I can still feel way out of control. I know I need to keep it smaller, less throttle
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more quicker clutch, something I struggle with. I'm going to blame the AG's clutch
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but it's not that, it's me. But anyways, it's still way out of control, but if I keep practicing
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this, it should actually come in quite handy. Okay, let's see what else we can do
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I've gone up here on the XR before but I'm gonna do on the AG now with way less power
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I know it's always out of control up here so it's quite loose and then there's like proper
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stuck rocks as well in there so there's grip and then not grip so I'm gonna try to go as
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slowly as possible but keep the momentum. Hopefully I'm gonna do this in second year
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without the clutch so it's up there. Let's go and see. Wow! Going up is easy but coming down, the first time I had it on the brakes, the rear brake
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it was quite tricky with this rear brake that's not adjusted properly, but the second time
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just now I went down in first gear and it's so super low, the first gear, it's like a low range
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on a truck, a 4x4 truck, so I'm gonna show you, try to show you close up going down without any
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foot on the brake. It's difficult to see how steep it is but it's way up there
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So anyways I'm going to try to see if I can show you what it looks like as I go
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down in first gear. whoa these bikes absolutely shine on technical stuff like this
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it's so much less intimidating so much less intimidating than a bigger bike and you can
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just put your foot down not that you don't not that you have to but i'm going to show you this
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last section as we go up how easy it is on the egg
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Whoops! That first time was third gear, that's why I had to dab there or pull the clutch
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But second year, the last time, that was awesome, super easy. I love this
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It's a tiring journey of trying to learn some new skills on a more manageable bike
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Let me know if there is any problem that you are working on at the moment
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Maybe I can join you and let's see if we can up our skills in dirt riding for average
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people, low aged, old people on old trap bikes. Thank you, see you next week
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