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To change your settings click here. Sounds like a great excuse for the brands to not have to fine tune setups with their clients… Bike setup is critical and you should work with a resource capable of dialing you in. Some bars do have minimum widths to control how stiff they become as leverage decreases — these companies also offer bars of varied stiffness to accommodate a range of riders. Getting your hands in the right position is important for overall body posture and weighting the front end of the bike.
Variations in frame geometry and disciplines mean a bike will typically have an ideal range of appropriate stack. This helps weight the front end while providing riders a more aggressive lean angle. Assuming no fit issues from injuries or age. Too low: this generally feels good climbing and has good bite in high speed flat corners. You can tell your bars are too low if the bike wants to yank out from under you when you descend steeper terrain.
Too tall: when your handlebars are too tall you lose the ability to push the bar down into terrain. Without the ability to use your arms for additional suspension and strength you quickly feel like a passenger versus a pilot. Most riders use the handlebar rise for the majority of the height while using stem spacers to fine tune setup. On a new bike room for 30mm of stem spacers, typically two 10mm and two 5mm will allow riders to dial in bar height.
More advanced riders may go down to 2. This is one of the most common setup errors we come across. The more aspects of the jump you can consign to the unconscious the less you will have to do in the section thus enabling you to keep things simple. Your wheels tracking smoothly and upper body relaxed but steady, enter the section looking through the jump. By all means spot a landing point if it is in view but keep the eyes tracking on through to the exit point of the section and beyond.
If you want to take control of your jump as a whole, understanding and applying good energy management is crucial, in particular pumping. For sure if you hit a certain angle of jump beyond a certain speed you will get air.
If you just hit it with speed and do nothing else you will not be in much control over what happens next. If your entry speed is a little slow pumping harder is the only means of acceleration you have in the transition Essentially if you and the bike hit the lip at the same speed and you do nothing you will accelerate faster than the bike.
When you become the accelerating mass over and above that of the bike problems begin. Pulling up hard with your arms is a definite no no. The solution is to push into the jump and through the lip. Pump through it dropping your body weight into the bike. Bend your legs then extend in the manner of a slowish standing high jump. You can increase the power of this as your confidence or need to do so rises.
With heels dropped, as you stand up through the lip you are continuing to push through the bike while your mass is rising. The bike becomes the accelerating mass and your body position shifts just behind the centre line. The harder and faster you pump and the better your timing the more acceleration and lift you will generate.
Locking out here, heels down will leave you in no position to control the bike in the air or ready it for the landing phase. Once airborne allowing your heels to rise will begin to return your mass towards the centre of the bike and the nose of the bike levels or even dips slightly.
You want to rotate the bike to match the gradient of the landing ideally landing the bike slightly front wheel first. The more you raise your heels and dip your toes the more the bike will rotate below you. Raising your heels and softening the arms and legs you will start to decelerate the bike. Your mass catches up with the bike centring you over it.
It is during this period that riders can manipulate the bike, tweaking it slightly, laying it over or crossing the bars to a varying degree. With nothing below your wheels small inputs in the air can have surprisingly large affects so go easy. Unless this is preplanned you are probably not going to have enough time to think it, complete it and ready your self for landing. Your actions in the landing phase will straighten things out. As your legs and arms soften through the flight phase and your body centres, you are in a position ready to push again into the landing.
By pushing into the landing, extending the arms and legs, the bike becomes the accelerating mass once more. You are now able to control the compression of landing and turn this into drive. Pushing into the landing phase will also help straighten any bar twist that may have occured.
With heels and wrists ready to drop as your mass progressively although rapidly drops into the bike, the resulting compression will not only drive down but also through the bike. This will leave you just clear and rear of the saddle enabling you to soak up the landing, sinking down rather than back any further. Compression dealt with, you should already be aware of what is ahead and already be beginning to make any necessary adjustments to your position and speed.
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