To be a great motocross rider, you have to ride with good form and ride fast. You can’t just ride all the time and not think about your habits, good and bad, and expect to be a successful motocrosser. To be successful, you have to practice riding with good form, even if it means starting slow. By doing everything accurately, it gives you the foundation to go as fast as possible. If you continuously ride with bad habits, you will never reach your potential. Eventually, you will have to change the way you ride to get faster. So, here are some tips on riding the “right” way.

I’m sure that most of the people reading this article have fallen in a turn or just simply are not very fast through the corners. So, here are some tips I’ve learned during my years as a rider.

Riding Tips by 818
How to ride a non-rutted “slicker” turn

1. As with any obstacle, when you are coming into a turn, make sure you spend no time coasting. Once you are off the gas, immediately apply the brakes. For braking, make sure you apply both so that you can stop faster and not fall. Use more of the front brake to bring the front end down and not too much back brake to maximize the amount of control.
   
2. After breaking for the corner, position yourself in an attacking upright position. Lean your bike over, but not your body. Keep your body in the same upright attack position. Stick your leg strait forward, pointing towards the hub of your front wheel. If you do this right, you will be sitting so that your butt is not flat on the seat. Once you are here, get on the gas!
   
3. Now that you have made it through the sharpest part of the corner, tilt the bike slightly back up and get on the gas hard.