How To Ride with Miles Davis
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The Clutch is the key-Words: Miles Davis
When I was about six or seven I could only dream of having my own bike and I jumped at the chance to ride the odd mini bike. Unfortunately I had to knock back a couple of short rides on “proper bikes” because I didn’t really know how to use the clutch. It killed me each time! A few years later I had the chance to ride a little rental bike and figured it out…or so I thought.
True, the clutch is pretty handy for starting, stopping and changing gears up and down, but with an off-road bike, proper clutch and throttle use can give the rider incredible control whether it’s slow riding through technical terrain, getting up steep and/or loose and/or slippery hills, lofting the front wheel over logs, other obstacles, ruts, mudholes and many other situations that off-road riders face.
