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I was wondering how yaw deal with wet tree roots. Sometimes I ride at this place where there are lots of roots on steep uphill single track trails and often times they are off camber. It is a wooded area and often stays wet. These tree roots can be very slick when wet. Wat would be yaws plan for gettin over the roots? and you can't go around the roots

Attack them!! I ride alot of single with roots aswell and I just try and pop over them as if they were dry.

Little ones, keep one the gas, sit about middle of the bike, and try to st ay steady speed. For bie roots, Hoist that front wheel, get enough speed to slide over the root or stump.

thamks. but riding a wheelie over a tree root is kinda difficult on a steep uphill trail.

Wheelie when possible even if it's a 2 inch wheelie. you've got to lighten the front wheel so it goes over and doesn't deflect off the root.

Dale

1. Install a Rekluse
2. Easy on the throttle
3. Point the "X" and go
4. Forget about the roots by looking further up the trail
5. Momentum is the key, not dirt ripping power, just steady forward momentum
6. Check your tire pressure... a tad lower seems to work a bit better

All good input,and like XGiant said a Rekluse sure eats that kind of stuff up. Bumpy and challenging terrain (I will not say "technical ")is sure a lot more fun when you can forget the clutch altogether.
I had a guy tell me that that's part of the challenge. Well maybe, but if I'm tired it's not that much fun for me. I'd rather concentrate on the other things and that brings me all the "challenge" I want. I learned all about clutches by the time I was,oh,13. I get it now.
Hey, if more challenge is needed just attack the section while holding your sack, I told him. You know, your ...lunch.
Along with wet rocks, wet tree roots are made childs play with a trials tire more than any other kind of rubber,period.
There's all kind of debates on trials tires don't do this they do this though,etc.,etc.
However, there's a very good reason that 90 freakin' percent, 90 of Endurocross competitors ran them last year before the Maxxis sponsored (they,uh,don't make trials tires) series and AMA stupidity made them illegal. There's a good reason I saw this years Erzberg Rodeo winner Blasuziak in a picture climbing this immense rock garden/cliff on his KTM 250XC was running a trials tire out back.
Think about an Endurocross track, with it's logs,limbs,rocks, both wet and dry and it's easy to see in that enviornment nothing worked like a trials tire.
On rocks and roots they feel like suction cups. Doug

thanks everbody. I think all this will help me

I've never seen anyone "type" with a accent.
This one smells like a monkey.

Could be ! Doug

Where abouts in Alabama you from Turbo?
Ever been to Wisconsin?

Cheesehead,Alabama is the only area I'm familar with in Alabama.
There was the inaugural Cheesehead 100 Hare Scramble there last year, that's it ! Doug

I dunno, but something stinks thats for sure.

I'm from a a lil outside a town called centre. It bout 40 miles north of gadsden. Bout 90 miles north of birmingham. I'm out here in the middle of nowhere I can leave my house on my 250x an ride for 3 hours in one direction. anybody around wants ride give me hollar after huntin season cuz the hunters get pissed when I ride through their huntin clubs durin deer season. lol

When I saw this post for some reason I pictured a root or branch at a 45 degree angle across the hill.Now reading it again if at a perpendicular angle I would.

Get as much speed before the roots-branch as you can. As you get to the root(s) roll the throttle off a little and coast over them then roll it back on .This was taught in a class I did last summer with 6 time trials champ Ryan Young.

Off cambers close your eyes and pray.

Dale