Negoiating Switchbacks

[Catrin]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Bike...tchback-Turns/

Catrin - Just off the top of my head it seems that you report an awful lot of endos. In my decades of riding and observing both my own and others' crashes, most are to the side. I think I've gone over the bars one time in decades of riding, but countless times every other direction. My husband has gone over twice but one time was his own stupid fault (trying to do a nose wheelie without thinking it through ).

Are you focusing on getting your butt back? If so, focus on getting it back more.

I've not had a actual endo. Yesterday was the closest - but even that was more in a diagonal sideways direction. It was just silly, we had just entered the trail and had barely gotten started when I got distracted and apparently grabbed that front brake I would like to say that it was caused by erosion and the large amount of dust on the trail due to the drought but that had nothing to do with it.

Thanks for the tips and advice, it is getting embarrassing the trouble I have with switchbacks when I have far less difficulty negotiating roots and rocks...as long as they aren't in curves

The video is quite helpful and I will watch it a few more times this weekend before I leave Monday. I think that I might be trying to steer to the inside of the curve and using too much brake...perhaps. I've some practice cones and can do some tight turning grills in the grass.