Trail bikes riding - Basic skills videos

Victoria has approximately 36,000km of forest roads available for trail bike riding, which takes riders through some amazing country providing for many challenging and rewarding experiences. Just as quickly as the scenery can change so can forest road conditions, by learning and practising some basic riding skills will ensure you look after yourself and other forest users, and you reduce your impact on the environment.

• Throttle control
• Braking
• Cornering
• Hill climbing
• Hill descending

Throttle control

Braking

Useful tips for safe, efficient and environmentally friendly use of front and rear brakes. A transcript of the video is available. The duration of this video is 2 minutes 45 seconds.

Cornering

Hill climbing

Hill descending