Line Choice Is Easier Than You Think With These Rules | How To Bike with Ben Cathro EP 7

Always do the biggest line before someone else takes it

At 58 and getting serious about going down a mountain on a bike I truly feel I've struck gold finding your series of videos. They are well laid out, well filmed, and each topic is explained in a manner thats easy to make the connection with. Fantastic job Ben, and all behind the camera...

Excellent content! I greatly enjoyed this.

YT Gold..awesome videos in general

Absolute useful. Really great. I have learned a lot! Thank you! Amazing the X-s on the screen, all the other signes what shows the lanes. Really amazing!

STRAVA!🖕🏼

I want to learn the secrets of Coronet

Since watching this I now ride with the mindset WWBD! What Would Ben Do! I even say it out loud. And that one phrase "You have this obstacle, look to the next!"

I watched this particular vid with my partner, she asked "Don't you already know this stuff?" and I was like, "Sure, but you can always learn new things!" This really helped and I've knocked time off all over the place now! Thank you Ben!!!

Nice but i have 2 complaints.
Why he rides a moped
Why cutting tru the grass everywhere? The challenge is given by the limits of the track. If everyone keeps cutting corners or arcing way out, we end up with boring rollercoster-style tracks.

Safe line passenger mode anyone else?

whoever makes the closed captions for pinkbike doesn't even sanity check what they write - "swearing in a boat" instead of 'swerving about' is a good one

So, how do I hire Ben to just take me out and teach me? Tell me that wouldn't be a day and money well spent! I have been sharing these videos with a friend of mine and as soon as the trails are dry and open we're headed out to practice this series start to finish. Because despite riding the trails, after watching this, I could definitely use some improvement lol. Great stuff!

Just so spot on! Every time he rides the "what not to do" line my soul smiles.... "Strava!"

The arcing or tight doesn't mention scandi flick technique

Fantastic editing! All the pointers and add ons on the actual film make his concepts crystal clear to follow. Congrats to the editing team on this entire series!

Amazing content!

Brilliant!

This is why I bought a super slack enduro 29er. I don’t have to pick my line the bike just eats it up

I love that Ben rode around and crashed into things to make examples of what not to do for this series

i don't choose lines... lines choose me!

Best MTB video ever created. Amazing. Not just to help riders, but I could point any friend from other disciplines to this video to see what MTB is all about (climbers, backcountry skiers etc would immediately "get it"). It literally could be titled "This is the essence of mountain biking".

"Arc" he means Apex the corner ;)

Love Ben's videos and the production crew! Top notch. However, I feel this video missed a large swath of line choice: climbing! The rules probably apply somewhat, but with added dimensions like leg fatigue, in-saddle vs out, and heartrate management (at least me, ha!), slow-speed handling techniques required for line A vs a longer line B, etc.. Perhaps there's other videos covering climbing aspects that I've missed.. time to go search for them.

How many bikes do you have?.

He’s an excellent teacher

Rule 5: watch AND LISTEN for moose/bear etc.

E BIKE? come on ben ahahaha

"Srava!" lol. I'm really enjoying season 2, thanks, Ben!

I find that if I read tricky sections from the bottom, i.e., work backwards from the exit, I often find a different line that I missed looking at it from the entrance.

COOL. ! DAD ! Thanks !!!!!!!

it's like playing golf or baseball...never take your eye of the ball & you will always hit it,
line choice is pretty much the same.

Thanks a lot for this précise and complete driving lesson. Very useful for me
And i can confirm that the better way to hit a danger is looking at it to long !! My neck and knee perfectly remember ! 😅

Exceptionally explained, as every single video in the series. THANK YOU!

За лебіговича!

I don’t know if anyone else feels this, but I definitely usually see like a trail or as if theres water running down the mountain as I pick my lines. As if the ground is being pulled in that direction

Line choice... just send it

Although the most important skill especially for a beginner trying to stay alive, it is also the most difficult to master. While riding slower helps, there are some obstacles which are best done with a little speed. Line choice often makes the difference. Best to learn the trail first, possibly even by walking it, before tempting fate.

Really liked what you showed..

Make the hard parts easier is such a good mantra for how to ride and learn trail.

That Intro is Gold - Great Job Edit Team

Such a good insight

Learned so much from this! Thank you 🙂

Next time I blow my line and miss the trail completely I'm definitely yelling "Strava!" lmao

I just found this channel and wow , I’m impressed. Thank you for great informative entertaining mtb content !

MTB is so much a mentally demanding sport. Should be obvious after watching these excellent videos. So, another tip: Make sure your head is clear to experience fewer crashes 😉

You are natural born teacher! 👍

I switched to a MTB from a road bike so it's pretty hard to get used to not thinking every tiny bump is a certain crash