BasicRidingSkills

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Unit 6

• BasicRidingSkills

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Mounting your ATV

• Set the parking brake
• Grasp the handlebar with you hand
• Place your foot on the footrest (dont step on
  the shift lever
• Lean over, grasp the handlebar with your other
  hand

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Braking

• Release throttle
• Shift to lower gear
• Apply both brakes equally
• Keep eye and head up

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Hints for braking

• Release the throttle
• Shift to lower gear to slow vehicle
• Apply both brakes equally (rear brake first)
• Do most of your braking before a turn
• Apply brakes lightly on slippery surfaces
• Apply brakes lightly after driving through water
  or wet areas
• Keep head and eyes up

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Parking

• Shift into neutral and set parking brake
• Avoid parking on incline

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Getting Familiar with your ATV

• Before you ride your ATV,read the owners manual
  carefully.
• Take a Certified Safe Riders Course
• 4-H ATV Safety Class is NOT a certified course
• Study your manual and look at your ATV to
  memorize the location of the controls.

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Turning

• When turning, outside wheels must travel farther
  that inside wheels
• Most ATVs solid rear axle
• Avoid snow plowing by shifting weight to inside
  wheel
• Practice by doing figure 8s

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Around the CurveLeaning 4-Wheelers

• Lean toward inside of turn
• Throttle control is a must
• Feet on foot rest
• Both hands on handle bars (At all times)

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Exercise (practice)

• Starting, shifting and stopping
• Quick Stops
• (Page 23 in manual)

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Turning exercise

• Figure eights

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Right Turn 4-Wheeler

• Shift weight to inside of turn
• Feet on footrest
• Proper riding position
• Throttle control
• Proper gear

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Turning Right Hand placement
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Left Turn 4-Wheeler

• Shift weight to inside of turn
• Feet on footrest
• Proper riding position
• Throttle control
• Proper gear

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Turning Left
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TURNS

• Sharp Turns
• Proper throttle use
• Assume proper riding position
• Braking
• Adjust speed / Lower gear
• Quick Turns
• Proper throttle use
• Assume proper riding position
• Braking
• Adjust speed / Lower gear

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Tight turns

• Turn handle bars and use weighting and leaning to
  turn.
• Use short burst of throttle
• Keep head up
• Do not look down

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Slalom

• Cones 25 feet apart
• Push off with inside weight shift

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Climbing Hills

• Assume proper riding position
• Never sit on the seat while riding up a hill
• Choose proper gear before starting up the hill
• Keep weight to upper part of hill at all times

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Descending Hills

• Stop before descending a hill to assure no other
  riders are coming up
• Assume proper riding position
• Place body to upper part of hill
• Lower gear
• Apply rear brake slowly

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Riding across slope

• Also called traversing
• Ride across slop with wheels pointed slightly
  uphill
• In case of emergency get off on uphill side

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Traversing a Hill

• Assume proper riding position
• Lean body uphill
• If your ATV begins to tip
• Turn the front wheels downhill, then descend
  hill

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Coming down

• Move weight over rear wheels by sliding way back
  on seat
• Apply throttle smoothly, and use a lower gear
• If brakes are required, use only the rear brake

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Going Up Down Hill

• UP
• Position ATV 30 feet from base
• Use running start
• Point tires straight up hill
• As soon as tires reach base of hill
• Shift weight forward
• Steep hills require a person to nearly stand