Teaching The Watchman to ride switchbacks

Three posts from my @MTBikeGeezer Instagram feed this past week:

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I taught my new @AdvocateCycles Watchman how to ride switchbacks yesterday. Part 2: He was tentative on the downhill switchback but not half bad. He's a good learner. (See previous post for Part 1: Uphill switchback.)

A post shared by Griff Wigley (@mountainbikegeezer) on Mar 14, 2016 at 8:47pm PDT

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I taught my new @AdvocateCycles Watchman how to ride switchbacks yesterday. Part 1: I already taught him how to do track stands on a slight incline so the uphill switchback was a piece o' cake for him. Next up: downhill switchback.

A post shared by Griff Wigley (@mountainbikegeezer) on Mar 14, 2016 at 8:43pm PDT

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I taught my new @advocatecycles Watchman how to navigate this downhill switchback using an endo with rotation yesterday. Having crept around it last weekend with a very slow series of track stands (see previous video), he was impatient for something quicker. "Good boy," he said to me. I'm going to teach him how to do a stoppie with rotation. Real. Soon. Now.

A post shared by Griff Wigley (@mountainbikegeezer) on Mar 18, 2016 at 5:27am PDT