heather matthews
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Traversing off camber wet rooty trails involves tipping the bike away from the slope to maximise the contact patch but having your weight on the slopeside pedal and that pedal not necessarily being all the way down so as to avoid pedal strikes. Your centre of mass is over the contact point and your body and bike move in order to maintain that relationship.Fore and aft,laterally and up and down.That's what I was told back in the days of fully rigid bikes and I'm sure it must still apply especially as our bikes are much lower longer and slacker than they used to be.