Tag: Roll

Each week we dig into the depths of Youtube hoping to find the lighter side of foolish individuals doing foolish things on their ATVs but this week we happened upon a clip that had us holding our collective breath. Fortunately both driver and passenger seem to be okay at the conclusion but this one would […] More »

We’ve got to admit it, there’s something about the high pitched wine of a 2-stroke coupled to the side of a gravel pit that really strikes up nostalgia for your ATVC editors. However, there’s also a lot to be said for not losing your momentum on a climb, rolling back toward earth and ending up […] More »

You really have to give this week’s Friday Funny entrant props for his enthusiasm. When his wheelie turns into a bucking bronco ride that concludes with a text book roll-over, you’d really kind of expect him to be a bit upset. However, the consummate professional that he is, this rider is immediately back on his […] More »

You can’t possibly watch a good fighter plane film like Top Gun or Iron Eagle without hearing a whole bunch of technical terms to describing the physics of aerial combat. If you pay attention, you might actually learn something—like why Goose’s death wasn’t actually Maverick’s fault. Well, believe it or not, many of these same scientific principles […] More »

Perhaps the factor we are most familiar with each time we ride, yaw refers to the forces of directional change. In perfectly ideal conditions, your ATV’s rear wheels should track perfectly behind the front wheels with even distribution of weight. The reality is that yaw rate does what it can to upset our quads’ chassis […] More »

We deal with pitch every single time the ground turns skyward or descends. We counter this shift in gravity by body positioning: Leaning forward over the bars on steep climbs and hanging off the rear of the ATV when descending. Pitch is also the factor responsible for moves like the wheelie or stoppie. Pitch plays […] More »

Roll is movement about a horizontal axis (think of the plane’s wings rising or dipping), pitch is also about a horizontal axis (nose pointing upward or down) and finally yaw is rotation about a vertical axis (turning left or right). In terms of riding, all three of these factors come into play—especially when our wheels lose […] More »