What is the best way to ride up A hill?
What do you do if you start to tip?

 

If you take the ATV Safety Institute Rider Course, you will be taught hill-climbing techniques and a lot more by demonstration, practice, and critique.
Call 'em up and schedule a slot in a class near you.

Tree Farmer

 

TF is exactly right.Take the course,its well benefical to you and your saftey.

Here are some pointers.In no way do they intend to take the place of an ATV safety course though.

Allways start and practice on SMALL inclines first.Upon climbing a hill,you should position your body over towards the front of the quad.This keeps your body weight over the front of the quad,which will help prevent tipping and keep the front end DOWN.Differant hills require differant throttle responses.This will all come with added experience.

If tipping is just starting to happen,you can overcome this with additional weight[body english] shifting and down throttling.

If the quad is CERTAIN to tip,BAIL.In other words,get the hell ot of the way.You can allways repair the quad.Your body injuries hurt more.Best of luck and please,take the safety course and be SAFE,
Bill

 

Best has to be like everyone said, to learn. Experience on your own will get you there...if you make it to the top!

 

Ok..... I am asking a question that requires a Educated answer not what all of you are giving me!

 

Lakota, all of the answers you received were "educated" answers. Take the course for starters. Try small hills and work your way up, you will soon learn what a "big" hill is for your skills and ATV. Go up in the lowest gear that will provide enough momentum to make it to the top; you don't want to stall it 3/4 of the way up. Keep your weight towards the front over the handlebars as much possible while still maintaining rear traction. If you feel as though you aren't going to make the hill you can either do a quick u-turn or stop and slowly back down. In sand I use the u-turn method if I am loosing speed and don't feel I'll make it up. Backing down a steep hill is no fun at all and you can EASILY flip backwards by using too much rear brake. Most importantly, if you don't feel comfortable going up a hill then don't. Second most important is that if you do start to flip backwards then bail out to the side.

 

Just like the others have said take the class. You will help out atleast 2 people, yourself for becoming a better rider(even if you think that you are a good rider) and the instructor(so that he or she can make some money to buy more atv parts). I teach the classes in the St. Louis area and this is one of the topics that is covered in the class.
When you go up any hill lean into the hill, the steeper the hill the more that you have to lean. Don't try and do a u-turn on a hill unless you have pleny of room, in the dunes yesand woods no. If you try to back down a hill, be very carefully. This is not something that can be done by a beginner riderand/or size of the hill. In the class we used to teach K-turns, but now we say toget off the quad and stand on the uphill side of the quad and using the brakes walk the quad down the hill. By trying to back down a hill try are many ways to flip the quad over like they said and some others such as, the front tire catching something and causing the quad to flip or turn sideways.

Cal 1-800-887-2887 to find out about classes in your area. I have people that come to my classes that have been riding for many years and I am still able to show or teach them something that they did not know about.

 

Like everyone said, small first or go to an instructor.

The best way I learned was to teach myself and use some common sense really.

I just started riding quads when I was 20 and am now 21. The first time I had to do a hill climb was when I had my timberwolf and the hill was only 20 feet high, needless to say I was still scared, hehe. Well that hill was a disaster, was in the wrong gear, didnt lean forward and so on. Had to come back down it and try again.

Now I ride a 99 Blaster and have been up HUGE!! hills with no problem. The biggest I can think of was umm, lets just say it took me a while to get up. On the way up there were whoop sections on the darn thing, well from the bottom I popped it in 1st and started my way up, leaned as far forward over the handlebars as I could and kept constant throttle, do not let off the throttle and do not add to much, if you feel that 1st gear isnt enough then your gonna bottom out in that gear and stall.

If you keep your throttle constant you will make it all the way, keep body weight forward and no prob, and also, MAP out the hill before you climb it for obstacles and such.

On my page I have some pics of a hill climb we did. Halfway up the top I was able to get enough speed to get into second gear and fly up it, talk about an adrenalin rush.

Always wear riding gear as well!!!!

 

Be careful when you "fly" up hills. My son and I were out riding two days ago. He had gotten far enough ahead of me to decide to turn back and look for me. He decided to "fly" up to the top of a small hill. But unknown to him I was slowly coming up the other side. We met at the top. He ended up more on my quad then his. His quad is now in sad need of repair before it can be taken out riding again. So remember to make sure the top is clear of the hill you want to fly up.