Hello, Farron Further here and today I'd like to talk about picking out tenoray. It's not that it would be a special bike or there would be something really different about picking up a particular tenoray but what makes it special for me is that because the bike is very lean it lays on the ground quite low and that angle makes some techniques a little bit more difficult than others. It is 200 kg bike so it's a substantial amount of weight to pick up. Also the bike is 150 cm tall, I am 168 cm so you know that is going to be a certain amount of rustling here. Me and improbably adventuring we spend about two days already now trying to pick up the tenoray and figure out what would be the best way for us because everyone based on the combination of the bike and based on the combination of the rider and the terrain will have a different preference for the method of how they pick up the bike and what is going to be the safest. Now when I travel and I drop the bike I usually don't rush to pick it up anymore. I used to do that I'm not doing it anymore unless I drop the bike in water, yeah often happens or something is leaking which is not usually the case. And the first thing I'm doing is I'm looking if the bike isn't the correct position to even start picking it up. Now what does that mean? That means that now I'm in a downhill here and the bike isn't a good position because I'm going to be picking up it's downhill. If it would be on the other side I would have to pick it up uphill. If it's in the wrong position there's no other way than just moving it around to the position where you can start lifting it up. And yeah it's going to get scrapped. Now what I need to make sure is that either I have a wheel in a gear or I somehow fix the front wheel so what I have is a bange cord, little tiny short bange cord, strapped on my front brake lever which fixes the front wheel and gauges the brake. And the reason doing that is that if you are even in a slight downhill it may have a tendency to actually float around and that may really throw you off when you're doing the lift. So that's a good thing to do. Sidestand obviously I have a bike on the wrong side so I cannot engage the sidestand but obviously sidestand something because when you're lifting if you don't want to drop it on the other side it happens to me many times. And I guess that's about it. We have a position, we have the wheels, we have a sidestand and we can start lifting the bike. And probably adventuring here to talk about good form when picking up your bike. So you've probably heard two things about lifting. One is that you want to lift with your legs and not with your back and secondly that you want to maintain a straight back through the lift. Those are both correct but let's explain what those mean. So straight back, first of all this does not mean vertical. If you try to maintain a vertical back through your lifts you're going to find it extremely difficult. What it means is that you want to have a nice neutral spine position. That there's a line between your head, your spine and your hips. You don't want to be flexed in or flexed out. That's a recipe for injury. So you maintain your nice neutral spine position by bracing. You want to brace in your stomach and your shoulders. First you take a big deep breath, you engage your muscles in your abdomen and you push out your diaphragm. Secondly you tighten the muscles in your shoulder blades and kind of keep your chest pointed forward. You hold this through the entirety of the lift and that will keep your back from bending forwards or bending backwards. Now we want to get into position. So getting into position first off you want to make sure that your feet are about shoulder width apart. That your arms are straight. You're not trying to bicep curl the bike. So keep your arms straight. You got your back, you brace and now you begin to lift. So good cue for this is imagine two things. And that rather than picking up the bike that you're pushing the ground away from you, this engages your quads and then imagine that you're pushing your hips forward and that will engage your glutes and that will give you that good lifting power. Now you may find that when you're doing this, even if you're doing everything correctly that your back is rounding. This is usually a sign that you're lifting a heavier weight than what you should be. Cool, while we were talking about the form, we show one of the lifts which I used to do with the CB from 100X. What I'm going to do now is show another three lifts and I'm going to quickly talk about mechanics of each of the lifts and why I like it for the tenor air or why it doesn't feel that right. Okay, very popular lift is the back lift. Everybody knows that one. This is very simple. Grab the handlebar, grab something in the back and your ass needs to push onto the seat. Feet apart, good brace position, nothing complicated in here and all the strength comes from the legs. So let's do that and we walk towards the bike. Very easy to lift the bike. It was great. I like that lift. Unfortunately because the tenor air is so low, my ass is not pushing completely on the seat. It's really good lift for BMWs and all that, we try a little bit higher up, but still pretty much very good lift. So these two methods I call them crawl methods, they look quite funny but they work actually really, really well for me and for the tenor air. The reason being I'm really short and tenor air lays down quite low. These methods are for motor trek and they utilize the fact that if I press towards the bike with my shoulders and all the force comes from the muscles in the legs, I actually make that to happen. So how does it work? You grab something to have a straight arms. I brace and then I just walk towards the bike and now I transition to push with my chest and that's how I lift the bike. Works very well. There's another variation of this from motor trek. This crawl is probably my favorite now. The last very popular as well, especially with the dual sports and lighter bikes or bigger bikes which are not that low on the ground, handlebar lift. Mechanics is very simple. The wheel needs the points to the sky and you're supposed to grab the handlebar with two arms and then lift it up that way. This one doesn't work that well for me because I'm short, tenor air is tall and heavy and I reach the point where my legs are straight, my arms are straight and a bike is definitely not upright. Which means if I have to transition to something else, this is what a birch shows. Do you mean like that way, pushing that way? I hate this one. Okay, let's talk about lifting a bike if maybe you're not quite as strong. So you've probably seen a lot of videos of tiny women picking up absolutely enormous bikes. But the unfortunate fact of the matter is not everybody can lift every single bike. For me, I was able after a lot of practice to actually pick up tenor air, but that was maximum effort. For my purposes, I'm out in difficult terrain, I'm solo, I need to be able to pick up a bike when I have food poisoning and I'm at 3,000 meters and I've lifted it five times in a day. So for my purposes, a lighter bike makes more sense. But if you're saying staying catarmac or easier roads, your calculation might be different. Also if you're riding with someone else, you may find that even if you can't lift up the bike, there's actually some techniques where two people together can lift up the bike by having one person hanging off the back wheel and providing a counterbalance. It looks like it actually wouldn't make a difference, but it actually makes a huge amount of difference, makes it much, much easier to lift. So if you're riding with a friend, even if that friend and yourself are not that strong by utilizing this method, you could pick up even a very heavy bike when one of you drops it. So try to find your method, keep safe, keep your back safe and that's about it. Okay, where am I at? What do I want to say? I don't even know what I want to say.