How to Ride a Manual 6-Speed Dirt Bike

In addition to taking care of the dirt which seems to be slipping all the time, there are many things which make riding a dirt bike very difficult.

Thus, if you want to refer a newcomer to the sport – but don’t know how to teach them, make sure that they know of our guide. In 11 simple yet effective steps, we have made sure to cover all the basics. Consequently, when you’ve acted upon our advice, you’d be tailor-made to ride a manual dirt bike.

Step # 1: After ensuring the bike is in neutral, start the engine

To do this, all you have to do is to push down the toe shifter. Afterward, pull up the toe shifter once. If the bike IS in neutral, you could roll it backward and forward. However, if it isn’t, the tires would be jammed.

Step # 2: Hold the clutch in right hand

After making sure that you’ve complete control over the clutch, slowly rev the throttle. However, if you over rev the throttle, it would, in turn, would over rev the engine.

Step # 3: Kick-start the bike

Make sure that you have kicked down so forcefully that the engine has turned over and the bike has started. We’re ready to go now.

Step # 4: Warm up the engine

The mistake which most rookies mistake while driving a dirt bike for the first time is not letting the engine warm up. If you do the same, there is a very good chance that your bike would turn off midway through the journey. Hence, I know it is difficult, but you have to control the temptation of flying with the bike.

Step # 5: Hold the clutch and press down on the toe gear

If you don’t hold the clutch during this step, the bike would simply die down after a bump in the forward direction. Thus, once you have held the clutch, only then press down on the toe gear. This would result in shifting your bike into the first gear.

Step # 6: Release the clutch and increase the throttle at the same time

Although it might sound simple – which it actually is for the veterans, releasing the clutch, while increasing the throttle at the same time, is the step which befuddles most novice riders. Thus, if you can’t make it at first, don’t lose heart and try again.

Step # 7: Shift into second gear at optimum speed

If you have followed the Step number six successfully, your bike would be running at good speed. As you increase the speed further, you’d notice that the engine has started to produce a weird sound. This is an indication that the bike needs you to put it into the second gear.

Step # 8: Continue to shift gears

As you might have guessed from step number seven, your bike would require the next gear as soon as it reaches a specific speed. Hence, if you want to drive at higher speeds – which I don’t recommend for a starter, continuously change the gears.

Step # 9: Once you’re down for the day – downshift the gears to the neutral

Remember what we did at the start with the gears? Yes, from neutral to first, then to second and vice versa. In order to stop a bike, you would have to follow the abovementioned sequence in REVERSE direction. That is, from higher to lower gears.

Once you’ve stopped the bike, turn it off and put it on its kickstand.

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