One of the most comming mistakes in RIDE is buying unnecessary upgrades for you bike.
In RIDE, the most important upgrade is the engine upgrade, which often gives a performance boost of 5-10 horsepower. It might not seem a lot, but it makes a difference.

In order to make your bike stable, aviod purchasing gearing upgrades like a quickshifter.
What the quickshifter initally does is icreasing the acceleration, which, in turn makes the risk for pulling a wheelie a lot higher than usual without the qs. It also makes the bike spin out a lot easier when shifting in a corner.

Styling upgrades, like side mirrors, do not make any difference other than changing the appearance of the bike. It's also important to note that when chaning the tires of a bike, the handling will change, so you'll have to compensate for that by removing a upgrade.

Bikes accelerate faster than most cars. Even MotoGP bikes accelerate faster than a F1 racecar. But you have to slow down, and that's where the brakes take part.

Braking might seem easy, and less important, in fact, it's the most important component on a bike. So to brake efficiently and fast, you have to plan your approach.

If you're racing with ideal trajectory, which I recommend you do as a beginner, you never, ever, brake exactly where the red triangles show up. You always brake a little too late. Why this is important, is because when hitting a apex and going around a corner, you always have to keep your momentum and speed throughout the whole corner. If you'd brake until the red triangles disappear, you'd have far less speed than needed for going around a corner fast.

This is how it's done: As soon as the red triangles show up, release the throttle. Keep on going for up to half a second and then hit the brakes. Keep on braking until you start turning. As soon as you've reached a lean angle of about 45 degrees, release the brakes, but keep on leaning as hard as you can. You'll notice that there are still red triangles indicating that you have to brake, but really, just ignore them while going around a corner.

After you've sucessfully gone around 50% of the corner, you of course need to accelerate again. This is how you do it the professional way:

This is one of the easiest yet most failed tasks in motorcycle racing. It's where most wheelies, highsides and lowsides occur.

Traction control is king
That's right, traction control is very important when accelerating. If you're on a pro superbike, traction control won't do much, but for beginners it's definitely the best option to use when racing.

To avoid any trouble, gradually add throttle just before going through half of the corner. Be careful to go 100% with the throttle, as the rear tire might spin out causing you to crash. It mostly depends on how much horsepower you've got on board. If your bike is under 100hp, no need to worry.

While accelerating, pay attention to your trajectory. If you're overshooting, you started accelerating too early. If you are understeering, you most likely applied too little throttle, as well as too late. Once you're sure that you've got it covered, all you need to worry about is the bike wheelieng or the rear tire spinning out. To compensate for that, either you're applying too much throttle or not shifting properly.

You've made it so far, but riding with automatic shifting does just not work...


We all know RIDE does not have the most superb physics, neither does MotoGP, both games developed by Milestone. But it's still possible to learn a lot about racing in RIDE.

One important thing to know is never to race with anything automatic. It doesn't matter what it is, wheelie control, automatic shifting, or automatic breaking. Turn off all of it, including the physics level. Set it to Pro, it will give you much more freedom.

Shifting is easy, but often missused. Shifting just before redline is fine, but keep in mind that most of the power lies at 12-13,000 RPM, so shifting at 14,600 RPM is just a bit useless. Shift whenever you feel the need to, at least on straights. While cornering in high RPM's, always shift before exiting a corner, this way you reduce the rist of pulling a wheelie, spinning with the rear tire and most importantly not having to redline and lose speed.

Using the Pro difficulty is the best one because you can break whenever you want to, however you want to, shift as you want, generally race your bike YOUR way.

Before you go racing, remember all you've read in this guide. It does not matter whan bike you are using, how good you are or if you have any other racing experiences. Everything will come to play when you know how to do it. Be focused when you race. Don't lose yourself. Focus on what's happening, and adapt to it.

I thank you for reading (even if you just skipped most of the text), and have fun. RIDE is limitless and will be updated... I hope.