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Skidding - Good or bad?
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Someone called 'chalkyslide' starts a controversial thread about skidding.
What a way to spend an afternoon Posted 2 years ago # -
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**** that is one big dog towing him along with a cameraman on its back
Posted 2 years ago # -
Hora
Skidding and drifting are the samething. One is a 70's term and the other is a 90's term linked with Fastandthefurious etc.No they are not.
Have you ever seen grass track or speedway racing. The bikes drift, power slide. The rear wheel is turning, gripping but its at an angle to the direction of travel.
Trying skidding a speedway bike!Muppet.
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Stupid to say that skidding is always a sign of a lack of skill, just silly nonsense IMO. But skidding on a built trail or path for no good reason isn't on, every pound and minute that the trailbuilders spend fixing an old trail that's been damaged is a pound or a minute that they don't spend making something new to ride.
(frinstance, I do trailbuilding at glentress sometimes, and we spend an awful lot of time removing braking bumps... If we weren't doing that, the new black section would be finished, and they're caused by people skidding into corners either because they don't know how to avoid it, or they choose to do it)
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Whats with Muppet? Is that what your daddy used to call you?
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Skids are ace!!!!
Just remember to clean the pan afterwards tho!
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Glenp, I know you say about 4yr olds but do you not find that one of the things you have to show a lot of people on your skills days is how to control the braking and position their weight to let them ride without skidding?
Exactly right - I don't think I've ever had anyone turn up and not be able to skid, and one of the things we tackle in the first session is how to brake powerfully and in control without skidding - principally by using transfer of body position, good footwork, and keeping the head up.As you say, it makes a massive difference to their riding once they understand how those elements are related, and how they can find grip, not deliberately break grip. Also agree that certain DH racing situations would call for skidding - but that's on a closed DH race track, not a shared public space.
__As a little experiment, can i just ask the people who don't skid,
What's the point of that question? My wheelie is only as good as it needs to be for trail riding. Very over-rated skill in my opinion. Certainly I would, and do, advise people at all riding levels to spend more time thinking about looking, body position, footwork, speed control and timing than rehearsing car park tricks. In a three hour singletrack ride here, or more or less anywhere, there will be a couple-to-none instances to lift the front wheel (most of which are better served by having a good manual, not a powered lift) and hundreds and hundreds of corners - all of which I can ride fast and smooth and (guess what) without skidding.
can you do a wheelie?If your trail riding objective is to have maximum fun by riding quickly, quietly and smoothly, enjoying the countryside as you go, then skidding ain't part of it. And just for anyone that thinks I must be an old fart ambling around with a basket on the front of my bike - you are most welcome to come down for a ride, and if you still think I'm slow you can post it up here. If you can see which way I went that is.
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As a little experiment, can i just ask the people who don't skid,
can you do a wheelie?What's the point of that question?
I think he might have been extracting the urine.
It must be great being a trail god like yourself.
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I'd rather aspire to be a Colin Mcrae than a Seb Loeb any day of the week
what dead?
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I only ever skid on golf courses.
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I think we should all unite in our hatred of one particular type of skid:
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I am with terahawk, try Penrith for size its well good
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Skid Nazi's.
Imagine riding down a trail and you come in hot, jam on the anchors and your wheel locks. Skiiiiiid!
Man wearing what appears to be an SS outfit jumps out of the heather. Strides towards you:
"That was fun" you say
"Quiet" He barks
"You must not skid, have fun or even attempt any humour. If you do not start taking yourself way too seriously I'll be round with my mobile gas chamber!"He whips out a pair of leather gloves of hits you around the chops. Very roughly indeed.
The Future.
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skidding is the mac-daddyiest of ALL bike tricks... EVERYbody knows that, plus chicks dig it !
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Especially if you can drink a beer and skid at the sametime! Imagine the following you'd have
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I'm a bit of a trail centre novice so I need to get this straight:
Setting out armed with picks and shovels and despoiling some perfectly innocent undergrowth to create a 'trail' is "good", yet hurtling down the same trail and redistributing some of the man-made surface in a skid is "bad".
Is that correct?
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Oh its Way more complex than that. Don't think you can come on here with your 'simple' explanation and clear things up!!
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right, off to afan and brechfa now for the weekend. I'm sure i'll skid the back round, absolutely on purpose, once or twice... Bite me
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Chalkyslide - Member
I will take a closer look tonight to see if it's drifting - nevertheless the clip still condones erosion on national TV.
I'm pretty sure the Halfords clip first "drift" is infact a skid - there seems to be plenty of left hand action going on when watched in slow motion reply
The other clips use 2/3rd screen edits that make it difficult to see the brake levers.Fortunately I'm now recording the TDF highlights so I can skip the ads
Time to drop this one I think. Would have been so so different if he hadn't been wearing a helmet
Or are there pro organ donors on here too Posted 2 years ago # -
I think you should remove that seat post from your ass. Since when did mountain biking get so serious. Skids are cool
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Three pages
Brill. braking bumps are the worst (especially on a hardtail) skidding is just the same as riding a set of DJ's and casing a landing (and not repairing it) ergo, BAD.
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Danny heart does a pretty good drift in this... looks kinda useful as well
danny mega qualalways like a good skid about on some loose fire roads - it's great. regular singletrack skidding = bad.
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+1 Skids on irrelevant fire roads are rad.
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