i've been getting quite good at nose wheelies over the past weeks. on thier own they aren't much use for riding, but i like doing them….

i suppose the wheelie is also fairly non-essential.

anything else?

Rockwalk

Spontaneous bleeding – no use but amuses the people I am with.

nose wheelies (as opposed to stoppies) on a mountainbike is pretty impressive.

disagree that wheelies are useless for riding tho (or stoppies for that matter).

Wheelies are useful for getting your front wheel onto things.

i can nose wheelie some hair pins, but that's just showing off…

what is a rockwalk?

I can spin a pen around my thumb

jumping off really high stuff…………..why?

I thought this would be to do with being able to fit a whole banana in your mouth, sideways.

Pen behind the ear

Makes note never to ask ton for change for the parking machine.

Onzadog you beat me to it 😉

Watched him do this live, i was cracked up.

allthepies – Member
Makes note never to ask ton for change for the parking machine.

😉

You can't beat seeing it live.

Or there's this

Hockey stick behind the ear

of course, if he got the pen behind the ear on the first attempt it wouldn't be comedy.

Skills which make me smile (it's the "Amazing Synchronized Cycling Girls")

@ molgrips….

re. wheelie…

agreed, but isn't that more popping the front wheel? i mean long wheelies that go on for 10'+…

wwaswas, have a look at hockey stick behind the ear.

trackstand is a track and commuting trick 🙂
i can do them no handed on high ladders = circus trick

does it make you smile?

I'm pretty good with a pair of flails and it makes me smile but I've never found a real use for it.

I can juggle.

I was sitting at a coffee shop on Buchanan St in Glasgow on Saturday morning and a young guy went flying down the street pulling the best most stable manual I have ever seen. I so want to learn that!

Riding no-handed. It can be useful for a quick rest or to adjust your clothes etc, but I do it becasue I CAN, and it's fun. I can even steer round corners.
Yay for me! 8)

Track stands are not useless for the trail. I use them all the time.

Trail stands

Sleight of hand…

Saw this live 🙂

I knew a girl who was mighty impressed that her dad could bunny hop over a bucket… I have yet to encounter a bucket in the middle of any trail i have ever rode. So i guess it fits the question.

Mine is standing up no handed whilst peddling. Pretty pointless and very childish..but very awkward.

@alpin

Rockwalk…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szSlQ-AVl40

Quite good at endos but they aren't very handy.

Otherwise, juggling, various gymnastic handstand "stunts" and a rather stupidly mobile face – keeps kid entertained for hours.

I feel really low now. The only skill I have is being able to grow chillis really well.

Rubbish at juggling and quite bad at all bike tricks too.

I was always impressed by that woman on the Graham Norton show that could fire ping pong balls from her wotsit.

I used to be able to get my leg behind my head but stopped when I attracted the wrong sort of man.

I can crash on a corner even my 2 year old son could get round

I can spend too much money on bike parts even when my extension roof is clearly leaking and goes unfixed because I am swapping stems, growing wheels, going 3×9, going 1×9,buying guides, buying tensioners, buying frames, going singlespeed, buying , more stems, BIG WHEELS, forks, (now I want suspension forks, tubeless stuff, tyres, more tyres, saddles, brake pads, spokes, hubs, chains…

and countless other stuff which results in me still riding once a week and still being s**t.

sorry got carried away there. I like to belch the word "belch" at the dinner table. My wife loves it

rockwalls are awesome… thanks xiphon.

i can complete front pivot 180 and about 90 on the back wheel…. best get practicing!

did see a vid where some german guy was get around very tight hairpins using a similar method to the rockwall…

i thought of another. no-handed wheelies. not much use on the trail

I'm getting better at doing big manuals – not like the short, useful-on-the-trail kind but the massive, leaning-off-the-back-for-ages kind. Inherently useless but awesome.

makes me smile yeah as its not hard but people think it is 🙂

Nose wheelies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeKsZM9rux8&feature=player_embedded#!
Been trying backwards manuals for ages-sooo hard.

being able to beat almost anybody in a Car racing games on PS2 and Xbox 360's.

(I am not a nerd They are just easy)