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what have you always wanted to be able to do on a bike?
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Win a TdF mountain stage and wear the KotM jersey.
Manual for as long as I like comfortably.
Win a BMX race, with style.Posted 1 year ago # -
Doubles are my nemesis.
I can jump/clear a long tabletop, but a double, say with the same overall end to end length as a tabletop......no chance !
The 'gap' in the centre pysches me out. It's the fear of stacking it into the face of the 2nd lip, as I did on one a few years ago.
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1 - Ride to the top of the hill at the local trails without stopping, then find a bigger hill.
2 - Manual for 10 seconds +
3 - Land a set of doubles
4 - Rail a berm, really rail a bermPosted 1 year ago # -
Wheelie here for me oh and to ride big drop offs and live
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nose wheelie and motocross style whips. mmm.
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Pretty much what everyone else has said. Just built up my hardtail again to work on some skillz, may even put a 24" back wheel into it to see if that'll help with manualing.
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Balance
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wheelie like Bruce and Gary.
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360, that is on my 'to do' list
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cherrypicker
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Bunny hop.
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+1 for wheelies and manuals.
Anybody up for a mass wheelie training day?Posted 1 year ago # -
Manual for me as well. Also, whips and proper tabletops.
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rAdical SKIdS wot make orl teh GUrlS luv me
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lol@duntmatter
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Years ago I had a bmx and all the time in the world to ride it. Pretty much 8 hours a day every day of the week. For over 10 years. At the time I could do every trick in the book. Freestyle, street, ramp and dirt. But my trusty bike was stolen just as I was heading of to university and not having the money to get a new one I was bike-less for a few years. During that time bmx evolved drastically. Backflips seemed to be the new kid on the block. In my head I knew I could do them, but didn't have the tools to.
As time passed I got some cash and got into motorbikes. This new passion took over and any notion of cycling was forgotten. Then 4 years ago I had to sell my motorbike. I'd felt too grown up to get a bmx again (being a 36 year old parent) but mountain biking seemed like a pretty mature way to have fun. With more money to spend (but far less time) I graduated from a xc hartail to a FS mini downhill bike and finally to a 26" jump bike. I still had the basic skills but felt no need to try to pull of some the moves from my youth.
Recently an indoor ramp park has opened over here and I understand there are plans to get a foam pit installed. The passing years have mellowed my 'stuntman' attitude and my riding now mostly involves being a smooth as possible and not binning it. However,this spring/summer I feel a backflip coming on.
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A vander roll.
I have managed to do a couple on my old BMX, but I reckon doing one on a MTB would be quite a different proposition.
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bmx:
hop bars
whip
360
decent rail/ledge
one foot tables would be pleasant, I can get pretty good inverts on the ole fitmtb:
whistler
clicked x ups
clicked tables, so much harder on the big bike ..
rail berms
drift lotsPosted 1 year ago # -
If we are talking stuff I could realistically learn, then manuals and endos
If we are in fantasy mode then 180 back flips off of trees would be awesome
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Just a wheelie to make me feel good
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To just be able to ride what's ahead without worrying about snapping myself.
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yodagoat - Member
wheelie like Bruce and Gary.I can teach you in an afternoon
BTW - Bruce doesn't wheelie like me and I don't manual like him. (v. subtle differences in technique)
360s for me, still go all squint at 270 and my dab foot comes off.. need a foam pit to sort out my comitment me thinks.
oh.. shoulder buzzers would be nice too but I'm so uncoordinated and so unsupple it hurts
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However,this spring/summer I feel a backflip coming on.
That was a brilliant story actually, and I really hope you manage it. You will have to let us know if you do pull it off.
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Nice flat tables and one foot tables are the only thing I've ever really wanted to do on a mountain bike. I was getting better, but haven't ridden jumps for a while.
If I could 180 rollback on my BMX I would be so happy. Spent probably 4 weeks trying that constantly and got so close. No chance now though.
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id like to be able to do an endo into a 180 turn, then ride off the opposite way.
for no reason at all, except it looks cool.
and ride up hills without feeling cream crackered.Posted 1 year ago # -
Tabletops, and BIG whips, so big you turn the bars so they point back at the ground. Preferably the two in combination. How do you do this. Please describe.
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This too
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I'd love to be able to do really slow, hippity-hoppity trials type stuff; that would be useful for my normal riding, I think. Not massive jumps and flips or anything, just trackstands and little steps and that, so I could get through the more rutted and rocky bits of my local loops without having to put a foot down. A decent length trackstand would be a start, I suppose. But there's something about getting the bike out and then practising not moving on it that feels like a waste of precious time, something I don't have a right lot of.
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I need to investigate this "air " business. So yes learning to jump and drop off.
Place and fitness I'd love to do the three countries round mont blanc thing
I've been to Moab it was FAB
Jedi I'm suprised you can't ride down Jacobs lader it didn't seem that hard to me
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lol @ amphill
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big fat rolling stoppies ... Big ones
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Jump by the time I'm 30 (8 months)
Possibly with the addition of the skill of manuals.Posted 1 year ago # -
manual
drop in vert ramp (too chicken)
a proper road gap (too chicken)
and
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Not particularly interested in kimbers 1st 3, but . . . .
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