On a local route there's one particular obstacle which keeps foiling me, two small logs each about 6" in diameter, about 3'6" apart. The first one I just manual the front wheel over. But then my front wheel meets the second long just as the back wheel meets the first - so if I unweight the back wheel the front wheel hits log 2 and stops dead whilst if I manual the front the back wheel smacks log 1 and pulls the front back down. Result: dead stop and ungraceful dismount.
What should I be doing?
carry more speed and bunny hop them.
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pedal faster. bunny hop both. 3 foot 6 i reckon you need to be doing about 15mph plus.
easy job.
😀 I did what IanMmmm suggests, but with an axe
front wheel over , lock the front brake , spin round on the front wheel drop the back wheel over the otherside of the second log and spin on the back wheel....
power wheelie over both
^^^lame.
why not cut all the corners out too to save time?
remove all the rocks?
build mud kickers up to all the tree stumps?
then you'll have a nice straight smooth bit of trail. perhaps you could tarmac it to make it run quicker?
There's a tight 90 deg turn almost straight after them as well, so if I do 15 mph I'll land in the foliage!
Complete halt, up on the back wheel, trials stylee hopping over them is the smartarse answer, though I only have the fittness and mad skillzors to do this over tiny, tiny logs on relatively flat sections. On a climb I just fall off and lie around gasping like a landed fish.
if you have space for a whole wheelbase after the logs then youll make that corner no bother. if they are only 1 wheelbase apart i revise my speed guestimate to 10mph.
just hop the frickin things.
6" diameter isnt much.
Therefore you could bunnyhop the first one but keep the front wheel high and force the back wheel down into the gap between the two. The back wheel will roll and hit the 2nd long forcing the front wheel down, but it will obviosuly be on the far side of the 2nd long. The back wheel will then just roll over the 2nd long and your away.
practice your cyclocross dismount/run/remount technique.
You want to get a nice graceful sine wave motion going on, like this bloke. 😉
[i]just hop the frickin things.[/i]
And you know exactly what the run-up is like? Or you don't need a run up to hop 2 logs coz you has skillz? Yawn.
6 iches ?
Just put your weight back and roll over them
Depeding on your travel of course
if in doubt, flat out!
Momentum should see you through. Just keep your weight centered/back and lift the front wheel up as high as you can, absorb the impact with your legs and try not to let the frotn drop down again.
the only way to sort it is to find your inner child and try anything and everything till its sorted, you will stack it countless dozens of times and will carry the scar for many years, but you will have spent many long summer days getting it right.
of course if you are an adult you will more than likely have a bash at it once each time you go out and ride, this approach means it is likely both logs will have disintigrated long before you get the hang of it.
a log hop on my local loop had me stumped for about 3 years you could hop it on one side, or go left and duck under a very low branch. If you could hop it you had a chance to pass the guy that was trying to squeeze under, the last two years ive been clearing it, clumsily at first but eventually more and more smoothly until it was hardly there....
last week i find some well meaning ****nut had taken a chainsaw to it - no more obstacle
better that, than admit defeat and get the axe out you lame btard!
yep the "i cant do it - no one can it needs removed " attitude is shit
im still gutted
im going a different route tonight
Get a 29er and plow straight over them..... 🙂
can you bunny hop?
if yes then do a similar unweighting technique but just roll both wheel over them.
i'm imagining the first one is simple, unweight the front wheel let it roll over. then 'load up' then just before the wheels hit the logs throw your body weight up and forward, then bring the bike up and through, letting the wheels rollover the logs.
actually its the same technique as getting up a ledge/ step.
[i]better that, than admit defeat and get the axe out you lame btard![/i]
An axe is bloody heavy to carry down to the trail I'll have you know
[i]yep the "i cant do it - no one can it needs removed " attitude is shit[/i]
True. No-one else rides this trail though. I wouldn't do it on a public one!
One gentleman I ride with does carry a large folding saw. However he seems to use it to build obstacles, not remove them!
ha ha. danger if you fall off while carrying an axe.
Hoverbike ?
Build a dirt ramp to one side of the first one so you can jump both. Trials gods can still back wheel hop both if they like.
You want to get a nice graceful sine wave motion going on, like this bloke.
Jason Bradbury is a tw*t but that was brilliant!
Easy, buy a bike with a longer or shorter wheel base.
Build a kicker using the first one, landing slope on the other, try turning them into a mini double….
Worst comes to the worst stamp out a chicken run to one side, but don’t rob other riders of a perfectly good trail feature just because you can’t ride it…
Easy, buy a bike with a longer or shorter wheel base
beat me to it
3 options
1. front wheel over first log, then bunny hop action to clear back and front wheels, then roll back wheel over second.
2. go fast enough to bunny hop and get the front wheel over both, back wheel will follow
3. get a long travel bike and ride over it
hop to manual into the gap?